Where does Nabors Industries, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Nabors Industries, Inc. ranks #15,475 of 49,997 assignees by granted-patent volume, the same sort as the companies listing and top-holders ranking. See /methodology/#corpus-placement.

How many patents does Nabors Industries, Inc. hold?

Nabors Industries, Inc. holds 19 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2020, spanning 17 technology areas.

What is Nabors Industries, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Nabors Industries, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 36.3 out of 100 (top 47% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Nabors Industries, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Nabors Industries, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -94% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). Grant activity has slowed relative to earlier years.

What does claim depth mean for Nabors Industries, Inc.'s patents?

Nabors Industries, Inc.'s patents average 18.9 claims each. This is an aggregate descriptive count from the grant record; it does not establish claim scope, legal strength, enforceability, or design-around risk.

How is the Nabors Industries, Inc. patent data sourced?

All patent data comes from USPTO PatentsView, a public research dataset maintained by the United States Patent and Trademark Office covering US granted utility patents from 2015 to 2025.

USPTO 2015–2025 USPTO PatentsView US Corporation

Nabors Industries, Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Nabors Industries, Inc. focus on?

Nabors Industries, Inc.'s top technology area is E21B (Earth OR Rock DRILLING; Obtaining OIL, GAS, Water, Soluble OR Meltable Materials OR A Slurry OF Minerals From Wells) with 19 patents, ranking #186 of 1,363 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 17 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 19 granted patents across 17 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2020. Grant-trend analysis is cross-referenced to USPTO Patent Public Search; it does not measure application filings, current R&D, or legal strength. Primary class: E21B (Earth OR Rock DRILLING; Obtaining OIL, GAS, Water, Soluble OR Meltable Materials OR A Slurry OF Minerals From Wells).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Nabors ranks #15,475 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 19 patents across 17 technology areas.

#15,475
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 47%
by Innovation Score (36.3/100): 18.9
avg claims per patent: -94%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R15475 · US Corporation #15,475 · 19 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 19 grants
MID-PACK #15,475/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Monotype Imaging
CPC-FOCUS E21B · 17 areas
INNOV-THIN 36.3/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.9 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -94% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Monotype Imaging Inc. (±0 grants)

Instrument codes from this assignee’s USPTO PatentsView grant sheet: volume band, corpus rank, photo-finish peer, lead CPC, Innovation Score, claim depth, assignee type, velocity, and book completeness. Not a USPTO rating of patent strength.

How Nabors’s 36.3 Innovation Score adds up

The same four weighted components behind every Innovation Score on PlainPatent: portfolio volume, grant velocity, technology breadth, and claim depth.

Volume 10.3 pts (28%) Velocity 0.0 pts (0%) Breadth 14.6 pts (40%) Claim depth 11.4 pts (31%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Nabors Industries · this assignee

36
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Nabors's Innovation Score is 36.3/100 (top 47% of the PatentsView-derived corpus). The chart places that score against the nearest Innovation Score peers plus corpus poles, not a reprint of the volume ranking.

Does more volume mean deeper claims for Nabors?

Each dot is one of Nabors’s 8 nearest volume peers (same corpus rank neighbourhood as the chart above), placed by total granted patents (horizontal) against average claims per patent (vertical). Nabors’s own 18.9 claims/patent is ABOVE the 16.9 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

Nabors vs its 8 nearest volume peers: granted patents vs average claims per patent. Source: USPTO PatentsView.

Where Nabors's grants concentrate

Nabors Industries, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 17 CPC subclasses with 100% of grants classified under E21B (Earth OR Rock DRILLING; Obtaining OIL, GAS, Water, Soluble OR Meltable Materials OR A Slurry OF Minerals From Wells). Peak complete grant year is 2017 (6 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2020. By volume, Nabors sits between Monotype Imaging Inc. and Nardi S.P.A..

Monotype Imaging

19
Multi Packaging S…

19
Mycoworks

19
Nederlandsche App…

19
Nanjing Silicon I…

19
Nanocopoeia

19
Nantong Fujitsu M…

19
Nardi S P A

19
Nabors Industries ◀

19

What this shows Nabors holds 19 patents at rank #15,474, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Nabors

By rank, the assignees closest to #15,474 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in E21B (Earth OR Rock Drilling)

Other assignees with the most granted patents in Nabors's primary technology class.

Nabors's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

Composite of portfolio volume, grant velocity, technology breadth, and claim depth (0–100)

36 Top 47% higher than 53% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2020

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2016–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Nabors Industries, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	2	10.5%
2017	6	31.6%
2018	6	31.6%
2019	4	21.1%
2020	1	5.3%

Which technologies does Nabors Industries, Inc. patent most?

E21B - Earth OR Rock DRILLING; Obtaining OIL, GAS, Water, Soluble OR Meltable Materials OR A Slurry OF Minerals From Wells 19

E04H - Buildings OR Like Structures FOR Particular PURPOSES; Swimming OR Splash Baths OR POOLS; MASTS; FENCING; Tents OR Canopies, IN General 3

B05C - Apparatus FOR Applying Fluent Materials TO Surfaces, IN General 2

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 2

B29C - Shaping OR Joining OF PLASTICS; Shaping OF Material IN A Plastic State, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; After-treatment OF THE Shaped Products, e.g. Repairing 2

F16N - Lubricating 2

B05B - Spraying APPARATUS; Atomising APPARATUS; Nozzles 2

B05D - Processes FOR Applying Fluent Materials TO Surfaces, IN General 2

A46B - Brushes 2

F16L - PIPES; Joints OR Fittings FOR PIPES; Supports FOR Pipes, Cables OR Protective TUBING; Means FOR Thermal Insulation IN General 2

G01G - Weighing 2

G08B - Signalling OR Calling SYSTEMS; Order TELEGRAPHS; Alarm Systems 2

B60P - Vehicles Adapted FOR Load Transportation OR TO Transport, TO Carry, OR TO Comprise Special Loads OR Objects 1

B66C - CRANES; Load-engaging Elements OR Devices FOR Cranes, Capstans, Winches, OR Tackles 1

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 1

Top 15 of 17 technology areas

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

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What to do with this data

Nabors Industries, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Nabors Industries, Inc.'s lead technology class is E21B (Earth OR Rock DRILLING; Obtaining OIL, GAS, Water, Soluble OR Meltable Materials OR A Slurry OF Minerals From Wells), 100% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore E21B
Ranked #15,475 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Nabors Industries, Inc. against Monotype Imaging Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 36.3/100 blends volume, velocity, technology breadth, and claim depth. How it's calculated

Figures reflect USPTO PatentsView grant data through May 2026; pending applications not yet granted are not counted.

Data sourced from USPTO PatentsView - official U.S. government patent data. See our methodology for computation details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainPatent

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Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sources used on this page

USPTO PatentsView - the disambiguated bulk patent-grant, assignee, and CPC data this page's figures are derived from. patentsview.org
Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC) - the joint USPTO/EPO classification scheme used to group patents by technology area. cooperativepatentclassification.org
USPTO Patent Public Search - the official interface to verify the status of any individual patent. ppubs.uspto.gov

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