Where does Nagravision Sarl rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Nagravision Sarl ranks #1,234 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 Nagravision Sarl hold?

Nagravision Sarl holds 344 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 49 technology areas.

What is Nagravision Sarl's Innovation Score?

Nagravision Sarl has an Innovation Score of 66.3 out of 100 (top 1% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Nagravision Sarl focus on?

Nagravision Sarl's top technology area is H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication) with 184 patents, ranking #233 of 8,956 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 49 CPC subclasses total.

Is Nagravision Sarl's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Nagravision Sarl's recent grant velocity is +17% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). The company is maintaining or growing its granted-patent output.

What does claim depth mean for Nagravision Sarl's patents?

Nagravision Sarl's patents average 15.8 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 Nagravision Sarl 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 Foreign Corporation

Nagravision Sarl

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 344 granted patents across 49 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2025. 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: H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Nagravision ranks #1,234 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 344 patents across 49 technology areas.

#1,234
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 1%
by Innovation Score (66.3/100): 15.8
avg claims per patent: +17%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1234 · Foreign Corporation #1,234 · 344 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-UP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 344 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,234/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Agco
CPC-WIDE H04L · 49 areas
INNOV-STRONG 66.3/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.8 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-UP +17% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Agco Corporation (±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 Nagravision’s 66.3 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 20.2 pts (30%) Velocity 11.9 pts (18%) Breadth 24.7 pts (37%) Claim depth 9.5 pts (14%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
China Petroleum &… · near

66
Sharp · near

66
Volvo CAR · near

66
Nagravision Sarl · this assignee

66
Bayer Healthcare · near

66
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Nagravision's Innovation Score is 66.3/100 (top 1% 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 Nagravision?

Each dot is one of Nagravision’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). Nagravision’s own 15.8 claims/patent is ABOVE the 11.4 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Nagravision's grants concentrate

Nagravision Sarl is a focused PatentsView assignee: 49 CPC subclasses with 53.5% of grants classified under H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication). Peak complete grant year is 2024 (47 grants) versus a trough of 15 in 2020. By volume, Nagravision sits between Endress+Hauser Flowtec AG and Sonoco Development, Inc..

Nagravision's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Nagravision Sarl moved from 69 to 123 grants (1.78x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). Among 3,296 tracked assignees with ≥100 grants and ≥20 prior-period grants, that multiple ranks #280. See the growth leaderboard.

Endress+Hauser Fl…

345
Vanguard Internat…

345
Agco

344
Fujian Jinhua Int…

344
NEC Platforms

344
Oki Electric Indu…

344
SHL Medical

344
Sonoco Development

344
Nagravision Sarl ◀

344

What this shows Nagravision holds 344 patents at rank #1,234, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Nagravision

By rank, the assignees closest to #1,234 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Nagravision, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information), Nagravision ranks #233 of 8,956 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (66 here).

China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation 66 Bayer Healthcare LLC 66 Volvo CAR Corporation 66 Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha 66

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (15.8 here).

Rosemount Aerospace Inc. 15.8 avg Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 15.8 avg The Cleveland Clinic Foundation 15.8 avg Luminex Corporation 15.8 avg

Nagravision's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

66 Top 1% higher than 99% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2015–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Nagravision Sarl patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	23	6.7%
2016	29	8.4%
2017	37	10.8%
2018	30	8.7%
2019	24	7.0%
2020	15	4.4%
2021	30	8.7%
2022	31	9.0%
2023	45	13.1%
2024	47	13.7%
2025partial year	33	9.6%

Which technologies does Nagravision Sarl patent most?

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 184

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 149

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 148

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 73

G06Q - Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory Purposes, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 32

Y04S - Systems Integrating Technologies Related TO Power Network Operation, Communication OR Information Technologies FOR Improving THE Electrical Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution, Management OR Usage, i.e. Smart Grids 19

H04M - Telephonic Communication 17

H04B - Transmission 17

Y02B - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Buildings, e.g. Housing, House Appliances OR Related End-user Applications 14

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 13

G06K - Graphical Data Reading ; Presentation OF DATA; Record CARRIERS; Handling Record Carriers 12

G01D - Measuring NOT Specially Adapted FOR A Specific VARIABLE; Arrangements FOR Measuring TWO OR More Variables NOT Covered IN A Single Other SUBCLASS; Tariff Metering APPARATUS; Measuring OR Testing NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 12

G11B - Information Storage Based ON Relative Movement Between Record Carrier AND Transducer 8

H05K - Printed CIRCUITS; Casings OR Constructional Details OF Electric APPARATUS; Manufacture OF Assemblages OF Electrical Components 8

H04H - Broadcast Communication 6

Top 15 of 49 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

Nagravision Sarl's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Nagravision Sarl's lead technology class is H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication), 53.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04L
Ranked #1,234 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Nagravision Sarl against Endress+Hauser Flowtec AG, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 66.3/100 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

Disclaimer: This information is provided for informational purposes only and does not constitute professional advice. Data is sourced from the USPTO PatentsView database. Consult a qualified professional before making decisions based on this data.

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

Compiled by PlainPatent , US Patent Intelligence Editorial Process · May 15, 2026

Every figure on PlainPatent is rendered directly from USPTO source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on USPTO source data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 2026.