Where does Nanosys, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Nanosys, Inc. ranks #3,504 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 Nanosys, Inc. hold?

Nanosys, Inc. holds 105 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2023, spanning 43 technology areas.

What is Nanosys, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Nanosys, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 59.1 out of 100 (top 4% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

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

Nanosys, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +84% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

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

Nanosys, Inc.'s patents average 20.8 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 Nanosys, 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

Nanosys, Inc.

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

Nanosys, Inc.'s top technology area is B82Y (Specific Uses OR Applications OF NANOSTRUCTURES; Measurement OR Analysis OF NANOSTRUCTURES; Manufacture OR Treatment OF Nanostructures) with 60 patents, ranking #27 of 1,598 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 43 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 105 granted patents across 43 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2023. 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: B82Y (Specific Uses OR Applications OF NANOSTRUCTURES; Measurement OR Analysis OF NANOSTRUCTURES; Manufacture OR Treatment OF Nanostructures).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Nanosys ranks #3,504 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 105 patents across 43 technology areas.

#3,504
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 4%
by Innovation Score (59.1/100): 20.8
avg claims per patent: +84%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R3504 · US Corporation #3,504 · 105 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 105 grants
TOP-DECILE #3,504/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Imperva
CPC-WIDE B82Y · 43 areas
INNOV-PAR 59.1/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 20.8 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +84% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Imperva, 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 Nanosys’s 59.1 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 16.1 pts (27%) Velocity 7.4 pts (13%) Breadth 23.2 pts (39%) Claim depth 12.5 pts (21%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Dürr Systems · near

59
Assurant · near

59
Jiangxi University… · near

59
Nanosys · this assignee

59
Utah State University · near

59
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Nanosys's Innovation Score is 59.1/100 (top 4% 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 Nanosys?

Each dot is one of Nanosys’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). Nanosys’s own 20.8 claims/patent is ABOVE the 16.3 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Nanosys's grants concentrate

Nanosys, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 43 CPC subclasses with 57.1% of grants classified under B82Y (Specific Uses OR Applications OF NANOSTRUCTURES; Measurement OR Analysis OF NANOSTRUCTURES; Manufacture OR Treatment OF Nanostructures). Peak complete grant year is 2022 (25 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2016. By volume, Nanosys sits between Imperva, Inc. and Raydium Semiconductor Corporation.

Nanosys's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Nanosys, Inc. moved from 38 to 42 grants (1.10x 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 #948. See the growth leaderboard.

Imperva

105
LM WP Patent Hold…

105
Merial

105
Maxeon Solar Pte

105
National Universi…

105
Navitas Semicondu…

105
Prc-desoto Intern…

105
Raydium Semicondu…

105
Nanosys ◀

105

What this shows Nanosys holds 105 patents at rank #3,504, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Nanosys

By rank, the assignees closest to #3,504 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B82Y (Specific Uses OR Applications OF Nanostructures)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Nanosys, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B82Y (Specific Uses OR Applications OF Nanostructures), Nanosys ranks #27 of 1,598 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (59 here).

Assurant, Inc. 59 Jiangxi University of Science and Technology 59 Utah State University 59 Dürr Systems AG 59

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (20.8 here).

In-situ, Inc. 20.8 avg Hunting Titan, Inc. 20.8 avg Ostendo Technologies, Inc. 20.8 avg Troxler Electronic Laboratories Inc 20.8 avg

Nanosys's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

59 Top 4% higher than 96% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2023

Grants by year

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

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Nanosys, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	7	6.7%
2016	2	1.9%
2017	7	6.7%
2018	9	8.6%
2019	12	11.4%
2020	8	7.6%
2021	18	17.1%
2022	25	23.8%
2023	17	16.2%

Which technologies does Nanosys, Inc. patent most?

B82Y - Specific Uses OR Applications OF NANOSTRUCTURES; Measurement OR Analysis OF NANOSTRUCTURES; Manufacture OR Treatment OF Nanostructures 60

C09K - Materials FOR Miscellaneous Applications, NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere 53

H10H - Inorganic Light-emitting Semiconductor Devices Having Potential Barriers 48

Y10S - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former Uspc Cross-reference ART Collections [XRACs] AND Digests 38

G02F - Optical Devices OR Arrangements FOR THE Control OF Light BY Modification OF THE Optical Properties OF THE Media OF THE Elements Involved THEREIN; Non-linear OPTICS; Frequency-changing OF LIGHT; Optical Logic ELEMENTS; Optical ANALOGUE/DIGITAL Converters 28

H10K - Organic Electric Solid-state Devices 27

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 21

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 20

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 16

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 15

C01P - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Structural AND Physical Aspects OF Solid Inorganic Compounds 13

F21V - Functional Features OR Details OF Lighting Devices OR Systems THEREOF; Structural Combinations OF Lighting Devices With Other Articles, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 12

H05B - Electric HEATING; Electric Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Circuit Arrangements FOR Electric Light Sources, IN General 12

F21Y - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses F21k, F21l, F21s and F21v, Relating TO THE Form OR THE Kind OF THE Light Sources OR OF THE Colour OF THE Light Emitted 10

C01B - Non-metallic ELEMENTS; Compounds THEREOF; ; Metalloids OR Compounds Thereof NOT Covered BY Subclass C01c 9

Top 15 of 43 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

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

Nanosys, Inc.'s lead technology class is B82Y (Specific Uses OR Applications OF NANOSTRUCTURES; Measurement OR Analysis OF NANOSTRUCTURES; Manufacture OR Treatment OF Nanostructures), 57.1% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B82Y
Ranked #3,504 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Nanosys, Inc. against Imperva, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 59.1/100 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

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