Where does Nanowave Technologies Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Nanowave Technologies Inc. ranks #23,043 of 50,000 assignees by granted-patent volume, the same sort as the companies listing and top-holders ranking. See /methodology/#corpus-placement.

How many patents does Nanowave Technologies Inc. hold?

Nanowave Technologies Inc. holds 12 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2024, spanning 16 technology areas.

What is Nanowave Technologies Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Nanowave Technologies Inc. has an Innovation Score of 54.5 out of 100 (top 8% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Nanowave Technologies Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Nanowave Technologies Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +0% 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 Nanowave Technologies Inc.'s patents?

Nanowave Technologies Inc.'s patents average 19.2 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 Nanowave Technologies 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 Foreign Corporation

Nanowave Technologies Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Nanowave Technologies Inc. focus on?

Nanowave Technologies Inc.'s top technology area is G01S (RADIO DIRECTION-FINDING; RADIO NAVIGATION; DETERMINING DISTANCE OR VELOCITY BY USE OF RADIO WAVES; LOCATING OR PRESENCE-DETECTING BY USE OF THE REFLECTION OR RERADIATION OF RADIO WAVES; ANALOGOUS ARRANGEMENTS USING OTHER WAVES) with 7 patents. Grants appear in 16 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 12 granted patents across 16 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2024. 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: G01S (RADIO DIRECTION-FINDING; RADIO NAVIGATION; DETERMINING DISTANCE OR VELOCITY BY USE OF RADIO WAVES; LOCATING OR PRESENCE-DETECTING BY USE OF THE REFLECTION OR RERADIATION OF RADIO WAVES; ANALOGOUS ARRA).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Nanowave ranks #23,043 of 50,000 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 12 patents across 16 technology areas.

#23,043
of 50,000 US assignees by volume: Top 8%
by Innovation Score (54.5/100): 19.2
avg claims per patent: +0%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R23043 · Foreign Corporation #23,043 · 12 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-FLAT · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 12 grants
MID-PACK #23,043/50,000
PHOTO-FINISH Nanjing University o…
CPC-FOCUS G01S · 16 areas
INNOV-PAR 54.5/100
CLAIMS-RICH 19.2 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-FLAT +0% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Nanjing University Of Information Science & Technology (±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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Nanowave · this assignee

55
3D Lighting Innovati… · lowest

7

What this shows Nanowave's Innovation Score is 54.5/100 (top 8% 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.

Where Nanowave's grants concentrate

Nanowave Technologies Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 16 CPC subclasses with 58.3% of grants classified under G01S (RADIO DIRECTION-FINDING; RADIO NAVIGATION; DETERMINING DISTANCE OR VELOCITY BY USE OF RADIO WAVES; LOCATING OR PRESENCE-DETECTING BY USE OF THE REFLECTION OR RERADIATION OF RADIO WAVES; ANALOGOUS ARRA). Peak complete grant year is 2023 (3 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2017. By volume, Nanowave sits between Nanjing University Of Information Science & Technology and National Security Technologies Llc.

Nanjing Universit…

12
Nano Precision Ta…

12
Nanotech Industri…

12
Nanotemper

12
National Comprehe…

12
National Flooring…

12
National Presort

12
National Security

12
Nanowave ◀

12

What this shows Nanowave holds 12 patents at rank #23,070, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Nanowave

By rank, the assignees closest to #23,070 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G01S (Radio Direction-finding)

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

Nanowave's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

55 Top 8% higher than 92% of 50,000 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2024

Grants by year

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

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Nanowave Technologies Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	2	16.7%
2017	1	8.3%
2018	2	16.7%
2019	1	8.3%
2023	3	25.0%
2024	3	25.0%

Which technologies does Nanowave Technologies Inc. patent most?

G01S - RADIO DIRECTION-FINDING; RADIO NAVIGATION; DETERMINING DISTANCE OR VELOCITY BY USE OF RADIO WAVES; LOCATING OR PRESENCE-DETECTING BY USE OF THE REFLECTION OR RERADIATION OF RADIO WAVES; ANALOGOUS ARRANGEMENTS USING OTHER WAVES 7

H03L - AUTOMATIC CONTROL, STARTING, SYNCHRONISATION OR STABILISATION OF GENERATORS OF ELECTRONIC OSCILLATIONS OR PULSES 4

H03B - GENERATION OF OSCILLATIONS, DIRECTLY OR BY FREQUENCY-CHANGING, BY CIRCUITS EMPLOYING ACTIVE ELEMENTS WHICH OPERATE IN A NON-SWITCHING MANNER; GENERATION OF NOISE BY SUCH CIRCUITS 3

H03J - TUNING RESONANT CIRCUITS; SELECTING RESONANT CIRCUITS 2

H01P - WAVEGUIDES; RESONATORS, LINES, OR OTHER DEVICES OF THE WAVEGUIDE TYPE 2

H03H - IMPEDANCE NETWORKS, e.g. RESONANT CIRCUITS; RESONATORS 2

H01Q - ANTENNAS, i.e. RADIO AERIALS 2

H04B - TRANSMISSION 2

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 1

B64D - EQUIPMENT FOR FITTING IN OR TO AIRCRAFT; FLIGHT SUITS; PARACHUTES; ARRANGEMENT OR MOUNTING OF POWER PLANTS OR PROPULSION TRANSMISSIONS IN AIRCRAFT 1

G01B - MEASURING LENGTH, THICKNESS OR SIMILAR LINEAR DIMENSIONS; MEASURING ANGLES; MEASURING AREAS; MEASURING IRREGULARITIES OF SURFACES OR CONTOURS 1

H04L - TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION 1

G01R - MEASURING ELECTRIC VARIABLES; MEASURING MAGNETIC VARIABLES 1

H03C - MODULATION 1

H03K - PULSE TECHNIQUE 1

Top 15 of 16 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#23,043

of 50,000 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

54.5 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

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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