Where does Nanoxplore Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Nanoxplore Inc. ranks #18,924 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 Nanoxplore Inc. hold?

Nanoxplore Inc. holds 15 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2025, spanning 23 technology areas.

What is Nanoxplore Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Nanoxplore Inc. has an Innovation Score of 47.2 out of 100 (top 19% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

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

Nanoxplore Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -29% 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 Nanoxplore Inc.'s patents?

Nanoxplore Inc.'s patents average 23.3 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 Nanoxplore 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

Nanoxplore Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Nanoxplore Inc. focus on?

Nanoxplore Inc.'s top technology area is C01B (NON-METALLIC ELEMENTS; COMPOUNDS THEREOF; ; METALLOIDS OR COMPOUNDS THEREOF NOT COVERED BY SUBCLASS C01C) with 10 patents. Grants appear in 23 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 15 granted patents across 23 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2025. 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: C01B (NON-METALLIC ELEMENTS; COMPOUNDS THEREOF; ; METALLOIDS OR COMPOUNDS THEREOF NOT COVERED BY SUBCLASS C01C).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Nanoxplore ranks #18,924 of 50,000 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 15 patents across 23 technology areas.

#18,924
of 50,000 US assignees by volume: Top 19%
by Innovation Score (47.2/100): 23.3
avg claims per patent: -29%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R18924 · Foreign Corporation #18,924 · 15 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 15 grants
MID-PACK #18,924/50,000
PHOTO-FINISH Nano Precision Medical
CPC-FOCUS C01B · 23 areas
INNOV-PAR 47.2/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 23.3 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -29% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Nano Precision Medical, 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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Nanoxplore · this assignee

47
3D Lighting Innovati… · lowest

7

What this shows Nanoxplore Inc. stamps GRANTS-MICRO, MID-PACK, PHOTO-FINISH, CPC-FOCUS, INNOV-PAR, CLAIMS-DENSE, TYPE-FRNCORP, VEL-DOWN, BOOK-FULL. Volume places it #18,924 of 50,000; Innovation Score 47.2/100 sits in the top 19% of the PatentsView-derived corpus. Closest grant-volume peer on this plate is Nano Precision Medical, Inc. (±0 grants).

Portfolio overview

Nanoxplore Inc. has been granted 15 US utility patents between 2016 and 2025, placing Nanoxplore Inc. at #18,924 of 50,000 across all assignees tracked by PlainPatent. This portfolio spans 23 distinct Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC) subclasses, averaging 23.3 claims per patent with primary concentration in C01B (NON-METALLIC ELEMENTS; COMPOUNDS THEREOF; ; METALLOIDS OR COMPOUNDS THEREOF NOT COVERED BY SUBCLASS C01C). As a Foreign Corporation, Nanoxplore Inc. is one of the more focused assignees in the PatentsView dataset. By volume, Nanoxplore sits between NOX II, Ltd. (15 patents, rank #18,933) and Navitar, Inc. (15 patents, rank #18,941) - the closest US assignees by grant volume. The composite Innovation Score of 47.2/100 blends portfolio volume, grant velocity, technology breadth, and claim depth into a single comparable measure drawn directly from USPTO PatentsView records.

Grant cadence records the difference between two grant-year windows. Between 2020 and 2024 the company received 5 grants, compared with 7 in the 2015–2019 window, a -29% shift in five-year grant velocity. Both windows cover five complete grant years; the latest PatentsView year is a partial release and is excluded from this comparison, though it still appears in the yearly table and chart below. Grant timing can lag the related application by years, so this comparison does not establish current R&D spending, strategic intent, or a company’s application activity. The Foreign Corporation classification provides context for the assignee record, not a conclusion about its business strategy.

Claim depth and technology breadth describe this aggregate record. Nanoxplore Inc.'s 23.3 average claims per patent is an average count, not a measure of claim scope, legal strength, enforceability, or design-around risk. The record spans 23 CPC subclasses. Combined with portfolio volume, these figures let readers compare the documented grant records of assignees in similar technology classes.

NOX II

15
Nxt-id

15
NZXT

15
Nano Precision Me…

15
Napatech A/S

15
National Beef Pac…

15
Naturex

15
Navitar

15
Nanoxplore ◀

15

What this shows Nanoxplore holds 15 patents at rank #18,937, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Nanoxplore

By rank, the assignees closest to #18,937 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C01B (Non-metallic Elements)

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

Nanoxplore's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

47 Top 19% higher than 81% of 50,000 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2025

Grants by year

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

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Nanoxplore Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	2	13.3%
2017	1	6.7%
2018	1	6.7%
2019	3	20.0%
2020	1	6.7%
2022	2	13.3%
2023	1	6.7%
2024	1	6.7%
2025partial year	3	20.0%

Which technologies does Nanoxplore Inc. patent most?

C01B - NON-METALLIC ELEMENTS; COMPOUNDS THEREOF; ; METALLOIDS OR COMPOUNDS THEREOF NOT COVERED BY SUBCLASS C01C 10

B82Y - SPECIFIC USES OR APPLICATIONS OF NANOSTRUCTURES; MEASUREMENT OR ANALYSIS OF NANOSTRUCTURES; MANUFACTURE OR TREATMENT OF NANOSTRUCTURES 9

C30B - SINGLE-CRYSTAL GROWTH ; UNIDIRECTIONAL SOLIDIFICATION OF EUTECTIC MATERIAL OR UNIDIRECTIONAL DEMIXING OF EUTECTOID MATERIAL; REFINING BY ZONE-MELTING OF MATERIAL ; PRODUCTION OF A HOMOGENEOUS POLYCRYSTALLINE MATERIAL WITH DEFINED STRUCTURE ; SINGLE CRYSTALS OR HOMOGENEOUS POLYCRYSTALLINE MATERIAL WI 8

C01P - INDEXING SCHEME RELATING TO STRUCTURAL AND PHYSICAL ASPECTS OF SOLID INORGANIC COMPOUNDS 6

Y02E - REDUCTION OF GREENHOUSE GAS [GHG] EMISSIONS, RELATED TO ENERGY GENERATION, TRANSMISSION OR DISTRIBUTION 6

Y10S - TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS 6

H01G - CAPACITORS; CAPACITORS, RECTIFIERS, DETECTORS, SWITCHING DEVICES, LIGHT-SENSITIVE OR TEMPERATURE-SENSITIVE DEVICES OF THE ELECTROLYTIC TYPE 5

H01M - PROCESSES OR MEANS, e.g. BATTERIES, FOR THE DIRECT CONVERSION OF CHEMICAL ENERGY INTO ELECTRICAL ENERGY 5

C10M - LUBRICATING COMPOSITIONS ; USE OF CHEMICAL SUBSTANCES EITHER ALONE OR AS LUBRICATING INGREDIENTS IN A LUBRICATING COMPOSITION 4

C09D - COATING COMPOSITIONS, e.g. PAINTS, VARNISHES OR LACQUERS; FILLING PASTES; CHEMICAL PAINT OR INK REMOVERS; INKS; CORRECTING FLUIDS; WOODSTAINS; PASTES OR SOLIDS FOR COLOURING OR PRINTING; USE OF MATERIALS THEREFOR 4

C08K - Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances as compounding ingredients 3

C08J - WORKING-UP; GENERAL PROCESSES OF COMPOUNDING; AFTER-TREATMENT NOT COVERED BY SUBCLASSES C08B, C08C, C08F, C08G or C08H 3

C09K - MATERIALS FOR MISCELLANEOUS APPLICATIONS, NOT PROVIDED FOR ELSEWHERE 3

H01B - CABLES; CONDUCTORS; INSULATORS; SELECTION OF MATERIALS FOR THEIR CONDUCTIVE, INSULATING OR DIELECTRIC PROPERTIES 3

B02C - CRUSHING, PULVERISING, OR DISINTEGRATING IN GENERAL; MILLING GRAIN 3

Top 15 of 23 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#18,924

of 50,000 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

47.2 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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