Where does Naver Webtoon Ltd. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Naver Webtoon Ltd. ranks #14,806 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 Naver Webtoon Ltd. hold?

Naver Webtoon Ltd. holds 20 US utility patents granted between 2018 and 2025, spanning 8 technology areas.

What is Naver Webtoon Ltd.'s Innovation Score?

Naver Webtoon Ltd. has an Innovation Score of 41.8 out of 100 (top 32% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Naver Webtoon Ltd. focus on?

Naver Webtoon Ltd.'s top technology area is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing) with 14 patents, ranking #2,788 of 13,878 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 8 CPC subclasses total.

Is Naver Webtoon Ltd.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Naver Webtoon Ltd.'s recent grant velocity is +700% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Naver Webtoon Ltd.'s patents?

Naver Webtoon Ltd.'s patents average 15.1 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 Naver Webtoon Ltd. 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

Naver Webtoon Ltd.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 20 granted patents across 8 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2018–2025. 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: G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Naver ranks #14,806 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 20 patents across 8 technology areas.

#14,806
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 32%
by Innovation Score (41.8/100): 15.1
avg claims per patent: +700%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R14806 · Foreign Corporation #14,806 · 20 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 20 grants
MID-PACK #14,806/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Music Choice
CPC-NARROW G06F · 8 areas
INNOV-PAR 41.8/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.1 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +700% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Music Choice (±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 Naver’s 41.8 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 10.5 pts (25%) Velocity 12.2 pts (29%) Breadth 10.0 pts (24%) Claim depth 9.1 pts (22%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

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Naver Webtoon · this assignee

42
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Naver's Innovation Score is 41.8/100 (top 32% 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 Naver?

Each dot is one of Naver’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). Naver’s own 15.1 claims/patent is ABOVE the 11.3 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Naver's grants concentrate

Naver Webtoon Ltd. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 8 CPC subclasses with 70% of grants classified under G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing). Peak complete grant year is 2024 (6 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2018. By volume, Naver sits between Music Choice and Nagaoka University of Technology.

Naver's three-year grant acceleration

Naver Webtoon Ltd. shows 11 grants in 2022–2024 against only 6 in 2019–2021. That prior window is too thin for a growth multiple (rename and spin-out assignees look artificially high when the baseline is near zero), so PlainPatent withholds a ranked acceleration claim here.

Music Choice

20
Nagase &

20
Nano-c

20
Nanopharmaceutica…

20
Netvue

20
NIO (Anhui) Holdi…

20
NTT Research

20
Nagaoka Universit…

20
Naver Webtoon ◀

20

What this shows Naver holds 20 patents at rank #14,794, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Naver

By rank, the assignees closest to #14,794 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing)

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

Naver's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

42 Top 32% higher than 68% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2018–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2018–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Naver Webtoon Ltd. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2018	1	5.0%
2019	1	5.0%
2020	4	20.0%
2021	1	5.0%
2022	2	10.0%
2023	3	15.0%
2024	6	30.0%
2025partial year	2	10.0%

Which technologies does Naver Webtoon Ltd. patent most?

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 14

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 8

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 6

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 4

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 4

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 3

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 3

G11B - Information Storage Based ON Relative Movement Between Record Carrier AND Transducer 1

Top 8 of 8 technology areas

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

View all rankings → How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

Naver Webtoon Ltd.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Naver Webtoon Ltd.'s lead technology class is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), 70% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06F
Ranked #14,806 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Naver Webtoon Ltd. against Music Choice, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 41.8/100 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

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