Where does Navico Holding AS rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Navico Holding AS ranks #2,243 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 Navico Holding AS hold?

Navico Holding AS holds 175 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2023, spanning 57 technology areas.

What is Navico Holding AS's Innovation Score?

Navico Holding AS has an Innovation Score of 57.3 out of 100 (top 5% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Navico Holding AS's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Navico Holding AS's recent grant velocity is -33% 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 Navico Holding AS's patents?

Navico Holding AS's patents average 20.6 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 Navico Holding AS 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

Navico Holding AS

Q: What technology areas does Navico Holding AS focus on?

Navico Holding AS'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 118 patents. Grants appear in 57 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 175 granted patents across 57 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: 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, Navico ranks #2,243 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 175 patents across 57 technology areas.

#2,243
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 5%
by Innovation Score (57.3/100): 20.6
avg claims per patent: -33%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2243 · Foreign Corporation #2,243 · 175 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 175 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,243/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH D-wave Systems
CPC-WIDE G01S · 57 areas
INNOV-PAR 57.3/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 20.6 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -33% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: D-wave Systems 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
Benteler Automobilte… · near

57
EMC · near

57
Navico Holding AS · this assignee

57
THE University OF… · near

57
Wayne Fueling Systems · near

57
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Navico's Innovation Score is 57.3/100 (top 5% 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.

How Navico's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Navico Holding AS received 70 grants versus 105 in 2015–2019 (-33% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2021 at 27 grants and bottomed in 2023 at 4. Lead class G01S accounts for 67.4% of the portfolio across 57 subclasses. Volume neighbours: D-wave Systems Inc. (#2,239) and SZ DJI Osmo Technology Co., Ltd. (#2,247).

Navico's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Navico Holding AS moved from 72 to 23 grants (0.32x 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 #2,979. See the growth leaderboard.

D-wave Systems

175
Fujifilm Sonosite

175
Impinj

175
LNW Gaming

175
Oracle America

175
Safran Landing Sy…

175
Shenzhen First Un…

175
SZ DJI Osmo Techn…

175
Navico Holding AS ◀

175

What this shows Navico holds 175 patents at rank #2,243, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Navico

By rank, the assignees closest to #2,243 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G01S (Radio Direction-finding)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Navico, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above).

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (57 here).

Benteler Automobiltechnik GMBH 57 Wayne Fueling Systems LLC 57 THE University OF Akron 57 EMC Corporation 57

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (20.6 here).

The Broad Institute, Inc. 20.6 avg H.B. Fuller Company 20.6 avg Nyse Holdings LLC 20.6 avg DeepMind Technologies Limited 20.6 avg

Navico's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

57 Top 5% higher than 95% 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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Navico Holding AS patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	14	8.0%
2016	19	10.9%
2017	21	12.0%
2018	26	14.9%
2019	25	14.3%
2020	20	11.4%
2021	27	15.4%
2022	19	10.9%
2023	4	2.3%

Which technologies does Navico Holding AS 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 118

B63B - Ships OR Other Waterborne VESSELS; Equipment FOR Shipping 47

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 36

B63H - Marine Propulsion OR Steering 32

G01C - Measuring Distances, Levels OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; Gyroscopic INSTRUMENTS; Photogrammetry OR Videogrammetry 30

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 26

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 17

A01K - Animal HUSBANDRY; AVICULTURE; APICULTURE; PISCICULTURE; FISHING; Rearing OR Breeding Animals, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; NEW Breeds OF Animals 17

G10K - Sound-producing DEVICES; Methods OR Devices FOR Protecting Against, OR FOR Damping, Noise OR Other Acoustic Waves IN GENERAL; Acoustics NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 17

G01B - Measuring Length, Thickness OR Similar Linear DIMENSIONS; Measuring ANGLES; Measuring AREAS; Measuring Irregularities OF Surfaces OR Contours 16

G05D - Systems FOR Controlling OR Regulating Non-electric Variables 16

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 15

G11B - Information Storage Based ON Relative Movement Between Record Carrier AND Transducer 9

G08C - Transmission Systems FOR Measured Values, Control OR Similar Signals 9

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 8

Top 15 of 57 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#2,243

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

57.3 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

Navico Holding AS's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Navico Holding AS's lead technology class 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 Arra), 67.4% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G01S
Ranked #2,243 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Navico Holding AS against D-wave Systems Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 57.3/100 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

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