Where does nChain Holdings Ltd rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), nChain Holdings Ltd ranks #8,081 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 nChain Holdings Ltd hold?

nChain Holdings Ltd holds 40 US utility patents granted between 2017 and 2023, spanning 5 technology areas.

What is nChain Holdings Ltd's Innovation Score?

nChain Holdings Ltd has an Innovation Score of 47.7 out of 100 (top 18% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does nChain Holdings Ltd focus on?

nChain Holdings Ltd's top technology area is H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication) with 40 patents, ranking #783 of 8,956 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 5 CPC subclasses total.

Is nChain Holdings Ltd's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

nChain Holdings Ltd's recent grant velocity is +1800% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for nChain Holdings Ltd's patents?

nChain Holdings Ltd's patents average 20.9 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 nChain Holdings 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

nChain Holdings Ltd

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 40 granted patents across 5 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2017–2023. 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: H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, nchain ranks #8,081 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 40 patents across 5 technology areas.

#8,081
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 18%
by Innovation Score (47.7/100): 20.9
avg claims per patent: +1800%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R8081 · Foreign Corporation #8,081 · 40 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 40 grants
UPPER-Q #8,081/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH iOttie
CPC-NARROW H04L · 5 areas
INNOV-PAR 47.7/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 20.9 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +1800% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: iOttie 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 nchain’s 47.7 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 12.8 pts (27%) Velocity 14.4 pts (30%) Breadth 7.9 pts (17%) Claim depth 12.6 pts (26%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Bushnell · near

48
Lmpg · near

48
nChain Holdings · this assignee

48
Trend Micro… · near

48
Scientific Drilling… · near

48
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows nchain's Innovation Score is 47.7/100 (top 18% 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 nchain?

Each dot is one of nchain’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). nchain’s own 20.9 claims/patent is ABOVE the 7.5 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where nchain's grants concentrate

nChain Holdings Ltd is a focused PatentsView assignee: 5 CPC subclasses with 100% of grants classified under H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication). Peak complete grant year is 2022 (25 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2017. By volume, nchain sits between Zepp, Inc. and Asahi Yukizai Corporation.

nchain's three-year grant acceleration

nChain Holdings Ltd shows 26 grants in 2022–2024 against only 12 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.

Zepp

40
Zing Semiconductor

40
Zygo

40
iottie

40
nchain Holdings ◀

40
AIC

39
Airbus

39
Aisin Takaoka

39
Asahi Yukizai

39

What this shows nChain holds 40 patents at rank #8,151, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near nChain

By rank, the assignees closest to #8,151 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for nChain, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information), nChain ranks #783 of 8,956 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (48 here).

Lmpg Inc. 48 Bushnell Inc. 48 Trend Micro Incorporated 48 Scientific Drilling International, Inc. 48

nchain's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

48 Top 18% higher than 82% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2017–2023

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2017–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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nChain Holdings Ltd patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2017	1	2.5%
2018	1	2.5%
2020	6	15.0%
2021	6	15.0%
2022	25	62.5%
2023	1	2.5%

Which technologies does nChain Holdings Ltd patent most?

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 40

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 28

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 19

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 5

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 2

Top 5 of 5 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

nChain Holdings Ltd's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

nChain Holdings Ltd's lead technology class is H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication), 100% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04L
Ranked #8,081 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare nChain Holdings Ltd against Zepp, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 47.7/100 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

Every figure on PlainPatent is rendered directly from USPTO source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on USPTO source data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 2026.