Where does Nchain Licensing AG rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Nchain Licensing AG ranks #1,322 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 Licensing AG hold?

Nchain Licensing AG holds 321 US utility patents granted between 2021 and 2025, spanning 10 technology areas.

What is Nchain Licensing AG's Innovation Score?

Nchain Licensing AG has an Innovation Score of 61.4 out of 100 (top 3% 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 Licensing AG focus on?

Nchain Licensing AG's top technology area is H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication) with 319 patents, ranking #137 of 8,956 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 10 CPC subclasses total.

Is Nchain Licensing AG's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Insufficient historical data is available to calculate a velocity trend for Nchain Licensing AG.

What does claim depth mean for Nchain Licensing AG's patents?

Nchain Licensing AG's patents average 17.1 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 Nchain Licensing AG 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 Licensing AG

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 321 granted patents across 10 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2021–2025. 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: H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Nchain ranks #1,322 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 321 patents across 10 technology areas.

#1,322
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 3%
by Innovation Score (61.4/100): 17.1
avg claims per patent

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1322 · Foreign Corporation #1,322 · 321 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · SPAN-YRS · BOOK-RICH

GRANTS-MID 321 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,322/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Coplus
CPC-FOCUS H04L · 10 areas
INNOV-STRONG 61.4/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.1 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
SPAN-YRS 2021–2025 · 5y
BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Coplus 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 61.4 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 19.9 pts (32%) Velocity 20.0 pts (33%) Breadth 11.2 pts (18%) Claim depth 10.3 pts (17%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
IFP Energies Nouvelles · near

61
Nchain Licensing · this assignee

61
Sumitomo Chemical · near

61
Gulfstream Aerospace · near

61
The Penn State… · near

61
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Nchain's Innovation Score is 61.4/100 (top 3% 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 17.1 claims/patent is ABOVE the 7.9 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 Licensing AG is a focused PatentsView assignee: 10 CPC subclasses with 99.4% of grants classified under H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication). Peak complete grant year is 2024 (108 grants) versus a trough of 4 in 2021. By volume, Nchain sits between Karl Storz GmbH & Co. KG and Sandia Corporation.

Nchain's three-year grant acceleration

Nchain Licensing AG shows 199 grants in 2022–2024 against only 4 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.

Karl Storz & KG

322
Linkedin

322
Tokyo Institute o…

322
Coplus

321
Nchain Licensing ◀

321
Converse

320
Southeast Univers…

320
Sumco

320
Sandia

320

What this shows Nchain holds 321 patents at rank #1,322, 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 #1,322 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 #137 of 8,956 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (61 here).

IFP Energies Nouvelles 61 Sumitomo Chemical Company, Limited 61 Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation 61 The Penn State Research Foundation 61

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (17.1 here).

Vanderbilt University 17.1 avg University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc. 17.1 avg Elenion Technologies, LLC 17.1 avg The University of Nottingham 17.1 avg

Nchain's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

61 Top 3% higher than 97% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2021–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2021–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Nchain Licensing AG patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2021	4	1.2%
2022	35	10.9%
2023	56	17.4%
2024	108	33.6%
2025partial year	118	36.8%

Which technologies does Nchain Licensing AG patent most?

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 319

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 188

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 176

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 20

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 8

H03M - CODING; DECODING; Code Conversion IN General 3

H04B - Transmission 3

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 2

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 1

G16Y - Information AND Communication Technology Specially Adapted FOR THE Internet OF Things [IoT] 1

Top 10 of 10 technology areas

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

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What to do with this data

Nchain Licensing AG's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Nchain Licensing AG's lead technology class is H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication), 99.4% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04L
Ranked #1,322 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Nchain Licensing AG against Karl Storz GmbH & Co. KG, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 61.4/100 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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