Where does NEC Display Solutions, Ltd. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), NEC Display Solutions, Ltd. ranks #1,879 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 NEC Display Solutions, Ltd. hold?

NEC Display Solutions, Ltd. holds 214 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2021, spanning 42 technology areas.

What is NEC Display Solutions, Ltd.'s Innovation Score?

NEC Display Solutions, Ltd. has an Innovation Score of 49.0 out of 100 (top 15% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is NEC Display Solutions, Ltd.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

NEC Display Solutions, Ltd.'s recent grant velocity is -84% 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 NEC Display Solutions, Ltd.'s patents?

NEC Display Solutions, Ltd.'s patents average 12.6 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 NEC Display Solutions, 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

NEC Display Solutions, Ltd.

Q: What technology areas does NEC Display Solutions, Ltd. focus on?

NEC Display Solutions, Ltd.'s top technology area is G03B (Apparatus OR Arrangements FOR Taking Photographs OR FOR Projecting OR Viewing THEM; Apparatus OR Arrangements Employing Analogous Techniques Using Waves Other Than Optical WAVES; Accessories Therefor) with 103 patents. Grants appear in 42 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 214 granted patents across 42 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2021. 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: G03B (Apparatus OR Arrangements FOR Taking Photographs OR FOR Projecting OR Viewing THEM; Apparatus OR Arrangements Employing Analogous Techniques Using Waves Other Than Optical WAVES; Accessories Therefor).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, NEC ranks #1,879 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 214 patents across 42 technology areas.

#1,879
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 15%
by Innovation Score (49.0/100): 12.6
avg claims per patent: -84%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1879 · Foreign Corporation #1,879 · 214 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 214 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,879/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Grundfos Holding A/S
CPC-WIDE G03B · 42 areas
INNOV-PAR 49.0/100
CLAIMS-RICH 12.6 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -84% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Grundfos Holding A/S (±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
Aspire North America · near

49
Kinestral · near

49
LifeNet Health · near

49
NEC Display Solutions · this assignee

49
Translate BIO · near

49
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows NEC's Innovation Score is 49.0/100 (top 15% 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.

Where NEC's grants concentrate

NEC Display Solutions, Ltd. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 42 CPC subclasses with 48.1% of grants classified under G03B (Apparatus OR Arrangements FOR Taking Photographs OR FOR Projecting OR Viewing THEM; Apparatus OR Arrangements Employing Analogous Techniques Using Waves Other Than Optical WAVES; Accessories Therefor). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (56 grants) versus a trough of 6 in 2021. By volume, NEC sits between Grundfos Holding A/S and Tosoh Corporation.

Grundfos Holding…

214
Johnson Electric…

214
MKS Instruments

214
Minebea

214
Nunhems B V

214
Senju Metal Indus…

214
St-ericsson

214
Tosoh

214
NEC Display Solut… ◀

214

What this shows NEC holds 214 patents at rank #1,879, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near NEC

By rank, the assignees closest to #1,879 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G03B (Apparatus OR Arrangements FOR Taking Photographs OR FOR P…)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

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

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (49 here).

Translate BIO, Inc. 49 Aspire North America LLC 49 Kinestral Technologies, Inc. 49 LifeNet Health 49

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (12.6 here).

Shenzhen First Union Technology Co., Ltd. 12.6 avg FIH (HONG KONG) Limited 12.6 avg Mitsubishi Gas Chemical Company, Inc. 12.6 avg Colder Products Company 12.6 avg

NEC's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

49 Top 15% higher than 85% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2021

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2015–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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NEC Display Solutions, Ltd. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	56	26.2%
2016	35	16.4%
2017	29	13.6%
2018	36	16.8%
2019	29	13.6%
2020	23	10.7%
2021	6	2.8%

Which technologies does NEC Display Solutions, Ltd. patent most?

G03B - Apparatus OR Arrangements FOR Taking Photographs OR FOR Projecting OR Viewing THEM; Apparatus OR Arrangements Employing Analogous Techniques Using Waves Other Than Optical WAVES; Accessories Therefor 103

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 102

G09G - Arrangements OR Circuits FOR Control OF Indicating Devices Using Static Means TO Present Variable Information 92

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 46

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 39

F21V - Functional Features OR Details OF Lighting Devices OR Systems THEREOF; Structural Combinations OF Lighting Devices With Other Articles, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 17

H05B - Electric HEATING; Electric Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Circuit Arrangements FOR Electric Light Sources, IN General 13

G02F - Optical Devices OR Arrangements FOR THE Control OF Light BY Modification OF THE Optical Properties OF THE Media OF THE Elements Involved THEREIN; Non-linear OPTICS; Frequency-changing OF LIGHT; Optical Logic ELEMENTS; Optical ANALOGUE/DIGITAL Converters 13

H05K - Printed CIRCUITS; Casings OR Constructional Details OF Electric APPARATUS; Manufacture OF Assemblages OF Electrical Components 8

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 8

H01S - Devices Using THE Process OF Light Amplification BY Stimulated Emission OF Radiation [LASER] TO Amplify OR Generate LIGHT; Devices Using Stimulated Emission OF Electromagnetic Radiation IN Wave Ranges Other Than Optical 6

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 5

F21Y - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses F21k, F21l, F21s and F21v, Relating TO THE Form OR THE Kind OF THE Light Sources OR OF THE Colour OF THE Light Emitted 5

Y02B - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Buildings, e.g. Housing, House Appliances OR Related End-user Applications 5

F21K - Non-electric Light Sources Using LUMINESCENCE; Light Sources Using ELECTROCHEMILUMINESCENCE; Light Sources Using Charges OF Combustible MATERIAL; Light Sources Using Semiconductor Devices AS Light-generating ELEMENTS; Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 5

Top 15 of 42 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#1,879

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

49.0 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

NEC Display Solutions, Ltd.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

NEC Display Solutions, Ltd.'s lead technology class is G03B (Apparatus OR Arrangements FOR Taking Photographs OR FOR Projecting OR Viewing THEM; Apparatus OR Arrangements Employing Analogous Techniques Using Waves Other Than Optical WAVES; Accessories Therefor), 48.1% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G03B
Ranked #1,879 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare NEC Display Solutions, Ltd. against Grundfos Holding A/S, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 49.0/100 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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