Where does NetIQ Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), NetIQ Corporation ranks #7,895 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 NetIQ Corporation hold?

NetIQ Corporation holds 41 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2023, spanning 7 technology areas.

What is NetIQ Corporation's Innovation Score?

NetIQ Corporation has an Innovation Score of 34.7 out of 100 (48th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does NetIQ Corporation focus on?

NetIQ Corporation's top technology area is H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication) with 30 patents, ranking #986 of 8,956 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 7 CPC subclasses total.

Is NetIQ Corporation's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

NetIQ Corporation's recent grant velocity is -48% 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 NetIQ Corporation's patents?

NetIQ Corporation's patents average 15.9 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 NetIQ Corporation 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 US Corporation

NetIQ Corporation

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 41 granted patents across 7 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: H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Netiq ranks #7,895 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 41 patents across 7 technology areas.

#7,895
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 48th percentile
by Innovation Score (34.7/100): 15.9
avg claims per patent: -48%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R7895 · US Corporation #7,895 · 41 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 41 grants
UPPER-Q #7,895/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Nasuni
CPC-NARROW H04L · 7 areas
INNOV-THIN 34.7/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.9 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -48% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Nasuni Corporation (±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 Netiq’s 34.7 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 12.9 pts (37%) Velocity 2.9 pts (8%) Breadth 9.4 pts (27%) Claim depth 9.6 pts (28%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Guidewire Software · near

35
HCA Holdings · near

35
NetIQ · this assignee

35
Satori Worldwide · near

35
Woongjin Coway · near

35
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Netiq's Innovation Score is 34.7/100 (48th percentile 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 Netiq?

Each dot is one of Netiq’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). Netiq’s own 15.9 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.2 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Netiq's grants concentrate

NetIQ Corporation is a focused PatentsView assignee: 7 CPC subclasses with 73.2% of grants classified under H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication). Peak complete grant year is 2016 (7 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2023. By volume, Netiq sits between Nuvotronics, Inc and Oetiker NY, Inc..

Netiq's three-year grant acceleration

NetIQ Corporation shows 6 grants in 2022–2024 against only 14 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.

Nuvotronics

41
Nasuni

41
National Universi…

41
Natron Energy

41
Netscout Systems…

41
Nuvolta (Hefei)

41
OL Security Liabi…

41
Oetiker NY

41
Netiq ◀

41

What this shows NetIQ holds 41 patents at rank #7,897, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near NetIQ

By rank, the assignees closest to #7,897 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for NetIQ, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information), NetIQ ranks #986 of 8,956 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (35 here).

Guidewire Software, Inc. 35 Woongjin Coway Co., Ltd. 35 HCA Holdings, Inc. 35 Satori Worldwide, LLC 35

Netiq's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

35 48th percentile higher than 48% 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.

View data table

NetIQ Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	4	9.8%
2016	7	17.1%
2017	5	12.2%
2018	5	12.2%
2019	6	14.6%
2020	3	7.3%
2021	5	12.2%
2022	4	9.8%
2023	2	4.9%

Which technologies does NetIQ Corporation patent most?

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 30

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 28

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 17

G01R - Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables 3

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 2

G09C - Ciphering OR Deciphering Apparatus FOR Cryptographic OR Other Purposes Involving THE Need FOR Secrecy 1

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 1

Top 7 of 7 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

NetIQ Corporation's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

NetIQ Corporation's lead technology class is H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication), 73.2% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04L
Ranked #7,895 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare NetIQ Corporation against Nuvotronics, Inc, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 34.7/100 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

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