Where does Nexans rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Nexans ranks #1,614 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 Nexans hold?

Nexans holds 256 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 95 technology areas.

What is Nexans's Innovation Score?

Nexans has an Innovation Score of 56.5 out of 100 (top 6% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Nexans focus on?

Nexans's top technology area is H01B (CABLES; CONDUCTORS; INSULATORS; Selection OF Materials FOR Their Conductive, Insulating OR Dielectric Properties) with 139 patents, ranking #8 of 1,055 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 95 CPC subclasses total.

Is Nexans's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Nexans's recent grant velocity is -23% 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 Nexans's patents?

Nexans's patents average 10.5 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 Nexans 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

Nexans

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 256 granted patents across 95 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2025. 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: H01B (CABLES; CONDUCTORS; INSULATORS; Selection OF Materials FOR Their Conductive, Insulating OR Dielectric Properties).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Nexans ranks #1,614 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 256 patents across 95 technology areas.

#1,614
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 6%
by Innovation Score (56.5/100): 10.5
avg claims per patent: -23%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1614 · Foreign Corporation #1,614 · 256 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 256 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,614/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Asahi Kasei…
CPC-WIDE H01B · 95 areas
INNOV-PAR 56.5/100
CLAIMS-PAR 10.5 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -23% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Asahi Kasei Microdevices 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 Nexans’s 56.5 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 19.2 pts (34%) Velocity 6.0 pts (11%) Breadth 25.0 pts (44%) Claim depth 6.3 pts (11%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Flextronics AP · near

56
Klein Tools · near

56
Lord · near

56
Nexans · this assignee

56
Veoneer US · near

56
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Nexans's Innovation Score is 56.5/100 (top 6% 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 Nexans?

Each dot is one of Nexans’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). Nexans’s own 10.5 claims/patent is at or below the 15.0 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

How Nexans's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Nexans received 105 grants versus 136 in 2015–2019 (-23% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2015 at 37 grants and bottomed in 2021 at 16. Lead class H01B accounts for 54.3% of the portfolio across 95 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Asahi Kasei Microdevices Corporation (#1,610) and Givaudan SA (#1,618).

Nexans's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Nexans moved from 71 to 64 grants (0.90x 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 #1,468. See the growth leaderboard.

Asahi Kasei Micro…

256
Bull SAS

256
Johnson Electric

256
Kitty Hawk

256
SEB

256
Stmicroelectronic…

256
Nexans ◀

256
Biomerieux

255
Givaudan

255

What this shows Nexans holds 256 patents at rank #1,614, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Nexans

By rank, the assignees closest to #1,614 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H01B (Cables)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Nexans, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H01B (Cables), Nexans ranks #8 of 1,055 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (56 here).

Flextronics AP, LLC 56 Veoneer US LLC 56 Lord Corporation 56 Klein Tools, Inc. 56

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (10.5 here).

Haier Smart Home Co., Ltd. 10.5 avg Aircelle 10.5 avg Snecma 10.5 avg AmTRAN Technology Co., Ltd. 10.5 avg

Nexans's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

56 Top 6% higher than 94% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2025

Grants by year

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

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Nexans patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	37	14.5%
2016	21	8.2%
2017	23	9.0%
2018	25	9.8%
2019	30	11.7%
2020	25	9.8%
2021	16	6.3%
2022	18	7.0%
2023	22	8.6%
2024	24	9.4%
2025partial year	15	5.9%

Which technologies does Nexans patent most?

H01B - CABLES; CONDUCTORS; INSULATORS; Selection OF Materials FOR Their Conductive, Insulating OR Dielectric Properties 139

H02G - Installation OF Electric Cables OR Lines, OR OF Combined Optical AND Electric Cables OR Lines 72

H01R - Electrically-conductive CONNECTIONS; Structural Associations OF A Plurality OF Mutually-insulated Electrical Connecting ELEMENTS; Coupling DEVICES; Current Collectors 56

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 35

F16L - PIPES; Joints OR Fittings FOR PIPES; Supports FOR Pipes, Cables OR Protective TUBING; Means FOR Thermal Insulation IN General 33

C08L - Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds 22

C08K - Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances as compounding ingredients 19

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 18

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 17

E21B - Earth OR Rock DRILLING; Obtaining OIL, GAS, Water, Soluble OR Meltable Materials OR A Slurry OF Minerals From Wells 15

Y02A - Technologies FOR Adaptation TO Climate Change 14

B60R - Vehicles, Vehicle Fittings, OR Vehicle Parts, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 13

B23K - Soldering OR UNSOLDERING; WELDING; Cladding OR Plating BY Soldering OR WELDING; Cutting BY Applying Heat Locally, e.g. Flame CUTTING; Working BY Laser Beam 11

B21C - Manufacture OF Metal Sheets, Wire, Rods, Tubes, Profiles OR Like Semi-manufactured Products Otherwise Than BY ROLLING; Auxiliary Operations Used IN Connection With Metal-working Without Essentially Removing Material 10

H05K - Printed CIRCUITS; Casings OR Constructional Details OF Electric APPARATUS; Manufacture OF Assemblages OF Electrical Components 9

Top 15 of 95 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

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

Nexans's lead technology class is H01B (CABLES; CONDUCTORS; INSULATORS; Selection OF Materials FOR Their Conductive, Insulating OR Dielectric Properties), 54.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H01B
Ranked #1,614 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Nexans against Asahi Kasei Microdevices Corporation, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 56.5/100 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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