Where does Nexen Tire Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Nexen Tire Corporation ranks #11,364 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 Nexen Tire Corporation hold?

Nexen Tire Corporation holds 27 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 5 technology areas.

What is Nexen Tire Corporation's Innovation Score?

Nexen Tire Corporation has an Innovation Score of 21.9 out of 100 (9th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Nexen Tire Corporation's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Nexen Tire Corporation's recent grant velocity is +40% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). The company is maintaining or growing its granted-patent output.

What does claim depth mean for Nexen Tire Corporation's patents?

Nexen Tire Corporation's patents average 2.0 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 Nexen Tire 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 Foreign Corporation

Nexen Tire Corporation

Q: What technology areas does Nexen Tire Corporation focus on?

Nexen Tire Corporation's top technology area is B60C (Vehicle TYRES; Tyre INFLATION; Tyre CHANGING; Connecting Valves TO Inflatable Elastic Bodies IN GENERAL; Devices OR Arrangements Related TO Tyres) with 3 patents, ranking #141 of 319 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 5 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 27 granted patents across 5 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: B60C (Vehicle TYRES; Tyre INFLATION; Tyre CHANGING; Connecting Valves TO Inflatable Elastic Bodies IN GENERAL; Devices OR Arrangements Related TO Tyres).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Nexen ranks #11,364 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 27 patents across 5 technology areas.

#11,364
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 9th percentile
by Innovation Score (21.9/100): 2.0
avg claims per patent: +40%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R11364 · Foreign Corporation #11,364 · 27 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-SPARSE · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-UP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 27 grants
UPPER-Q #11,364/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH NanoSemi
CPC-NARROW B60C · 5 areas
INNOV-THIN 21.9/100
CLAIMS-SPARSE 2.0 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-UP +40% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: NanoSemi, 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 Nexen’s 21.9 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 11.5 pts (53%) Velocity 1.3 pts (6%) Breadth 7.9 pts (36%) Claim depth 1.2 pts (5%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Boston Microfluidics · near

22
Ifwizard Coprporation · near

22
Intelliflash BY DDN · near

22
Nexen Tire · this assignee

22
Huizhou Dayawan… · near

22
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Nexen's Innovation Score is 21.9/100 (9th 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 Nexen?

Each dot is one of Nexen’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). Nexen’s own 2.0 claims/patent is at or below the 16.4 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Nexen's grants concentrate

Nexen Tire Corporation is a focused PatentsView assignee: 5 CPC subclasses with 11.1% of grants classified under B60C (Vehicle TYRES; Tyre INFLATION; Tyre CHANGING; Connecting Valves TO Inflatable Elastic Bodies IN GENERAL; Devices OR Arrangements Related TO Tyres). Peak complete grant year is 2021 (6 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2023. By volume, Nexen sits between Nuvolo Technologies Corporation and Osiris Therapeutics, Inc..

Nexen's three-year grant acceleration

Nexen Tire Corporation shows 3 grants in 2022–2024 against only 15 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.

Nuvolo

27
Nanosemi

27
National Universi…

27
Netspective Commu…

27
Nilfisk A/S

27
Origin

27
OSE Immunotherape…

27
Osiris Therapeuti…

27
Nexen Tire ◀

27

What this shows Nexen holds 27 patents at rank #11,369, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Nexen

By rank, the assignees closest to #11,369 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B60C (Vehicle Tyres)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Nexen, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B60C (Vehicle Tyres), Nexen ranks #141 of 319 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (22 here).

Ifwizard Coprporation 22 Intelliflash BY DDN, Inc. 22 Boston Microfluidics Inc. 22 Huizhou Dayawan Ever Bright Electronic Industry Co 22

Nexen's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

22 9th percentile higher than 9% 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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Nexen Tire Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	2	7.4%
2016	2	7.4%
2018	2	7.4%
2019	4	14.8%
2020	5	18.5%
2021	6	22.2%
2023	1	3.7%
2024	2	7.4%
2025partial year	3	11.1%

Which technologies does Nexen Tire Corporation patent most?

B60C - Vehicle TYRES; Tyre INFLATION; Tyre CHANGING; Connecting Valves TO Inflatable Elastic Bodies IN GENERAL; Devices OR Arrangements Related TO Tyres 3

G06K - Graphical Data Reading ; Presentation OF DATA; Record CARRIERS; Handling Record Carriers 2

C08K - Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances as compounding ingredients 1

C08L - Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds 1

H01Q - Antennas, i.e. Radio Aerials 1

Top 5 of 5 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

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

Nexen Tire Corporation's lead technology class is B60C (Vehicle TYRES; Tyre INFLATION; Tyre CHANGING; Connecting Valves TO Inflatable Elastic Bodies IN GENERAL; Devices OR Arrangements Related TO Tyres), 11.1% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B60C
Ranked #11,364 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Nexen Tire Corporation against Nuvolo Technologies Corporation, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 21.9/100 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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