Where does NHN Entertainment Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), NHN Entertainment Corporation ranks #4,478 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 NHN Entertainment Corporation hold?

NHN Entertainment Corporation holds 79 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2023, spanning 22 technology areas.

What is NHN Entertainment Corporation's Innovation Score?

NHN Entertainment Corporation has an Innovation Score of 42.4 out of 100 (top 31% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is NHN Entertainment Corporation's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

NHN Entertainment Corporation's recent grant velocity is -35% 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 NHN Entertainment Corporation's patents?

NHN Entertainment Corporation's patents average 15.7 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 NHN Entertainment 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

NHN Entertainment Corporation

Q: What technology areas does NHN Entertainment Corporation focus on?

NHN Entertainment Corporation's top technology area is A63F (Card, Board, OR Roulette GAMES; Indoor Games Using Small Moving Playing BODIES; Video GAMES; Games NOT Otherwise Provided FOR) with 32 patents, ranking #61 of 894 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 22 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 79 granted patents across 22 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: A63F (Card, Board, OR Roulette GAMES; Indoor Games Using Small Moving Playing BODIES; Video GAMES; Games NOT Otherwise Provided FOR).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, NHN ranks #4,478 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 79 patents across 22 technology areas.

#4,478
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 31%
by Innovation Score (42.4/100): 15.7
avg claims per patent: -35%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R4478 · Foreign Corporation #4,478 · 79 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 79 grants
TOP-DECILE #4,478/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH INSTITUCIÓ Catalana…
CPC-FOCUS A63F · 22 areas
INNOV-PAR 42.4/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.7 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -35% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: INSTITUCIÓ Catalana DE Recerca I Estudis Avancats (±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 NHN’s 42.4 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 15.1 pts (36%) Velocity 1.2 pts (3%) Breadth 16.6 pts (39%) Claim depth 9.4 pts (22%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
NHN Entertainment · this assignee

42
Ninebot (BEIJING) Tech · near

42
NuCana · near

42
Skorpios · near

42
tooz · near

42
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows NHN's Innovation Score is 42.4/100 (top 31% 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 NHN?

Each dot is one of NHN’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). NHN’s own 15.7 claims/patent is ABOVE the 12.1 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where NHN's grants concentrate

NHN Entertainment Corporation is a focused PatentsView assignee: 22 CPC subclasses with 40.5% of grants classified under A63F (Card, Board, OR Roulette GAMES; Indoor Games Using Small Moving Playing BODIES; Video GAMES; Games NOT Otherwise Provided FOR). Peak complete grant year is 2016 (14 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2023. By volume, NHN sits between INSTITUCIÓ Catalana DE Recerca I Estudis Avancats and Nissha Co., Ltd..

NHN's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, NHN Entertainment Corporation moved from 38 to 7 grants (0.18x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

InstituciÓ Catala…

79
Institut Polytech…

79
Ixys

79
LES Laboratoires…

79
Nikola

79
Ninebot (Beijing)…

79
Nippon Mektron

79
Nissha

79
NHN Entertainment ◀

79

What this shows NHN holds 79 patents at rank #4,477, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near NHN

By rank, the assignees closest to #4,477 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A63F (Card)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for NHN, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A63F (Card), NHN ranks #61 of 894 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (42 here).

Ninebot (BEIJING) Tech Co., Ltd. 42 Skorpios Technologies, Inc. 42 tooz technologies GmbH 42 NuCana plc 42

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (15.7 here).

Drexel University 15.7 avg Vixs Systems, Inc. 15.7 avg Wildcat Discovery Technologies, Inc. 15.7 avg Aledia 15.7 avg

NHN's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

42 Top 31% higher than 69% 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.

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NHN Entertainment Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	5	6.3%
2016	14	17.7%
2017	7	8.9%
2018	8	10.1%
2019	14	17.7%
2020	12	15.2%
2021	12	15.2%
2022	6	7.6%
2023	1	1.3%

Which technologies does NHN Entertainment Corporation patent most?

A63F - Card, Board, OR Roulette GAMES; Indoor Games Using Small Moving Playing BODIES; Video GAMES; Games NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 32

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 26

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 23

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 11

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 10

G07F - Coin-freed OR Like Apparatus 7

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 4

H04M - Telephonic Communication 4

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 2

G09B - Educational OR Demonstration APPLIANCES; Appliances FOR Teaching, OR Communicating With, THE Blind, Deaf OR MUTE; MODELS; PLANETARIA; GLOBES; MAPS; Diagrams 2

G16H - Healthcare Informatics, i.e. Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR THE Handling OR Processing OF Medical OR Healthcare Data 1

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 1

G10L - Speech Analysis Techniques OR Speech SYNTHESIS; Speech RECOGNITION; Speech OR Voice Processing TECHNIQUES; Speech OR Audio Coding OR Decoding 1

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 1

F24F - AIR-CONDITIONING; AIR-HUMIDIFICATION; VENTILATION; USE OF AIR Currents FOR Screening 1

Top 15 of 22 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

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

NHN Entertainment Corporation's lead technology class is A63F (Card, Board, OR Roulette GAMES; Indoor Games Using Small Moving Playing BODIES; Video GAMES; Games NOT Otherwise Provided FOR), 40.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A63F
Ranked #4,478 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare NHN Entertainment Corporation against INSTITUCIÓ Catalana DE Recerca I Estudis Avancats, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 42.4/100 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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