Where does Nice Ltd. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Nice Ltd. ranks #1,668 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 Nice Ltd. hold?

Nice Ltd. holds 247 US utility patents granted between 2017 and 2025, spanning 20 technology areas.

What is Nice Ltd.'s Innovation Score?

Nice Ltd. has an Innovation Score of 57.0 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 Nice Ltd. focus on?

Nice Ltd.'s top technology area is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing) with 106 patents, ranking #520 of 13,878 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 20 CPC subclasses total.

Is Nice Ltd.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Nice Ltd.'s recent grant velocity is +307% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Nice Ltd.'s patents?

Nice Ltd.'s patents average 18.5 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 Nice 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

Nice Ltd.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 247 granted patents across 20 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2017–2025. 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: G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing).

Compiled by PlainPatent · May 15, 2026

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Nice ranks #1,668 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 247 patents across 20 technology areas.

#1,668
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 6%
by Innovation Score (57.0/100): 18.5
avg claims per patent: +307%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1668 · Foreign Corporation #1,668 · 247 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 247 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,668/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Cambridge Enterprise
CPC-FOCUS G06F · 20 areas
INNOV-PAR 57.0/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.5 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +307% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Cambridge Enterprise Limited (±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 Nice’s 57.0 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 19.0 pts (33%) Velocity 11.1 pts (19%) Breadth 15.8 pts (28%) Claim depth 11.1 pts (19%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Hallmark Cards… · near

57
Kobelco Construction… · near

57
Nice · this assignee

57
S&P Global · near

57
Telecom Italia S p A · near

57
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Nice's Innovation Score is 57.0/100 (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 Nice?

Each dot is one of Nice’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). Nice’s own 18.5 claims/patent is ABOVE the 14.7 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Nice's grants concentrate

Nice Ltd. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 20 CPC subclasses with 42.9% of grants classified under G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing). Peak complete grant year is 2023 (50 grants) versus a trough of 11 in 2017. By volume, Nice sits between Cambridge Enterprise Limited and Tobii AB.

Nice's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Nice Ltd. moved from 74 to 123 grants (1.66x 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 #335. See the growth leaderboard.

Cambridge Enterpr…

247
H LEE Moffitt Can…

247
Honeywell Federal…

247
J Choo

247
Saint-gobain Cera…

247
THE Toro

247
Teknologian tutki…

247
Tobii AB

247
Nice ◀

247

What this shows Nice holds 247 patents at rank #1,667, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Nice

By rank, the assignees closest to #1,667 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Nice, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), Nice ranks #520 of 13,878 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (57 here).

Telecom Italia S.p.A. 57 Kobelco Construction Machinery Co., Ltd 57 Hallmark Cards, Incorporated 57 S&P Global Inc. 57

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (18.5 here).

EMC IP Holding Company LLC 18.5 avg Schwäbische Hüttenwerke Automotive GmbH 18.5 avg Transocean Sedco Forex Ventures Limited 18.5 avg Innio Jenbacher GmbH & Co OG 18.5 avg

Nice's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

57 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 · 2017–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2017–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

View data table

Nice Ltd. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2017	11	4.5%
2018	20	8.1%
2019	14	5.7%
2020	32	13.0%
2021	28	11.3%
2022	43	17.4%
2023	50	20.2%
2024	30	12.1%
2025partial year	19	7.7%

Which technologies does Nice Ltd. patent most?

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 106

H04M - Telephonic Communication 103

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 94

G10L - Speech Analysis Techniques OR Speech SYNTHESIS; Speech RECOGNITION; Speech OR Voice Processing TECHNIQUES; Speech OR Audio Coding OR Decoding 74

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 40

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 38

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 13

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 7

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 6

B25J - MANIPULATORS; Chambers Provided With Manipulation Devices 5

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 4

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

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 2

C11D - Detergent COMPOSITIONS; USE OF Single Substances AS DETERGENTS; Soap OR SOAP-MAKING; Resin SOAPS; Recovery OF Glycerol 1

G07F - Coin-freed OR Like Apparatus 1

Top 15 of 20 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

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

Nice Ltd.'s lead technology class is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), 42.9% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06F
Ranked #1,668 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Nice Ltd. against Cambridge Enterprise Limited, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 57.0/100 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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