Where does Nicoventures Trading Limited rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Nicoventures Trading Limited ranks #888 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 Nicoventures Trading Limited hold?

Nicoventures Trading Limited holds 511 US utility patents granted between 2021 and 2025, spanning 62 technology areas.

What is Nicoventures Trading Limited's Innovation Score?

Nicoventures Trading Limited has an Innovation Score of 74.5 out of 100 (top 1% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Nicoventures Trading Limited's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Insufficient historical data is available to calculate a velocity trend for Nicoventures Trading Limited.

What does claim depth mean for Nicoventures Trading Limited's patents?

Nicoventures Trading Limited's patents average 13.2 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 Nicoventures Trading Limited 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

Nicoventures Trading Limited

Q: What technology areas does Nicoventures Trading Limited focus on?

Nicoventures Trading Limited's top technology area is A24F (Smokers' REQUISITES; Match BOXES; Simulated Smoking Devices) with 335 patents. Grants appear in 62 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 511 granted patents across 62 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2021–2025. 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: A24F (Smokers' REQUISITES; Match BOXES; Simulated Smoking Devices).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Nicoventures ranks #888 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 511 patents across 62 technology areas.

#888
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 1%
by Innovation Score (74.5/100): 13.2
avg claims per patent

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R888 · Foreign Corporation #888 · 511 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · SPAN-YRS · BOOK-RICH

GRANTS-MID 511 grants
TOP-DECILE #888/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Jiangnan University
CPC-WIDE A24F · 62 areas
INNOV-STRONG 74.5/100
CLAIMS-RICH 13.2 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
SPAN-YRS 2021–2025 · 5y
BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Jiangnan University (±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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Salesforce · near

75
King Faisal University · near

75
Blueowl · near

75
Nicoventures Trading · this assignee

74
LG · near

74
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Nicoventures's Innovation Score is 74.5/100 (top 1% 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.

How Nicoventures's grant cadence moved

Grant history spans 2021–2025. Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2024 at 170 grants and bottomed in 2021 at 33. Lead class A24F accounts for 65.6% of the portfolio across 62 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Dish Technologies L.L.C. (#884) and KLA Corporation (#892).

Nicoventures's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Nicoventures Trading Limited moved from 33 to 319 grants (9.67x 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 #9. See the growth leaderboard.

Dish L L C

512
Emory University

512
Kennametal

512
Jiangnan Universi…

511
Sumitomo Metal Mi…

511
Nicoventures Trad… ◀

511
Entegris

509
Nuvasive

504
KLA

503

What this shows Nicoventures holds 511 patents at rank #888, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Nicoventures

By rank, the assignees closest to #888 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A24F (Smokers' Requisites)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Nicoventures, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above).

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (74 here).

Blueowl, LLC 75 King Faisal University 75 LG Electronics Inc. 74 Salesforce, Inc. 75

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (13.2 here).

Kuraray Co., Ltd. 13.2 avg HTC Corporation 13.2 avg Lifetime Products, Inc. 13.2 avg Integrated DNA Technologies, Inc. 13.2 avg

Nicoventures's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

74 Top 1% higher than 99% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2021–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2021–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Nicoventures Trading Limited patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2021	33	6.5%
2022	58	11.4%
2023	91	17.8%
2024	170	33.3%
2025partial year	159	31.1%

Which technologies does Nicoventures Trading Limited patent most?

A24F - Smokers' REQUISITES; Match BOXES; Simulated Smoking Devices 335

H05B - Electric HEATING; Electric Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Circuit Arrangements FOR Electric Light Sources, IN General 113

A61M - Devices FOR Introducing Media Into, OR Onto, THE Body ; Devices FOR Transducing Body Media OR FOR Taking Media From THE Body ; Devices FOR Producing OR Ending Sleep OR Stupor 111

A24B - Manufacture OR Preparation OF Tobacco FOR Smoking OR CHEWING; TOBACCO; Snuff 100

A24D - CIGARS; CIGARETTES; Tobacco Smoke FILTERS; Mouthpieces FOR Cigars OR CIGARETTES; Manufacture OF Tobacco Smoke Filters OR Mouthpieces 74

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 28

A24C - Machines FOR Making Cigars OR Cigarettes 17

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 15

H02J - Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy 15

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 15

B65D - Containers FOR Storage OR Transport OF Articles OR Materials, e.g. Bags, Barrels, Bottles, Boxes, Cans, Cartons, Crates, Drums, Jars, Tanks, Hoppers, Forwarding CONTAINERS; Accessories, Closures, OR Fittings THEREFOR; Packaging ELEMENTS; Packages 12

H01M - Processes OR Means, e.g. Batteries, FOR THE Direct Conversion OF Chemical Energy Into Electrical Energy 9

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 7

H02M - Apparatus FOR Conversion Between AC AND AC, Between AC AND DC, OR Between DC AND DC, AND FOR USE With Mains OR Similar Power Supply SYSTEMS; Conversion OF DC OR AC Input Power Into Surge Output POWER; Control OR Regulation Thereof 7

A23L - Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Preparation OR Treatment Thereof 5

Top 15 of 62 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#888

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

74.5 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

Nicoventures Trading Limited's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Nicoventures Trading Limited's lead technology class is A24F (Smokers' REQUISITES; Match BOXES; Simulated Smoking Devices), 65.6% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A24F
Ranked #888 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Nicoventures Trading Limited against Dish Technologies L.L.C., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 74.5/100 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

Every figure on PlainPatent is rendered directly from USPTO source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on USPTO source data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 2026.