Where does Nielsen Consumer LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Nielsen Consumer LLC ranks #5,304 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 Nielsen Consumer LLC hold?

Nielsen Consumer LLC holds 65 US utility patents granted between 2021 and 2025, spanning 14 technology areas.

What is Nielsen Consumer LLC's Innovation Score?

Nielsen Consumer LLC has an Innovation Score of 59.7 out of 100 (top 4% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Nielsen Consumer LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Insufficient historical data is available to calculate a velocity trend for Nielsen Consumer LLC.

What does claim depth mean for Nielsen Consumer LLC's patents?

Nielsen Consumer LLC's patents average 20.0 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 Nielsen Consumer LLC 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 US Corporation

Nielsen Consumer LLC

Q: What technology areas does Nielsen Consumer LLC focus on?

Nielsen Consumer LLC's top technology area is 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) with 39 patents, ranking #360 of 6,520 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 14 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 65 granted patents across 14 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: G06Q (Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative,).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Nielsen ranks #5,304 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 65 patents across 14 technology areas.

#5,304
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 4%
by Innovation Score (59.7/100): 20.0
avg claims per patent

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R5304 · US Corporation #5,304 · 65 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-USCORP · SPAN-YRS · BOOK-RICH

GRANTS-SMALL 65 grants
UPPER-Q #5,304/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Liebherr-verzahntech…
CPC-FOCUS G06Q · 14 areas
INNOV-PAR 59.7/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 20.0 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
SPAN-YRS 2021–2025 · 5y
BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Liebherr-verzahntechnik GMBH (±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 Nielsen’s 59.7 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 14.5 pts (24%) Velocity 20.0 pts (34%) Breadth 13.2 pts (22%) Claim depth 12.0 pts (20%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Gpcp IP Holdings · near

60
Johnson Matthey Public · near

60
Nielsen Consumer · this assignee

60
Extang · near

60
Government of the… · near

60
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Nielsen's Innovation Score is 59.7/100 (top 4% 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 Nielsen?

Each dot is one of Nielsen’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). Nielsen’s own 20.0 claims/patent is ABOVE the 17.7 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Nielsen's grants concentrate

Nielsen Consumer LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 14 CPC subclasses with 60% of grants classified under G06Q (Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative,). Peak complete grant year is 2023 (21 grants) versus a trough of 5 in 2024. By volume, Nielsen sits between Liebherr-verzahntechnik GMBH and Poclain Hydraulics Industrie.

Nielsen's three-year grant acceleration

Nielsen Consumer LLC shows 41 grants in 2022–2024 against only 13 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.

Liebherr-verzahnt…

65
Momenta Pharmaceu…

65
Moneygram Interna…

65
Neonode

65
Novatel

65
Optasense Holdings

65
P4tents1

65
Poclain Hydraulic…

65
Nielsen Consumer ◀

65

What this shows Nielsen holds 65 patents at rank #5,303, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Nielsen

By rank, the assignees closest to #5,303 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G06Q (Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially…)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Nielsen, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G06Q (Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially…), Nielsen ranks #360 of 6,520 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (60 here).

Gpcp IP Holdings LLC 60 Johnson Matthey Public Limited Company 60 Extang Corporation 60 Government of the United States, as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force 60

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (20.0 here).

Inari Medical, Inc. 20.0 avg Prysm, Inc. 20.0 avg Empower Semiconductor, Inc. 20.0 avg US Synthetic Corporation 20.0 avg

Nielsen's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

60 Top 4% higher than 96% 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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Nielsen Consumer LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2021	13	20.0%
2022	15	23.1%
2023	21	32.3%
2024	5	7.7%
2025partial year	11	16.9%

Which technologies does Nielsen Consumer LLC patent most?

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 39

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 29

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 27

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 21

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 15

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 7

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 3

G16H - Healthcare Informatics, i.e. Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR THE Handling OR Processing OF Medical OR Healthcare Data 3

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

G03B - Apparatus OR Arrangements FOR Taking Photographs OR FOR Projecting OR Viewing THEM; Apparatus OR Arrangements Employing Analogous Techniques Using Waves Other Than Optical WAVES; Accessories Therefor 1

G09B - Educational OR Demonstration APPLIANCES; Appliances FOR Teaching, OR Communicating With, THE Blind, Deaf OR MUTE; MODELS; PLANETARIA; GLOBES; MAPS; Diagrams 1

A41F - Garment FASTENINGS; Suspenders 1

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 1

H04H - Broadcast Communication 1

Top 14 of 14 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

Nielsen Consumer LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Nielsen Consumer LLC's lead technology class is G06Q (Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative,), 60% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06Q
Ranked #5,304 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Nielsen Consumer LLC against Liebherr-verzahntechnik GMBH, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 59.7/100 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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