Where does Nifty Home Products, Inc rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Nifty Home Products, Inc ranks #18,948 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 Nifty Home Products, Inc hold?

Nifty Home Products, Inc holds 15 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2024, spanning 8 technology areas.

What is Nifty Home Products, Inc's Innovation Score?

Nifty Home Products, Inc has an Innovation Score of 27.1 out of 100 (22nd percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Nifty Home Products, Inc focus on?

Nifty Home Products, Inc's top technology area is A47J (Kitchen EQUIPMENT; Coffee MILLS; Spice MILLS; Apparatus FOR Making Beverages) with 3 patents, ranking #307 of 793 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 8 CPC subclasses total.

Is Nifty Home Products, Inc's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Nifty Home Products, Inc's recent grant velocity is -33% 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 Nifty Home Products, Inc's patents?

Nifty Home Products, Inc's patents average 5.8 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 Nifty Home Products, Inc 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

Nifty Home Products, Inc

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 15 granted patents across 8 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2024. 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: A47J (Kitchen EQUIPMENT; Coffee MILLS; Spice MILLS; Apparatus FOR Making Beverages).

Compiled by PlainPatent · May 15, 2026

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Nifty ranks #18,948 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 15 patents across 8 technology areas.

#18,948
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 22nd percentile
by Innovation Score (27.1/100): 5.8
avg claims per patent: -33%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R18948 · US Corporation #18,948 · 15 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-SPARSE · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 15 grants
MID-PACK #18,948/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Nexen Group
CPC-NARROW A47J · 8 areas
INNOV-THIN 27.1/100
CLAIMS-SPARSE 5.8 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DOWN -33% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Nexen Group, 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 Nifty’s 27.1 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 9.6 pts (35%) Velocity 4.0 pts (15%) Breadth 10.0 pts (37%) Claim depth 3.5 pts (13%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Nifty Home Products · this assignee

27
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Nifty's Innovation Score is 27.1/100 (22nd 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 Nifty?

Each dot is one of Nifty’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). Nifty’s own 5.8 claims/patent is ABOVE the 4.8 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Nifty's grants concentrate

Nifty Home Products, Inc is a focused PatentsView assignee: 8 CPC subclasses with 20% of grants classified under A47J (Kitchen EQUIPMENT; Coffee MILLS; Spice MILLS; Apparatus FOR Making Beverages). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (3 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2017. By volume, Nifty sits between Nexen Group, Inc. and Nitta Haas Inc..

Nifty's three-year grant acceleration

Nifty Home Products, Inc shows 3 grants in 2022–2024 against only 5 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.

Nexen Group

15
Nexisvision

15
Nice-pak Products

15
Nickel & Suede

15
Nikon SLM Solutio…

15
Ningbo Litesun El…

15
Ningbo Pureza Tec…

15
Nitta Haas

15
Nifty Home Produc… ◀

15

What this shows Nifty holds 15 patents at rank #18,952, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Nifty

By rank, the assignees closest to #18,952 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A47J (Kitchen Equipment)

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

Nifty's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

27 22nd percentile higher than 22% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2024

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2015–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Nifty Home Products, Inc patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	3	20.0%
2016	2	13.3%
2017	1	6.7%
2018	1	6.7%
2019	2	13.3%
2020	2	13.3%
2021	1	6.7%
2022	2	13.3%
2024	1	6.7%

Which technologies does Nifty Home Products, Inc patent most?

A47J - Kitchen EQUIPMENT; Coffee MILLS; Spice MILLS; Apparatus FOR Making Beverages 3

F16M - Frames, Casings OR Beds OF Engines, Machines OR Apparatus, NOT Specific TO Engines, Machines OR Apparatus Provided FOR ELSEWHERE; STANDS; Supports 2

A47B - TABLES; DESKS; Office FURNITURE; CABINETS; DRAWERS; General Details OF Furniture 2

A62B - Devices, Apparatus OR Methods FOR Life-saving 1

B25B - Tools OR Bench Devices NOT Otherwise Provided FOR, FOR Fastening, Connecting, Disengaging OR Holding 1

B27B - Saws FOR Wood OR Similar MATERIAL; Components OR Accessories Therefor 1

B23D - PLANING; SLOTTING; SHEARING; BROACHING; SAWING; FILING; SCRAPING; Like Operations FOR Working Metal BY Removing Material, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1

B25F - Combination OR Multi-purpose Tools NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Details OR Components OF Portable Power-driven Tools NOT Particularly Related TO THE Operations Performed AND NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1

Top 8 of 8 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

Nifty Home Products, Inc's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Nifty Home Products, Inc's lead technology class is A47J (Kitchen EQUIPMENT; Coffee MILLS; Spice MILLS; Apparatus FOR Making Beverages), 20% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A47J
Ranked #18,948 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Nifty Home Products, Inc against Nexen Group, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 27.1/100 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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