Where does Nikles TEC Italia S.R.L. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Nikles TEC Italia S.R.L. ranks #21,515 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 Nikles TEC Italia S.R.L. hold?

Nikles TEC Italia S.R.L. holds 13 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2021, spanning 9 technology areas.

What is Nikles TEC Italia S.R.L.'s Innovation Score?

Nikles TEC Italia S.R.L. has an Innovation Score of 22.5 out of 100 (10th 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 Nikles TEC Italia S.R.L. focus on?

Nikles TEC Italia S.R.L.'s top technology area is E03C (Domestic Plumbing Installations FOR Fresh Water OR Waste Water ; Sinks) with 3 patents, ranking #105 of 262 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 9 CPC subclasses total.

Is Nikles TEC Italia S.R.L.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Nikles TEC Italia S.R.L.'s recent grant velocity is -92% 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 Nikles TEC Italia S.R.L.'s patents?

Nikles TEC Italia S.R.L.'s patents average 4.7 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 Nikles TEC Italia S.R.L. 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

Nikles TEC Italia S.R.L.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 13 granted patents across 9 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2021. 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: E03C (Domestic Plumbing Installations FOR Fresh Water OR Waste Water ; Sinks).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Nikles ranks #21,515 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 13 patents across 9 technology areas.

#21,515
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 10th percentile
by Innovation Score (22.5/100): 4.7
avg claims per patent: -92%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R21515 · Foreign Corporation #21,515 · 13 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 13 grants
MID-PACK #21,515/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Neworld Energy
CPC-NARROW E03C · 9 areas
INNOV-THIN 22.5/100
CLAIMS-SPARSE 4.7 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -92% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Neworld Energy LLC (±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 Nikles’s 22.5 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 9.1 pts (40%) Velocity 0.0 pts (0%) Breadth 10.6 pts (47%) Claim depth 2.8 pts (12%)

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What this shows Nikles's Innovation Score is 22.5/100 (10th 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 Nikles?

Each dot is one of Nikles’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). Nikles’s own 4.7 claims/patent is ABOVE the 3.4 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Nikles's grants concentrate

Nikles TEC Italia S.R.L. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 9 CPC subclasses with 23.1% of grants classified under E03C (Domestic Plumbing Installations FOR Fresh Water OR Waste Water ; Sinks). Peak complete grant year is 2019 (4 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2021. By volume, Nikles sits between Neworld Energy LLC and Ningbo Richen Electrical Appliance Co., Ltd.

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What this shows Nikles holds 13 patents at rank #21,497, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Nikles

By rank, the assignees closest to #21,497 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in E03C (Domestic Plumbing Installations FOR Fresh Water OR Waste…)

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

Nikles's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

23 10th percentile higher than 10% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2021

Grants by year

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

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Nikles TEC Italia S.R.L. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	3	23.1%
2016	2	15.4%
2018	3	23.1%
2019	4	30.8%
2021	1	7.7%

Which technologies does Nikles TEC Italia S.R.L. patent most?

E03C - Domestic Plumbing Installations FOR Fresh Water OR Waste Water ; Sinks 3

B05B - Spraying APPARATUS; Atomising APPARATUS; Nozzles 2

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 1

F21S - Non-portable Lighting DEVICES; Systems THEREOF; Vehicle Lighting Devices Specially Adapted FOR Vehicle Exteriors 1

F21V - Functional Features OR Details OF Lighting Devices OR Systems THEREOF; Structural Combinations OF Lighting Devices With Other Articles, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1

H04R - Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups OR Like Acoustic Electromechanical TRANSDUCERS; Deaf-aid SETS; Public Address Systems 1

F21Y - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses F21k, F21l, F21s and F21v, Relating TO THE Form OR THE Kind OF THE Light Sources OR OF THE Colour OF THE Light Emitted 1

F03B - Machines OR Engines FOR Liquids 1

F16K - VALVES; TAPS; COCKS; ACTUATING-FLOATS; Devices FOR Venting OR Aerating 1

Top 9 of 9 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

Nikles TEC Italia S.R.L.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Nikles TEC Italia S.R.L.'s lead technology class is E03C (Domestic Plumbing Installations FOR Fresh Water OR Waste Water ; Sinks), 23.1% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore E03C
Ranked #21,515 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Nikles TEC Italia S.R.L. against Neworld Energy LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 22.5/100 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

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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

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