Where does Nileworks Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Nileworks Inc. ranks #18,950 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 Nileworks Inc. hold?

Nileworks Inc. holds 15 US utility patents granted between 2022 and 2025, spanning 21 technology areas.

What is Nileworks Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Nileworks Inc. has an Innovation Score of 56.9 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 Nileworks Inc. focus on?

Nileworks Inc.'s top technology area is B64U (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles [UAV]; Equipment Therefor) with 14 patents, ranking #56 of 545 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 21 CPC subclasses total.

Is Nileworks Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Insufficient historical data is available to calculate a velocity trend for Nileworks Inc..

What does claim depth mean for Nileworks Inc.'s patents?

Nileworks Inc.'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 Nileworks 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 Foreign Corporation

Nileworks Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 15 granted patents across 21 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2022–2025. 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: B64U (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles [UAV]; Equipment Therefor).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Nileworks ranks #18,950 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 15 patents across 21 technology areas.

#18,950
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 6%
by Innovation Score (56.9/100): 18.5
avg claims per patent

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R18950 · Foreign Corporation #18,950 · 15 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · SPAN-YRS · BOOK-RICH

GRANTS-MICRO 15 grants
MID-PACK #18,950/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Nelson Global Products
CPC-FOCUS B64U · 21 areas
INNOV-PAR 56.9/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.5 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
SPAN-YRS 2022–2025 · 4y
BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Nelson Global Products, 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 Nileworks’s 56.9 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 (17%) Velocity 20.0 pts (35%) Breadth 16.2 pts (28%) Claim depth 11.1 pts (20%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Nileworks · this assignee

57
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Nileworks's Innovation Score is 56.9/100 (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 Nileworks?

Each dot is one of Nileworks’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). Nileworks’s own 18.5 claims/patent is ABOVE the 9.6 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Nileworks's grants concentrate

Nileworks Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 21 CPC subclasses with 93.3% of grants classified under B64U (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles [UAV]; Equipment Therefor). Peak complete grant year is 2024 (10 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2023. By volume, Nileworks sits between Nelson Global Products, Inc. and Nisshin Engineering Inc..

Nileworks's three-year grant acceleration

Nileworks Inc. shows 13 grants in 2022–2024 against only 0 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.

Nelson Global Pro…

15
Neuchips

15
Neuralmagic

15
Nifco America

15
Nine IP

15
Ningbo Meace PET…

15
Nippon Carbide In…

15
Nisshin Engineeri…

15
Nileworks ◀

15

What this shows Nileworks holds 15 patents at rank #18,926, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Nileworks

By rank, the assignees closest to #18,926 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B64U (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles [UAV])

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

Nileworks'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 · 2022–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2022–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Nileworks Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2022	2	13.3%
2023	1	6.7%
2024	10	66.7%
2025partial year	2	13.3%

Which technologies does Nileworks Inc. patent most?

B64U - Unmanned Aerial Vehicles [UAV]; Equipment Therefor 14

B64D - Equipment FOR Fitting IN OR TO AIRCRAFT; Flight SUITS; PARACHUTES; Arrangement OR Mounting OF Power Plants OR Propulsion Transmissions IN Aircraft 12

G05D - Systems FOR Controlling OR Regulating Non-electric Variables 12

G08G - Traffic Control Systems 8

A01M - Catching, Trapping OR Scaring OF Animals ; Apparatus FOR THE Destruction OF Noxious Animals OR Noxious Plants 8

B64C - AEROPLANES; Helicopters 6

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 5

B60L - Propulsion OF Electrically-propelled Vehicles ; Supplying Electric Power FOR Auxiliary Equipment OF Electrically-propelled Vehicles ; Electrodynamic Brake Systems FOR Vehicles IN General ; Magnetic Suspension OR Levitation FOR VEHICLES; Monitoring Operating Variables OF Electrically-propelled Vehicl 4

A01C - PLANTING; SOWING; Fertilising 2

G08B - Signalling OR Calling SYSTEMS; Order TELEGRAPHS; Alarm Systems 1

B05B - Spraying APPARATUS; Atomising APPARATUS; Nozzles 1

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 1

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 1

A01B - Soil Working IN Agriculture OR FORESTRY; Parts, Details, OR Accessories OF Agricultural Machines OR Implements, IN General 1

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 1

Top 15 of 21 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

Nileworks Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Nileworks Inc.'s lead technology class is B64U (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles [UAV]; Equipment Therefor), 93.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B64U
Ranked #18,950 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Nileworks Inc. against Nelson Global Products, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 56.9/100 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.