Where does Nivarox-FAR S.A. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Nivarox-FAR S.A. ranks #2,425 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 Nivarox-FAR S.A. hold?

Nivarox-FAR S.A. holds 161 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 48 technology areas.

What is Nivarox-FAR S.A.'s Innovation Score?

Nivarox-FAR S.A. 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 Nivarox-FAR S.A.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Nivarox-FAR S.A.'s recent grant velocity is -29% 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 Nivarox-FAR S.A.'s patents?

Nivarox-FAR S.A.'s patents average 15.3 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 Nivarox-FAR S.A. 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

Nivarox-FAR S.A.

Q: What technology areas does Nivarox-FAR S.A. focus on?

Nivarox-FAR S.A.'s top technology area is G04B (Mechanically-driven Clocks OR WATCHES; Mechanical Parts OF Clocks OR Watches IN GENERAL; Time Pieces Using THE Position OF THE SUN, Moon OR Stars) with 146 patents, ranking #3 of 92 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 48 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 161 granted patents across 48 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2025. 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: G04B (Mechanically-driven Clocks OR WATCHES; Mechanical Parts OF Clocks OR Watches IN GENERAL; Time Pieces Using THE Position OF THE SUN, Moon OR Stars).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Nivarox-far ranks #2,425 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 161 patents across 48 technology areas.

#2,425
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 4%
by Innovation Score (59.7/100): 15.3
avg claims per patent: -29%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2425 · Foreign Corporation #2,425 · 161 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 161 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,425/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Graham Packaging
CPC-WIDE G04B · 48 areas
INNOV-PAR 59.7/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.3 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -29% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Graham Packaging Company, L.P. (±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 Nivarox-far’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 17.6 pts (29%) Velocity 8.4 pts (14%) Breadth 24.5 pts (41%) Claim depth 9.2 pts (15%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Arris Composites · near

60
Nivarox-FAR · this assignee

60
Disco · near

60
Hunter Douglas · near

60
The Charles Machine… · near

60
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Nivarox-far'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 Nivarox-far?

Each dot is one of Nivarox-far’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). Nivarox-far’s own 15.3 claims/patent is ABOVE the 12.7 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Nivarox-far's grants concentrate

Nivarox-FAR S.A. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 48 CPC subclasses with 90.7% of grants classified under G04B (Mechanically-driven Clocks OR WATCHES; Mechanical Parts OF Clocks OR Watches IN GENERAL; Time Pieces Using THE Position OF THE SUN, Moon OR Stars). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (22 grants) versus a trough of 9 in 2022. By volume, Nivarox-far sits between Graham Packaging Company, L.P. and Thinkware Corporation.

Nivarox-far's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Nivarox-FAR S.A. moved from 35 to 44 grants (1.26x 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 #697. See the growth leaderboard.

Graham Packaging

161
HCL

161
ISP Investments

161
Mitsubishi Heavy…

161
Positec Power Too…

161
Powerchip Semicon…

161
Staton Techiya

161
Thinkware

161
Nivarox-far ◀

161

What this shows Nivarox-FAR holds 161 patents at rank #2,425, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Nivarox-FAR

By rank, the assignees closest to #2,425 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G04B (Mechanically-driven Clocks OR Watches)

Other assignees with the most granted patents in Nivarox-FAR's primary technology class.

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Nivarox-FAR, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G04B (Mechanically-driven Clocks OR Watches), Nivarox-FAR ranks #3 of 92 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (60 here).

Arris Composites Inc. 60 The Charles Machine Works, Inc. 60 Hunter Douglas Inc. 60 Disco Corporation 60

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (15.3 here).

Akzo Nobel Chemicals International B.V 15.3 avg LX Semicon Co., Ltd. 15.3 avg Albert-Ludwigs-Universitaet Freiburg 15.3 avg Metso Minerals, Inc. 15.3 avg

Nivarox-far'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 · 2015–2025

Grants by year

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

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Nivarox-FAR S.A. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	22	13.7%
2016	16	9.9%
2017	22	13.7%
2018	17	10.6%
2019	14	8.7%
2020	10	6.2%
2021	11	6.8%
2022	9	5.6%
2023	16	9.9%
2024	19	11.8%
2025partial year	5	3.1%

Which technologies does Nivarox-FAR S.A. patent most?

G04B - Mechanically-driven Clocks OR WATCHES; Mechanical Parts OF Clocks OR Watches IN GENERAL; Time Pieces Using THE Position OF THE SUN, Moon OR Stars 146

G04D - Apparatus OR Tools Specially Designed FOR Making OR Maintaining Clocks OR Watches 45

C22C - Alloys 23

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 22

B81C - Processes OR Apparatus Specially Adapted FOR THE Manufacture OR Treatment OF Microstructural Devices OR Systems 17

B81B - Microstructural Devices OR Systems, e.g. Micromechanical Devices 14

C22F - Changing THE Physical Structure OF Non-ferrous Metals AND Non-ferrous Alloys 10

C25D - Processes FOR THE Electrolytic OR Electrophoretic Production OF COATINGS; ELECTROFORMING; Apparatus Therefor 10

C23C - Coating Metallic MATERIAL; Coating Material With Metallic MATERIAL; Surface Treatment OF Metallic Material BY Diffusion Into THE Surface, BY Chemical Conversion OR SUBSTITUTION; Coating BY Vacuum Evaporation, BY Sputtering, BY ION Implantation OR BY Chemical Vapour Deposition, IN General 7

G03F - Photomechanical Production OF Textured OR Patterned Surfaces, e.g. FOR Printing, FOR Processing OF Semiconductor DEVICES; Materials THEREFOR; Originals THEREFOR; Apparatus Specially Adapted THEREFOR; 7

F16F - SPRINGS; SHOCK-ABSORBERS; Means FOR Damping Vibration 6

G04C - Electromechanical Clocks OR Watches 6

C21D - Modifying THE Physical Structure OF Ferrous METALS; General Devices FOR Heat Treatment OF Ferrous OR Non-ferrous Metals OR ALLOYS; Making Metal Malleable, e.g. BY Decarburisation OR Tempering 5

B23K - Soldering OR UNSOLDERING; WELDING; Cladding OR Plating BY Soldering OR WELDING; Cutting BY Applying Heat Locally, e.g. Flame CUTTING; Working BY Laser Beam 5

B22D - Casting OF METALS; Casting OF Other Substances BY THE Same Processes OR Devices 3

Top 15 of 48 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

Nivarox-FAR S.A.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Nivarox-FAR S.A.'s lead technology class is G04B (Mechanically-driven Clocks OR WATCHES; Mechanical Parts OF Clocks OR Watches IN GENERAL; Time Pieces Using THE Position OF THE SUN, Moon OR Stars), 90.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G04B
Ranked #2,425 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Nivarox-FAR S.A. against Graham Packaging Company, L.P., 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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