Where does NL Giken Incorporated rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), NL Giken Incorporated ranks #9,337 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 NL Giken Incorporated hold?

NL Giken Incorporated holds 34 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2022, spanning 21 technology areas.

What is NL Giken Incorporated's Innovation Score?

NL Giken Incorporated has an Innovation Score of 38.4 out of 100 (top 41% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does NL Giken Incorporated focus on?

NL Giken Incorporated's top technology area is H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television) with 27 patents, ranking #625 of 5,951 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 21 CPC subclasses total.

Is NL Giken Incorporated's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

NL Giken Incorporated's recent grant velocity is -64% 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 NL Giken Incorporated's patents?

NL Giken Incorporated's patents average 15.7 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 NL Giken Incorporated 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

NL Giken Incorporated

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 34 granted patents across 21 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2022. 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: H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, NL ranks #9,337 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 34 patents across 21 technology areas.

#9,337
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 41%
by Innovation Score (38.4/100): 15.7
avg claims per patent: -64%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R9337 · Foreign Corporation #9,337 · 34 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 34 grants
UPPER-Q #9,337/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Nauto
CPC-FOCUS H04N · 21 areas
INNOV-THIN 38.4/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.7 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -64% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Nauto, 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 NL’s 38.4 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 12.3 pts (32%) Velocity 0.4 pts (1%) Breadth 16.2 pts (42%) Claim depth 9.4 pts (25%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Freudenberg-NOK… · near

38
Ipex · near

38
Lake Products · near

38
LanzaTech New Zealand · near

38
NL Giken Incorporated · this assignee

38
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows NL's Innovation Score is 38.4/100 (top 41% 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 NL?

Each dot is one of NL’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). NL’s own 15.7 claims/patent is ABOVE the 11.6 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where NL's grants concentrate

NL Giken Incorporated is a focused PatentsView assignee: 21 CPC subclasses with 79.4% of grants classified under H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television). Peak complete grant year is 2020 (8 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2022. By volume, NL sits between Nidec GPM GMBH and Ohara Inc..

NL's three-year grant acceleration

NL Giken Incorporated shows 1 grants in 2022–2024 against only 15 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.

Nidec GPM

34
Nidec Seimitsu

34
Niigata University

34
Nippon Steel & Su…

34
Nauto

34
Neuronetics

34
Nordex Energy SE…

34
Ohara

34
NL Giken Incorpor… ◀

34

What this shows NL holds 34 patents at rank #9,335, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near NL

By rank, the assignees closest to #9,335 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04N (Pictorial Communication)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for NL, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H04N (Pictorial Communication), NL ranks #625 of 5,951 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (38 here).

Freudenberg-NOK General Partnership 38 Lake Products Limited 38 Ipex Technologies Inc. 38 LanzaTech New Zealand Limited 38

NL's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

38 Top 41% higher than 59% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2022

Grants by year

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

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NL Giken Incorporated patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	6	17.6%
2016	4	11.8%
2017	4	11.8%
2018	4	11.8%
2019	7	20.6%
2020	8	23.5%
2022	1	2.9%

Which technologies does NL Giken Incorporated patent most?

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 27

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 10

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 9

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 7

G07C - Time OR Attendance REGISTERS; Registering OR Indicating THE Working OF MACHINES; Generating Random NUMBERS; Voting OR Lottery APPARATUS; Arrangements, Systems OR Apparatus FOR Checking NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere 7

G09G - Arrangements OR Circuits FOR Control OF Indicating Devices Using Static Means TO Present Variable Information 6

G10H - Electrophonic Musical INSTRUMENTS; Instruments IN Which THE Tones ARE Generated BY Electromechanical Means OR Electronic Generators, OR IN Which THE Tones ARE Synthesised From A Data Store 4

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 4

G11B - Information Storage Based ON Relative Movement Between Record Carrier AND Transducer 4

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 4

H04M - Telephonic Communication 4

H04H - Broadcast Communication 3

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 2

G16H - Healthcare Informatics, i.e. Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR THE Handling OR Processing OF Medical OR Healthcare Data 2

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 2

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

NL Giken Incorporated's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

NL Giken Incorporated's lead technology class is H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television), 79.4% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04N
Ranked #9,337 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare NL Giken Incorporated against Nidec GPM GMBH, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 38.4/100 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.