Where does NLT Spine Ltd. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), NLT Spine Ltd. ranks #23,094 of 50,000 assignees by granted-patent volume, the same sort as the companies listing and top-holders ranking. See /methodology/#corpus-placement.

How many patents does NLT Spine Ltd. hold?

NLT Spine Ltd. holds 12 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2018, spanning 2 technology areas.

What is NLT Spine Ltd.'s Innovation Score?

NLT Spine Ltd. has an Innovation Score of 22.9 out of 100 (top 89% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is NLT Spine Ltd.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

NLT Spine Ltd.'s recent grant velocity is -100% 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 NLT Spine Ltd.'s patents?

NLT Spine Ltd.'s patents average 15.1 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 NLT Spine Ltd. 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

NLT Spine Ltd.

Q: What technology areas does NLT Spine Ltd. focus on?

NLT Spine Ltd.'s top technology area is A61F (FILTERS IMPLANTABLE INTO BLOOD VESSELS; PROSTHESES; DEVICES PROVIDING PATENCY TO, OR PREVENTING COLLAPSING OF, TUBULAR STRUCTURES OF THE BODY, e.g. STENTS; ORTHOPAEDIC, NURSING OR CONTRACEPTIVE DEVICES; FOMENTATION; TREATMENT OR PROTECTION OF EYES OR EARS; BANDAGES, DRESSINGS OR ABSORBENT PADS; FIRS) with 11 patents. Grants appear in 2 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 12 granted patents across 2 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2018. 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: A61F (FILTERS IMPLANTABLE INTO BLOOD VESSELS; PROSTHESES; DEVICES PROVIDING PATENCY TO, OR PREVENTING COLLAPSING OF, TUBULAR STRUCTURES OF THE BODY, e.g. STENTS; ORTHOPAEDIC, NURSING OR CONTRACEPTIVE DEVICE).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, NLT ranks #23,094 of 50,000 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 12 patents across 2 technology areas.

#23,094
of 50,000 US assignees by volume: Top 89%
by Innovation Score (22.9/100): 15.1
avg claims per patent: -100%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R23094 · Foreign Corporation #23,094 · 12 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 12 grants
MID-PACK #23,094/50,000
PHOTO-FINISH NIPPON CONLUX
CPC-NARROW A61F · 2 areas
INNOV-THIN 22.9/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.1 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -100% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Nippon Conlux Co., Ltd. (±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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
NLT Spine · this assignee

23
3D Lighting Innovati… · lowest

7

What this shows NLT's Innovation Score is 22.9/100 (top 89% 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.

Where NLT's grants concentrate

NLT Spine Ltd. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 2 CPC subclasses with 91.7% of grants classified under A61F (FILTERS IMPLANTABLE INTO BLOOD VESSELS; PROSTHESES; DEVICES PROVIDING PATENCY TO, OR PREVENTING COLLAPSING OF, TUBULAR STRUCTURES OF THE BODY, e.g. STENTS; ORTHOPAEDIC, NURSING OR CONTRACEPTIVE DEVICE). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (5 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2018. By volume, NLT sits between Nippon Conlux Co., Ltd. and Noritake Itron Corporation.

Nippon Conlux

12
Nippon Tungsten

12
Nishikawa

12
Nisshinbo Brake

12
NLU Products L L C

12
Noctrix Health

12
NON Typical

12
Noritake Itron

12
NLT Spine ◀

12

What this shows NLT holds 12 patents at rank #23,051, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near NLT

By rank, the assignees closest to #23,051 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A61F (Filters Implantable INTO Blood Vessels)

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

NLT's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

23 Top 89% higher than 11% of 50,000 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2018

Grants by year

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

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NLT Spine Ltd. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	5	41.7%
2016	3	25.0%
2017	3	25.0%
2018	1	8.3%

Which technologies does NLT Spine Ltd. patent most?

A61F - FILTERS IMPLANTABLE INTO BLOOD VESSELS; PROSTHESES; DEVICES PROVIDING PATENCY TO, OR PREVENTING COLLAPSING OF, TUBULAR STRUCTURES OF THE BODY, e.g. STENTS; ORTHOPAEDIC, NURSING OR CONTRACEPTIVE DEVICES; FOMENTATION; TREATMENT OR PROTECTION OF EYES OR EARS; BANDAGES, DRESSINGS OR ABSORBENT PADS; FIRS 11

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; IDENTIFICATION 8

Top 2 of 2 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#23,094

of 50,000 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

22.9 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

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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