Where does Noble Drilling A/S rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Noble Drilling A/S ranks #26,986 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 Noble Drilling A/S hold?

Noble Drilling A/S holds 10 US utility patents granted between 2023 and 2025, spanning 15 technology areas.

What is Noble Drilling A/S's Innovation Score?

Noble Drilling A/S has an Innovation Score of 52.6 out of 100 (top 10% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Noble Drilling A/S's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Insufficient historical data is available to calculate a velocity trend for Noble Drilling A/S.

What does claim depth mean for Noble Drilling A/S's patents?

Noble Drilling A/S's patents average 17.7 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 Noble Drilling A/S 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

Noble Drilling A/S

Q: What technology areas does Noble Drilling A/S focus on?

Noble Drilling A/S's top technology area is E21B (Earth OR Rock DRILLING; Obtaining OIL, GAS, Water, Soluble OR Meltable Materials OR A Slurry OF Minerals From Wells) with 8 patents, ranking #449 of 1,363 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 15 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 10 granted patents across 15 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2023–2025. 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: E21B (Earth OR Rock DRILLING; Obtaining OIL, GAS, Water, Soluble OR Meltable Materials OR A Slurry OF Minerals From Wells).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Noble ranks #26,986 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 10 patents across 15 technology areas.

#26,986
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 10%
by Innovation Score (52.6/100): 17.7
avg claims per patent

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R26986 · Foreign Corporation #26,986 · 10 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 10 grants
MID-PACK #26,986/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Ningbo Lianda Winch
CPC-FOCUS E21B · 15 areas
INNOV-PAR 52.6/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.7 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
SPAN-YRS 2023–2025 · 3y
BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Ningbo Lianda Winch 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.

How Noble’s 52.6 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 8.3 pts (16%) Velocity 20.0 pts (38%) Breadth 13.7 pts (26%) Claim depth 10.6 pts (20%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Noble Drilling A/S · this assignee

53
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Noble's Innovation Score is 52.6/100 (top 10% 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 Noble?

Each dot is one of Noble’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). Noble’s own 17.7 claims/patent is ABOVE the 17.2 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Noble's grants concentrate

Noble Drilling A/S is a focused PatentsView assignee: 15 CPC subclasses with 80% of grants classified under E21B (Earth OR Rock DRILLING; Obtaining OIL, GAS, Water, Soluble OR Meltable Materials OR A Slurry OF Minerals From Wells). Peak complete grant year is 2023 (7 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2024. By volume, Noble sits between Ningbo Lianda Winch Co., Ltd. and Novabone Products, LLC.

Noble's three-year grant acceleration

Noble Drilling A/S shows 9 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.

Ningbo Lianda Win…

10
Nmetric

10
NO Screw

10
NOA

10
Noke

10
North & South Bro…

10
Novabiotics

10
Novabone Products

10
Noble Drilling A/S ◀

10

What this shows Noble holds 10 patents at rank #26,942, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Noble

By rank, the assignees closest to #26,942 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in E21B (Earth OR Rock Drilling)

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

Noble's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

53 Top 10% higher than 90% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2023–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2023–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Noble Drilling A/S patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2023	7	70.0%
2024	2	20.0%
2025partial year	1	10.0%

Which technologies does Noble Drilling A/S patent most?

E21B - Earth OR Rock DRILLING; Obtaining OIL, GAS, Water, Soluble OR Meltable Materials OR A Slurry OF Minerals From Wells 8

B63J - Auxiliaries ON Vessels 2

B63B - Ships OR Other Waterborne VESSELS; Equipment FOR Shipping 2

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 2

B63H - Marine Propulsion OR Steering 2

B66D - CAPSTANS; WINCHES; Tackles, e.g. Pulley BLOCKS; Hoists 1

B66C - CRANES; Load-engaging Elements OR Devices FOR Cranes, Capstans, Winches, OR Tackles 1

E02B - Hydraulic Engineering 1

H02K - Dynamo-electric Machines 1

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

H02J - Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy 1

G05D - Systems FOR Controlling OR Regulating Non-electric Variables 1

F01N - Gas-flow Silencers OR Exhaust Apparatus FOR Machines OR Engines IN GENERAL; Gas-flow Silencers OR Exhaust Apparatus FOR Internal-combustion Engines 1

F02D - Controlling Combustion Engines 1

F02M - Supplying Combustion Engines IN General With Combustible Mixtures OR Constituents Thereof 1

Top 15 of 15 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

Noble Drilling A/S's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Noble Drilling A/S's lead technology class is E21B (Earth OR Rock DRILLING; Obtaining OIL, GAS, Water, Soluble OR Meltable Materials OR A Slurry OF Minerals From Wells), 80% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore E21B
Ranked #26,986 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Noble Drilling A/S against Ningbo Lianda Winch Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 52.6/100 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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