Where does Noble International, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Noble International, Inc. ranks #10,117 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 International, Inc. hold?

Noble International, Inc. holds 31 US utility patents granted between 2017 and 2025, spanning 8 technology areas.

What is Noble International, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Noble International, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 37.1 out of 100 (top 45% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Noble International, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Noble International, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +525% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Noble International, Inc.'s patents?

Noble International, Inc.'s patents average 14.9 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 International, 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 US Corporation

Noble International, Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Noble International, Inc. focus on?

Noble International, Inc.'s top technology area is G09B (Educational OR Demonstration APPLIANCES; Appliances FOR Teaching, OR Communicating With, THE Blind, Deaf OR MUTE; MODELS; PLANETARIA; GLOBES; MAPS; Diagrams) with 24 patents, ranking #24 of 1,127 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 8 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 31 granted patents across 8 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2017–2025. 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: G09B (Educational OR Demonstration APPLIANCES; Appliances FOR Teaching, OR Communicating With, THE Blind, Deaf OR MUTE; MODELS; PLANETARIA; GLOBES; MAPS; Diagrams).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Noble ranks #10,117 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 31 patents across 8 technology areas.

#10,117
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 45%
by Innovation Score (37.1/100): 14.9
avg claims per patent: +525%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R10117 · US Corporation #10,117 · 31 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 31 grants
UPPER-Q #10,117/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Mueller Sports…
CPC-NARROW G09B · 8 areas
INNOV-THIN 37.1/100
CLAIMS-RICH 14.9 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +525% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Mueller Sports Medicine, 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 Noble’s 37.1 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 12.0 pts (32%) Velocity 6.2 pts (17%) Breadth 10.0 pts (27%) Claim depth 8.9 pts (24%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
CBF Networks · near

37
Centre Hospitalier… · near

37
Milgard Manufacturing · near

37
Noble International · this assignee

37
Zerotech (SHENZHEN)… · near

37
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Noble's Innovation Score is 37.1/100 (top 45% 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 14.9 claims/patent is ABOVE the 10.4 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 International, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 8 CPC subclasses with 77.4% of grants classified under G09B (Educational OR Demonstration APPLIANCES; Appliances FOR Teaching, OR Communicating With, THE Blind, Deaf OR MUTE; MODELS; PLANETARIA; GLOBES; MAPS; Diagrams). Peak complete grant year is 2021 (7 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2017. By volume, Noble sits between Mueller Sports Medicine, Inc. and National University of Ireland Maynooth.

Noble's three-year grant acceleration

Noble International, Inc. shows 13 grants in 2022–2024 against only 14 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.

Mueller Sports Me…

31
Nano Dimension

31
Natco Pharma

31
Nissin Electric

31
Northgate

31
Nagasaki Universi…

31
National Service…

31
National Universi…

31
Noble Internation… ◀

31

What this shows Noble holds 31 patents at rank #10,110, 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 #10,110 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G09B (Educational OR Demonstration Appliances)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Noble, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G09B (Educational OR Demonstration Appliances), Noble ranks #24 of 1,127 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (37 here).

Centre Hospitalier Regional et Universitaire de Lille (CHRU) 37 CBF Networks, Inc. 37 Milgard Manufacturing LLC 37 Zerotech (SHENZHEN) Intelligence Robot Co., Ltd. 37

Noble's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

37 Top 45% higher than 55% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2017–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2017–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Noble International, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2017	1	3.2%
2018	1	3.2%
2019	2	6.5%
2020	5	16.1%
2021	7	22.6%
2022	1	3.2%
2023	7	22.6%
2024	5	16.1%
2025partial year	2	6.5%

Which technologies does Noble International, Inc. patent most?

G09B - Educational OR Demonstration APPLIANCES; Appliances FOR Teaching, OR Communicating With, THE Blind, Deaf OR MUTE; MODELS; PLANETARIA; GLOBES; MAPS; Diagrams 24

A61M - Devices FOR Introducing Media Into, OR Onto, THE Body ; Devices FOR Transducing Body Media OR FOR Taking Media From THE Body ; Devices FOR Producing OR Ending Sleep OR Stupor 20

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

A61J - Containers Specially Adapted FOR Medical OR Pharmaceutical PURPOSES; Devices OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Bringing Pharmaceutical Products Into Particular Physical OR Administering FORMS; Devices FOR Administering Food OR Medicines ORALLY; Baby COMFORTERS; Devices FOR Receiving Spittle 1

F25D - REFRIGERATORS; Cold ROOMS; ICE-BOXES; Cooling OR Freezing Apparatus NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1

B65D - Containers FOR Storage OR Transport OF Articles OR Materials, e.g. Bags, Barrels, Bottles, Boxes, Cans, Cartons, Crates, Drums, Jars, Tanks, Hoppers, Forwarding CONTAINERS; Accessories, Closures, OR Fittings THEREFOR; Packaging ELEMENTS; Packages 1

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 1

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 1

Top 8 of 8 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 International, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Noble International, Inc.'s lead technology class is G09B (Educational OR Demonstration APPLIANCES; Appliances FOR Teaching, OR Communicating With, THE Blind, Deaf OR MUTE; MODELS; PLANETARIA; GLOBES; MAPS; Diagrams), 77.4% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G09B
Ranked #10,117 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Noble International, Inc. against Mueller Sports Medicine, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 37.1/100 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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