Where does Nokia Technologies OY rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Nokia Technologies OY ranks #66 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 Nokia Technologies OY hold?

Nokia Technologies OY holds 5,496 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 177 technology areas.

What is Nokia Technologies OY's Innovation Score?

Nokia Technologies OY has an Innovation Score of 74.2 out of 100 (top 1% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Nokia Technologies OY focus on?

Nokia Technologies OY's top technology area is H04W (Wireless Communication Networks) with 2,593 patents. Grants appear in 177 CPC subclasses total.

Is Nokia Technologies OY's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Nokia Technologies OY's recent grant velocity is -10% 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 Nokia Technologies OY's patents?

Nokia Technologies OY's patents average 18.7 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 Nokia Technologies OY 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

Nokia Technologies OY

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 5,496 granted patents across 177 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: H04W (Wireless Communication Networks).

Compiled by PlainPatent · May 15, 2026

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Nokia ranks #66 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 5,496 patents across 177 technology areas.

#66
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 1%
by Innovation Score (74.2/100): 18.7
avg claims per patent: -10%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R66 · Foreign Corporation #66 · 5,496 grants

GRANTS-LARGE · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-FLAT · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-LARGE 5.5K grants
TOP-DECILE #66/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Kyocera Document…
CPC-WIDE H04W · 177 areas
INNOV-STRONG 74.2/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.7 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-FLAT -10% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Kyocera Document Solutions Inc. (±5 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
Argo AI · near

74
Rovi Guides · near

74
HL Mando · near

74
Nokia OY · this assignee

74
Applied Materials · near

74
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Nokia's Innovation Score is 74.2/100 (top 1% 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.

How Nokia's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Nokia Technologies OY received 2,349 grants versus 2,596 in 2015–2019 (-10% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2016 at 698 grants and bottomed in 2015 at 405. Lead class H04W accounts for 47.2% of the portfolio across 177 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Infineon Technologies AG (#62) and Tokyo Electron Limited (#70).

Nokia's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Nokia Technologies OY moved from 1,249 to 1,533 grants (1.23x 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 #743. See the growth leaderboard.

Infineon

5,936
Hitachi

5,890
SAP SE

5,717
The Procter & Gam…

5,586
Nokia OY ◀

5,496
Kyocera Document…

5,491
Japan Display

5,401
Hewlett Packard E…

5,165
Tokyo Electron

5,061

What this shows Nokia holds 5,496 patents at rank #66, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Nokia

By rank, the assignees closest to #66 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04W (Wireless Communication Networks)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Nokia, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above).

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (74 here).

HL Mando Corporation 74 Applied Materials, Inc. 74 Rovi Guides, Inc. 74 Argo AI, LLC 74

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (18.7 here).

Dish Wireless L.L.C. 18.7 avg Physio-control, Inc. 18.7 avg Samsara Inc. 18.7 avg Dorel Juvenile Group, Inc. 18.7 avg

Nokia's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

74 Top 1% higher than 99% 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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Nokia Technologies OY patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	405	7.4%
2016	698	12.7%
2017	640	11.6%
2018	420	7.6%
2019	433	7.9%
2020	406	7.4%
2021	410	7.5%
2022	432	7.9%
2023	443	8.1%
2024	658	12.0%
2025partial year	551	10.0%

Which technologies does Nokia Technologies OY patent most?

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 2,593

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 1,830

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 1,267

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 635

H04B - Transmission 609

H04M - Telephonic Communication 390

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 367

H04R - Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups OR Like Acoustic Electromechanical TRANSDUCERS; Deaf-aid SETS; Public Address Systems 357

H04S - Stereophonic Systems 349

Y02D - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN Information AND Communication Technologies [ICT], I.E. Information AND Communication Technologies Aiming AT THE Reduction OF Their OWN Energy USE 260

G10L - Speech Analysis Techniques OR Speech SYNTHESIS; Speech RECOGNITION; Speech OR Voice Processing TECHNIQUES; Speech OR Audio Coding OR Decoding 242

G01S - Radio DIRECTION-FINDING; Radio NAVIGATION; Determining Distance OR Velocity BY USE OF Radio WAVES; Locating OR Presence-detecting BY USE OF THE Reflection OR Reradiation OF Radio WAVES; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves 225

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 179

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 171

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 144

Top 15 of 177 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#66

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

74.2 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

Nokia Technologies OY's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Nokia Technologies OY's lead technology class is H04W (Wireless Communication Networks), 47.2% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04W
Ranked #66 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Nokia Technologies OY against Infineon Technologies AG, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 74.2/100 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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