Where does Nokia rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Nokia ranks #1,134 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 hold?

Nokia holds 373 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 65 technology areas.

What is Nokia's Innovation Score?

Nokia has an Innovation Score of 59.6 out of 100 (top 4% 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 focus on?

Nokia's top technology area is H04W (Wireless Communication Networks) with 148 patents, ranking #154 of 5,904 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 65 CPC subclasses total.

Is Nokia's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Nokia's recent grant velocity is -99% 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's patents?

Nokia's patents average 19.9 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 Nokia 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

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 373 granted patents across 65 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 #1,134 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 373 patents across 65 technology areas.

#1,134
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 4%
by Innovation Score (59.6/100): 19.9
avg claims per patent: -99%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1134 · Foreign Corporation #1,134 · 373 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 373 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,134/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH 10x Genomics
CPC-WIDE H04W · 65 areas
INNOV-PAR 59.6/100
CLAIMS-RICH 19.9 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -99% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: 10x Genomics, 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 Nokia’s 59.6 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 20.5 pts (34%) Velocity 2.2 pts (4%) Breadth 25.0 pts (42%) Claim depth 11.9 pts (20%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
National Instruments · near

60
Nokia · this assignee

60
Inventec · near

60
Oatey · near

60
Topcon · near

60
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Nokia's Innovation Score is 59.6/100 (top 4% 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 Nokia?

Each dot is one of Nokia’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). Nokia’s own 19.9 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.8 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How Nokia's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Nokia received 5 grants versus 367 in 2015–2019 (-99% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2015 at 297 grants and bottomed in 2021 at 1. Lead class H04W accounts for 39.7% of the portfolio across 65 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Anthura B.V. (#1,130) and Puma SE (#1,138).

Nokia's three-year grant acceleration

Nokia shows 2 grants in 2022–2024 against only 6 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.

Anthura B V

374
Mako Surgical

374
10x Genomics

373
Huawei Digital Po…

373
University of Bri…

373
Nokia ◀

373
Samsung SDS

372
HL Mando

371
Puma SE

371

What this shows Nokia holds 373 patents at rank #1,134, 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 #1,134 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). In H04W (Wireless Communication Networks), Nokia ranks #154 of 5,904 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (60 here).

National Instruments Corporation 60 Inventec Corporation 60 Topcon Corporation 60 Oatey Co. 60

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (19.9 here).

The Chinese University of Hong Kong 19.9 avg Heartflow, Inc. 19.9 avg Hulu, LLC 19.9 avg Biomet Sports Medicine, LLC 19.9 avg

Nokia's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

60 Top 4% higher than 96% of 49,997 US assignees

Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more US assignees. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.

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.

View data table

Nokia patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	297	79.6%
2016	48	12.9%
2017	15	4.0%
2018	4	1.1%
2019	3	0.8%
2020	2	0.5%
2021	1	0.3%
2022	2	0.5%
2025partial year	1	0.3%

Which technologies does Nokia patent most?

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 148

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 124

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 109

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 43

H04M - Telephonic Communication 43

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 22

H04B - Transmission 19

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 16

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 15

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 13

G01C - Measuring Distances, Levels OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; Gyroscopic INSTRUMENTS; Photogrammetry OR Videogrammetry 12

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 10

H04R - Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups OR Like Acoustic Electromechanical TRANSDUCERS; Deaf-aid SETS; Public Address Systems 9

G09G - Arrangements OR Circuits FOR Control OF Indicating Devices Using Static Means TO Present Variable Information 8

G10L - Speech Analysis Techniques OR Speech SYNTHESIS; Speech RECOGNITION; Speech OR Voice Processing TECHNIQUES; Speech OR Audio Coding OR Decoding 5

Top 15 of 65 technology areas

More on this record

Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

View all rankings → How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

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

Nokia's lead technology class is H04W (Wireless Communication Networks), 39.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04W
Ranked #1,134 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Nokia against Anthura B.V., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 59.6/100 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

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.