Where does Nokian Renkaat OYJ rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Nokian Renkaat OYJ ranks #13,085 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 Nokian Renkaat OYJ hold?

Nokian Renkaat OYJ holds 23 US utility patents granted between 2017 and 2025, spanning 6 technology areas.

What is Nokian Renkaat OYJ's Innovation Score?

Nokian Renkaat OYJ has an Innovation Score of 36.4 out of 100 (top 47% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Nokian Renkaat OYJ's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Nokian Renkaat OYJ's recent grant velocity is +200% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Nokian Renkaat OYJ's patents?

Nokian Renkaat OYJ's patents average 15.4 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 Nokian Renkaat OYJ 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

Nokian Renkaat OYJ

Q: What technology areas does Nokian Renkaat OYJ focus on?

Nokian Renkaat OYJ's top technology area is B60C (Vehicle TYRES; Tyre INFLATION; Tyre CHANGING; Connecting Valves TO Inflatable Elastic Bodies IN GENERAL; Devices OR Arrangements Related TO Tyres) with 22 patents, ranking #30 of 319 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 6 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 23 granted patents across 6 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: B60C (Vehicle TYRES; Tyre INFLATION; Tyre CHANGING; Connecting Valves TO Inflatable Elastic Bodies IN GENERAL; Devices OR Arrangements Related TO Tyres).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Nokian ranks #13,085 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 23 patents across 6 technology areas.

#13,085
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 47%
by Innovation Score (36.4/100): 15.4
avg claims per patent: +200%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R13085 · Foreign Corporation #13,085 · 23 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 23 grants
MID-PACK #13,085/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH NanoString
CPC-NARROW B60C · 6 areas
INNOV-THIN 36.4/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.4 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +200% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: NanoString Technologies, 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 Nokian’s 36.4 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 11.0 pts (30%) Velocity 7.5 pts (21%) Breadth 8.7 pts (24%) Claim depth 9.2 pts (25%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Nokian Renkaat OYJ · this assignee

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3D Lighting… · lowest

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What this shows Nokian's Innovation Score is 36.4/100 (top 47% 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 Nokian?

Each dot is one of Nokian’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). Nokian’s own 15.4 claims/patent is ABOVE the 10.9 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Nokian's grants concentrate

Nokian Renkaat OYJ is a focused PatentsView assignee: 6 CPC subclasses with 95.7% of grants classified under B60C (Vehicle TYRES; Tyre INFLATION; Tyre CHANGING; Connecting Valves TO Inflatable Elastic Bodies IN GENERAL; Devices OR Arrangements Related TO Tyres). Peak complete grant year is 2021 (5 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2018. By volume, Nokian sits between Nexite Ltd. and Nautibuoy Marine Limited.

Nokian's three-year grant acceleration

Nokian Renkaat OYJ shows 9 grants in 2022–2024 against only 8 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.

Nexite

23
Nidec Motors & Ac…

23
Ningbo Careline E…

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Nixon

23
Nanostring

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National Formosa…

23
Natural Fiber Wel…

23
Nautibuoy Marine

23
Nokian Renkaat OYJ ◀

23

What this shows Nokian holds 23 patents at rank #13,071, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Nokian

By rank, the assignees closest to #13,071 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B60C (Vehicle Tyres)

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

Nokian's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

36 Top 47% higher than 53% 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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Nokian Renkaat OYJ patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2017	2	8.7%
2018	1	4.3%
2019	2	8.7%
2020	1	4.3%
2021	5	21.7%
2022	3	13.0%
2023	4	17.4%
2024	2	8.7%
2025partial year	3	13.0%

Which technologies does Nokian Renkaat OYJ patent most?

B60C - Vehicle TYRES; Tyre INFLATION; Tyre CHANGING; Connecting Valves TO Inflatable Elastic Bodies IN GENERAL; Devices OR Arrangements Related TO Tyres 22

B29D - Producing Particular Articles From Plastics OR From Substances IN A Plastic State 9

C08K - Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances as compounding ingredients 2

C08L - Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds 2

C08H - Derivatives OF Natural Macromolecular Compounds 2

G01M - Testing Static OR Dynamic Balance OF Machines OR STRUCTURES; Testing OF Structures OR Apparatus, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1

Top 6 of 6 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

Nokian Renkaat OYJ's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Nokian Renkaat OYJ's lead technology class is B60C (Vehicle TYRES; Tyre INFLATION; Tyre CHANGING; Connecting Valves TO Inflatable Elastic Bodies IN GENERAL; Devices OR Arrangements Related TO Tyres), 95.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B60C
Ranked #13,085 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Nokian Renkaat OYJ against Nexite Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 36.4/100 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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