Where does Nordco Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Nordco Inc. ranks #10,118 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 Nordco Inc. hold?

Nordco Inc. holds 31 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 13 technology areas.

What is Nordco Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Nordco Inc. has an Innovation Score of 45.8 out of 100 (top 22% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Nordco Inc. focus on?

Nordco Inc.'s top technology area is E01B (Permanent WAY; Permanent-way TOOLS; Machines FOR Making Railways OF ALL Kinds) with 19 patents, ranking #5 of 117 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 13 CPC subclasses total.

Is Nordco Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Nordco Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -64% 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 Nordco Inc.'s patents?

Nordco Inc.'s patents average 12.8 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 Nordco 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

Nordco Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 31 granted patents across 13 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: E01B (Permanent WAY; Permanent-way TOOLS; Machines FOR Making Railways OF ALL Kinds).

Compiled by PlainPatent · May 15, 2026

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Nordco ranks #10,118 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 31 patents across 13 technology areas.

#10,118
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 22%
by Innovation Score (45.8/100): 12.8
avg claims per patent: -64%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R10118 · US Corporation #10,118 · 31 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 31 grants
UPPER-Q #10,118/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Nativo
CPC-FOCUS E01B · 13 areas
INNOV-PAR 45.8/100
CLAIMS-RICH 12.8 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -64% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Nativo, 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 Nordco’s 45.8 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 (26%) Velocity 13.3 pts (29%) Breadth 12.7 pts (28%) Claim depth 7.7 pts (17%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Nordco · this assignee

46
Perdue Foods · near

46
Spiber AB · near

46
STC · near

46
Veeco Instruments · near

46
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Nordco's Innovation Score is 45.8/100 (top 22% 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 Nordco?

Each dot is one of Nordco’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). Nordco’s own 12.8 claims/patent is at or below the 18.7 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Nordco's grants concentrate

Nordco Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 13 CPC subclasses with 61.3% of grants classified under E01B (Permanent WAY; Permanent-way TOOLS; Machines FOR Making Railways OF ALL Kinds). Peak complete grant year is 2017 (8 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2019. By volume, Nordco sits between Nativo, Inc. and Nytell Software LLC.

Nordco's three-year grant acceleration

Nordco Inc. shows 6 grants in 2022–2024 against only 3 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.

Nativo

31
Neptune Technolog…

31
Nevermind Capital

31
Newleaf Symbiotics

31
Norton Healthcare

31
Novo Nordisk Heal…

31
Novus Internation…

31
Nytell Software

31
Nordco ◀

31

What this shows Nordco holds 31 patents at rank #10,119, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Nordco

By rank, the assignees closest to #10,119 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in E01B (Permanent WAY)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Nordco, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In E01B (Permanent WAY), Nordco ranks #5 of 117 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (46 here).

Spiber Technologies AB 46 Perdue Foods LLC 46 STC, Inc. 46 Veeco Instruments Inc. 46

Nordco's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

46 Top 22% higher than 78% 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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Nordco Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	5	16.1%
2016	2	6.5%
2017	8	25.8%
2018	6	19.4%
2019	1	3.2%
2021	2	6.5%
2022	4	12.9%
2023	1	3.2%
2024	1	3.2%
2025partial year	1	3.2%

Which technologies does Nordco Inc. patent most?

E01B - Permanent WAY; Permanent-way TOOLS; Machines FOR Making Railways OF ALL Kinds 19

B61L - Guiding Railway TRAFFIC; Ensuring THE Safety OF Railway Traffic 3

B61K - Auxiliary Equipment Specially Adapted FOR Railways, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 3

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 3

B60F - Vehicles FOR USE Both ON Rail AND ON ROAD; Amphibious OR Like VEHICLES; Convertible Vehicles 3

E01H - Street CLEANING; Cleaning OF Permanent WAYS; Cleaning BEACHES; Dispersing ; OR PREVENTING; FOG IN General ; Cleaning Street OR Railway Furniture OR Tunnel Walls 2

B61J - Shifting OR Shunting OF Rail Vehicles 2

B61C - LOCOMOTIVES; Motor Railcars 2

B65G - Transport OR Storage Devices, e.g. Conveyors FOR Loading OR Tipping, Shop Conveyor Systems OR Pneumatic Tube Conveyors 2

E02F - DREDGING; Soil-shifting 2

B06B - Methods OR Apparatus FOR Generating OR Transmitting Mechanical Vibrations OF Infrasonic, Sonic, OR Ultrasonic Frequency, ; e.g.; FOR Performing Mechanical Work IN General 1

B61F - Rail Vehicle Suspensions, e.g. Underframes, Bogies OR Arrangements OF Wheel AXLES; Rail Vehicles FOR USE ON Tracks OF Different WIDTH; Preventing Derailing OF Rail VEHICLES; Wheel Guards, Obstruction Removers OR THE Like FOR Rail Vehicles 1

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 1

Top 13 of 13 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

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

Nordco Inc.'s lead technology class is E01B (Permanent WAY; Permanent-way TOOLS; Machines FOR Making Railways OF ALL Kinds), 61.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore E01B
Ranked #10,118 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Nordco Inc. against Nativo, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 45.8/100 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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