Where does Nordson Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Nordson Corporation ranks #943 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 Nordson Corporation hold?

Nordson Corporation holds 469 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 97 technology areas.

What is Nordson Corporation's Innovation Score?

Nordson Corporation has an Innovation Score of 61.1 out of 100 (top 3% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Nordson Corporation focus on?

Nordson Corporation's top technology area is B05C (Apparatus FOR Applying Fluent Materials TO Surfaces, IN General) with 217 patents, ranking #1 of 569 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 97 CPC subclasses total.

Is Nordson Corporation's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Nordson Corporation's recent grant velocity is -43% 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 Nordson Corporation's patents?

Nordson Corporation's patents average 17.1 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 Nordson Corporation 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

Nordson Corporation

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 469 granted patents across 97 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: B05C (Apparatus FOR Applying Fluent Materials TO Surfaces, IN General).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Nordson ranks #943 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 469 patents across 97 technology areas.

#943
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 3%
by Innovation Score (61.1/100): 17.1
avg claims per patent: -43%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R943 · US Corporation #943 · 469 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 469 grants
TOP-DECILE #943/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Directv
CPC-WIDE B05C · 97 areas
INNOV-STRONG 61.1/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.1 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -43% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Directv, LLC (±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 Nordson’s 61.1 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 21.3 pts (35%) Velocity 4.6 pts (8%) Breadth 25.0 pts (41%) Claim depth 10.3 pts (17%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Danfoss A/S · near

61
Nordson · this assignee

61
Wipro · near

61
Autonetworks · near

61
Nanyang Technologica… · near

61
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Nordson's Innovation Score is 61.1/100 (top 3% 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 Nordson?

Each dot is one of Nordson’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). Nordson’s own 17.1 claims/patent is at or below the 18.1 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

How Nordson's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Nordson Corporation received 164 grants versus 287 in 2015–2019 (-43% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2016 at 67 grants and bottomed in 2022 at 21. Lead class B05C accounts for 46.3% of the portfolio across 97 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Uatc, LLC (#939) and Ibiden Co., Ltd. (#947).

Nordson's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Nordson Corporation moved from 126 to 86 grants (0.68x 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 #2,204. See the growth leaderboard.

Uatc

473
Trading Internati…

472
Adeia Guides

470
Directv

469
Varian Semiconduc…

469
Nordson ◀

469
Nanyang Technolog…

468
Ramot at Tel-aviv…

468
Ibiden

467

What this shows Nordson holds 469 patents at rank #943, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Nordson

By rank, the assignees closest to #943 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B05C (Apparatus FOR Applying Fluent Materials TO Surfaces)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Nordson, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B05C (Apparatus FOR Applying Fluent Materials TO Surfaces), Nordson ranks #1 of 569 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (61 here).

Wipro Limited 61 Danfoss A/S 61 Nanyang Technological University 61 Autonetworks Technologies, Ltd. 61

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (17.1 here).

Bell Helicopter Textron Inc. 17.1 avg Boehringer Ingelheim International GmbH 17.1 avg Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc. 17.1 avg Applied Medical Resources Corporation 17.1 avg

Nordson's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

61 Top 3% higher than 97% 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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Nordson Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	59	12.6%
2016	67	14.3%
2017	54	11.5%
2018	59	12.6%
2019	48	10.2%
2020	41	8.7%
2021	37	7.9%
2022	21	4.5%
2023	23	4.9%
2024	42	9.0%
2025partial year	18	3.8%

Which technologies does Nordson Corporation patent most?

B05C - Apparatus FOR Applying Fluent Materials TO Surfaces, IN General 217

B05B - Spraying APPARATUS; Atomising APPARATUS; Nozzles 143

B29C - Shaping OR Joining OF PLASTICS; Shaping OF Material IN A Plastic State, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; After-treatment OF THE Shaped Products, e.g. Repairing 55

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 42

B29B - Preparation OR Pretreatment OF THE Material TO BE SHAPED; Making Granules OR PREFORMS; Recovery OF Plastics OR Other Constituents OF Waste Material Containing Plastics 37

B01F - Mixing, e.g. Dissolving, Emulsifying OR Dispersing 36

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 34

B05D - Processes FOR Applying Fluent Materials TO Surfaces, IN General 33

F16L - PIPES; Joints OR Fittings FOR PIPES; Supports FOR Pipes, Cables OR Protective TUBING; Means FOR Thermal Insulation IN General 27

F16K - VALVES; TAPS; COCKS; ACTUATING-FLOATS; Devices FOR Venting OR Aerating 26

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 25

F04B - Positive-displacement Machines FOR LIQUIDS; Pumps 24

G01F - Measuring Volume, Volume Flow, Mass Flow OR Liquid LEVEL; Metering BY Volume 23

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 21

H05K - Printed CIRCUITS; Casings OR Constructional Details OF Electric APPARATUS; Manufacture OF Assemblages OF Electrical Components 21

Top 15 of 97 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

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

Nordson Corporation's lead technology class is B05C (Apparatus FOR Applying Fluent Materials TO Surfaces, IN General), 46.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B05C
Ranked #943 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Nordson Corporation against Uatc, LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 61.1/100 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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