Overall rank by patents
#36,730
of 49,997 tracked assignees
USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 7 granted patents across 9 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2023–2025. 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: C02F (Treatment OF Water, Waste Water, Sewage, OR Sludge).
The verdict
According to USPTO PatentsView, North ranks #36,730 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 7 patents across 9 technology areas.
USPTO PatentsView assignee plate
Corpus R36730 · Foreign Corporation #36,730 · 7 grants
GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-SPARSE · TYPE-FRNCORP · SPAN-YRS · BOOK-RICH
Nearest grant-volume peer: Nomadd Desert Solar Solutions (±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.
Lowest and highest poles plus nearest Innovation Score peers, not a full corpus board reprint.
Qualcomm Incorporated · highest
85 score
North China… · this assignee
42 score
3D Lighting… · lowest
7 score
What this shows North's Innovation Score is 42.2/100 (top 31% 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.
North China Municipal Engineering Design & Research Institute Co., Ltd. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 9 CPC subclasses with 42.9% of grants classified under C02F (Treatment OF Water, Waste Water, Sewage, OR Sludge). By volume, North sits between Nomadd Desert Solar Solutions and Nova Lumos Ltd..
North China Municipal Engineering Design & Research Institute Co., Ltd. shows 4 grants in 2022–2024 against only 0 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.
Granted US patents 2015–2025 versus its nearest-ranked assignees by volume, this company marked ◀
Nomadd Desert Solar Solutions
7 patents
Nord-lock Switzerland GMBH
7 patents
Normalu
7 patents
Normet OY
7 patents
Northeast Forestry University
7 patents
Northern Illinois Research Foundation
7 patents
Nous, LLC
7 patents
Nova Lumos Ltd.
7 patents
North China Municipal Engineering Design & Research Institute Co., Ltd.
7 patents
What this shows North holds 7 patents at rank #36,648, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.
By rank, the assignees closest to #36,648 in granted patent volume.
Other assignees with the most granted patents in North's primary technology class.
North's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee
Composite of portfolio volume, grant velocity, technology breadth, and claim depth (0–100)
42 Top 31% higher than 69% of 49,997 US assignees
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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025
Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2023–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.
| Year | Patents Granted | Share of Period |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 2 | 28.6% |
| 2024 | 2 | 28.6% |
| 2025partial year | 3 | 42.9% |
Top 9 of 9 technology areas
Overall rank by patents
#36,730
of 49,997 tracked assignees
42.2 out of 100
What to do with this data
North China Municipal Engineering Design & Research Institute Co., Ltd.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.
Figures reflect USPTO PatentsView grant data through May 2026; pending applications not yet granted are not counted.
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