Where does Northern Trust Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Northern Trust Corporation ranks #23,103 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 Northern Trust Corporation hold?

Northern Trust Corporation holds 12 US utility patents granted between 2018 and 2025, spanning 7 technology areas.

What is Northern Trust Corporation's Innovation Score?

Northern Trust Corporation has an Innovation Score of 50.3 out of 100 (top 13% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Northern Trust Corporation focus on?

Northern Trust Corporation's top technology area is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing) with 10 patents, ranking #3,601 of 13,878 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 7 CPC subclasses total.

Is Northern Trust Corporation's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Northern Trust Corporation's recent grant velocity is +75% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Northern Trust Corporation's patents?

Northern Trust Corporation's patents average 20.2 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 Northern Trust 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

Northern Trust Corporation

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 12 granted patents across 7 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2018–2025. 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: G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Northern ranks #23,103 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 12 patents across 7 technology areas.

#23,103
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 13%
by Innovation Score (50.3/100): 20.2
avg claims per patent: +75%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R23103 · US Corporation #23,103 · 12 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 12 grants
MID-PACK #23,103/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH NoCell
CPC-NARROW G06F · 7 areas
INNOV-PAR 50.3/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 20.2 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +75% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: NoCell Technologies, 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 Northern’s 50.3 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 8.9 pts (18%) Velocity 20.0 pts (40%) Breadth 9.4 pts (19%) Claim depth 12.1 pts (24%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Nantero · near

50
Northern Trust · this assignee

50
RefleXion Medical · near

50
Samsung Heavy IND · near

50
SSenStone · near

50
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Northern's Innovation Score is 50.3/100 (top 13% 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 Northern?

Each dot is one of Northern’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). Northern’s own 20.2 claims/patent is ABOVE the 19.3 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Northern's grants concentrate

Northern Trust Corporation is a focused PatentsView assignee: 7 CPC subclasses with 83.3% of grants classified under G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing). Peak complete grant year is 2018 (4 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2021. By volume, Northern sits between NoCell Technologies, LLC and NuLabel Technologies, Inc..

Northern's three-year grant acceleration

Northern Trust Corporation shows 6 grants in 2022–2024 against only 1 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.

Nocell

12
Nocimed

12
Normedix

12
Norell

12
Nostrum Energy PTE

12
Novatec

12
Novelda AS

12
Nulabel

12
Northern Trust ◀

12

What this shows Northern holds 12 patents at rank #23,102, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Northern

By rank, the assignees closest to #23,102 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Northern, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), Northern ranks #3,601 of 13,878 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (50 here).

SSenStone Inc. 50 Samsung Heavy IND. Co., Ltd. 50 RefleXion Medical, Inc. 50 Nantero, Inc. 50

Northern's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

50 Top 13% higher than 87% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2018–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2018–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Northern Trust Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2018	4	33.3%
2021	1	8.3%
2022	2	16.7%
2023	2	16.7%
2024	2	16.7%
2025partial year	1	8.3%

Which technologies does Northern Trust Corporation patent most?

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 10

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 10

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 6

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 2

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 1

G09G - Arrangements OR Circuits FOR Control OF Indicating Devices Using Static Means TO Present Variable Information 1

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 1

Top 7 of 7 technology areas

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

View all rankings → How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

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

Northern Trust Corporation's lead technology class is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), 83.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06F
Ranked #23,103 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Northern Trust Corporation against NoCell Technologies, LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 50.3/100 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.