Where does Northstar Battery Company, LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Northstar Battery Company, LLC ranks #24,903 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 Northstar Battery Company, LLC hold?

Northstar Battery Company, LLC holds 11 US utility patents granted between 2018 and 2022, spanning 14 technology areas.

What is Northstar Battery Company, LLC's Innovation Score?

Northstar Battery Company, LLC has an Innovation Score of 34.4 out of 100 (47th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Northstar Battery Company, LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Northstar Battery Company, LLC's recent grant velocity is +900% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Northstar Battery Company, LLC's patents?

Northstar Battery Company, LLC's patents average 18.2 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 Northstar Battery Company, LLC 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

Northstar Battery Company, LLC

Q: What technology areas does Northstar Battery Company, LLC focus on?

Northstar Battery Company, LLC's top technology area is Y02E (Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution) with 11 patents, ranking #1,181 of 5,963 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 14 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 11 granted patents across 14 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2018–2022. 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: Y02E (Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Northstar ranks #24,903 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 11 patents across 14 technology areas.

#24,903
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 47th percentile
by Innovation Score (34.4/100): 18.2
avg claims per patent: +900%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R24903 · US Corporation #24,903 · 11 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 11 grants
MID-PACK #24,903/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Nippon Yusen
CPC-FOCUS Y02E · 14 areas
INNOV-THIN 34.4/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.2 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +900% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Nippon Yusen Kabushiki Kaisha (±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 Northstar’s 34.4 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 8.6 pts (25%) Velocity 1.7 pts (5%) Breadth 13.2 pts (38%) Claim depth 10.9 pts (32%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Northstar Battery · this assignee

34
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Northstar's Innovation Score is 34.4/100 (47th percentile 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 Northstar?

Each dot is one of Northstar’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). Northstar’s own 18.2 claims/patent is ABOVE the 10.7 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Northstar's grants concentrate

Northstar Battery Company, LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 14 CPC subclasses with 100% of grants classified under Y02E (Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution). Peak complete grant year is 2020 (7 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2018. By volume, Northstar sits between Nippon Yusen Kabushiki Kaisha and NSV Group Fzco.

Northstar's three-year grant acceleration

Northstar Battery Company, LLC shows 2 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.

Nippon Yusen

11
Nitto Pharmaceuti…

11
NMC

11
Noramco

11
Novasight

11
Novatrans Group

11
Novita Pharmaceut…

11
NSV Group Fzco

11
Northstar Battery ◀

11

What this shows Northstar holds 11 patents at rank #24,866, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Northstar

By rank, the assignees closest to #24,866 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in Y02E (Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions)

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

Northstar's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

34 47th percentile higher than 47% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2018–2022

Grants by year

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

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Northstar Battery Company, LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2018	1	9.1%
2020	7	63.6%
2021	1	9.1%
2022	2	18.2%

Which technologies does Northstar Battery Company, LLC patent most?

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 11

H01M - Processes OR Means, e.g. Batteries, FOR THE Direct Conversion OF Chemical Energy Into Electrical Energy 11

G01R - Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables 9

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 9

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 9

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 9

Y04S - Systems Integrating Technologies Related TO Power Network Operation, Communication OR Information Technologies FOR Improving THE Electrical Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution, Management OR Usage, i.e. Smart Grids 9

G01K - Measuring TEMPERATURE; Measuring Quantity OF HEAT; Thermally-sensitive Elements NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 9

G08B - Signalling OR Calling SYSTEMS; Order TELEGRAPHS; Alarm Systems 9

F02N - Starting OF Combustion ENGINES; Starting Aids FOR Such Engines, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 9

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 9

H02J - Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy 9

G01W - Meteorology 9

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 2

Top 14 of 14 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

Northstar Battery Company, LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Northstar Battery Company, LLC's lead technology class is Y02E (Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution), 100% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore Y02E
Ranked #24,903 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Northstar Battery Company, LLC against Nippon Yusen Kabushiki Kaisha, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 34.4/100 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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