Where does Northstar Earth & Space Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Northstar Earth & Space Inc. ranks #49,176 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 Earth & Space Inc. hold?

Northstar Earth & Space Inc. holds 5 US utility patents granted between 2024 and 2025, spanning 5 technology areas.

What is Northstar Earth & Space Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Northstar Earth & Space Inc. has an Innovation Score of 41.6 out of 100 (top 33% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Northstar Earth & Space Inc. focus on?

Northstar Earth & Space Inc.'s top technology area is G06T (Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General) with 4 patents, ranking #2,568 of 6,389 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 5 CPC subclasses total.

Is Northstar Earth & Space Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Insufficient historical data is available to calculate a velocity trend for Northstar Earth & Space Inc..

What does claim depth mean for Northstar Earth & Space Inc.'s patents?

Northstar Earth & Space Inc.'s patents average 23.6 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 Earth & Space 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 Foreign Corporation

Northstar Earth & Space Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 5 granted patents across 5 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2024–2025. 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: G06T (Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Northstar ranks #49,176 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 5 patents across 5 technology areas.

#49,176
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 33%
by Innovation Score (41.6/100): 23.6
avg claims per patent

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R49176 · Foreign Corporation #49,176 · 5 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · BOTTOM-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-FRNCORP · SPAN-YRS · BOOK-RICH

GRANTS-MICRO 5 grants
BOTTOM-DECILE #49,176/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH North American…
CPC-NARROW G06T · 5 areas
INNOV-PAR 41.6/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 23.6 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
SPAN-YRS 2024–2025 · 2y
BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: North American Refractories Company (±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 41.6 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 6.2 pts (15%) Velocity 13.3 pts (32%) Breadth 7.9 pts (19%) Claim depth 14.2 pts (34%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Aura Network Systems · near

42
Emseal Joint Systems · near

42
Glasstech · near

42
Northstar Earth &… · this assignee

42
Supernus Pharmaceuti… · near

42
3D Lighting… · lowest

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What this shows Northstar's Innovation Score is 41.6/100 (top 33% 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 23.6 claims/patent is ABOVE the 11.6 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 Earth & Space Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 5 CPC subclasses with 80% of grants classified under G06T (Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General). By volume, Northstar sits between North American Refractories Company and Novacyt.

Northstar's three-year grant acceleration

Northstar Earth & Space Inc. shows 2 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.

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What this shows Northstar holds 5 patents at rank #49,069, 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 #49,069 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G06T (Image Data Processing OR Generation)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Northstar, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G06T (Image Data Processing OR Generation), Northstar ranks #2,568 of 6,389 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (42 here).

Aura Network Systems, Inc. 42 Emseal Joint Systems, Ltd. 42 Glasstech, Inc. 42 Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. 42

Northstar's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

42 Top 33% higher than 67% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2024–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2024–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Northstar Earth & Space Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2024	2	40.0%
2025partial year	3	60.0%

Which technologies does Northstar Earth & Space Inc. patent most?

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 4

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 3

B64G - COSMONAUTICS; Vehicles OR Equipment Therefor 3

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 2

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 1

Top 5 of 5 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

Northstar Earth & Space Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Northstar Earth & Space Inc.'s lead technology class is G06T (Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General), 80% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06T
Ranked #49,176 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Northstar Earth & Space Inc. against North American Refractories Company, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 41.6/100 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.