Where does Nortonlifelock Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Nortonlifelock Inc. ranks #2,073 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 Nortonlifelock Inc. hold?

Nortonlifelock Inc. holds 191 US utility patents granted between 2019 and 2023, spanning 17 technology areas.

What is Nortonlifelock Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Nortonlifelock Inc. has an Innovation Score of 46.9 out of 100 (top 20% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Nortonlifelock Inc. focus on?

Nortonlifelock Inc.'s top technology area is H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication) with 128 patents, ranking #306 of 8,956 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 17 CPC subclasses total.

Is Nortonlifelock Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Nortonlifelock Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +9350% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Nortonlifelock Inc.'s patents?

Nortonlifelock Inc.'s patents average 19.3 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 Nortonlifelock 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 US Corporation

Nortonlifelock Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 191 granted patents across 17 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2019–2023. 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: H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Nortonlifelock ranks #2,073 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 191 patents across 17 technology areas.

#2,073
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 20%
by Innovation Score (46.9/100): 19.3
avg claims per patent: +9350%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2073 · US Corporation #2,073 · 191 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 191 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,073/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Array BioPharma
CPC-FOCUS H04L · 17 areas
INNOV-PAR 46.9/100
CLAIMS-RICH 19.3 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +9350% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Array BioPharma, Inc. (±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 Nortonlifelock’s 46.9 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 18.2 pts (39%) Velocity 2.6 pts (6%) Breadth 14.6 pts (31%) Claim depth 11.6 pts (25%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Aeris Communications · near

47
Cyber Power Systems · near

47
Messier-bugatti-dowty · near

47
Nortonlifelock · this assignee

47
Tribune Broadcasting · near

47
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Nortonlifelock's Innovation Score is 46.9/100 (top 20% 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 Nortonlifelock?

Each dot is one of Nortonlifelock’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). Nortonlifelock’s own 19.3 claims/patent is ABOVE the 17.1 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Nortonlifelock's grants concentrate

Nortonlifelock Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 17 CPC subclasses with 67% of grants classified under H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication). Peak complete grant year is 2021 (85 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2019. By volume, Nortonlifelock sits between Saint-gobain Abrasifs and AutoStore Technology AS.

Nortonlifelock's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Nortonlifelock Inc. moved from 138 to 53 grants (0.38x 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 #2,904. See the growth leaderboard.

Saint-gobain Abra…

192
Zhejiang Sunny Op…

192
Array Biopharma

191
Isco International

191
Sanken Electric

191
Stolle Machinery

191
THE Volcano

191
Nortonlifelock ◀

191
Autostore Technol…

190

What this shows Nortonlifelock holds 191 patents at rank #2,073, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Nortonlifelock

By rank, the assignees closest to #2,073 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Nortonlifelock, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information), Nortonlifelock ranks #306 of 8,956 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (47 here).

Tribune Broadcasting Company, LLC 47 Messier-bugatti-dowty 47 Aeris Communications, Inc. 47 Cyber Power Systems, Inc. 47

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (19.3 here).

Cryptography Research, Inc. 19.3 avg Illumina Cambridge Limited 19.3 avg Sage Electrochromics, Inc. 19.3 avg WHP Workflow Solutions, Inc. 19.3 avg

Nortonlifelock's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

47 Top 20% higher than 80% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2019–2023

Grants by year

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

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Nortonlifelock Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2019	2	1.0%
2020	51	26.7%
2021	85	44.5%
2022	49	25.7%
2023	4	2.1%

Which technologies does Nortonlifelock Inc. patent most?

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 128

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 122

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 46

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 27

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 18

H04M - Telephonic Communication 14

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 7

G09B - Educational OR Demonstration APPLIANCES; Appliances FOR Teaching, OR Communicating With, THE Blind, Deaf OR MUTE; MODELS; PLANETARIA; GLOBES; MAPS; Diagrams 5

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 4

H04B - Transmission 4

G10L - Speech Analysis Techniques OR Speech SYNTHESIS; Speech RECOGNITION; Speech OR Voice Processing TECHNIQUES; Speech OR Audio Coding OR Decoding 4

G07C - Time OR Attendance REGISTERS; Registering OR Indicating THE Working OF MACHINES; Generating Random NUMBERS; Voting OR Lottery APPARATUS; Arrangements, Systems OR Apparatus FOR Checking NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere 2

G08B - Signalling OR Calling SYSTEMS; Order TELEGRAPHS; Alarm Systems 2

G01S - Radio DIRECTION-FINDING; Radio NAVIGATION; Determining Distance OR Velocity BY USE OF Radio WAVES; Locating OR Presence-detecting BY USE OF THE Reflection OR Reradiation OF Radio WAVES; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves 1

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 1

Top 15 of 17 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

Nortonlifelock Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Nortonlifelock Inc.'s lead technology class is H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication), 67% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04L
Ranked #2,073 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Nortonlifelock Inc. against Saint-gobain Abrasifs, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 46.9/100 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.