Where does Nova Ltd. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Nova Ltd. ranks #7,172 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 Nova Ltd. hold?

Nova Ltd. holds 46 US utility patents granted between 2021 and 2025, spanning 15 technology areas.

What is Nova Ltd.'s Innovation Score?

Nova Ltd. has an Innovation Score of 57.5 out of 100 (top 5% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Nova Ltd. focus on?

Nova Ltd.'s top technology area is G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties) with 36 patents, ranking #420 of 7,863 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 15 CPC subclasses total.

Is Nova Ltd.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Insufficient historical data is available to calculate a velocity trend for Nova Ltd..

What does claim depth mean for Nova Ltd.'s patents?

Nova Ltd.'s patents average 17.5 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 Nova Ltd. 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

Nova Ltd.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 46 granted patents across 15 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2021–2025. 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: G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties).

Compiled by PlainPatent · May 15, 2026

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Nova ranks #7,172 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 46 patents across 15 technology areas.

#7,172
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 5%
by Innovation Score (57.5/100): 17.5
avg claims per patent

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R7172 · Foreign Corporation #7,172 · 46 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · SPAN-YRS · BOOK-RICH

GRANTS-SMALL 46 grants
UPPER-Q #7,172/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Marquette University
CPC-FOCUS G01N · 15 areas
INNOV-PAR 57.5/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.5 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
SPAN-YRS 2021–2025 · 5y
BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Marquette University (±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 Nova’s 57.5 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 13.3 pts (23%) Velocity 20.0 pts (35%) Breadth 13.7 pts (24%) Claim depth 10.5 pts (18%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
FRIEDRICH-ALEXANDER-… · near

58
Acronis International · near

57
Ballogy · near

57
King's College London · near

57
Nova · this assignee

57
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Nova's Innovation Score is 57.5/100 (top 5% 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 Nova?

Each dot is one of Nova’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). Nova’s own 17.5 claims/patent is ABOVE the 10.6 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Nova's grants concentrate

Nova Ltd. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 15 CPC subclasses with 78.3% of grants classified under G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties). Peak complete grant year is 2024 (18 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2021. By volume, Nova sits between Marquette University and Nerudia Limited.

Nova's three-year grant acceleration

Nova Ltd. shows 36 grants in 2022–2024 against only 2 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.

Marquette Univers…

46
Menasha

46
Mustang Sampling

46
Nissha Printing

46
National ICT Aust…

46
National Universi…

46
Nautilus Hyosung

46
Nerudia

46
Nova ◀

46

What this shows Nova holds 46 patents at rank #7,166, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Nova

By rank, the assignees closest to #7,166 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their…)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Nova, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their…), Nova ranks #420 of 7,863 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (57 here).

King's College London 57 Ballogy, Inc. 57 Acronis International GmbH 57 FRIEDRICH-ALEXANDER-UNIVERSITÄT ERLANGEN-NÜRNBERG 58

Nova's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

57 Top 5% higher than 95% of 49,997 US assignees

Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more US assignees. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.

Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2021–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2021–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

View data table

Nova Ltd. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2021	2	4.3%
2022	10	21.7%
2023	8	17.4%
2024	18	39.1%
2025partial year	8	17.4%

Which technologies does Nova Ltd. patent most?

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 36

G01B - Measuring Length, Thickness OR Similar Linear DIMENSIONS; Measuring ANGLES; Measuring AREAS; Measuring Irregularities OF Surfaces OR Contours 24

G03F - Photomechanical Production OF Textured OR Patterned Surfaces, e.g. FOR Printing, FOR Processing OF Semiconductor DEVICES; Materials THEREFOR; Originals THEREFOR; Apparatus Specially Adapted THEREFOR; 22

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 22

G01J - Measurement OF Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase OR Pulse Characteristics OF Infrared, Visible OR Ultraviolet LIGHT; COLORIMETRY; Radiation Pyrometry 11

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 6

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 4

H01J - Electric Discharge Tubes OR Discharge Lamps 4

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 3

G01L - Measuring Force, Stress, Torque, Work, Mechanical Power, Mechanical Efficiency, OR Fluid Pressure 3

H10B - Electronic Memory Devices 2

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 2

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 2

G01R - Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables 1

G11C - Static Stores 1

Top 15 of 15 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

Nova Ltd.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Nova Ltd.'s lead technology class is G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties), 78.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G01N
Ranked #7,172 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Nova Ltd. against Marquette University, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 57.5/100 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.