Where does NovAtel Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), NovAtel Inc. ranks #5,305 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 NovAtel Inc. hold?

NovAtel Inc. holds 65 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 20 technology areas.

What is NovAtel Inc.'s Innovation Score?

NovAtel Inc. has an Innovation Score of 45.8 out of 100 (top 22% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

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

NovAtel Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +46% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). The company is maintaining or growing its granted-patent output.

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

NovAtel Inc.'s patents average 17.7 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 NovAtel 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

NovAtel Inc.

Q: What technology areas does NovAtel Inc. focus on?

NovAtel Inc.'s top technology area is 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) with 46 patents, ranking #139 of 3,153 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 20 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 65 granted patents across 20 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2025. 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: 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 Arra).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Novatel ranks #5,305 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 65 patents across 20 technology areas.

#5,305
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 22%
by Innovation Score (45.8/100): 17.7
avg claims per patent: +46%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R5305 · Foreign Corporation #5,305 · 65 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-UP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 65 grants
UPPER-Q #5,305/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Momenta Pharmaceutic…
CPC-FOCUS G01S · 20 areas
INNOV-PAR 45.8/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.7 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-UP +46% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Momenta Pharmaceuticals, 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 Novatel’s 45.8 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 14.5 pts (32%) Velocity 4.9 pts (11%) Breadth 15.8 pts (34%) Claim depth 10.6 pts (23%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Fetch Robotics · near

46
Greene Tweed · near

46
Hirosaki University · near

46
NovAtel · this assignee

46
Xiamen San'an… · near

46
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Novatel's Innovation Score is 45.8/100 (top 22% 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 Novatel?

Each dot is one of Novatel’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). Novatel’s own 17.7 claims/patent is at or below the 18.2 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Novatel's grants concentrate

NovAtel Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 20 CPC subclasses with 70.8% of grants classified under 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 Arra). Peak complete grant year is 2020 (13 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2019. By volume, Novatel sits between Momenta Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and Primetals Technologies Germany GMBH.

Novatel's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, NovAtel Inc. moved from 23 to 17 grants (0.74x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Momenta Pharmaceu…

65
Moneygram Interna…

65
Neonode

65
Nielsen Consumer

65
Optasense Holdings

65
P4tents1

65
Poclain Hydraulic…

65
Primetals Germany

65
Novatel ◀

65

What this shows NovAtel holds 65 patents at rank #5,304, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near NovAtel

By rank, the assignees closest to #5,304 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G01S (Radio Direction-finding)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for NovAtel, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G01S (Radio Direction-finding), NovAtel ranks #139 of 3,153 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (46 here).

Xiamen San'an Optoelectronics Co., Ltd. 46 Hirosaki University 46 Fetch Robotics, Inc. 46 Greene, Tweed Technologies, Inc. 46

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (17.7 here).

Beijing Youzhuju Network Technology Co., Ltd. 17.7 avg Mellanox Technologies TLV Ltd. 17.7 avg Topcon Positioning Systems, Inc. 17.7 avg Cypress Semiconductor Corporation 17.7 avg

Novatel's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

46 Top 22% higher than 78% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2015–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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NovAtel Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	11	16.9%
2016	4	6.2%
2017	6	9.2%
2018	3	4.6%
2019	2	3.1%
2020	13	20.0%
2021	8	12.3%
2022	6	9.2%
2023	4	6.2%
2024	7	10.8%
2025partial year	1	1.5%

Which technologies does NovAtel Inc. patent most?

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 46

G01C - Measuring Distances, Levels OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; Gyroscopic INSTRUMENTS; Photogrammetry OR Videogrammetry 16

H01Q - Antennas, i.e. Radio Aerials 14

H04B - Transmission 7

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 7

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 3

G08G - Traffic Control Systems 3

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 2

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 2

G03B - Apparatus OR Arrangements FOR Taking Photographs OR FOR Projecting OR Viewing THEM; Apparatus OR Arrangements Employing Analogous Techniques Using Waves Other Than Optical WAVES; Accessories Therefor 1

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 1

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 1

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 1

H04K - Secret COMMUNICATION; Jamming OF Communication 1

H01P - WAVEGUIDES; Resonators, Lines, OR Other Devices OF THE Waveguide Type 1

Top 15 of 20 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

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

NovAtel Inc.'s lead technology class is 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 Arra), 70.8% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G01S
Ranked #5,305 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare NovAtel Inc. against Momenta Pharmaceuticals, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 45.8/100 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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