Where does Novatel Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Novatel Inc. ranks #5,305 of 50,000 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. 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 50,000 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 65 patents across 20 technology areas.

#5,305
of 50,000 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 #5,305/50,000
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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Fetch Robotics · near

46
Greene Tweed · near

46
Hirosaki University · near

46
Novatel · this assignee

46
Xiamen San'an Optoel… · near

46
3D Lighting Innovati… · lowest

7

What this shows Novatel Inc. stamps GRANTS-SMALL, UPPER-Q, PHOTO-FINISH, CPC-FOCUS, INNOV-PAR, CLAIMS-RICH, TYPE-FRNCORP, VEL-UP, BOOK-FULL. Volume places it #5,305 of 50,000; Innovation Score 45.8/100 sits in the top 22% of the PatentsView-derived corpus. Closest grant-volume peer on this plate is Momenta Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (±0 grants).

Portfolio overview

Novatel Inc. has been granted 65 US utility patents between 2015 and 2025, placing Novatel Inc. at #5,305 of 50,000 across all assignees tracked by PlainPatent. This portfolio spans 20 distinct Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC) subclasses, averaging 17.7 claims per patent with primary concentration in 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). As a Foreign Corporation, Novatel Inc. is one of the more focused assignees in the PatentsView dataset. By volume, Novatel sits between Momenta Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (65 patents, rank #5,300) and Primetals Technologies Germany Gmbh (65 patents, rank #5,308) - the closest US assignees by grant volume. The composite Innovation Score of 45.8/100 blends portfolio volume, grant velocity, technology breadth, and claim depth into a single comparable measure drawn directly from USPTO PatentsView records.

Grant cadence records the difference between two grant-year windows. Between 2020 and 2024 the company received 38 grants, compared with 26 in the 2015–2019 window, a +46% shift in five-year grant velocity. Both windows cover five complete grant years; the latest PatentsView year is a partial release and is excluded from this comparison, though it still appears in the yearly table and chart below. Grant timing can lag the related application by years, so this comparison does not establish current R&D spending, strategic intent, or a company’s application activity. The Foreign Corporation classification provides context for the assignee record, not a conclusion about its business strategy.

Claim depth and technology breadth describe this aggregate record. Novatel Inc.'s 17.7 average claims per patent is an average count, not a measure of claim scope, legal strength, enforceability, or design-around risk. The record spans 20 CPC subclasses. Combined with portfolio volume, these figures let readers compare the documented grant records of assignees in similar technology classes.

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).

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 50,000 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

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#5,305

of 50,000 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

45.8 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

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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