Where does N.S. International, Ltd. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), N.S. International, Ltd. ranks #24,910 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 N.S. International, Ltd. hold?

N.S. International, Ltd. holds 11 US utility patents granted between 2018 and 2025, spanning 15 technology areas.

What is N.S. International, Ltd.'s Innovation Score?

N.S. International, Ltd. has an Innovation Score of 37.8 out of 100 (top 43% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is N.S. International, Ltd.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

N.S. International, Ltd.'s recent grant velocity is +50% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for N.S. International, Ltd.'s patents?

N.S. International, Ltd.'s patents average 14.7 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 N.S. International, 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 US Corporation

N.S. International, Ltd.

Q: What technology areas does N.S. International, Ltd. focus on?

N.S. International, Ltd.'s top technology area is B60K (Arrangement OR Mounting OF Propulsion Units OR OF Transmissions IN VEHICLES; Arrangement OR Mounting OF Plural Diverse Prime-movers IN VEHICLES; Auxiliary Drives FOR VEHICLES; Instrumentation OR Dashboards FOR VEHICLES; Arrangements IN Connection With Cooling, AIR Intake, GAS Exhaust OR Fuel Supply ) with 5 patents, ranking #418 of 1,448 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 15 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 11 granted patents across 15 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2018–2025. 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: B60K (Arrangement OR Mounting OF Propulsion Units OR OF Transmissions IN VEHICLES; Arrangement OR Mounting OF Plural Diverse Prime-movers IN VEHICLES; Auxiliary Drives FOR VEHICLES; Instrumentation OR Dashb).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, N.s. ranks #24,910 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 11 patents across 15 technology areas.

#24,910
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 43%
by Innovation Score (37.8/100): 14.7
avg claims per patent: +50%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R24910 · US Corporation #24,910 · 11 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 11 grants
MID-PACK #24,910/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Mountain Blue…
CPC-FOCUS B60K · 15 areas
INNOV-THIN 37.8/100
CLAIMS-RICH 14.7 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +50% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Mountain Blue Orchards PTY Ltd (±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 N.s.’s 37.8 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 8.6 pts (23%) Velocity 6.7 pts (18%) Breadth 13.7 pts (36%) Claim depth 8.8 pts (23%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
N S International · this assignee

38
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows N.s.'s Innovation Score is 37.8/100 (top 43% 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 N.s.?

Each dot is one of N.s.’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). N.s.’s own 14.7 claims/patent is ABOVE the 10.9 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where N.s.'s grants concentrate

N.S. International, Ltd. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 15 CPC subclasses with 45.5% of grants classified under B60K (Arrangement OR Mounting OF Propulsion Units OR OF Transmissions IN VEHICLES; Arrangement OR Mounting OF Plural Diverse Prime-movers IN VEHICLES; Auxiliary Drives FOR VEHICLES; Instrumentation OR Dashb). Peak complete grant year is 2018 (2 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2020. By volume, N.s. sits between Mountain Blue Orchards PTY Ltd and Nanjing Yanchang Reaction Technology Research Institute Co., Ltd..

N.s.'s three-year grant acceleration

N.S. International, Ltd. shows 4 grants in 2022–2024 against only 4 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.

Mountain Blue Orc…

11
Multitest Elektro…

11
Mypinpad

11
Myokardia

11
Nabors LUX 2 Sarl

11
Namecheap

11
Nanhua Intelligen…

11
Nanjing Yanchang…

11
N S International ◀

11

What this shows N.S. holds 11 patents at rank #24,825, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near NS

By rank, the assignees closest to #24,825 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B60K (Arrangement OR Mounting OF Propulsion Units OR OF Transmi…)

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

N.s.'s Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

38 Top 43% higher than 57% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2018–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2018–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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N.S. International, Ltd. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2018	2	18.2%
2019	2	18.2%
2020	1	9.1%
2021	1	9.1%
2022	1	9.1%
2023	1	9.1%
2024	2	18.2%
2025partial year	1	9.1%

Which technologies does N.S. International, Ltd. patent most?

B60K - Arrangement OR Mounting OF Propulsion Units OR OF Transmissions IN VEHICLES; Arrangement OR Mounting OF Plural Diverse Prime-movers IN VEHICLES; Auxiliary Drives FOR VEHICLES; Instrumentation OR Dashboards FOR VEHICLES; Arrangements IN Connection With Cooling, AIR Intake, GAS Exhaust OR Fuel Supply 5

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 4

G01D - Measuring NOT Specially Adapted FOR A Specific VARIABLE; Arrangements FOR Measuring TWO OR More Variables NOT Covered IN A Single Other SUBCLASS; Tariff Metering APPARATUS; Measuring OR Testing NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 4

G09G - Arrangements OR Circuits FOR Control OF Indicating Devices Using Static Means TO Present Variable Information 2

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 2

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 2

B60Q - Arrangement OF Signalling OR Lighting Devices, THE Mounting OR Supporting Thereof OR Circuits Therefor, FOR Vehicles IN General 2

G02F - Optical Devices OR Arrangements FOR THE Control OF Light BY Modification OF THE Optical Properties OF THE Media OF THE Elements Involved THEREIN; Non-linear OPTICS; Frequency-changing OF LIGHT; Optical Logic ELEMENTS; Optical ANALOGUE/DIGITAL Converters 1

F21V - Functional Features OR Details OF Lighting Devices OR Systems THEREOF; Structural Combinations OF Lighting Devices With Other Articles, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1

F21Y - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses F21k, F21l, F21s and F21v, Relating TO THE Form OR THE Kind OF THE Light Sources OR OF THE Colour OF THE Light Emitted 1

G12B - Constructional Details OF Instruments, OR Comparable Details OF Other Apparatus, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1

G01P - Measuring Linear OR Angular Speed, Acceleration, Deceleration, OR SHOCK; Indicating Presence, Absence, OR Direction, OF Movement 1

F16F - SPRINGS; SHOCK-ABSORBERS; Means FOR Damping Vibration 1

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 1

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 1

Top 15 of 15 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

N.S. International, Ltd.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

N.S. International, Ltd.'s lead technology class is B60K (Arrangement OR Mounting OF Propulsion Units OR OF Transmissions IN VEHICLES; Arrangement OR Mounting OF Plural Diverse Prime-movers IN VEHICLES; Auxiliary Drives FOR VEHICLES; Instrumentation OR Dashb), 45.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B60K
Ranked #24,910 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare N.S. International, Ltd. against Mountain Blue Orchards PTY Ltd, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 37.8/100 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

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