Where does Nucap Industries Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Nucap Industries Inc. ranks #21,540 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 Nucap Industries Inc. hold?

Nucap Industries Inc. holds 13 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2024, spanning 11 technology areas.

What is Nucap Industries Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Nucap Industries Inc. has an Innovation Score of 34.6 out of 100 (48th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Nucap Industries Inc. focus on?

Nucap Industries Inc.'s top technology area is F16D (Couplings FOR Transmitting ROTATION; CLUTCHES; Brakes) with 6 patents, ranking #216 of 1,090 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 11 CPC subclasses total.

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

Nucap Industries Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -56% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). Grant activity has slowed relative to earlier years.

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

Nucap Industries Inc.'s patents average 11.8 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 Nucap Industries 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

Nucap Industries Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 13 granted patents across 11 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2024. 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: F16D (Couplings FOR Transmitting ROTATION; CLUTCHES; Brakes).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Nucap ranks #21,540 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 13 patents across 11 technology areas.

#21,540
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 48th percentile
by Innovation Score (34.6/100): 11.8
avg claims per patent: -56%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R21540 · Foreign Corporation #21,540 · 13 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-PAR · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 13 grants
MID-PACK #21,540/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Nanhu Laboratory
CPC-FOCUS F16D · 11 areas
INNOV-THIN 34.6/100
CLAIMS-PAR 11.8 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -56% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Nanhu Laboratory (±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 Nucap’s 34.6 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 9.1 pts (26%) Velocity 6.7 pts (19%) Breadth 11.7 pts (34%) Claim depth 7.1 pts (21%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Nucap Industries · this assignee

35
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Nucap's Innovation Score is 34.6/100 (48th percentile 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 Nucap?

Each dot is one of Nucap’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). Nucap’s own 11.8 claims/patent is ABOVE the 11.5 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Nucap's grants concentrate

Nucap Industries Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 11 CPC subclasses with 46.2% of grants classified under F16D (Couplings FOR Transmitting ROTATION; CLUTCHES; Brakes). Peak complete grant year is 2018 (5 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2016. By volume, Nucap sits between Norgine BV and Nashville Wire Products Manufacturing Company, LLC.

Nucap's three-year grant acceleration

Nucap Industries Inc. shows 2 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.

Norgine BV

13
Noroo BEE Chemical

13
Northwest Institu…

13
NPL Management

13
Nymox

13
Nanhu Laboratory

13
Nanocav

13
Nashville Wire Pr…

13
Nucap Industries ◀

13

What this shows Nucap holds 13 patents at rank #21,514, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Nucap

By rank, the assignees closest to #21,514 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F16D (Couplings FOR Transmitting Rotation)

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

Nucap's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

35 48th percentile higher than 48% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2024

Grants by year

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

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Nucap Industries Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	2	15.4%
2016	1	7.7%
2017	1	7.7%
2018	5	38.5%
2020	1	7.7%
2021	1	7.7%
2024	2	15.4%

Which technologies does Nucap Industries Inc. patent most?

F16D - Couplings FOR Transmitting ROTATION; CLUTCHES; Brakes 6

B21J - FORGING; HAMMERING; Pressing METAL; RIVETING; Forge Furnaces 5

B23D - PLANING; SLOTTING; SHEARING; BROACHING; SAWING; FILING; SCRAPING; Like Operations FOR Working Metal BY Removing Material, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 4

B21K - Making Forged OR Pressed Metal Products, e.g. Horse-shoes, Rivets, Bolts OR Wheels 4

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 2

B62L - Brakes Specially Adapted FOR Cycles 2

A43B - Characteristic Features OF FOOTWEAR; Parts OF Footwear 1

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

B26D - CUTTING; Details Common TO Machines FOR Perforating, Punching, Cutting-out, Stamping-out OR Severing 1

B23B - TURNING; Boring 1

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 1

Top 11 of 11 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

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

Nucap Industries Inc.'s lead technology class is F16D (Couplings FOR Transmitting ROTATION; CLUTCHES; Brakes), 46.2% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F16D
Ranked #21,540 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Nucap Industries Inc. against Norgine BV, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 34.6/100 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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