Where does Nunhems B.V. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Nunhems B.V. ranks #1,880 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 Nunhems B.V. hold?

Nunhems B.V. holds 214 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 14 technology areas.

What is Nunhems B.V.'s Innovation Score?

Nunhems B.V. has an Innovation Score of 50.6 out of 100 (top 13% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Nunhems B.V. focus on?

Nunhems B.V.'s top technology area is A01H (NEW Plants OR ; NON-TRANSGENIC; Processes FOR Obtaining THEM; Plant Reproduction BY Tissue Culture Techniques) with 209 patents, ranking #9 of 285 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 14 CPC subclasses total.

Is Nunhems B.V.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Nunhems B.V.'s recent grant velocity is +13% 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 Nunhems B.V.'s patents?

Nunhems B.V.'s patents average 22.9 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 Nunhems B.V. 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

Nunhems B.V.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 214 granted patents across 14 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: A01H (NEW Plants OR ; NON-TRANSGENIC; Processes FOR Obtaining THEM; Plant Reproduction BY Tissue Culture Techniques).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Nunhems ranks #1,880 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 214 patents across 14 technology areas.

#1,880
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 13%
by Innovation Score (50.6/100): 22.9
avg claims per patent: +13%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1880 · Foreign Corporation #1,880 · 214 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-UP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 214 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,880/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Johnson Electric…
CPC-FOCUS A01H · 14 areas
INNOV-PAR 50.6/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 22.9 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-UP +13% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Johnson Electric International AG (±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 Nunhems’s 50.6 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 18.6 pts (37%) Velocity 5.1 pts (10%) Breadth 13.2 pts (26%) Claim depth 13.8 pts (27%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Harting Electric & KG · near

51
Ipla Holdings · near

51
Korea Electric Power · near

51
Nunhems B V · this assignee

51
VIA Alliance… · near

51
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Nunhems's Innovation Score is 50.6/100 (top 13% 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 Nunhems?

Each dot is one of Nunhems’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). Nunhems’s own 22.9 claims/patent is ABOVE the 12.6 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Nunhems's grants concentrate

Nunhems B.V. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 14 CPC subclasses with 97.7% of grants classified under A01H (NEW Plants OR ; NON-TRANSGENIC; Processes FOR Obtaining THEM; Plant Reproduction BY Tissue Culture Techniques). Peak complete grant year is 2019 (35 grants) versus a trough of 11 in 2017. By volume, Nunhems sits between Johnson Electric International AG and Brown University.

Nunhems's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Nunhems B.V. moved from 82 to 63 grants (0.77x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). Among 3,296 tracked assignees with ≥100 grants and ≥20 prior-period grants, that multiple ranks #1,939. See the growth leaderboard.

Johnson Electric…

214
MKS Instruments

214
Minebea

214
NEC Display Solut…

214
Senju Metal Indus…

214
St-ericsson

214
Tosoh

214
Nunhems B V ◀

214
Brown University

213

What this shows Nunhems holds 214 patents at rank #1,880, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Nunhems

By rank, the assignees closest to #1,880 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A01H (NEW Plants OR)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Nunhems, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A01H (NEW Plants OR), Nunhems ranks #9 of 285 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (51 here).

Harting Electric GMBH & Co. KG 51 Korea Electric Power Corporation 51 Ipla Holdings Inc. 51 VIA Alliance Semiconductor Co., Ltd. 51

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (22.9 here).

La-Z-Boy Incorporated 22.9 avg Forma Therapeutics, Inc. 22.9 avg Cardioinsight Technologies Inc. 22.9 avg Ionis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. 22.9 avg

Nunhems's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

51 Top 13% higher than 87% 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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Nunhems B.V. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	18	8.4%
2016	21	9.8%
2017	11	5.1%
2018	12	5.6%
2019	35	16.4%
2020	29	13.6%
2021	18	8.4%
2022	28	13.1%
2023	20	9.3%
2024	15	7.0%
2025partial year	7	3.3%

Which technologies does Nunhems B.V. patent most?

A01H - NEW Plants OR ; NON-TRANSGENIC; Processes FOR Obtaining THEM; Plant Reproduction BY Tissue Culture Techniques 209

C12N - Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media 37

C12Q - Measuring OR Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids OR Microorganisms ; Compositions OR Test Papers THEREFOR; Processes OF Preparing Such COMPOSITIONS; Condition-responsive Control IN Microbiological OR Enzymological Processes 34

C07K - Peptides 10

A23L - Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Preparation OR Treatment Thereof 10

A23V - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages AND Lactic OR Propionic Acid Bacteria Used IN Foodstuffs OR Food Preparation 6

Y02A - Technologies FOR Adaptation TO Climate Change 4

A23K - Fodder 4

C12Y - Enzymes 3

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 2

A61P - Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations 1

A01G - HORTICULTURE; Cultivation OF Vegetables, Flowers, Rice, Fruit, Vines, Hops OR SEAWEED; FORESTRY; Watering 1

A23D - Edible Oils OR Fats, e.g. Margarines, Shortenings OR Cooking Oils 1

A01C - PLANTING; SOWING; Fertilising 1

Top 14 of 14 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

Nunhems B.V.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Nunhems B.V.'s lead technology class is A01H (NEW Plants OR ; NON-TRANSGENIC; Processes FOR Obtaining THEM; Plant Reproduction BY Tissue Culture Techniques), 97.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A01H
Ranked #1,880 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Nunhems B.V. against Johnson Electric International AG, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 50.6/100 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

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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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