Where does Nut Shell LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Nut Shell LLC ranks #24,916 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 Nut Shell LLC hold?

Nut Shell LLC holds 11 US utility patents granted between 2022 and 2025, spanning 6 technology areas.

What is Nut Shell LLC's Innovation Score?

Nut Shell LLC has an Innovation Score of 45.3 out of 100 (top 24% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Nut Shell LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Insufficient historical data is available to calculate a velocity trend for Nut Shell LLC.

What does claim depth mean for Nut Shell LLC's patents?

Nut Shell LLC's patents average 13.4 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 Nut Shell LLC 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

Nut Shell LLC

Q: What technology areas does Nut Shell LLC focus on?

Nut Shell LLC's top technology area is E04B (General Building CONSTRUCTIONS; Walls, e.g. PARTITIONS; ROOFS; FLOORS; CEILINGS; Insulation OR Other Protection OF Buildings) with 7 patents, ranking #125 of 849 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 6 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 11 granted patents across 6 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2022–2025. 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: E04B (General Building CONSTRUCTIONS; Walls, e.g. PARTITIONS; ROOFS; FLOORS; CEILINGS; Insulation OR Other Protection OF Buildings).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Nut ranks #24,916 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 11 patents across 6 technology areas.

#24,916
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 24%
by Innovation Score (45.3/100): 13.4
avg claims per patent

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R24916 · US Corporation #24,916 · 11 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · SPAN-YRS · BOOK-RICH

GRANTS-MICRO 11 grants
MID-PACK #24,916/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Novanta
CPC-NARROW E04B · 6 areas
INNOV-PAR 45.3/100
CLAIMS-RICH 13.4 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
SPAN-YRS 2022–2025 · 4y
BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Novanta Corporation (±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 Nut’s 45.3 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 (19%) Velocity 20.0 pts (44%) Breadth 8.7 pts (19%) Claim depth 8.0 pts (18%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Nut Shell · this assignee

45
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Nut's Innovation Score is 45.3/100 (top 24% 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 Nut?

Each dot is one of Nut’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). Nut’s own 13.4 claims/patent is at or below the 16.0 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Nut's grants concentrate

Nut Shell LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 6 CPC subclasses with 63.6% of grants classified under E04B (General Building CONSTRUCTIONS; Walls, e.g. PARTITIONS; ROOFS; FLOORS; CEILINGS; Insulation OR Other Protection OF Buildings). Peak complete grant year is 2022 (6 grants) versus a trough of 4 in 2023. By volume, Nut sits between Novanta Corporation and Odessa Separator, Inc..

Nut's three-year grant acceleration

Nut Shell LLC shows 10 grants in 2022–2024 against only 0 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.

Novanta

11
Nuclera Nucleics

11
Nuflora Internati…

11
Nuix

11
Obshchestvo S Ogr…

11
OCP

11
Odawara Engineeri…

11
Odessa Separator

11
Nut Shell ◀

11

What this shows Nut holds 11 patents at rank #24,906, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Nut

By rank, the assignees closest to #24,906 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in E04B (General Building Constructions)

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

Nut's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

45 Top 24% higher than 76% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2022–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2022–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Nut Shell LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2022	6	54.5%
2023	4	36.4%
2025partial year	1	9.1%

Which technologies does Nut Shell LLC patent most?

E04B - General Building CONSTRUCTIONS; Walls, e.g. PARTITIONS; ROOFS; FLOORS; CEILINGS; Insulation OR Other Protection OF Buildings 7

G10K - Sound-producing DEVICES; Methods OR Devices FOR Protecting Against, OR FOR Damping, Noise OR Other Acoustic Waves IN GENERAL; Acoustics NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 3

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 3

Y02W - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Wastewater Treatment OR Waste Management 2

D06M - Treatment, NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere IN Class D06, OF Fibres, Threads, Yarns, Fabrics, Feathers OR Fibrous Goods Made From Such Materials 2

D04H - Making Textile Fabrics, e.g. From Fibres OR Filamentary Material ; Fabrics Made BY Such Processes OR Apparatus, e.g. Felts, Non-woven FABRICS; COTTON-WOOL; Wadding ; ; Non-woven Fabrics From Staple Fibres, Filaments OR Yarns, Bonded With AT Least ONE Web-like Material During Their Consolidation 1

Top 6 of 6 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

Nut Shell LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Nut Shell LLC's lead technology class is E04B (General Building CONSTRUCTIONS; Walls, e.g. PARTITIONS; ROOFS; FLOORS; CEILINGS; Insulation OR Other Protection OF Buildings), 63.6% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore E04B
Ranked #24,916 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Nut Shell LLC against Novanta Corporation, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 45.3/100 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

Every figure on PlainPatent is rendered directly from USPTO source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on USPTO source data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 2026.