Where does Oxford Instruments Nanotechnology Tools Limited rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Oxford Instruments Nanotechnology Tools Limited ranks #8,270 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 Oxford Instruments Nanotechnology Tools Limited hold?

Oxford Instruments Nanotechnology Tools Limited holds 39 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2025, spanning 31 technology areas.

What is Oxford Instruments Nanotechnology Tools Limited's Innovation Score?

Oxford Instruments Nanotechnology Tools Limited has an Innovation Score of 49.1 out of 100 (top 15% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Oxford Instruments Nanotechnology Tools Limited focus on?

Oxford Instruments Nanotechnology Tools Limited's top technology area is H01J (Electric Discharge Tubes OR Discharge Lamps) with 15 patents, ranking #144 of 1,076 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 31 CPC subclasses total.

Is Oxford Instruments Nanotechnology Tools Limited's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Oxford Instruments Nanotechnology Tools Limited's recent grant velocity is -5% 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 Oxford Instruments Nanotechnology Tools Limited's patents?

Oxford Instruments Nanotechnology Tools Limited's patents average 18.6 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.

USPTO 2015–2025 USPTO PatentsView Foreign Corporation

Oxford Instruments Nanotechnology Tools Limited

Q: How is the Oxford Instruments Nanotechnology Tools Limited 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 PatentsView assignee record - 39 granted patents across 31 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2025. 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: H01J (Electric Discharge Tubes OR Discharge Lamps).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Oxford ranks #8,270 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 39 patents across 31 technology areas.

#8,270
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 15%
by Innovation Score (49.1/100): 18.6
avg claims per patent: -5%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R8270 · Foreign Corporation #8,270 · 39 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-FLAT · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 39 grants
UPPER-Q #8,270/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Neovasc Tiara
CPC-FOCUS H01J · 31 areas
INNOV-PAR 49.1/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.6 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-FLAT -5% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Neovasc Tiara 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.

How Oxford’s 49.1 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 12.7 pts (26%) Velocity 5.6 pts (11%) Breadth 19.7 pts (40%) Claim depth 11.2 pts (23%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Samson Aktiengesells… · near

49
North Atlantic Imports · near

49
Oxford Instruments… · this assignee

49
SK Global Chemical · near

49
Shoals Group · near

49
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Oxford's Innovation Score is 49.1/100 (top 15% 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 Oxford?

Each dot is one of Oxford’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). Oxford’s own 18.6 claims/patent is ABOVE the 11.0 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Oxford's grants concentrate

Oxford Instruments Nanotechnology Tools Limited is a focused PatentsView assignee: 31 CPC subclasses with 38.5% of grants classified under H01J (Electric Discharge Tubes OR Discharge Lamps). Peak complete grant year is 2018 (7 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2022. By volume, Oxford sits between NOVADELTA—COMÉRCIO E INDÚSTRIA DE CAFÉS, LDA and Pacific Light & Hologram, Inc..

Oxford's three-year grant acceleration

Oxford Instruments Nanotechnology Tools Limited shows 10 grants in 2022–2024 against only 12 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.

Novadelta—COMÉRCI…

39
Neovasc Tiara

39
Nexa3d

39
Nuwave

39
Oklahoma Medical…

39
Ovata B V

39
Pasona Knowledge…

39
Pacific Light & H…

39
Oxford Instrument… ◀

39

What this shows Oxford holds 39 patents at rank #8,267, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Oxford

By rank, the assignees closest to #8,267 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H01J (Electric Discharge Tubes OR Discharge Lamps)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Oxford, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H01J (Electric Discharge Tubes OR Discharge Lamps), Oxford ranks #144 of 1,076 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (49 here).

North Atlantic Imports, LLC 49 SK Global Chemical Co., Ltd. 49 Shoals Technologies Group, LLC 49 Samson Aktiengesellschaft 49

Oxford's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

49 Top 15% higher than 85% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2016–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Oxford Instruments Nanotechnology Tools Limited patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	3	7.7%
2017	5	12.8%
2018	7	17.9%
2019	4	10.3%
2020	4	10.3%
2021	4	10.3%
2022	2	5.1%
2023	3	7.7%
2024	5	12.8%
2025partial year	2	5.1%

Which technologies does Oxford Instruments Nanotechnology Tools Limited patent most?

H01J - Electric Discharge Tubes OR Discharge Lamps 15

F25B - Refrigeration Machines, Plants OR SYSTEMS; Combined Heating AND Refrigeration SYSTEMS; Heat Pump Systems 14

F25D - REFRIGERATORS; Cold ROOMS; ICE-BOXES; Cooling OR Freezing Apparatus NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 12

G01R - Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables 7

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 7

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 4

F28D - Heat-exchange Apparatus, NOT Provided FOR IN Another Subclass, IN Which THE Heat-exchange Media DO NOT Come Into Direct Contact 4

H01F - MAGNETS; INDUCTANCES; TRANSFORMERS; Selection OF Materials FOR Their Magnetic Properties 3

F17C - Vessels FOR Containing OR Storing Compressed, Liquefied OR Solidified GASES; Fixed-capacity GAS-HOLDERS; Filling Vessels With, OR Discharging From Vessels, Compressed, Liquefied, OR Solidified Gases 3

F28F - Details OF Heat-exchange AND Heat-transfer Apparatus, OF General Application 3

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 2

Y02B - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Buildings, e.g. Housing, House Appliances OR Related End-user Applications 2

G01T - Measurement OF Nuclear OR X-radiation 2

C23C - Coating Metallic MATERIAL; Coating Material With Metallic MATERIAL; Surface Treatment OF Metallic Material BY Diffusion Into THE Surface, BY Chemical Conversion OR SUBSTITUTION; Coating BY Vacuum Evaporation, BY Sputtering, BY ION Implantation OR BY Chemical Vapour Deposition, IN General 2

B01D - Separation 1

Top 15 of 31 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

Oxford Instruments Nanotechnology Tools Limited's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Oxford Instruments Nanotechnology Tools Limited's lead technology class is H01J (Electric Discharge Tubes OR Discharge Lamps), 38.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H01J
Ranked #8,270 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Oxford Instruments Nanotechnology Tools Limited against NOVADELTA—COMÉRCIO E INDÚSTRIA DE CAFÉS, LDA, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 49.1/100 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.