Where does Plasma-therm NES LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Plasma-therm NES LLC ranks #32,877 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 Plasma-therm NES LLC hold?

Plasma-therm NES LLC holds 8 US utility patents granted between 2018 and 2025, spanning 3 technology areas.

What is Plasma-therm NES LLC's Innovation Score?

Plasma-therm NES LLC has an Innovation Score of 48.7 out of 100 (top 16% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Plasma-therm NES LLC focus on?

Plasma-therm NES LLC's top technology area is H01J (Electric Discharge Tubes OR Discharge Lamps) with 8 patents, ranking #249 of 1,076 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 3 CPC subclasses total.

Is Plasma-therm NES LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Plasma-therm NES LLC's recent grant velocity is +150% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Plasma-therm NES LLC's patents?

Plasma-therm NES LLC's patents average 26.8 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 Plasma-therm NES 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

Plasma-therm NES LLC

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 8 granted patents across 3 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: H01J (Electric Discharge Tubes OR Discharge Lamps).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Plasma-therm ranks #32,877 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 8 patents across 3 technology areas.

#32,877
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 16%
by Innovation Score (48.7/100): 26.8
avg claims per patent: +150%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R32877 · US Corporation #32,877 · 8 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 8 grants
MID-PACK #32,877/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Pink Thermosysteme
CPC-NARROW H01J · 3 areas
INNOV-PAR 48.7/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 26.8 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +150% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Pink GMBH Thermosysteme (±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 Plasma-therm’s 48.7 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 7.6 pts (16%) Velocity 20.0 pts (41%) Breadth 6.1 pts (13%) Claim depth 15.0 pts (31%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Plasma-therm NES · this assignee

49
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Plasma-therm's Innovation Score is 48.7/100 (top 16% 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 Plasma-therm?

Each dot is one of Plasma-therm’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). Plasma-therm’s own 26.8 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.5 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Plasma-therm's grants concentrate

Plasma-therm NES LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 3 CPC subclasses with 100% of grants classified under H01J (Electric Discharge Tubes OR Discharge Lamps). Peak complete grant year is 2018 (2 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2022. By volume, Plasma-therm sits between Pink GMBH Thermosysteme and Plex Corporation.

Plasma-therm's three-year grant acceleration

Plasma-therm NES LLC shows 5 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.

Pink Thermosysteme

8
Pitney Pharmaceut…

8
Planar Motor Inco…

8
Plant Sensory Sys…

8
Plastpro 2000

8
Platypus

8
Pleut Pieds

8
Plex

8
Plasma-therm NES ◀

8

What this shows Plasma-therm holds 8 patents at rank #32,817, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Plasma-therm

By rank, the assignees closest to #32,817 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H01J (Electric Discharge Tubes OR Discharge Lamps)

Other assignees with the most granted patents in Plasma-therm's primary technology class.

Plasma-therm's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

49 Top 16% higher than 84% 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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Plasma-therm NES LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2018	2	25.0%
2022	1	12.5%
2023	2	25.0%
2024	2	25.0%
2025partial year	1	12.5%

Which technologies does Plasma-therm NES LLC patent most?

H01J - Electric Discharge Tubes OR Discharge Lamps 8

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 5

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 5

Top 3 of 3 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

Plasma-therm NES LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Plasma-therm NES LLC's lead technology class is H01J (Electric Discharge Tubes OR Discharge Lamps), 100% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H01J
Ranked #32,877 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Plasma-therm NES LLC against Pink GMBH Thermosysteme, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 48.7/100 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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