Is The United States Of America, As Represented By The Director, National Security Agency's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

The United States Of America, As Represented By The Director, National Security Agency's recent grant velocity is -92% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). Grant activity has slowed relative to earlier years.

USPTO 2015–2025 USPTO PatentsView US Federal Government

The United States Of America, As Represented By The Director, National Security Agency

Q: Where does The United States Of America, As Represented By The Director, National Security Agency rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), The United States Of America, As Represented By The Director, National Security Agency ranks #20,526 of 50,000 assignees by granted-patent volume, the same sort as the companies listing and top-holders ranking. See /methodology/#corpus-placement.

Q: How is the The United States Of America, As Represented By The Director, National Security Agency 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 - 14 granted patents across 25 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2020. 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: G06N (COMPUTING ARRANGEMENTS BASED ON SPECIFIC COMPUTATIONAL MODELS).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, The ranks #20,526 of 50,000 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 14 patents across 25 technology areas.

#20,526
of 50,000 US assignees by volume: Top 46%
by Innovation Score (36.6/100): 16.0
avg claims per patent: -92%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R20526 · US Federal Government #20,526 · 14 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 14 grants
MID-PACK #20,526/50,000
PHOTO-FINISH The Rocket Science G…
CPC-FOCUS G06N · 25 areas
INNOV-THIN 36.6/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.0 claims/avg
TYPE-USGOV US Federal Gov
VEL-DROP -92% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: The Rocket Science Group Llc (±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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
The United States Of… · this assignee

37
3D Lighting Innovati… · lowest

7

What this shows The's Innovation Score is 36.6/100 (top 46% 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.

Where The's grants concentrate

The United States Of America, As Represented By The Director, National Security Agency is a focused PatentsView assignee: 25 CPC subclasses with 28.6% of grants classified under G06N (COMPUTING ARRANGEMENTS BASED ON SPECIFIC COMPUTATIONAL MODELS). Peak complete grant year is 2019 (6 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2017. By volume, The sits between The Rocket Science Group Llc and Thirty Three Threads, Inc..

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14
The Southern

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The University of…

14
Theranova

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Thermos K K

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14
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14

What this shows The holds 14 patents at rank #20,543, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near The

By rank, the assignees closest to #20,543 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G06N (Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Mo…)

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

The's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

37 Top 46% higher than 54% of 50,000 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2020

Grants by year

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

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The United States Of America, As Represented By The Director, National Security Agency patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	5	35.7%
2017	1	7.1%
2018	1	7.1%
2019	6	42.9%
2020	1	7.1%

Which technologies does The United States Of America, As Represented By The Director, National Security Agency patent most?

G06N - COMPUTING ARRANGEMENTS BASED ON SPECIFIC COMPUTATIONAL MODELS 4

G06F - ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING 3

H10D - INORGANIC ELECTRIC SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES 2

H10N - ELECTRIC SOLID-STATE DEVICES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR 2

H01S - DEVICES USING THE PROCESS OF LIGHT AMPLIFICATION BY STIMULATED EMISSION OF RADIATION [LASER] TO AMPLIFY OR GENERATE LIGHT; DEVICES USING STIMULATED EMISSION OF ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION IN WAVE RANGES OTHER THAN OPTICAL 2

G11C - STATIC STORES 1

B82Y - SPECIFIC USES OR APPLICATIONS OF NANOSTRUCTURES; MEASUREMENT OR ANALYSIS OF NANOSTRUCTURES; MANUFACTURE OR TREATMENT OF NANOSTRUCTURES 1

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 1

G01R - MEASURING ELECTRIC VARIABLES; MEASURING MAGNETIC VARIABLES 1

G01S - RADIO DIRECTION-FINDING; RADIO NAVIGATION; DETERMINING DISTANCE OR VELOCITY BY USE OF RADIO WAVES; LOCATING OR PRESENCE-DETECTING BY USE OF THE REFLECTION OR RERADIATION OF RADIO WAVES; ANALOGOUS ARRANGEMENTS USING OTHER WAVES 1

H03H - IMPEDANCE NETWORKS, e.g. RESONANT CIRCUITS; RESONATORS 1

H01P - WAVEGUIDES; RESONATORS, LINES, OR OTHER DEVICES OF THE WAVEGUIDE TYPE 1

G02B - OPTICAL ELEMENTS, SYSTEMS OR APPARATUS 1

Y02P - CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION TECHNOLOGIES IN THE PRODUCTION OR PROCESSING OF GOODS 1

B33Y - ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING, i.e. MANUFACTURING OF THREE-DIMENSIONAL [3-D] OBJECTS BY ADDITIVE DEPOSITION, ADDITIVE AGGLOMERATION OR ADDITIVE LAYERING, e.g. BY 3-D PRINTING, STEREOLITHOGRAPHY OR SELECTIVE LASER SINTERING 1

Top 15 of 25 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#20,526

of 50,000 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

36.6 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

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

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