Company Analysis

NextNav Inc. (NN)

Nasdaq: NN · Search, Detection, Navigation, Guidance, Aeronautical Sys · Reston, VA · filing with the SEC since 2021
Grade2.9
◀ Past 3.7● Present 2.3▶ Future 2.7
2 est.

Patents

US patents through Dec 31, 2025 · PatentsView, from the USPTO’s Open Data Portal · read Oct 27, 2026

129 patents granted to the 4 names below, as the owner printed on each patent when it was granted. A later sale, a lapse or an expiry is not read, so this is what was granted to NextNav Inc.’s names, not what it holds today.

Patents granted
129
126 utility, 3 design, 1976 to Dec 31, 2025
Granted in 2025
9
Against 10 in 2024 and 15 in 2023
Applications published
162
9 of them in 2025
Names they are printed under
4
its own name, a subsidiary
By yearGrantedApplications published
'10'12'13'14'15'16'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25
Each pair is one calendar year. Applications are published about eighteen months after filing, so the newest years read low.
What they are aboutgrants since 2021
Measurement40
Digital communication12
The main technology area of each patent, in the World Intellectual Property Organization’s 35 fields.
Under which name4 counted
NextNav, LLC its own name
US, as the owner printed on each patent
127 granted
91 published
NextNav, LLC its own name
named as the applicant on its applications, in US
0 granted
70 published
Progeny LMS, LLC a subsidiary
US, as the owner printed on each patent
1 granted
1 published
Commlabs, Inc. a subsidiary
US, as the owner printed on each patent
1 granted
0 published
Names not counted (2)
NextNav France
Most of its patents print FR; this name counts in US. 4 granted and 5 published under it are not counted.
NextNav France
Most of its patents print FR; this name counts in US. 0 granted and 6 published under it are not counted.
Newest grantseach row opens the USPTO’s own copy
Newest applications publishedan application is a clue, never a plan
What it applied for, 2024 to 2025: Measurement 14 · Digital communication 3.

A patent is counted where the owner printed on it when it was granted carries the company’s own name, a former name, the name of a subsidiary its annual report lists, or its own name with a patent-holding phrase (Technology Licensing, Intellectual Property and the like), once the legal form, case and punctuation are set aside, and prints a country that name counts in. PatentsView’s data are published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. Source: PatentsView's granted patents and pre-grant publications, disambiguated, from the USPTO's Open Data Portal, through Dec 31, 2025, read Oct 27, 2026.

SI Assistanton NN · research, not advice