Where does Adeka Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Adeka Corporation ranks #1,563 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 Adeka Corporation hold?

Adeka Corporation holds 265 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 78 technology areas.

What is Adeka Corporation's Innovation Score?

Adeka Corporation has an Innovation Score of 56.3 out of 100 (top 6% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Adeka Corporation focus on?

Adeka Corporation's top technology area is C08K (Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances as compounding ingredients) with 96 patents, ranking #36 of 1,963 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 78 CPC subclasses total.

Is Adeka Corporation's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Adeka Corporation's recent grant velocity is -29% 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 Adeka Corporation's patents?

Adeka Corporation's patents average 9.3 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 Adeka Corporation 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 Foreign Corporation

Adeka Corporation

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 265 granted patents across 78 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2025. 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: C08K (Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances as compounding ingredients).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Adeka ranks #1,563 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 265 patents across 78 technology areas.

#1,563
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 6%
by Innovation Score (56.3/100): 9.3
avg claims per patent: -29%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1563 · Foreign Corporation #1,563 · 265 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-PAR · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 265 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,563/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Climate
CPC-WIDE C08K · 78 areas
INNOV-PAR 56.3/100
CLAIMS-PAR 9.3 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -29% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Climate 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.

How Adeka’s 56.3 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 19.3 pts (34%) Velocity 6.4 pts (11%) Breadth 25.0 pts (44%) Claim depth 5.6 pts (10%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

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Adeka · this assignee

56
Mitsubishi Heavy… · near

56
Newfrey · near

56
Safran Transmission… · near

56
Technische Universit… · near

56
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Adeka's Innovation Score is 56.3/100 (top 6% 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 Adeka?

Each dot is one of Adeka’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). Adeka’s own 9.3 claims/patent is at or below the 14.4 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

How Adeka's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Adeka Corporation received 104 grants versus 147 in 2015–2019 (-29% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2016 at 41 grants and bottomed in 2020 at 15. Lead class C08K accounts for 36.2% of the portfolio across 78 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Kyungpook National University Industry-academic Cooperation Foundation (#1,559) and Wright Medical Technology, Inc. (#1,567).

Adeka's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Adeka Corporation moved from 69 to 66 grants (0.96x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). Among 3,296 tracked assignees with ≥100 grants and ≥20 prior-period grants, that multiple ranks #1,300. See the growth leaderboard.

Kyungpook Nationa…

266
Sumitomo Electric…

266
Tenneco Automotiv…

266
Thule Sweden AB

266
Climate

265
Ledvance

265
Precision Planting

265
Wright Medical Te…

265
Adeka ◀

265

What this shows Adeka holds 265 patents at rank #1,563, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Adeka

By rank, the assignees closest to #1,563 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C08K (Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances…)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Adeka, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In C08K (Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances…), Adeka ranks #36 of 1,963 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (56 here).

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Engine & Turbocharger, Ltd. 56 Safran Transmission Systems 56 Newfrey LLC 56 Technische Universiteit Delft 56

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (9.3 here).

Sintokogio, Ltd. 9.3 avg Max Co., Ltd. 9.3 avg Korea Research Institute OF Bioscience AND Biotechnology 9.3 avg Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha 9.3 avg

Adeka's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

56 Top 6% higher than 94% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2015–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

View data table

Adeka Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	20	7.5%
2016	41	15.5%
2017	24	9.1%
2018	31	11.7%
2019	31	11.7%
2020	15	5.7%
2021	23	8.7%
2022	20	7.5%
2023	29	10.9%
2024	17	6.4%
2025partial year	14	5.3%

Which technologies does Adeka Corporation patent most?

C08K - Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances as compounding ingredients 96

C08L - Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds 94

C07F - Acyclic, Carbocyclic OR Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium OR Tellurium 61

C08G - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than BY Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds 49

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 48

C09K - Materials FOR Miscellaneous Applications, NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere 38

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 37

C08J - WORKING-UP; General Processes OF COMPOUNDING; After-treatment NOT Covered BY Subclasses C08b, C08c, C08f, C08g or C08h 33

C07D - Heterocyclic Compounds 31

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 31

C08F - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained BY Reactions Only Involving Carbon-to-carbon Unsaturated Bonds 27

C07C - Acyclic OR Carbocyclic Compounds 25

C09D - Coating Compositions, e.g. Paints, Varnishes OR LACQUERS; Filling PASTES; Chemical Paint OR INK REMOVERS; INKS; Correcting FLUIDS; WOODSTAINS; Pastes OR Solids FOR Colouring OR PRINTING; USE OF Materials Therefor 23

H01M - Processes OR Means, e.g. Batteries, FOR THE Direct Conversion OF Chemical Energy Into Electrical Energy 17

C09B - Organic Dyes OR Closely-related Compounds FOR Producing Dyes ; , e.g. PIGMENTS; MORDANTS; Lakes 17

Top 15 of 78 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

Adeka Corporation's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Adeka Corporation's lead technology class is C08K (Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances as compounding ingredients), 36.2% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C08K
Ranked #1,563 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Adeka Corporation against Kyungpook National University Industry-academic Cooperation Foundation, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 56.3/100 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

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