Where does Alps Alpine Co., Ltd. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Alps Alpine Co., Ltd. ranks #834 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 Alps Alpine Co., Ltd. hold?

Alps Alpine Co., Ltd. holds 546 US utility patents granted between 2019 and 2025, spanning 124 technology areas.

What is Alps Alpine Co., Ltd.'s Innovation Score?

Alps Alpine Co., Ltd. has an Innovation Score of 62.1 out of 100 (top 3% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Alps Alpine Co., Ltd. focus on?

Alps Alpine Co., Ltd.'s top technology area is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing) with 179 patents, ranking #342 of 13,878 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 124 CPC subclasses total.

Is Alps Alpine Co., Ltd.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Alps Alpine Co., Ltd.'s recent grant velocity is +659% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Alps Alpine Co., Ltd.'s patents?

Alps Alpine Co., Ltd.'s patents average 9.8 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 Alps Alpine Co., Ltd. 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

Alps Alpine Co., Ltd.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 546 granted patents across 124 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2019–2025. 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: G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Alps ranks #834 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 546 patents across 124 technology areas.

#834
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 3%
by Innovation Score (62.1/100): 9.8
avg claims per patent: +659%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R834 · Foreign Corporation #834 · 546 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 546 grants
TOP-DECILE #834/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Inserm (INSTITUT…
CPC-WIDE G06F · 124 areas
INNOV-STRONG 62.1/100
CLAIMS-PAR 9.8 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +659% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Inserm (INSTITUT National DE LA SANTÉ ET DE LA Recherche MÉDICALE) (±1 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 Alps’s 62.1 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 21.8 pts (35%) Velocity 9.4 pts (15%) Breadth 25.0 pts (40%) Claim depth 5.9 pts (10%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Alps Alpine · this assignee

62
Qingdao Pico… · near

62
Thomson Licensing · near

62
Agency FOR Science… · near

62
Hanon Systems · near

62
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Alps's Innovation Score is 62.1/100 (top 3% 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 Alps?

Each dot is one of Alps’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). Alps’s own 9.8 claims/patent is at or below the 11.0 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

How Alps's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Alps Alpine Co., Ltd. received 410 grants versus 54 in 2015–2019 (+659% equal-window velocity, top decile growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2024 at 132 grants and bottomed in 2019 at 54. Lead class G06F accounts for 32.8% of the portfolio across 124 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Wuhan Tianma Microelectronics Co., Ltd. (#830) and Delta Electronics (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. (#838).

Alps's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Alps Alpine Co., Ltd. moved from 192 to 272 grants (1.42x 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 #509. See the growth leaderboard.

Wuhan Tianma Micr…

555
Walters Gardens

554
Lapis Semiconduct…

552
Gree Holdings

549
Alps Alpine ◀

546
Inserm (Institut…

545
Max-planck-gesell…

544
Aisin

543
Delta (Shanghai)

543

What this shows Alps holds 546 patents at rank #834, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Alps

By rank, the assignees closest to #834 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Alps, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), Alps ranks #342 of 13,878 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (62 here).

Thomson Licensing 62 Qingdao Pico Technology Co., Ltd. 62 Hanon Systems 62 Agency FOR Science, Technology AND Research 62

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (9.8 here).

Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co., Ltd. 9.8 avg CCL Label, Inc. 9.8 avg Getac Technology Corporation 9.8 avg Axis AB 9.8 avg

Alps's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

62 Top 3% higher than 97% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2019–2025

Grants by year

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

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Alps Alpine Co., Ltd. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2019	54	9.9%
2020	70	12.8%
2021	68	12.5%
2022	72	13.2%
2023	68	12.5%
2024	132	24.2%
2025partial year	82	15.0%

Which technologies does Alps Alpine Co., Ltd. patent most?

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 179

H01H - Electric SWITCHES; RELAYS; SELECTORS; Emergency Protective Devices 99

H03K - Pulse Technique 58

G01R - Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables 57

G05G - Control Devices OR Systems Insofar AS Characterised BY Mechanical Features Only 52

B60R - Vehicles, Vehicle Fittings, OR Vehicle Parts, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 31

H04R - Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups OR Like Acoustic Electromechanical TRANSDUCERS; Deaf-aid SETS; Public Address Systems 29

G01D - Measuring NOT Specially Adapted FOR A Specific VARIABLE; Arrangements FOR Measuring TWO OR More Variables NOT Covered IN A Single Other SUBCLASS; Tariff Metering APPARATUS; Measuring OR Testing NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 28

B60K - Arrangement OR Mounting OF Propulsion Units OR OF Transmissions IN VEHICLES; Arrangement OR Mounting OF Plural Diverse Prime-movers IN VEHICLES; Auxiliary Drives FOR VEHICLES; Instrumentation OR Dashboards FOR VEHICLES; Arrangements IN Connection With Cooling, AIR Intake, GAS Exhaust OR Fuel Supply 27

H01F - MAGNETS; INDUCTANCES; TRANSFORMERS; Selection OF Materials FOR Their Magnetic Properties 26

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 25

G01B - Measuring Length, Thickness OR Similar Linear DIMENSIONS; Measuring ANGLES; Measuring AREAS; Measuring Irregularities OF Surfaces OR Contours 23

H02K - Dynamo-electric Machines 23

E05B - LOCKS; Accessories THEREFOR; Handcuffs 20

H10N - Electric Solid-state Devices NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 19

Top 15 of 124 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

Alps Alpine Co., Ltd.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Alps Alpine Co., Ltd.'s lead technology class is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), 32.8% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06F
Ranked #834 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Alps Alpine Co., Ltd. against Wuhan Tianma Microelectronics Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 62.1/100 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

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