Where does Anest Iwata Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Anest Iwata Corporation ranks #8,325 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 Anest Iwata Corporation hold?

Anest Iwata Corporation holds 38 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2022, spanning 16 technology areas.

What is Anest Iwata Corporation's Innovation Score?

Anest Iwata Corporation has an Innovation Score of 30.9 out of 100 (36th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Anest Iwata Corporation's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Anest Iwata Corporation's recent grant velocity is -94% 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 Anest Iwata Corporation's patents?

Anest Iwata Corporation's patents average 4.5 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 Anest Iwata 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

Anest Iwata Corporation

Q: What technology areas does Anest Iwata Corporation focus on?

Anest Iwata Corporation's top technology area is F04C (Rotary-piston, OR Oscillating-piston, Positive-displacement Machines FOR Liquids ; Rotary-piston, OR Oscillating-piston, Positive-displacement Pumps) with 13 patents. Grants appear in 16 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 38 granted patents across 16 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2022. 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: F04C (Rotary-piston, OR Oscillating-piston, Positive-displacement Machines FOR Liquids ; Rotary-piston, OR Oscillating-piston, Positive-displacement Pumps).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Anest ranks #8,325 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 38 patents across 16 technology areas.

#8,325
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 36th percentile
by Innovation Score (30.9/100): 4.5
avg claims per patent: -94%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R8325 · Foreign Corporation #8,325 · 38 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-SPARSE · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 38 grants
UPPER-Q #8,325/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH All Purpose Networks
CPC-FOCUS F04C · 16 areas
INNOV-THIN 30.9/100
CLAIMS-SPARSE 4.5 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -94% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: All Purpose Networks, Inc. (±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
1more · near

31
Shin TAI Spurt… · near

31
Anest Iwata · this assignee

31
Beijing Aglaia… · near

31
SeaSpine Orthopedics · near

31
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Anest's Innovation Score is 30.9/100 (36th percentile 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 Anest's grants concentrate

Anest Iwata Corporation is a focused PatentsView assignee: 16 CPC subclasses with 34.2% of grants classified under F04C (Rotary-piston, OR Oscillating-piston, Positive-displacement Machines FOR Liquids ; Rotary-piston, OR Oscillating-piston, Positive-displacement Pumps). Peak complete grant year is 2016 (15 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2020. By volume, Anest sits between Atop S.p.A. and Banner Life Sciences LLC.

Anest's three-year grant acceleration

Anest Iwata Corporation shows 1 grants in 2022–2024 against only 5 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.

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38
ATT Southern

38
Auctane

38
All Purpose Netwo…

38
Apotex

38
Aqua-leisure Indu…

38
Aurea Software

38
Banner Life Scien…

38
Anest Iwata ◀

38

What this shows Anest holds 38 patents at rank #8,329, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Anest

By rank, the assignees closest to #8,329 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F04C (Rotary-piston)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Anest, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above).

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (31 here).

Beijing Aglaia Technology Development Co., Ltd. 31 SeaSpine Orthopedics Corporation 31 1more Inc. 31 Shin TAI Spurt Water OF THE Garden Tools Co., Ltd 31

Anest's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

31 36th percentile higher than 36% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2022

Grants by year

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

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Anest Iwata Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	4	10.5%
2016	15	39.5%
2017	7	18.4%
2018	6	15.8%
2019	4	10.5%
2020	1	2.6%
2022	1	2.6%

Which technologies does Anest Iwata Corporation patent most?

F04C - Rotary-piston, OR Oscillating-piston, Positive-displacement Machines FOR Liquids ; Rotary-piston, OR Oscillating-piston, Positive-displacement Pumps 13

F01C - Rotary-piston OR Oscillating-piston Machines OR Engines 10

B05B - Spraying APPARATUS; Atomising APPARATUS; Nozzles 9

B05D - Processes FOR Applying Fluent Materials TO Surfaces, IN General 2

F01K - Steam Engine PLANTS; Steam ACCUMULATORS; Engine Plants NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Engines Using Special Working Fluids OR Cycles 2

F16L - PIPES; Joints OR Fittings FOR PIPES; Supports FOR Pipes, Cables OR Protective TUBING; Means FOR Thermal Insulation IN General 1

A61M - Devices FOR Introducing Media Into, OR Onto, THE Body ; Devices FOR Transducing Body Media OR FOR Taking Media From THE Body ; Devices FOR Producing OR Ending Sleep OR Stupor 1

A61G - Transport, Personal Conveyances, OR Accommodation Specially Adapted FOR Patients OR Disabled Persons ; Operating Tables OR CHAIRS; Chairs FOR DENTISTRY; Funeral Devices 1

F25B - Refrigeration Machines, Plants OR SYSTEMS; Combined Heating AND Refrigeration SYSTEMS; Heat Pump Systems 1

G01L - Measuring Force, Stress, Torque, Work, Mechanical Power, Mechanical Efficiency, OR Fluid Pressure 1

F03C - Positive-displacement Engines Driven BY Liquids 1

F05B - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Wind, Spring, Weight, Inertia OR Like Motors, TO Machines OR Engines FOR Liquids Covered BY Subclasses F03b, F03d AND F03g 1

C09K - Materials FOR Miscellaneous Applications, NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere 1

F16J - Pistons ; CYLINDERS; Sealings 1

F04B - Positive-displacement Machines FOR LIQUIDS; Pumps 1

Top 15 of 16 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#8,325

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

30.9 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

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

Anest Iwata Corporation's lead technology class is F04C (Rotary-piston, OR Oscillating-piston, Positive-displacement Machines FOR Liquids ; Rotary-piston, OR Oscillating-piston, Positive-displacement Pumps), 34.2% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F04C
Ranked #8,325 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Anest Iwata Corporation against Atop S.p.A., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 30.9/100 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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