Where does Arakawa Chemical Industries, Ltd. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Arakawa Chemical Industries, Ltd. ranks #11,919 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 Arakawa Chemical Industries, Ltd. hold?

Arakawa Chemical Industries, Ltd. holds 25 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 29 technology areas.

What is Arakawa Chemical Industries, Ltd.'s Innovation Score?

Arakawa Chemical Industries, Ltd. has an Innovation Score of 53.3 out of 100 (top 9% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Arakawa Chemical Industries, Ltd.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Arakawa Chemical Industries, Ltd.'s recent grant velocity is -8% 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 Arakawa Chemical Industries, Ltd.'s patents?

Arakawa Chemical Industries, Ltd.'s patents average 7.8 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 Arakawa Chemical Industries, 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

Arakawa Chemical Industries, Ltd.

Q: What technology areas does Arakawa Chemical Industries, Ltd. focus on?

Arakawa Chemical Industries, Ltd.'s top technology area is Y02E (Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution) with 8 patents. Grants appear in 29 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 25 granted patents across 29 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: Y02E (Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Arakawa ranks #11,919 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 25 patents across 29 technology areas.

#11,919
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 9%
by Innovation Score (53.3/100): 7.8
avg claims per patent: -8%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R11919 · Foreign Corporation #11,919 · 25 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 25 grants
UPPER-Q #11,919/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Apator Miitors APS
CPC-FOCUS Y02E · 29 areas
INNOV-PAR 53.3/100
CLAIMS-SPARSE 7.8 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-FLAT -8% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Apator Miitors APS (±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
Arakawa Chemical… · this assignee

53
Fluor · near

53
GEA Food Solutions… · near

53
Kleemann · near

53
Novares France · near

53
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Arakawa's Innovation Score is 53.3/100 (top 9% 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 Arakawa's grants concentrate

Arakawa Chemical Industries, Ltd. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 29 CPC subclasses with 32% of grants classified under Y02E (Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution). Peak complete grant year is 2023 (6 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2015. By volume, Arakawa sits between Apator Miitors APS and Asmpt Singapore PTE. Ltd..

Arakawa's three-year grant acceleration

Arakawa Chemical Industries, Ltd. shows 11 grants in 2022–2024 against only 4 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.

Apator Miitors APS

25
Apex Industrial

25
Apex Microelectro…

25
API Intellectual…

25
Aramco Services

25
Arkalumen

25
Artsana S p A

25
Asmpt Singapore P…

25
Arakawa Chemical… ◀

25

What this shows Arakawa holds 25 patents at rank #11,904, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Arakawa

By rank, the assignees closest to #11,904 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in Y02E (Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

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

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (53 here).

Kleemann GmbH 53 GEA Food Solutions Bakel B.V. 53 Fluor Technologies Corporation 53 Novares France 53

Arakawa's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

53 Top 9% higher than 91% 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.

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Arakawa Chemical Industries, Ltd. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1	4.0%
2016	3	12.0%
2017	4	16.0%
2019	4	16.0%
2022	1	4.0%
2023	6	24.0%
2024	4	16.0%
2025partial year	2	8.0%

Which technologies does Arakawa Chemical Industries, Ltd. patent most?

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 8

H01M - Processes OR Means, e.g. Batteries, FOR THE Direct Conversion OF Chemical Energy Into Electrical Energy 8

C09J - ADHESIVES; Non-mechanical Aspects OF Adhesive Processes IN GENERAL; Adhesive Processes NOT Provided FOR ELSEWHERE; USE OF Materials AS Adhesives 7

C08G - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than BY Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds 5

C08F - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained BY Reactions Only Involving Carbon-to-carbon Unsaturated Bonds 5

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 5

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 4

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 4

C08L - Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds 3

D21H - Pulp COMPOSITIONS; Preparation Thereof NOT Covered BY Subclasses D21c OR D21D; Impregnating OR Coating OF PAPER; Treatment OF Finished Paper NOT Covered BY Class B31 OR Subclass D21G; Paper NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 3

C08J - WORKING-UP; General Processes OF COMPOUNDING; After-treatment NOT Covered BY Subclasses C08b, C08c, C08f, C08g or C08h 2

B82Y - Specific Uses OR Applications OF NANOSTRUCTURES; Measurement OR Analysis OF NANOSTRUCTURES; Manufacture OR Treatment OF Nanostructures 2

C09F - Natural RESINS; French POLISH; DRYING-OILS; OIL Drying Agents, i.e. SICCATIVES; Turpentine 2

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

C09K - Materials FOR Miscellaneous Applications, NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere 2

Top 15 of 29 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#11,919

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

53.3 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

Arakawa Chemical Industries, Ltd.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Arakawa Chemical Industries, Ltd.'s lead technology class is Y02E (Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution), 32% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore Y02E
Ranked #11,919 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Arakawa Chemical Industries, Ltd. against Apator Miitors APS, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 53.3/100 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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