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

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Bando Chemical Industries, Ltd. ranks #3,112 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 Bando Chemical Industries, Ltd. hold?

Bando Chemical Industries, Ltd. holds 121 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 65 technology areas.

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

Bando Chemical Industries, Ltd. has an Innovation Score of 50.5 out of 100 (top 13% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

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

Bando 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 Bando Chemical Industries, Ltd.'s patents?

Bando Chemical Industries, Ltd.'s patents average 9.7 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 Bando 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

Bando Chemical Industries, Ltd.

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

Bando Chemical Industries, Ltd.'s top technology area is F16G (Belts, Cables, OR Ropes, Predominantly Used FOR Driving PURPOSES; CHAINS; Fittings Predominantly Used Therefor) with 68 patents. Grants appear in 65 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 121 granted patents across 65 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: F16G (Belts, Cables, OR Ropes, Predominantly Used FOR Driving PURPOSES; CHAINS; Fittings Predominantly Used Therefor).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Bando ranks #3,112 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 121 patents across 65 technology areas.

#3,112
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 13%
by Innovation Score (50.5/100): 9.7
avg claims per patent: -8%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R3112 · Foreign Corporation #3,112 · 121 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 121 grants
TOP-DECILE #3,112/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Accuray Incorporated
CPC-WIDE F16G · 65 areas
INNOV-PAR 50.5/100
CLAIMS-PAR 9.7 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-FLAT -8% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Accuray Incorporated (±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
Affirm · near

51
Applied Minds · near

51
Bando Chemical… · this assignee

51
Hollingsworth & Vose · near

51
Wake Forest University · near

51
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Bando's Innovation Score is 50.5/100 (top 13% 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.

How Bando's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Bando Chemical Industries, Ltd. received 55 grants versus 60 in 2015–2019 (-8% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2019 at 24 grants and bottomed in 2016 at 5. Lead class F16G accounts for 56.2% of the portfolio across 65 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Sensors Incorporated (#3,108) and Faraday Technology Corp. (#3,116).

Bando's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Bando Chemical Industries, Ltd. moved from 54 to 25 grants (0.46x 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 #2,776. See the growth leaderboard.

Sensors Incorpora…

122
Siltronic

122
Thermwood

122
Accuray Incorpora…

121
CCL Label

121
Elago

121
Fuji Machine MFG

121
Faraday Technology

121
Bando Chemical In… ◀

121

What this shows Bando holds 121 patents at rank #3,112, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Bando

By rank, the assignees closest to #3,112 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F16G (Belts)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

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

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (51 here).

Hollingsworth & Vose Company 51 Applied Minds, LLC 51 Wake Forest University 51 Affirm, Inc. 51

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (9.7 here).

Bushnell Inc. 9.7 avg Carlson Pet Products, Inc. 9.7 avg Otics Corporation 9.7 avg Ojjo, Inc. 9.7 avg

Bando's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

51 Top 13% higher than 87% 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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Bando Chemical Industries, Ltd. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	9	7.4%
2016	5	4.1%
2017	13	10.7%
2018	9	7.4%
2019	24	19.8%
2020	17	14.0%
2021	13	10.7%
2022	9	7.4%
2023	9	7.4%
2024	7	5.8%
2025partial year	6	5.0%

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

F16G - Belts, Cables, OR Ropes, Predominantly Used FOR Driving PURPOSES; CHAINS; Fittings Predominantly Used Therefor 68

B29D - Producing Particular Articles From Plastics OR From Substances IN A Plastic State 29

C08L - Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds 23

C08K - Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances as compounding ingredients 22

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 19

F16H - Gearing 19

B29C - Shaping OR Joining OF PLASTICS; Shaping OF Material IN A Plastic State, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; After-treatment OF THE Shaped Products, e.g. Repairing 12

B29K - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses B29b, B29c OR B29d, Relating TO Moulding Materials OR TO Materials FOR ; Moulds, ; Reinforcements, Fillers OR Preformed Parts, e.g. Inserts 12

C08G - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than BY Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds 12

C09J - ADHESIVES; Non-mechanical Aspects OF Adhesive Processes IN GENERAL; Adhesive Processes NOT Provided FOR ELSEWHERE; USE OF Materials AS Adhesives 11

G01L - Measuring Force, Stress, Torque, Work, Mechanical Power, Mechanical Efficiency, OR Fluid Pressure 10

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 9

C08J - WORKING-UP; General Processes OF COMPOUNDING; After-treatment NOT Covered BY Subclasses C08b, C08c, C08f, C08g or C08h 9

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 9

D06M - Treatment, NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere IN Class D06, OF Fibres, Threads, Yarns, Fabrics, Feathers OR Fibrous Goods Made From Such Materials 8

Top 15 of 65 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#3,112

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

50.5 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

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

Bando Chemical Industries, Ltd.'s lead technology class is F16G (Belts, Cables, OR Ropes, Predominantly Used FOR Driving PURPOSES; CHAINS; Fittings Predominantly Used Therefor), 56.2% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F16G
Ranked #3,112 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Bando Chemical Industries, Ltd. against Sensors Incorporated, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 50.5/100 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

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