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Brother Industries, Ltd.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 327 granted patents across 0 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.

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Brother ranks #1,292 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 327 patents across 0 technology areas.

#1,292
of 49,997 US assignees by volume
42nd percentile
by Innovation Score (32.8/100)
1.0
avg claims per patent
-52%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1292 · Foreign Corporation #1,292 · 327 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-UNK · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-SPARSE · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-RICH

  • GRANTS-MID 327 grants
  • TOP-DECILE #1,292/49,997
  • PHOTO-FINISH Alpha and Omega…
  • CPC-UNK CPC blank
  • INNOV-THIN 32.8/100
  • CLAIMS-SPARSE 1.0 claims/avg
  • TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
  • VEL-DROP -52% vel
  • BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Alpha and Omega Semiconductor, Ltd. (±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 Brother’s 32.8 Innovation Score adds up

The same four weighted components behind every Innovation Score on PlainPatent: portfolio volume, grant velocity, technology breadth, and claim depth.

Innovation-score neighbourhood around Brother

Lowest and highest poles plus nearest Innovation Score peers, not a full corpus board reprint.

score

What this shows Brother's Innovation Score is 32.8/100 (42nd 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.

Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score As of 2015–2025

Does more volume mean deeper claims for Brother?

Each dot is one of Brother’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). Brother’s own 1.0 claims/patent is at or below the 14.9 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

Brother vs its 8 nearest volume peers: granted patents vs average claims per patent. Source: USPTO PatentsView. 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 9 entities by Granted patents (volume) (X) and Avg claims / patent (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. Volume + depthSelective & thoroughVolume over depthLean filer 325326327328329330 05101520 Granted patents (volume) Avg claims / patent Sew-eurodrive GMBH & Co. KG - 329, 18.81Sew-eurodrive & KGYissum Research Development Company OF THE Hebrew University OF Jerusalem Ltd. - 329, 15.75Yissum Research D…Safran - 328, 11.65SafranAlpha and Omega Semiconductor, Ltd. - 327, 13.29Alpha and Omega S…MedImmune Limited - 327, 17.45MedimmuneUniversity of Houston System - 327, 15.24University of Hou…Bayer Pharma Aktiengesellschaft - 326, 14.94Bayer Pharma Akti…Hangzhou Hikvision Digital Technology Co., Ltd. - 326, 12.24Hangzhou Hikvisio…Brother Industries, Ltd. - 327, 1Brother Industries
Brother vs its 8 nearest volume peers: granted patents vs average claims per patent. Source: USPTO PatentsView.

Where Brother's grants concentrate

Brother Industries, Ltd. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 0 CPC subclasses . Peak complete grant year is 2017 (54 grants) versus a trough of 6 in 2021. By volume, Brother sits between Sew-eurodrive GMBH & Co. KG and Hangzhou Hikvision Digital Technology Co., Ltd..

Brother's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Brother Industries, Ltd. moved from 45 to 82 grants (1.82x 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 #260. See the growth leaderboard.

Who files at Brother's volume?

Granted US patents 2015–2025 versus its nearest-ranked assignees by volume, this company marked ◀

patents

What this shows Brother holds 327 patents at rank #1,292, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Source USPTO PatentsView, granted utility patents As of 2015–2025

Companies ranked near Brother

By rank, the assignees closest to #1,292 in granted patent volume.

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

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

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (33 here).

California Expanded Metal Products Company 33 Amzetta Technologies, LLC 33 Hatch Baby, Inc. 33 SMDsolution Co., Ltd. 33

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (1.0 here).

Poulsen Roser A/S 1.0 avg Anthura B.V. 1.0 avg J. Choo Limited 1.0 avg Walters Gardens, Inc. 1.0 avg

Brother's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

33 42nd percentile higher than 42% of 49,997 US assignees

This assignee 0 100 every tracked assignee, bucketed by value

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

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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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Brother Industries, Ltd. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year Patents Granted Share of Period
2015 45 13.8%
2016 29 8.9%
2017 54 16.5%
2018 52 15.9%
2019 28 8.6%
2020 11 3.4%
2021 6 1.8%
2022 27 8.3%
2023 17 5.2%
2024 38 11.6%
2025partial year 20 6.1%

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

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What to do with this data

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

  • Ranked #1,292 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
  • Compare Brother Industries, Ltd. against Sew-eurodrive GMBH & Co. KG, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
  • Innovation Score of 32.8/100 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

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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

Every figure on PlainPatent is rendered directly from USPTO source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on USPTO source data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 2026.