Where does Brother International Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Brother International Corporation ranks #31,096 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 Brother International Corporation hold?

Brother International Corporation holds 8 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2017, spanning 11 technology areas.

What is Brother International Corporation's Innovation Score?

Brother International Corporation has an Innovation Score of 31.8 out of 100 (39th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Brother International Corporation's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Brother International Corporation's recent grant velocity is -100% 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 Brother International Corporation's patents?

Brother International Corporation's patents average 20.9 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 Brother International 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 US Corporation

Brother International Corporation

Q: What technology areas does Brother International Corporation focus on?

Brother International Corporation's top technology area is G03G (ELECTROGRAPHY; ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHY; Magnetography) with 3 patents. Grants appear in 11 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 8 granted patents across 11 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2017. 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: G03G (ELECTROGRAPHY; ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHY; Magnetography).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Brother ranks #31,096 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 8 patents across 11 technology areas.

#31,096
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 39th percentile
by Innovation Score (31.8/100): 20.9
avg claims per patent: -100%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R31096 · US Corporation #31,096 · 8 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 8 grants
MID-PACK #31,096/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Bright Green
CPC-FOCUS G03G · 11 areas
INNOV-THIN 31.8/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 20.9 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -100% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Bright Green Corporation (±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
Brother International · this assignee

32
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Brother's Innovation Score is 31.8/100 (39th 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 Brother's grants concentrate

Brother International Corporation is a focused PatentsView assignee: 11 CPC subclasses with 37.5% of grants classified under G03G (ELECTROGRAPHY; ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHY; Magnetography). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (4 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2017. By volume, Brother sits between Bright Green Corporation and Buemach Engineering International B.V..

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What this shows Brother holds 8 patents at rank #31,102, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Brother

By rank, the assignees closest to #31,102 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G03G (Electrography)

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

Brother's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

32 39th percentile higher than 39% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2017

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 International Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	4	50.0%
2016	3	37.5%
2017	1	12.5%

Which technologies does Brother International Corporation patent most?

G03G - ELECTROGRAPHY; ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHY; Magnetography 3

D05B - Sewing 3

D05C - EMBROIDERING; Tufting 3

B05D - Processes FOR Applying Fluent Materials TO Surfaces, IN General 1

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 1

C01B - Non-metallic ELEMENTS; Compounds THEREOF; ; Metalloids OR Compounds Thereof NOT Covered BY Subclass C01c 1

B82Y - Specific Uses OR Applications OF NANOSTRUCTURES; Measurement OR Analysis OF NANOSTRUCTURES; Manufacture OR Treatment OF Nanostructures 1

H10H - Inorganic Light-emitting Semiconductor Devices Having Potential Barriers 1

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 1

H10K - Organic Electric Solid-state Devices 1

H10F - Inorganic Semiconductor Devices Sensitive TO Infrared Radiation, Light, Electromagnetic Radiation OF Shorter Wavelength OR Corpuscular Radiation 1

Top 11 of 11 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#31,096

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

31.8 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

Brother International Corporation's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Brother International Corporation's lead technology class is G03G (ELECTROGRAPHY; ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHY; Magnetography), 37.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G03G
Ranked #31,096 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Brother International Corporation against Bright Green Corporation, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 31.8/100 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

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

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.