Where does Canon Finetech Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Canon Finetech Inc. ranks #5,572 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 Canon Finetech Inc. hold?

Canon Finetech Inc. holds 61 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2017, spanning 21 technology areas.

What is Canon Finetech Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Canon Finetech Inc. has an Innovation Score of 38.6 out of 100 (top 40% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Canon Finetech Inc. focus on?

Canon Finetech Inc.'s top technology area is G03G (ELECTROGRAPHY; ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHY; Magnetography) with 30 patents, ranking #33 of 196 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 21 CPC subclasses total.

Is Canon Finetech Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Canon Finetech Inc.'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 Canon Finetech Inc.'s patents?

Canon Finetech Inc.'s patents average 13.6 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 Canon Finetech Inc. 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

Canon Finetech Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 61 granted patents across 21 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).

Compiled by PlainPatent · May 15, 2026

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Canon ranks #5,572 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 61 patents across 21 technology areas.

#5,572
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 40%
by Innovation Score (38.6/100): 13.6
avg claims per patent: -100%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R5572 · Foreign Corporation #5,572 · 61 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 61 grants
UPPER-Q #5,572/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Beijing Founder
CPC-FOCUS G03G · 21 areas
INNOV-THIN 38.6/100
CLAIMS-RICH 13.6 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -100% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Beijing Founder Electronics Co., 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 Canon’s 38.6 Innovation Score adds up

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

Volume 14.3 pts (37%) Velocity 0.0 pts (0%) Breadth 16.2 pts (42%) Claim depth 8.2 pts (21%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Bio-Pharm Solutions · near

39
Canon Finetech · this assignee

39
Institute for… · near

39
Iridium Satellite · near

39
Swedish Orphan… · near

39
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Canon's Innovation Score is 38.6/100 (top 40% 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.

Does more volume mean deeper claims for Canon?

Each dot is one of Canon’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). Canon’s own 13.6 claims/patent is ABOVE the 11.7 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

Canon vs its 8 nearest volume peers: granted patents vs average claims per patent. Source: USPTO PatentsView.

Where Canon's grants concentrate

Canon Finetech Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 21 CPC subclasses with 49.2% of grants classified under G03G (ELECTROGRAPHY; ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHY; Magnetography). Peak complete grant year is 2016 (24 grants) versus a trough of 16 in 2017. By volume, Canon sits between Beijing Kuangshi Technology Co., Ltd. and Chubby Gorilla, Inc..

Beijing Kuangshi…

61
Braskem America

61
Beijing Founder

61
Brooks Automation…

61
CLO Virtual Fashi…

61
Coatex

61
Chi Mei Communica…

61
Chubby Gorilla

61
Canon Finetech ◀

61

What this shows Canon holds 61 patents at rank #5,572, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Canon

By rank, the assignees closest to #5,572 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G03G (Electrography)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Canon, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G03G (Electrography), Canon ranks #33 of 196 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (39 here).

Institute for Musculoskeletal Science and Education, Ltd. 39 Iridium Satellite LLC 39 Bio-Pharm Solutions Co., Ltd. 39 Swedish Orphan Biovitrum AG 39

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (13.6 here).

emz-Hanauer GmbH & Co. KGaA 13.6 avg UNIVERSITÉ DE Bordeaux 13.6 avg Universite De Montpellier 13.6 avg Bull SAS 13.6 avg

Canon's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

39 Top 40% higher than 60% 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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Canon Finetech Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	21	34.4%
2016	24	39.3%
2017	16	26.2%

Which technologies does Canon Finetech Inc. patent most?

G03G - ELECTROGRAPHY; ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHY; Magnetography 30

B41J - TYPEWRITERS; Selective Printing Mechanisms, i.e. Mechanisms Printing Otherwise Than From A FORME; Correction OF Typographical Errors 21

B65H - Handling Thin OR Filamentary Material, e.g. Sheets, Webs, Cables 18

B42C - Bookbinding 10

B42B - Permanently Attaching Together Sheets, Quires OR Signatures OR Permanently Attaching Objects Thereto 8

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 7

B31F - Mechanical Working OR Deformation OF Paper, Cardboard OR Material Worked IN A Manner Analogous TO Paper 6

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

B27F - Dovetailed WORK; TENONS; Slotting Machines FOR Wood OR Similar MATERIAL; Nailing OR Stapling Machines 2

C08K - Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances as compounding ingredients 1

B26F - PERFORATING; PUNCHING; CUTTING-OUT; STAMPING-OUT; Severing BY Means Other Than Cutting 1

B60B - Vehicle Wheels ; CASTORS; Axles FOR Wheels OR CASTORS; Increasing Wheel Adhesion 1

B26D - CUTTING; Details Common TO Machines FOR Perforating, Punching, Cutting-out, Stamping-out OR Severing 1

C07D - Heterocyclic Compounds 1

C08F - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained BY Reactions Only Involving Carbon-to-carbon Unsaturated Bonds 1

Top 15 of 21 technology areas

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

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What to do with this data

Canon Finetech Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Canon Finetech Inc.'s lead technology class is G03G (ELECTROGRAPHY; ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHY; Magnetography), 49.2% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G03G
Ranked #5,572 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Canon Finetech Inc. against Beijing Kuangshi Technology Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 38.6/100 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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