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

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Canon Finetech Nisca Inc. ranks #1,697 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 Nisca Inc. hold?

Canon Finetech Nisca Inc. holds 242 US utility patents granted between 2017 and 2025, spanning 30 technology areas.

What is Canon Finetech Nisca Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Canon Finetech Nisca Inc. has an Innovation Score of 48.0 out of 100 (top 17% 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 Nisca Inc. focus on?

Canon Finetech Nisca Inc.'s top technology area is B65H (Handling Thin OR Filamentary Material, e.g. Sheets, Webs, Cables) with 179 patents, ranking #10 of 1,019 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 30 CPC subclasses total.

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

Canon Finetech Nisca Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -3% 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 Nisca Inc.'s patents?

Canon Finetech Nisca Inc.'s patents average 11.4 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 Nisca 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 Nisca Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 242 granted patents across 30 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2017–2025. 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: B65H (Handling Thin OR Filamentary Material, e.g. Sheets, Webs, Cables).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Canon ranks #1,697 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 242 patents across 30 technology areas.

#1,697
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 17%
by Innovation Score (48.0/100): 11.4
avg claims per patent: -3%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1697 · Foreign Corporation #1,697 · 242 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 242 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,697/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Foxconn (KUNSHAN)…
CPC-FOCUS B65H · 30 areas
INNOV-PAR 48.0/100
CLAIMS-PAR 11.4 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-FLAT -3% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Foxconn (KUNSHAN) Computer Connector 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 48.0 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 19.0 pts (40%) Velocity 2.8 pts (6%) Breadth 19.4 pts (40%) Claim depth 6.8 pts (14%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Canon Finetech Nisca · this assignee

48
Verisign · near

48
Xyzprinting · near

48
Avid Technology · near

48
Primetals Germany · near

48
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Canon's Innovation Score is 48.0/100 (top 17% 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 11.4 claims/patent is ABOVE the 10.5 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 Nisca Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 30 CPC subclasses with 74% of grants classified under B65H (Handling Thin OR Filamentary Material, e.g. Sheets, Webs, Cables). Peak complete grant year is 2018 (54 grants) versus a trough of 8 in 2024. By volume, Canon sits between Delphi Technologies IP Limited and Dometic Sweden AB.

Canon's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Canon Finetech Nisca Inc. moved from 117 to 50 grants (0.43x 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 #2,832. See the growth leaderboard.

Delphi IP

243
Korea Institute O…

243
Spring Meadow Nur…

243
Stora Enso OYJ

243
Foxconn (Kunshan)…

242
Shindengen Electr…

242
Stats Chippac

242
Canon Finetech Ni… ◀

242
Dometic Sweden AB

241

What this shows Canon holds 242 patents at rank #1,697, 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 #1,697 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B65H (Handling Thin OR Filamentary Material)

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 B65H (Handling Thin OR Filamentary Material), Canon ranks #10 of 1,019 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (48 here).

Xyzprinting, Inc. 48 Verisign, Inc. 48 Avid Technology, Inc. 48 Primetals Technologies Germany GMBH 48

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (11.4 here).

TDK Corporation 11.4 avg New York Air Brake LLC 11.4 avg Tosoh Corporation 11.4 avg Goertek Inc. 11.4 avg

Canon's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

48 Top 17% higher than 83% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2017–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2017–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

View data table

Canon Finetech Nisca Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2017	15	6.2%
2018	54	22.3%
2019	51	21.1%
2020	41	16.9%
2021	25	10.3%
2022	24	9.9%
2023	18	7.4%
2024	8	3.3%
2025partial year	6	2.5%

Which technologies does Canon Finetech Nisca Inc. patent most?

B65H - Handling Thin OR Filamentary Material, e.g. Sheets, Webs, Cables 179

G03G - ELECTROGRAPHY; ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHY; Magnetography 124

B42C - Bookbinding 52

B42B - Permanently Attaching Together Sheets, Quires OR Signatures OR Permanently Attaching Objects Thereto 45

B41J - TYPEWRITERS; Selective Printing Mechanisms, i.e. Mechanisms Printing Otherwise Than From A FORME; Correction OF Typographical Errors 44

B31F - Mechanical Working OR Deformation OF Paper, Cardboard OR Material Worked IN A Manner Analogous TO Paper 39

B26F - PERFORATING; PUNCHING; CUTTING-OUT; STAMPING-OUT; Severing BY Means Other Than Cutting 14

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 12

B41M - Printing, Duplicating, Marking, OR Copying PROCESSES; Colour Printing, 11

B26D - CUTTING; Details Common TO Machines FOR Perforating, Punching, Cutting-out, Stamping-out OR Severing 11

G06K - Graphical Data Reading ; Presentation OF DATA; Record CARRIERS; Handling Record Carriers 8

B27F - Dovetailed WORK; TENONS; Slotting Machines FOR Wood OR Similar MATERIAL; Nailing OR Stapling Machines 8

B42F - Sheets Temporarily Attached TOGETHER; Filing APPLIANCES; File CARDS; Indexing 5

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 4

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

Top 15 of 30 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 Nisca Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Canon Finetech Nisca Inc.'s lead technology class is B65H (Handling Thin OR Filamentary Material, e.g. Sheets, Webs, Cables), 74% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B65H
Ranked #1,697 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Canon Finetech Nisca Inc. against Delphi Technologies IP Limited, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 48.0/100 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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