Where does Canon Marketing Japan Kabushiki Kaisha rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Canon Marketing Japan Kabushiki Kaisha ranks #25,947 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 Marketing Japan Kabushiki Kaisha hold?

Canon Marketing Japan Kabushiki Kaisha holds 10 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2020, spanning 4 technology areas.

What is Canon Marketing Japan Kabushiki Kaisha's Innovation Score?

Canon Marketing Japan Kabushiki Kaisha has an Innovation Score of 22.1 out of 100 (10th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Canon Marketing Japan Kabushiki Kaisha's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Canon Marketing Japan Kabushiki Kaisha's recent grant velocity is -89% 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 Marketing Japan Kabushiki Kaisha's patents?

Canon Marketing Japan Kabushiki Kaisha's patents average 11.3 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 Marketing Japan Kabushiki Kaisha 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 Marketing Japan Kabushiki Kaisha

Q: What technology areas does Canon Marketing Japan Kabushiki Kaisha focus on?

Canon Marketing Japan Kabushiki Kaisha's top technology area is B23H (Working OF Metal BY THE Action OF A High Concentration OF Electric Current ON A Workpiece Using AN Electrode Which Takes THE Place OF A TOOL; Such Working Combined With Other Forms OF Working OF Metal) with 5 patents, ranking #8 of 57 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 4 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 10 granted patents across 4 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2020. 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: B23H (Working OF Metal BY THE Action OF A High Concentration OF Electric Current ON A Workpiece Using AN Electrode Which Takes THE Place OF A TOOL; Such Working Combined With Other Forms OF Working OF Metal).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Canon ranks #25,947 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 10 patents across 4 technology areas.

#25,947
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 10th percentile
by Innovation Score (22.1/100): 11.3
avg claims per patent: -89%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R25947 · Foreign Corporation #25,947 · 10 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-PAR · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 10 grants
MID-PACK #25,947/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Caesarstone
CPC-NARROW B23H · 4 areas
INNOV-THIN 22.1/100
CLAIMS-PAR 11.3 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -89% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Caesarstone 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 22.1 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 8.3 pts (37%) Velocity 0.0 pts (0%) Breadth 7.1 pts (32%) Claim depth 6.8 pts (31%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Mikron Industries · near

22
ConocoPhillips… · near

22
Canon Marketing Japan · this assignee

22
Guangzhou Faner… · near

22
Altman Specialty… · near

22
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Canon's Innovation Score is 22.1/100 (10th 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.

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 11.3 claims/patent is at or below the 16.5 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Canon's grants concentrate

Canon Marketing Japan Kabushiki Kaisha is a focused PatentsView assignee: 4 CPC subclasses with 50% of grants classified under B23H (Working OF Metal BY THE Action OF A High Concentration OF Electric Current ON A Workpiece Using AN Electrode Which Takes THE Place OF A TOOL; Such Working Combined With Other Forms OF Working OF Metal). Peak complete grant year is 2016 (4 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2018. By volume, Canon sits between C.G. Bretting Manufacturing Co., Inc. and Carewear Corp..

C G Bretting Manu…

10
Caesarstone

10
Calyxo

10
Canadian Bank Note

10
Capnia

10
Caraustar Industr…

10
Carbon Capture

10
Carewear

10
Canon Marketing J… ◀

10

What this shows Canon holds 10 patents at rank #25,942, 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 #25,942 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B23H (Working OF Metal BY THE Action OF A High Concentration OF…)

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 B23H (Working OF Metal BY THE Action OF A High Concentration OF…), Canon ranks #8 of 57 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (22 here).

Guangzhou Faner Aroma Product Co., Ltd. 22 ConocoPhillips Surmont Partnership 22 Mikron Industries, Inc. 22 Altman Specialty Plants llc 22

Canon's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

22 10th percentile higher than 10% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2020

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 Marketing Japan Kabushiki Kaisha patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	2	20.0%
2016	4	40.0%
2017	2	20.0%
2018	1	10.0%
2020	1	10.0%

Which technologies does Canon Marketing Japan Kabushiki Kaisha patent most?

B23H - Working OF Metal BY THE Action OF A High Concentration OF Electric Current ON A Workpiece Using AN Electrode Which Takes THE Place OF A TOOL; Such Working Combined With Other Forms OF Working OF Metal 5

A61L - Methods OR Apparatus FOR Sterilising Materials OR Objects IN GENERAL; Disinfection, Sterilisation OR Deodorisation OF AIR; Chemical Aspects OF Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads OR Surgical ARTICLES; Materials FOR Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads OR Surgical Articles 4

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 1

B01L - Chemical OR Physical Laboratory Apparatus FOR General USE 1

Top 4 of 4 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 Marketing Japan Kabushiki Kaisha's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Canon Marketing Japan Kabushiki Kaisha's lead technology class is B23H (Working OF Metal BY THE Action OF A High Concentration OF Electric Current ON A Workpiece Using AN Electrode Which Takes THE Place OF A TOOL; Such Working Combined With Other Forms OF Working OF Metal), 50% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B23H
Ranked #25,947 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Canon Marketing Japan Kabushiki Kaisha against C.G. Bretting Manufacturing Co., Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 22.1/100 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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