Where does Canon Production Printing Holding B.V. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Canon Production Printing Holding B.V. ranks #2,586 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 Production Printing Holding B.V. hold?

Canon Production Printing Holding B.V. holds 150 US utility patents granted between 2020 and 2025, spanning 34 technology areas.

What is Canon Production Printing Holding B.V.'s Innovation Score?

Canon Production Printing Holding B.V. has an Innovation Score of 54.3 out of 100 (top 8% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Canon Production Printing Holding B.V.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Insufficient historical data is available to calculate a velocity trend for Canon Production Printing Holding B.V..

What does claim depth mean for Canon Production Printing Holding B.V.'s patents?

Canon Production Printing Holding B.V.'s patents average 13.5 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 Production Printing Holding B.V. 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 Production Printing Holding B.V.

Q: What technology areas does Canon Production Printing Holding B.V. focus on?

Canon Production Printing Holding B.V.'s top technology area is B41J (TYPEWRITERS; Selective Printing Mechanisms, i.e. Mechanisms Printing Otherwise Than From A FORME; Correction OF Typographical Errors) with 117 patents, ranking #23 of 598 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 34 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 150 granted patents across 34 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2020–2025. 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: B41J (TYPEWRITERS; Selective Printing Mechanisms, i.e. Mechanisms Printing Otherwise Than From A FORME; Correction OF Typographical Errors).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Canon ranks #2,586 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 150 patents across 34 technology areas.

#2,586
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 8%
by Innovation Score (54.3/100): 13.5
avg claims per patent

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2586 · Foreign Corporation #2,586 · 150 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · SPAN-YRS · BOOK-RICH

GRANTS-MID 150 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,586/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Asmo
CPC-FOCUS B41J · 34 areas
INNOV-PAR 54.3/100
CLAIMS-RICH 13.5 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
SPAN-YRS 2020–2025 · 6y
BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Asmo 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 54.3 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 17.3 pts (32%) Velocity 8.2 pts (15%) Breadth 20.6 pts (38%) Claim depth 8.1 pts (15%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Adtran · near

54
ETO Magnetic · near

54
Canon Production… · this assignee

54
Suntory Holdings · near

54
Valmont Industries · near

54
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Canon's Innovation Score is 54.3/100 (top 8% 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 13.5 claims/patent is at or below the 15.1 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 Production Printing Holding B.V. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 34 CPC subclasses with 78% of grants classified under B41J (TYPEWRITERS; Selective Printing Mechanisms, i.e. Mechanisms Printing Otherwise Than From A FORME; Correction OF Typographical Errors). Peak complete grant year is 2021 (36 grants) versus a trough of 20 in 2024. By volume, Canon sits between Windmöller & Hölscher KG and Goodrich Lighting Systems, Inc..

Canon's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Canon Production Printing Holding B.V. moved from 59 to 73 grants (1.24x 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 #728. See the growth leaderboard.

Windmöller & Höls…

151
Zhejiang LAB

151
Asmo

150
Auckland Uniservi…

150
Crowdstrike

150
Eberspächer Exhau…

150
Epizyme

150
Goodrich Lighting…

150
Canon Production… ◀

150

What this shows Canon holds 150 patents at rank #2,586, 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 #2,586 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B41J (Typewriters)

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 B41J (Typewriters), Canon ranks #23 of 598 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (54 here).

Suntory Holdings Limited 54 Valmont Industries, Inc. 54 Adtran, Inc. 54 ETO Magnetic GMBH 54

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (13.5 here).

Faurecia Interieur Industrie 13.5 avg Plastipak Packaging, Inc. 13.5 avg Zhongshan Broad-ocean Motor Co., Ltd. 13.5 avg Himax Technologies Limited 13.5 avg

Canon's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

54 Top 8% higher than 92% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2020–2025

Grants by year

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

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Canon Production Printing Holding B.V. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2020	23	15.3%
2021	36	24.0%
2022	29	19.3%
2023	24	16.0%
2024	20	13.3%
2025partial year	18	12.0%

Which technologies does Canon Production Printing Holding B.V. patent most?

B41J - TYPEWRITERS; Selective Printing Mechanisms, i.e. Mechanisms Printing Otherwise Than From A FORME; Correction OF Typographical Errors 117

B65H - Handling Thin OR Filamentary Material, e.g. Sheets, Webs, Cables 26

B41M - Printing, Duplicating, Marking, OR Copying PROCESSES; Colour Printing, 21

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 19

G06K - Graphical Data Reading ; Presentation OF DATA; Record CARRIERS; Handling Record Carriers 16

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 12

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 7

G03G - ELECTROGRAPHY; ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHY; Magnetography 7

B41F - Printing Machines OR Presses 6

B29C - Shaping OR Joining OF PLASTICS; Shaping OF Material IN A Plastic State, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; After-treatment OF THE Shaped Products, e.g. Repairing 3

B33Y - Additive Manufacturing, i.e. Manufacturing OF Three-dimensional [3-D] Objects BY Additive Deposition, Additive Agglomeration OR Additive Layering, e.g. BY 3-D Printing, Stereolithography OR Selective Laser Sintering 3

B41P - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Printing, Lining Machines, Typewriters, AND TO Stamps 2

F26B - Drying Solid Materials OR Objects BY Removing Liquid Therefrom 2

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 2

B05C - Apparatus FOR Applying Fluent Materials TO Surfaces, IN General 2

Top 15 of 34 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 Production Printing Holding B.V.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Canon Production Printing Holding B.V.'s lead technology class is B41J (TYPEWRITERS; Selective Printing Mechanisms, i.e. Mechanisms Printing Otherwise Than From A FORME; Correction OF Typographical Errors), 78% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B41J
Ranked #2,586 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Canon Production Printing Holding B.V. against Windmöller & Hölscher KG, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 54.3/100 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.

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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

Compiled by PlainPatent , US Patent Intelligence Editorial Process · May 15, 2026

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