Where does Chugai Pharmaceutical Co. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Chugai Pharmaceutical Co. ranks #45,674 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 Chugai Pharmaceutical Co. hold?

Chugai Pharmaceutical Co. holds 5 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2021, spanning 5 technology areas.

What is Chugai Pharmaceutical Co.'s Innovation Score?

Chugai Pharmaceutical Co. has an Innovation Score of 24.2 out of 100 (14th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Chugai Pharmaceutical Co.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Chugai Pharmaceutical Co.'s recent grant velocity is -75% 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 Chugai Pharmaceutical Co.'s patents?

Chugai Pharmaceutical Co.'s patents average 16.8 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 Chugai Pharmaceutical Co. 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

Chugai Pharmaceutical Co.

Q: What technology areas does Chugai Pharmaceutical Co. focus on?

Chugai Pharmaceutical Co.'s top technology area is A61P (Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations) with 5 patents. Grants appear in 5 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 5 granted patents across 5 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2021. 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: A61P (Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Chugai ranks #45,674 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 5 patents across 5 technology areas.

#45,674
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 14th percentile
by Innovation Score (24.2/100): 16.8
avg claims per patent: -75%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R45674 · Foreign Corporation #45,674 · 5 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · BOTTOM-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 5 grants
BOTTOM-DECILE #45,674/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Chrome Red
CPC-NARROW A61P · 5 areas
INNOV-THIN 24.2/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.8 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -75% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Chrome Red Technologies, LLC (±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
Chugai Pharmaceutical · this assignee

24
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Chugai's Innovation Score is 24.2/100 (14th 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 Chugai's grants concentrate

Chugai Pharmaceutical Co. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 5 CPC subclasses with 100% of grants classified under A61P (Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations). Peak complete grant year is 2017 (2 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2015. By volume, Chugai sits between Chrome Red Technologies, LLC and Cintas Corporation.

Chrome Red

5
Chronicled

5
Chrysal Internati…

5
Chrysalis Pharma

5
Chukoh Chemical I…

5
Chun Lam Group (I…

5
Cinarra Systems

5
Cintas

5
Chugai Pharmaceut… ◀

5

What this shows Chugai holds 5 patents at rank #45,844, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Chugai

By rank, the assignees closest to #45,844 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A61P (Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Me…)

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

Chugai's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

24 14th percentile higher than 14% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2021

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2015–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Chugai Pharmaceutical Co. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1	20.0%
2017	2	40.0%
2018	1	20.0%
2021	1	20.0%

Which technologies does Chugai Pharmaceutical Co. patent most?

A61P - Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations 5

C07D - Heterocyclic Compounds 4

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 2

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 1

C07K - Peptides 1

Top 5 of 5 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#45,674

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

24.2 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

Chugai Pharmaceutical Co.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Chugai Pharmaceutical Co.'s lead technology class is A61P (Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations), 100% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A61P
Ranked #45,674 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Chugai Pharmaceutical Co. against Chrome Red Technologies, LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 24.2/100 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.