Where does Citizen Finedevice Co., Ltd. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Citizen Finedevice Co., Ltd. ranks #11,968 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 Citizen Finedevice Co., Ltd. hold?

Citizen Finedevice Co., Ltd. holds 25 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 20 technology areas.

What is Citizen Finedevice Co., Ltd.'s Innovation Score?

Citizen Finedevice Co., Ltd. has an Innovation Score of 36.6 out of 100 (top 46% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Citizen Finedevice Co., Ltd. focus on?

Citizen Finedevice Co., Ltd.'s top technology area is G01L (Measuring Force, Stress, Torque, Work, Mechanical Power, Mechanical Efficiency, OR Fluid Pressure) with 13 patents, ranking #60 of 1,293 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 20 CPC subclasses total.

Is Citizen Finedevice Co., Ltd.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Citizen Finedevice Co., Ltd.'s recent grant velocity is +18% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). The company is maintaining or growing its granted-patent output.

What does claim depth mean for Citizen Finedevice Co., Ltd.'s patents?

Citizen Finedevice Co., Ltd.'s patents average 10.9 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 Citizen Finedevice Co., Ltd. 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

Citizen Finedevice Co., Ltd.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 25 granted patents across 20 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2025. 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: G01L (Measuring Force, Stress, Torque, Work, Mechanical Power, Mechanical Efficiency, OR Fluid Pressure).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Citizen ranks #11,968 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 25 patents across 20 technology areas.

#11,968
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 46%
by Innovation Score (36.6/100): 10.9
avg claims per patent: +18%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R11968 · Foreign Corporation #11,968 · 25 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 25 grants
UPPER-Q #11,968/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Capcom
CPC-FOCUS G01L · 20 areas
INNOV-THIN 36.6/100
CLAIMS-PAR 10.9 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-UP +18% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Capcom 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 Citizen’s 36.6 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 11.3 pts (31%) Velocity 3.0 pts (8%) Breadth 15.8 pts (43%) Claim depth 6.6 pts (18%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Albany Medical College · near

37
Citizen Finedevice · this assignee

37
Eltek AS · near

37
Konica Minolta… · near

37
Nevada Nanotech… · near

37
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Citizen's Innovation Score is 36.6/100 (top 46% 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 Citizen?

Each dot is one of Citizen’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). Citizen’s own 10.9 claims/patent is ABOVE the 9.1 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Citizen's grants concentrate

Citizen Finedevice Co., Ltd. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 20 CPC subclasses with 52% of grants classified under G01L (Measuring Force, Stress, Torque, Work, Mechanical Power, Mechanical Efficiency, OR Fluid Pressure). Peak complete grant year is 2020 (6 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2023. By volume, Citizen sits between Capcom Co., Ltd. and Component Hardware Group, Inc..

Citizen's three-year grant acceleration

Citizen Finedevice Co., Ltd. shows 5 grants in 2022–2024 against only 11 in 2019–2021. That prior window is too thin for a growth multiple (rename and spin-out assignees look artificially high when the baseline is near zero), so PlainPatent withholds a ranked acceleration claim here.

Capcom

25
Cellular Communic…

25
China Pharmaceuti…

25
Chung Chwan Enter…

25
Clear Imaging Res…

25
Clearwire IP Hold…

25
Columbia Aluminum…

25
Component Hardwar…

25
Citizen Finedevice ◀

25

What this shows Citizen holds 25 patents at rank #11,958, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Citizen

By rank, the assignees closest to #11,958 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G01L (Measuring Force)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Citizen, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G01L (Measuring Force), Citizen ranks #60 of 1,293 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (37 here).

Konica Minolta Medical & Graphic, Inc. 37 Eltek AS 37 Nevada Nanotech Systems Inc. 37 Albany Medical College 37

Citizen's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

37 Top 46% higher than 54% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2025

Grants by year

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

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Citizen Finedevice Co., Ltd. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	2	8.0%
2017	4	16.0%
2018	2	8.0%
2019	3	12.0%
2020	6	24.0%
2021	2	8.0%
2022	2	8.0%
2023	1	4.0%
2024	2	8.0%
2025partial year	1	4.0%

Which technologies does Citizen Finedevice Co., Ltd. patent most?

G01L - Measuring Force, Stress, Torque, Work, Mechanical Power, Mechanical Efficiency, OR Fluid Pressure 13

G01R - Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables 4

G01M - Testing Static OR Dynamic Balance OF Machines OR STRUCTURES; Testing OF Structures OR Apparatus, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 4

F02D - Controlling Combustion Engines 4

F02B - Internal-combustion Piston ENGINES; Combustion Engines IN General 3

H01J - Electric Discharge Tubes OR Discharge Lamps 3

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 2

G02F - Optical Devices OR Arrangements FOR THE Control OF Light BY Modification OF THE Optical Properties OF THE Media OF THE Elements Involved THEREIN; Non-linear OPTICS; Frequency-changing OF LIGHT; Optical Logic ELEMENTS; Optical ANALOGUE/DIGITAL Converters 2

C09K - Materials FOR Miscellaneous Applications, NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere 2

B01J - Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus 2

H10N - Electric Solid-state Devices NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1

F02M - Supplying Combustion Engines IN General With Combustible Mixtures OR Constituents Thereof 1

C30B - Single-crystal Growth ; Unidirectional Solidification OF Eutectic Material OR Unidirectional Demixing OF Eutectoid MATERIAL; Refining BY Zone-melting OF Material ; Production OF A Homogeneous Polycrystalline Material With Defined Structure ; Single Crystals OR Homogeneous Polycrystalline Material WI 1

B01D - Separation 1

F16J - Pistons ; CYLINDERS; Sealings 1

Top 15 of 20 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

Citizen Finedevice Co., Ltd.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Citizen Finedevice Co., Ltd.'s lead technology class is G01L (Measuring Force, Stress, Torque, Work, Mechanical Power, Mechanical Efficiency, OR Fluid Pressure), 52% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G01L
Ranked #11,968 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Citizen Finedevice Co., Ltd. against Capcom Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 36.6/100 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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