Where does Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd. ranks #377 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 Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd. hold?

Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd. holds 1,164 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 176 technology areas.

What is Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.'s Innovation Score?

Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd. has an Innovation Score of 62.6 out of 100 (top 2% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd. focus on?

Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.'s top technology area is B32B (Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form) with 305 patents, ranking #11 of 3,088 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 176 CPC subclasses total.

Is Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.'s recent grant velocity is +4% 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 Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.'s patents?

Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.'s patents average 12.0 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 Dai Nippon Printing 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

Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 1,164 granted patents across 176 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: B32B (Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Dai ranks #377 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 1,164 patents across 176 technology areas.

#377
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 2%
by Innovation Score (62.6/100): 12.0
avg claims per patent: +4%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R377 · Foreign Corporation #377 · 1,164 grants

GRANTS-LARGE · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-PAR · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-FLAT · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-LARGE 1.2K grants
TOP-DECILE #377/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Sprint Spectrum
CPC-WIDE B32B · 176 areas
INNOV-STRONG 62.6/100
CLAIMS-PAR 12.0 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-FLAT +4% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Sprint Spectrum LLC (±2 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 Dai’s 62.6 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 24.4 pts (39%) Velocity 6.1 pts (10%) Breadth 25.0 pts (40%) Claim depth 7.2 pts (11%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Atlassian US · near

63
Dai Nippon Printing · this assignee

63
Qilu University of… · near

63
TDK Taiwan · near

63
Merck Sharp & Dohme · near

63
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Dai's Innovation Score is 62.6/100 (top 2% 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 Dai?

Each dot is one of Dai’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). Dai’s own 12.0 claims/patent is at or below the 14.5 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

How Dai's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd. received 550 grants versus 527 in 2015–2019 (+4% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2020 at 119 grants and bottomed in 2018 at 96. Lead class B32B accounts for 26.2% of the portfolio across 176 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Quanta Computer Inc. (#373) and The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (#381).

Dai's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd. moved from 344 to 314 grants (0.91x 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 #1,433. See the growth leaderboard.

Quanta Computer

1,171
Volvo Truck

1,171
Syngenta Particip…

1,167
Sprint Spectrum

1,166
Dai Nippon Printi… ◀

1,164
Disco

1,157
Borgwarner

1,156
Analog Devices

1,151
The United States…

1,151

What this shows Dai holds 1,164 patents at rank #377, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Dai

By rank, the assignees closest to #377 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B32B (Layered Products)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Dai, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B32B (Layered Products), Dai ranks #11 of 3,088 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (63 here).

TDK Taiwan Corp. 63 Atlassian US, Inc. 63 Qilu University of Technology 63 Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC 63

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (12.0 here).

Compagnie Generale DES Etablissements Michelin 12.0 avg National Tsing HUA University 12.0 avg National Applied Research Laboratories 12.0 avg Hitachi Medical Corporation 12.0 avg

Dai's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

63 Top 2% higher than 98% 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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Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	117	10.1%
2016	105	9.0%
2017	101	8.7%
2018	96	8.2%
2019	108	9.3%
2020	119	10.2%
2021	117	10.1%
2022	101	8.7%
2023	99	8.5%
2024	114	9.8%
2025partial year	87	7.5%

Which technologies does Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd. patent most?

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 305

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 301

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 175

H10K - Organic Electric Solid-state Devices 147

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 136

B41M - Printing, Duplicating, Marking, OR Copying PROCESSES; Colour Printing, 116

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 114

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 112

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 108

C23C - Coating Metallic MATERIAL; Coating Material With Metallic MATERIAL; Surface Treatment OF Metallic Material BY Diffusion Into THE Surface, BY Chemical Conversion OR SUBSTITUTION; Coating BY Vacuum Evaporation, BY Sputtering, BY ION Implantation OR BY Chemical Vapour Deposition, IN General 103

H05K - Printed CIRCUITS; Casings OR Constructional Details OF Electric APPARATUS; Manufacture OF Assemblages OF Electrical Components 87

H01M - Processes OR Means, e.g. Batteries, FOR THE Direct Conversion OF Chemical Energy Into Electrical Energy 83

G03H - Holographic Processes OR Apparatus 70

B67C - Cleaning, Filling With Liquids OR Semiliquids, OR Emptying, OF Bottles, Jars, Cans, Casks, Barrels, OR Similar Containers, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Funnels 69

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 66

Top 15 of 176 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

Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.'s lead technology class is B32B (Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form), 26.2% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B32B
Ranked #377 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd. against Quanta Computer Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 62.6/100 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.

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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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