Where does Dainichiseika Color & Chemicals MFG. Co., Ltd. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Dainichiseika Color & Chemicals MFG. Co., Ltd. ranks #3,961 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 Dainichiseika Color & Chemicals MFG. Co., Ltd. hold?

Dainichiseika Color & Chemicals MFG. Co., Ltd. holds 91 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 58 technology areas.

What is Dainichiseika Color & Chemicals MFG. Co., Ltd.'s Innovation Score?

Dainichiseika Color & Chemicals MFG. Co., Ltd. has an Innovation Score of 56.2 out of 100 (top 6% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Dainichiseika Color & Chemicals MFG. Co., Ltd.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Dainichiseika Color & Chemicals MFG. Co., Ltd.'s recent grant velocity is -38% 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 Dainichiseika Color & Chemicals MFG. Co., Ltd.'s patents?

Dainichiseika Color & Chemicals MFG. 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 Dainichiseika Color & Chemicals MFG. 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

Dainichiseika Color & Chemicals MFG. Co., Ltd.

Q: What technology areas does Dainichiseika Color & Chemicals MFG. Co., Ltd. focus on?

Dainichiseika Color & Chemicals MFG. Co., Ltd.'s top technology area is 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) with 49 patents, ranking #68 of 1,818 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 58 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 91 granted patents across 58 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: 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 Materi).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Dainichiseika ranks #3,961 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 91 patents across 58 technology areas.

#3,961
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 6%
by Innovation Score (56.2/100): 12.0
avg claims per patent: -38%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R3961 · Foreign Corporation #3,961 · 91 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 91 grants
TOP-DECILE #3,961/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Bruker Biospin
CPC-WIDE C09D · 58 areas
INNOV-PAR 56.2/100
CLAIMS-RICH 12.0 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -38% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Bruker Biospin GmbH (±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 Dainichiseika’s 56.2 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 15.6 pts (28%) Velocity 8.3 pts (15%) Breadth 25.0 pts (45%) Claim depth 7.2 pts (13%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Consiglio Nazionale… · near

56
Dainichiseika Color… · this assignee

56
Guangzhou Institute… · near

56
Institute of… · near

56
Sungrow Power Supply · near

56
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Dainichiseika's Innovation Score is 56.2/100 (top 6% 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 Dainichiseika?

Each dot is one of Dainichiseika’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). Dainichiseika’s own 12.0 claims/patent is at or below the 15.6 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

How Dainichiseika's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Dainichiseika Color & Chemicals MFG. Co., Ltd. received 33 grants versus 53 in 2015–2019 (-38% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2015 at 15 grants and bottomed in 2019 at 3. Lead class C09D accounts for 53.8% of the portfolio across 58 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Bruker Biospin GmbH (#3,957) and Esab AB (#3,965).

Dainichiseika's three-year grant acceleration

Dainichiseika Color & Chemicals MFG. Co., Ltd. shows 20 grants in 2022–2024 against only 16 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.

Bruker Biospin

91
Canoo

91
Colopl

91
Crrc Qingdao Sifa…

91
Dana Italia S R L

91
Dirtt Environment…

91
E G O Elektro-ger…

91
Esab AB

91
Dainichiseika Col… ◀

91

What this shows Dainichiseika holds 91 patents at rank #3,961, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Dainichiseika

By rank, the assignees closest to #3,961 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C09D (Coating Compositions)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Dainichiseika, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In C09D (Coating Compositions), Dainichiseika ranks #68 of 1,818 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (56 here).

Consiglio Nazionale Delle Ricerche 56 Institute of Chemistry Chinese Academy of Sciences 56 Guangzhou Institute OF Energy Conversion, Chinese Academy OF Sciences 56 Sungrow Power Supply Co., Ltd. 56

Similar claim depth

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

Stealth BioTherapeutics Inc. 12.0 avg SOLiD, Inc. 12.0 avg Perfectvision Manufacturing, Inc. 12.0 avg Accelink Technologies Co., Ltd. 12.0 avg

Dainichiseika's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

56 Top 6% higher than 94% 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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Dainichiseika Color & Chemicals MFG. Co., Ltd. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	15	16.5%
2016	11	12.1%
2017	12	13.2%
2018	12	13.2%
2019	3	3.3%
2020	5	5.5%
2021	8	8.8%
2022	4	4.4%
2023	8	8.8%
2024	8	8.8%
2025partial year	5	5.5%

Which technologies does Dainichiseika Color & Chemicals MFG. Co., Ltd. patent most?

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 49

C08L - Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds 34

C08K - Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances as compounding ingredients 32

C08G - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than BY Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds 21

C09B - Organic Dyes OR Closely-related Compounds FOR Producing Dyes ; , e.g. PIGMENTS; MORDANTS; Lakes 20

C08F - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained BY Reactions Only Involving Carbon-to-carbon Unsaturated Bonds 19

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 18

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 15

C08J - WORKING-UP; General Processes OF COMPOUNDING; After-treatment NOT Covered BY Subclasses C08b, C08c, C08f, C08g or C08h 15

H01G - CAPACITORS; Capacitors, Rectifiers, Detectors, Switching Devices, Light-sensitive OR Temperature-sensitive Devices OF THE Electrolytic Type 12

H01M - Processes OR Means, e.g. Batteries, FOR THE Direct Conversion OF Chemical Energy Into Electrical Energy 12

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 12

A61Q - Specific USE OF Cosmetics OR Similar Toiletry Preparations 11

C09C - Treatment OF Inorganic Materials, Other Than Fibrous Fillers, TO Enhance Their Pigmenting OR Filling Properties ; Preparation OF Carbon Black ; ; Preparation OF Inorganic Materials Which ARE NO Single Chemical Compounds AND Which ARE Mainly Used AS Pigments OR Fillers 9

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 9

Top 15 of 58 technology areas

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USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

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What to do with this data

Dainichiseika Color & Chemicals MFG. Co., Ltd.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Dainichiseika Color & Chemicals MFG. Co., Ltd.'s lead technology class is 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 Materi), 53.8% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C09D
Ranked #3,961 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Dainichiseika Color & Chemicals MFG. Co., Ltd. against Bruker Biospin GmbH, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 56.2/100 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

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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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