Where does Dainippon Screen MFG. Co., Ltd. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Dainippon Screen MFG. Co., Ltd. ranks #28,528 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 Dainippon Screen MFG. Co., Ltd. hold?

Dainippon Screen MFG. Co., Ltd. holds 9 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2015, spanning 12 technology areas.

What is Dainippon Screen MFG. Co., Ltd.'s Innovation Score?

Dainippon Screen MFG. Co., Ltd. has an Innovation Score of 29.7 out of 100 (32nd percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Dainippon Screen MFG. Co., Ltd.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Dainippon Screen MFG. Co., Ltd.'s recent grant velocity is -100% 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 Dainippon Screen MFG. Co., Ltd.'s patents?

Dainippon Screen MFG. Co., Ltd.'s patents average 15.8 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 Dainippon Screen 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

Dainippon Screen MFG. Co., Ltd.

Q: What technology areas does Dainippon Screen MFG. Co., Ltd. focus on?

Dainippon Screen MFG. Co., Ltd.'s top technology area is B41J (TYPEWRITERS; Selective Printing Mechanisms, i.e. Mechanisms Printing Otherwise Than From A FORME; Correction OF Typographical Errors) with 3 patents. Grants appear in 12 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 9 granted patents across 12 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2015. 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, Dainippon ranks #28,528 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 9 patents across 12 technology areas.

#28,528
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 32nd percentile
by Innovation Score (29.7/100): 15.8
avg claims per patent: -100%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R28528 · Foreign Corporation #28,528 · 9 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 9 grants
MID-PACK #28,528/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH C° Change Surgical
CPC-FOCUS B41J · 12 areas
INNOV-THIN 29.7/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.8 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -100% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: C° Change Surgical 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
Dainippon Screen MFG · this assignee

30
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Dainippon's Innovation Score is 29.7/100 (32nd 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 Dainippon's grants concentrate

Dainippon Screen MFG. Co., Ltd. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 12 CPC subclasses with 33.3% of grants classified under B41J (TYPEWRITERS; Selective Printing Mechanisms, i.e. Mechanisms Printing Otherwise Than From A FORME; Correction OF Typographical Errors). By volume, Dainippon sits between Cytonics Corporation and Davinci Lock LLC.

Cytonics

9
C° Change Surgical

9
D2iq

9
Daewoo Engineerin…

9
Dairymaster

9
DAP Products

9
Datt Life Science…

9
Davinci Lock

9
Dainippon Screen… ◀

9

What this shows Dainippon holds 9 patents at rank #28,523, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Dainippon

By rank, the assignees closest to #28,523 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B41J (Typewriters)

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

Dainippon's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

30 32nd percentile higher than 32% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 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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Dainippon Screen MFG. Co., Ltd. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	9	100.0%

Which technologies does Dainippon Screen MFG. Co., Ltd. patent most?

B41J - TYPEWRITERS; Selective Printing Mechanisms, i.e. Mechanisms Printing Otherwise Than From A FORME; Correction OF Typographical Errors 3

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 2

G06K - Graphical Data Reading ; Presentation OF DATA; Record CARRIERS; Handling Record Carriers 2

F27D - Details OR Accessories OF Furnaces, Kilns, Ovens OR Retorts, IN SO FAR AS They ARE OF Kinds Occurring IN More Than ONE Kind OF Furnace 1

F27B - Furnaces, Kilns, Ovens OR Retorts IN GENERAL; Open Sintering OR Like Apparatus 1

G01R - Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables 1

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

C25D - Processes FOR THE Electrolytic OR Electrophoretic Production OF COATINGS; ELECTROFORMING; Apparatus Therefor 1

Y10S - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former Uspc Cross-reference ART Collections [XRACs] AND Digests 1

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 1

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 1

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 1

Top 12 of 12 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#28,528

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

29.7 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

Dainippon Screen MFG. Co., Ltd.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Dainippon Screen MFG. Co., Ltd.'s lead technology class is B41J (TYPEWRITERS; Selective Printing Mechanisms, i.e. Mechanisms Printing Otherwise Than From A FORME; Correction OF Typographical Errors), 33.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B41J
Ranked #28,528 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Dainippon Screen MFG. Co., Ltd. against Cytonics Corporation, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 29.7/100 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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