Where does Denso Wave Incorporated rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Denso Wave Incorporated ranks #1,677 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 Denso Wave Incorporated hold?

Denso Wave Incorporated holds 245 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 80 technology areas.

What is Denso Wave Incorporated's Innovation Score?

Denso Wave Incorporated has an Innovation Score of 56.5 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%).

What technology areas does Denso Wave Incorporated focus on?

Denso Wave Incorporated's top technology area is G06K (Graphical Data Reading ; Presentation OF DATA; Record CARRIERS; Handling Record Carriers) with 63 patents, ranking #41 of 1,953 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 80 CPC subclasses total.

Is Denso Wave Incorporated's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Denso Wave Incorporated's recent grant velocity is +9% 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 Denso Wave Incorporated's patents?

Denso Wave Incorporated's patents average 11.3 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 Denso Wave Incorporated 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

Denso Wave Incorporated

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 245 granted patents across 80 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: G06K (Graphical Data Reading ; Presentation OF DATA; Record CARRIERS; Handling Record Carriers).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Denso ranks #1,677 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 245 patents across 80 technology areas.

#1,677
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 6%
by Innovation Score (56.5/100): 11.3
avg claims per patent: +9%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1677 · Foreign Corporation #1,677 · 245 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 245 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,677/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Architecture…
CPC-WIDE G06K · 80 areas
INNOV-PAR 56.5/100
CLAIMS-PAR 11.3 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-FLAT +9% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Architecture Technology Corporation (±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 Denso’s 56.5 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 19.0 pts (34%) Velocity 5.7 pts (10%) Breadth 25.0 pts (44%) Claim depth 6.8 pts (12%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Denso Wave Incorpora… · this assignee

56
Firestone Industrial… · near

56
Integrated Device… · near

56
Mandom · near

56
Wago Verwaltungsgese… · near

56
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Denso's Innovation Score is 56.5/100 (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 Denso?

Each dot is one of Denso’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). Denso’s own 11.3 claims/patent is at or below the 16.4 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

How Denso's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Denso Wave Incorporated received 121 grants versus 111 in 2015–2019 (+9% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2019 at 35 grants and bottomed in 2016 at 9. Lead class G06K accounts for 25.7% of the portfolio across 80 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Symrise AG (#1,673) and Telecom Italia S.p.A. (#1,681).

Denso's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Denso Wave Incorporated moved from 84 to 72 grants (0.86x 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 #1,638. See the growth leaderboard.

Symrise

246
University of Cin…

246
Architecture Tech…

245
BMC Software

245
Kandou Labs

245
Microstrategy Inc…

245
Shenzhen Universi…

245
Telecom Italia S…

245
Denso Wave Incorp… ◀

245

What this shows Denso holds 245 patents at rank #1,677, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Denso

By rank, the assignees closest to #1,677 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G06K (Graphical Data Reading)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Denso, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G06K (Graphical Data Reading), Denso ranks #41 of 1,953 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (56 here).

Wago Verwaltungsgesellschaft MBH 56 Integrated Device Technology, Inc. 56 Firestone Industrial Products Company, LLC 56 Mandom Corporation 56

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (11.3 here).

Bomag GmbH 11.3 avg Medela Holding AG 11.3 avg DOW Global Technologies LLC 11.3 avg Biotix, Inc. 11.3 avg

Denso'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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Denso Wave Incorporated patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	15	6.1%
2016	9	3.7%
2017	18	7.3%
2018	34	13.9%
2019	35	14.3%
2020	28	11.4%
2021	21	8.6%
2022	31	12.7%
2023	20	8.2%
2024	21	8.6%
2025partial year	13	5.3%

Which technologies does Denso Wave Incorporated patent most?

G06K - Graphical Data Reading ; Presentation OF DATA; Record CARRIERS; Handling Record Carriers 63

B25J - MANIPULATORS; Chambers Provided With Manipulation Devices 62

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 56

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 35

G01S - Radio DIRECTION-FINDING; Radio NAVIGATION; Determining Distance OR Velocity BY USE OF Radio WAVES; Locating OR Presence-detecting BY USE OF THE Reflection OR Reradiation OF Radio WAVES; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves 19

F24F - AIR-CONDITIONING; AIR-HUMIDIFICATION; VENTILATION; USE OF AIR Currents FOR Screening 17

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 12

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 11

Y10S - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former Uspc Cross-reference ART Collections [XRACs] AND Digests 10

G01R - Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables 10

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 10

H03K - Pulse Technique 9

H02J - Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy 8

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 7

G06Q - Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory Purposes, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 7

Top 15 of 80 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

Denso Wave Incorporated's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Denso Wave Incorporated's lead technology class is G06K (Graphical Data Reading ; Presentation OF DATA; Record CARRIERS; Handling Record Carriers), 25.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06K
Ranked #1,677 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Denso Wave Incorporated against Symrise AG, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 56.5/100 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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