Where does DIC Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), DIC Corporation ranks #761 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 DIC Corporation hold?

DIC Corporation holds 602 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 111 technology areas.

What is DIC Corporation's Innovation Score?

DIC Corporation has an Innovation Score of 59.1 out of 100 (top 4% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does DIC Corporation focus on?

DIC Corporation's top technology area is C09K (Materials FOR Miscellaneous Applications, NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere) with 203 patents, ranking #16 of 1,605 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 111 CPC subclasses total.

Is DIC Corporation's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

DIC Corporation's recent grant velocity is -19% 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 DIC Corporation's patents?

DIC Corporation's patents average 10.6 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 DIC Corporation 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

DIC Corporation

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 602 granted patents across 111 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: C09K (Materials FOR Miscellaneous Applications, NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, DIC ranks #761 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 602 patents across 111 technology areas.

#761
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 4%
by Innovation Score (59.1/100): 10.6
avg claims per patent: -19%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R761 · Foreign Corporation #761 · 602 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 602 grants
TOP-DECILE #761/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH MaxLinear
CPC-WIDE C09K · 111 areas
INNOV-PAR 59.1/100
CLAIMS-PAR 10.6 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -19% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: MaxLinear, Inc. (±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 DIC’s 59.1 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 22.1 pts (37%) Velocity 5.7 pts (10%) Breadth 25.0 pts (42%) Claim depth 6.4 pts (11%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
AMS · near

59
Board OF Supervisors… · near

59
DIC · this assignee

59
Hydro-Gear Partnership · near

59
Naver · near

59
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows DIC's Innovation Score is 59.1/100 (top 4% 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 DIC?

Each dot is one of DIC’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). DIC’s own 10.6 claims/patent is at or below the 16.8 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

How DIC's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, DIC Corporation received 254 grants versus 312 in 2015–2019 (-19% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2017 at 74 grants and bottomed in 2023 at 35. Lead class C09K accounts for 33.7% of the portfolio across 111 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbH (#757) and Vitesco Technologies GMBH (#765).

DIC's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, DIC Corporation moved from 172 to 146 grants (0.85x 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 #1,665. See the growth leaderboard.

Carl Zeiss Micros…

605
Parker-hannifin

605
Abb Vie

604
SAS Institute

604
Maxlinear

602
DIC ◀

602
Ethicon Endo-surg…

601
Sunpower

601
Vitesco

601

What this shows DIC holds 602 patents at rank #761, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near DIC

By rank, the assignees closest to #761 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C09K (Materials FOR Miscellaneous Applications)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for DIC, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In C09K (Materials FOR Miscellaneous Applications), DIC ranks #16 of 1,605 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (59 here).

AMS AG 59 Naver Corporation 59 Board OF Supervisors OF Louisiana State University AND Agricultural AND Mechanical College 59 Hydro-Gear Limited Partnership 59

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (10.6 here).

THE Asan Foundation 10.6 avg Ebara Corporation 10.6 avg Intellectual Discovery Co., Ltd. 10.6 avg Panasonic Healthcare Holdings Co., Ltd. 10.6 avg

DIC's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

59 Top 4% higher than 96% 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.

View data table

DIC Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	51	8.5%
2016	57	9.5%
2017	74	12.3%
2018	66	11.0%
2019	64	10.6%
2020	50	8.3%
2021	58	9.6%
2022	60	10.0%
2023	35	5.8%
2024	51	8.5%
2025partial year	36	6.0%

Which technologies does DIC Corporation patent most?

C09K - Materials FOR Miscellaneous Applications, NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere 203

C08G - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than BY Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds 167

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 151

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 137

C08F - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained BY Reactions Only Involving Carbon-to-carbon Unsaturated Bonds 133

C08L - Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds 128

C08K - Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances as compounding ingredients 95

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 69

C07C - Acyclic OR Carbocyclic Compounds 69

C08J - WORKING-UP; General Processes OF COMPOUNDING; After-treatment NOT Covered BY Subclasses C08b, C08c, C08f, C08g or C08h 69

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 61

C07D - Heterocyclic Compounds 60

C09J - ADHESIVES; Non-mechanical Aspects OF Adhesive Processes IN GENERAL; Adhesive Processes NOT Provided FOR ELSEWHERE; USE OF Materials AS Adhesives 54

H05K - Printed CIRCUITS; Casings OR Constructional Details OF Electric APPARATUS; Manufacture OF Assemblages OF Electrical Components 47

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 34

Top 15 of 111 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

DIC Corporation's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

DIC Corporation's lead technology class is C09K (Materials FOR Miscellaneous Applications, NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere), 33.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C09K
Ranked #761 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare DIC Corporation against Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbH, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 59.1/100 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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