Where does Dow Corning Toray Co., Ltd. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Dow Corning Toray Co., Ltd. ranks #3,531 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 Dow Corning Toray Co., Ltd. hold?

Dow Corning Toray Co., Ltd. holds 104 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2021, spanning 55 technology areas.

What is Dow Corning Toray Co., Ltd.'s Innovation Score?

Dow Corning Toray Co., Ltd. has an Innovation Score of 50.0 out of 100 (top 14% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Dow Corning Toray Co., Ltd.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Dow Corning Toray Co., Ltd.'s recent grant velocity is -99% 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 Dow Corning Toray Co., Ltd.'s patents?

Dow Corning Toray Co., Ltd.'s patents average 14.9 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 Dow Corning Toray 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

Dow Corning Toray Co., Ltd.

Q: What technology areas does Dow Corning Toray Co., Ltd. focus on?

Dow Corning Toray Co., Ltd.'s top technology area is C08G (Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than BY Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds) with 87 patents. Grants appear in 55 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 104 granted patents across 55 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2021. 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: C08G (Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than BY Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Dow ranks #3,531 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 104 patents across 55 technology areas.

#3,531
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 14%
by Innovation Score (50.0/100): 14.9
avg claims per patent: -99%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R3531 · Foreign Corporation #3,531 · 104 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 104 grants
TOP-DECILE #3,531/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Comscore
CPC-WIDE C08G · 55 areas
INNOV-PAR 50.0/100
CLAIMS-RICH 14.9 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -99% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Comscore, 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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Dow Corning Toray · this assignee

50
Li-cor · near

50
Linxens Holding · near

50
Swiss Reinsurance · near

50
Valeo Japan · near

50
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Dow's Innovation Score is 50.0/100 (top 14% 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.

How Dow's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Dow Corning Toray Co., Ltd. received 1 grants versus 103 in 2015–2019 (-99% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2017 at 27 grants and bottomed in 2021 at 1. Lead class C08G accounts for 83.7% of the portfolio across 55 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Comscore, Inc. (#3,527) and LightLab Imaging, Inc. (#3,535).

Comscore

104
Core Wireless Lic…

104
Cymer

104
Depuy Mitek

104
ETH ZÜRICH (Eidge…

104
Gigamon

104
Leica Biosystems…

104
Lightlab Imaging

104
Dow Corning Toray ◀

104

What this shows Dow holds 104 patents at rank #3,531, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Dow

By rank, the assignees closest to #3,531 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C08G (Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than BY React…)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Dow, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above).

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (50 here).

Li-cor, Inc. 50 Valeo Japan Co., Ltd. 50 Swiss Reinsurance Company Ltd. 50 Linxens Holding 50

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (14.9 here).

Transitions Optical, Ltd. 14.9 avg Physik Instrumente (PI) GMBH & Co. KG 14.9 avg General Electric Renovables Espana, S.L. 14.9 avg Ningbo Geely Automobile Research & Dev. Co., Ltd. 14.9 avg

Dow's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

50 Top 14% higher than 86% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2021

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2015–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Dow Corning Toray Co., Ltd. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	22	21.2%
2016	21	20.2%
2017	27	26.0%
2018	27	26.0%
2019	6	5.8%
2021	1	1.0%

Which technologies does Dow Corning Toray Co., Ltd. patent most?

C08G - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than BY Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds 87

C08L - Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds 73

C08K - Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances as compounding ingredients 44

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 35

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 34

A61Q - Specific USE OF Cosmetics OR Similar Toiletry Preparations 34

H10H - Inorganic Light-emitting Semiconductor Devices Having Potential Barriers 30

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 25

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 15

C09J - ADHESIVES; Non-mechanical Aspects OF Adhesive Processes IN GENERAL; Adhesive Processes NOT Provided FOR ELSEWHERE; USE OF Materials AS Adhesives 13

C09K - Materials FOR Miscellaneous Applications, NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere 10

C07F - Acyclic, Carbocyclic OR Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium OR Tellurium 9

C10M - Lubricating Compositions ; USE OF Chemical Substances Either Alone OR AS Lubricating Ingredients IN A Lubricating Composition 5

C08J - WORKING-UP; General Processes OF COMPOUNDING; After-treatment NOT Covered BY Subclasses C08b, C08c, C08f, C08g or C08h 5

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 3

Top 15 of 55 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#3,531

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

50.0 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

Dow Corning Toray Co., Ltd.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Dow Corning Toray Co., Ltd.'s lead technology class is C08G (Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than BY Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds), 83.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C08G
Ranked #3,531 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Dow Corning Toray Co., Ltd. against Comscore, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 50.0/100 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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