Where does Family Inada Co., Ltd. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Family Inada Co., Ltd. ranks #24,321 of 50,000 assignees by granted-patent volume, the same sort as the companies listing and top-holders ranking. See /methodology/#corpus-placement.

How many patents does Family Inada Co., Ltd. hold?

Family Inada Co., Ltd. holds 11 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2024, spanning 2 technology areas.

What is Family Inada Co., Ltd.'s Innovation Score?

Family Inada Co., Ltd. has an Innovation Score of 28.1 out of 100 (top 74% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Family Inada Co., Ltd.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Family Inada Co., Ltd.'s recent grant velocity is +75% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Family Inada Co., Ltd.'s patents?

Family Inada Co., Ltd.'s patents average 9.4 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 Family Inada 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

Family Inada Co., Ltd.

Q: What technology areas does Family Inada Co., Ltd. focus on?

Family Inada Co., Ltd.'s top technology area is A61H (PHYSICAL THERAPY APPARATUS, e.g. DEVICES FOR LOCATING OR STIMULATING REFLEX POINTS IN THE BODY; ARTIFICIAL RESPIRATION; MASSAGE; BATHING DEVICES FOR SPECIAL THERAPEUTIC OR HYGIENIC PURPOSES OR SPECIFIC PARTS OF THE BODY) with 8 patents. Grants appear in 2 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 11 granted patents across 2 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2024. 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: A61H (PHYSICAL THERAPY APPARATUS, e.g. DEVICES FOR LOCATING OR STIMULATING REFLEX POINTS IN THE BODY; ARTIFICIAL RESPIRATION; MASSAGE; BATHING DEVICES FOR SPECIAL THERAPEUTIC OR HYGIENIC PURPOSES OR SPECIFI).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Family ranks #24,321 of 50,000 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 11 patents across 2 technology areas.

#24,321
of 50,000 US assignees by volume: Top 74%
by Innovation Score (28.1/100): 9.4
avg claims per patent: +75%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R24321 · Foreign Corporation #24,321 · 11 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-PAR · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 11 grants
MID-PACK #24,321/50,000
PHOTO-FINISH Exinda Networks PTY
CPC-NARROW A61H · 2 areas
INNOV-THIN 28.1/100
CLAIMS-PAR 9.4 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +75% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Exinda Networks PTY, Ltd. (±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
Family Inada · this assignee

28
3D Lighting Innovati… · lowest

7

What this shows Family's Innovation Score is 28.1/100 (top 74% 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 Family's grants concentrate

Family Inada Co., Ltd. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 2 CPC subclasses with 72.7% of grants classified under A61H (PHYSICAL THERAPY APPARATUS, e.g. DEVICES FOR LOCATING OR STIMULATING REFLEX POINTS IN THE BODY; ARTIFICIAL RESPIRATION; MASSAGE; BATHING DEVICES FOR SPECIAL THERAPEUTIC OR HYGIENIC PURPOSES OR SPECIFI). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (2 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2017. By volume, Family sits between Exinda Networks PTY, Ltd. and Finsecur.

Family's three-year grant acceleration

Family Inada Co., Ltd. shows 4 grants in 2022–2024 against only 3 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.

Exinda Networks P…

11
Exlservice Holdin…

11
Ezaki Glico

11
F-star Therapeuti…

11
Fiberhome Telecom…

11
Fibertex Personal…

11
Finis

11
Finsecur

11
Family Inada ◀

11

What this shows Family holds 11 patents at rank #24,310, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Family

By rank, the assignees closest to #24,310 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A61H (Physical Therapy Apparatus)

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

Family's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

28 Top 74% higher than 26% of 50,000 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2024

Grants by year

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

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Family Inada Co., Ltd. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	2	18.2%
2017	1	9.1%
2018	1	9.1%
2020	2	18.2%
2021	1	9.1%
2023	2	18.2%
2024	2	18.2%

Which technologies does Family Inada Co., Ltd. patent most?

A61H - PHYSICAL THERAPY APPARATUS, e.g. DEVICES FOR LOCATING OR STIMULATING REFLEX POINTS IN THE BODY; ARTIFICIAL RESPIRATION; MASSAGE; BATHING DEVICES FOR SPECIAL THERAPEUTIC OR HYGIENIC PURPOSES OR SPECIFIC PARTS OF THE BODY 8

B25J - MANIPULATORS; CHAMBERS PROVIDED WITH MANIPULATION DEVICES 1

Top 2 of 2 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#24,321

of 50,000 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

28.1 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

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

Every figure on PlainPatent is rendered directly from USPTO source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on USPTO source data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 2026.