Where does Fast Retailing Co., Ltd. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Fast Retailing Co., Ltd. ranks #18,612 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 Fast Retailing Co., Ltd. hold?

Fast Retailing Co., Ltd. holds 15 US utility patents granted between 2018 and 2025, spanning 20 technology areas.

What is Fast Retailing Co., Ltd.'s Innovation Score?

Fast Retailing Co., Ltd. has an Innovation Score of 42.1 out of 100 (top 31% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Fast Retailing Co., Ltd.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Fast Retailing Co., Ltd.'s recent grant velocity is +200% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Fast Retailing Co., Ltd.'s patents?

Fast Retailing Co., Ltd.'s patents average 8.4 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 Fast Retailing 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

Fast Retailing Co., Ltd.

Q: What technology areas does Fast Retailing Co., Ltd. focus on?

Fast Retailing Co., Ltd.'s top technology area is 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) with 6 patents, ranking #2,038 of 6,520 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 20 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 15 granted patents across 20 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2018–2025. 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: G06Q (Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative,).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Fast ranks #18,612 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 15 patents across 20 technology areas.

#18,612
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 31%
by Innovation Score (42.1/100): 8.4
avg claims per patent: +200%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R18612 · Foreign Corporation #18,612 · 15 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 15 grants
MID-PACK #18,612/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Excentus
CPC-FOCUS G06Q · 20 areas
INNOV-PAR 42.1/100
CLAIMS-PAR 8.4 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +200% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Excentus 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 Fast’s 42.1 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 9.6 pts (23%) Velocity 11.7 pts (28%) Breadth 15.8 pts (38%) Claim depth 5.0 pts (12%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Fast Retailing · this assignee

42
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Fast's Innovation Score is 42.1/100 (top 31% 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 Fast?

Each dot is one of Fast’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). Fast’s own 8.4 claims/patent is at or below the 13.5 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Fast's grants concentrate

Fast Retailing Co., Ltd. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 20 CPC subclasses with 40% of grants classified under G06Q (Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative,). Peak complete grant year is 2023 (4 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2018. By volume, Fast sits between Excentus Corporation and Fidelix Co., Ltd..

Fast's three-year grant acceleration

Fast Retailing Co., Ltd. shows 7 grants in 2022–2024 against only 4 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.

Excentus

15
Expro Meters

15
F von Langsdorf L…

15
F R Drake

15
FB Global Plumbin…

15
FEW Fahrzeugelekt…

15
Fico Triad

15
Fidelix

15
Fast Retailing ◀

15

What this shows Fast holds 15 patents at rank #18,610, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Fast

By rank, the assignees closest to #18,610 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G06Q (Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially…)

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

Fast's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

42 Top 31% higher than 69% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2018–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2018–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Fast Retailing Co., Ltd. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2018	1	6.7%
2019	2	13.3%
2020	1	6.7%
2021	1	6.7%
2022	1	6.7%
2023	4	26.7%
2024	2	13.3%
2025partial year	3	20.0%

Which technologies does Fast Retailing Co., Ltd. patent most?

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 6

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 4

G07G - Registering THE Receipt OF Cash, Valuables, OR Tokens 3

G06K - Graphical Data Reading ; Presentation OF DATA; Record CARRIERS; Handling Record Carriers 3

A41C - CORSETS; Brassieres 2

A41D - OUTERWEAR; Protective GARMENTS; Accessories 2

D06P - Dyeing OR Printing TEXTILES; Dyeing Leather, Furs OR Solid Macromolecular Substances IN ANY Form 2

D06L - Dry-cleaning, Washing OR Bleaching Fibres, Filaments, Threads, Yarns, Fabrics, Feathers OR Made-up Fibrous GOODS; Bleaching Leather OR Furs 2

G07C - Time OR Attendance REGISTERS; Registering OR Indicating THE Working OF MACHINES; Generating Random NUMBERS; Voting OR Lottery APPARATUS; Arrangements, Systems OR Apparatus FOR Checking NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere 1

H01Q - Antennas, i.e. Radio Aerials 1

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 1

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 1

G09F - DISPLAYING; ADVERTISING; SIGNS; Labels OR NAME-PLATES; Seals 1

G09G - Arrangements OR Circuits FOR Control OF Indicating Devices Using Static Means TO Present Variable Information 1

A47F - Special Furniture, Fittings, OR Accessories FOR Shops, Storehouses, Bars, Restaurants OR THE LIKE; Paying Counters 1

Top 15 of 20 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

Fast Retailing Co., Ltd.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Fast Retailing Co., Ltd.'s lead technology class is G06Q (Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative,), 40% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06Q
Ranked #18,612 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Fast Retailing Co., Ltd. against Excentus Corporation, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 42.1/100 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

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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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