Where does Fuji Shoji Co., Ltd. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Fuji Shoji Co., Ltd. ranks #7,697 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 Fuji Shoji Co., Ltd. hold?

Fuji Shoji Co., Ltd. holds 42 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2023, spanning 37 technology areas.

What is Fuji Shoji Co., Ltd.'s Innovation Score?

Fuji Shoji Co., Ltd. has an Innovation Score of 37.8 out of 100 (top 43% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Fuji Shoji Co., Ltd.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Fuji Shoji Co., Ltd.'s recent grant velocity is -44% 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 Fuji Shoji Co., Ltd.'s patents?

Fuji Shoji Co., Ltd.'s patents average 5.0 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 Fuji Shoji 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

Fuji Shoji Co., Ltd.

Q: What technology areas does Fuji Shoji Co., Ltd. focus on?

Fuji Shoji Co., Ltd.'s top technology area is B29D (Producing Particular Articles From Plastics OR From Substances IN A Plastic State) with 25 patents. Grants appear in 37 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 42 granted patents across 37 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2023. 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: B29D (Producing Particular Articles From Plastics OR From Substances IN A Plastic State).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Fuji ranks #7,697 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 42 patents across 37 technology areas.

#7,697
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 43%
by Innovation Score (37.8/100): 5.0
avg claims per patent: -44%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R7697 · Foreign Corporation #7,697 · 42 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-SPARSE · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 42 grants
UPPER-Q #7,697/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Ethernovia
CPC-FOCUS B29D · 37 areas
INNOV-THIN 37.8/100
CLAIMS-SPARSE 5.0 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -44% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Ethernovia 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
Eiken Kagaku · near

38
Fuji Shoji · this assignee

38
Keltronix · near

38
Rivada Research · near

38
Powdertech · near

38
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Fuji's Innovation Score is 37.8/100 (top 43% 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 Fuji's grants concentrate

Fuji Shoji Co., Ltd. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 37 CPC subclasses with 59.5% of grants classified under B29D (Producing Particular Articles From Plastics OR From Substances IN A Plastic State). Peak complete grant year is 2020 (9 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2023. By volume, Fuji sits between Ethernovia Inc. and Golfzon Co., Ltd..

Fuji's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Fuji Shoji Co., Ltd. moved from 21 to 1 grants (0.05x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Ethernovia

42
Expression Pathol…

42
Fiserv

42
Fpinnovations

42
Fisher & Incorpor…

42
Garuda Technology

42
Geka

42
Golfzon

42
Fuji Shoji ◀

42

What this shows Fuji holds 42 patents at rank #7,696, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Fuji

By rank, the assignees closest to #7,696 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B29D (Producing Particular Articles From Plastics OR From Subst…)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

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

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (38 here).

Rivada Research, LLC 38 Eiken Kagaku Kabushiki Kaisha 38 Keltronix, Inc. 38 Powdertech Co., Ltd. 38

Fuji's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

38 Top 43% higher than 57% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2023

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2016–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Fuji Shoji Co., Ltd. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	6	14.3%
2017	7	16.7%
2018	7	16.7%
2019	7	16.7%
2020	9	21.4%
2021	5	11.9%
2023	1	2.4%

Which technologies does Fuji Shoji Co., Ltd. patent most?

B29D - Producing Particular Articles From Plastics OR From Substances IN A Plastic State 25

B21F - Working OR Processing OF Metal Wire 8

A01G - HORTICULTURE; Cultivation OF Vegetables, Flowers, Rice, Fruit, Vines, Hops OR SEAWEED; FORESTRY; Watering 6

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 6

B65H - Handling Thin OR Filamentary Material, e.g. Sheets, Webs, Cables 5

B29C - Shaping OR Joining OF PLASTICS; Shaping OF Material IN A Plastic State, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; After-treatment OF THE Shaped Products, e.g. Repairing 4

B21C - Manufacture OF Metal Sheets, Wire, Rods, Tubes, Profiles OR Like Semi-manufactured Products Otherwise Than BY ROLLING; Auxiliary Operations Used IN Connection With Metal-working Without Essentially Removing Material 3

B29K - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses B29b, B29c OR B29d, Relating TO Moulding Materials OR TO Materials FOR ; Moulds, ; Reinforcements, Fillers OR Preformed Parts, e.g. Inserts 2

C25D - Processes FOR THE Electrolytic OR Electrophoretic Production OF COATINGS; ELECTROFORMING; Apparatus Therefor 2

C23C - Coating Metallic MATERIAL; Coating Material With Metallic MATERIAL; Surface Treatment OF Metallic Material BY Diffusion Into THE Surface, BY Chemical Conversion OR SUBSTITUTION; Coating BY Vacuum Evaporation, BY Sputtering, BY ION Implantation OR BY Chemical Vapour Deposition, IN General 2

Y02A - Technologies FOR Adaptation TO Climate Change 2

B65G - Transport OR Storage Devices, e.g. Conveyors FOR Loading OR Tipping, Shop Conveyor Systems OR Pneumatic Tube Conveyors 2

B08B - Cleaning IN GENERAL; Prevention OF Fouling IN General 1

F16M - Frames, Casings OR Beds OF Engines, Machines OR Apparatus, NOT Specific TO Engines, Machines OR Apparatus Provided FOR ELSEWHERE; STANDS; Supports 1

F24S - Solar Heat COLLECTORS; Solar Heat Systems 1

Top 15 of 37 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#7,697

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

37.8 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

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

Fuji Shoji Co., Ltd.'s lead technology class is B29D (Producing Particular Articles From Plastics OR From Substances IN A Plastic State), 59.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B29D
Ranked #7,697 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Fuji Shoji Co., Ltd. against Ethernovia Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 37.8/100 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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