Where does Fujifilm Imaging Colorants, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Fujifilm Imaging Colorants, Inc. ranks #16,812 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 Fujifilm Imaging Colorants, Inc. hold?

Fujifilm Imaging Colorants, Inc. holds 17 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2020, spanning 16 technology areas.

What is Fujifilm Imaging Colorants, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Fujifilm Imaging Colorants, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 34.4 out of 100 (48th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Fujifilm Imaging Colorants, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Fujifilm Imaging Colorants, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -87% 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 Fujifilm Imaging Colorants, Inc.'s patents?

Fujifilm Imaging Colorants, Inc.'s patents average 17.1 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 Fujifilm Imaging Colorants, Inc. 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 US Corporation

Fujifilm Imaging Colorants, Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Fujifilm Imaging Colorants, Inc. focus on?

Fujifilm Imaging Colorants, Inc.'s top technology area is 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) with 17 patents, ranking #189 of 1,818 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 16 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 17 granted patents across 16 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2020. 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: 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 Materi).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Fujifilm ranks #16,812 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 17 patents across 16 technology areas.

#16,812
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 48th percentile
by Innovation Score (34.4/100): 17.1
avg claims per patent: -87%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R16812 · US Corporation #16,812 · 17 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 17 grants
MID-PACK #16,812/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH ForemostCo
CPC-FOCUS C09D · 16 areas
INNOV-THIN 34.4/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.1 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -87% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: ForemostCo., 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 Fujifilm’s 34.4 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 10.0 pts (29%) Velocity 0.0 pts (0%) Breadth 14.1 pts (41%) Claim depth 10.3 pts (30%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Fujifilm Imaging… · this assignee

34
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Fujifilm's Innovation Score is 34.4/100 (48th percentile 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 Fujifilm?

Each dot is one of Fujifilm’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). Fujifilm’s own 17.1 claims/patent is ABOVE the 14.0 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Fujifilm's grants concentrate

Fujifilm Imaging Colorants, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 16 CPC subclasses with 100% of grants classified under 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 Materi). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (5 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2018. By volume, Fujifilm sits between ForemostCo., Inc. and Good WAY Technology Co., Ltd..

Foremostco

17
Formfactor Beaver…

17
Fractal Heatsink

17
Framo Engineering…

17
Fujiwa Denki

17
GEA Food Solution…

17
Genexine

17
Good WAY Technolo…

17
Fujifilm Imaging… ◀

17

What this shows Fujifilm holds 17 patents at rank #16,814, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Fujifilm

By rank, the assignees closest to #16,814 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C09D (Coating Compositions)

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

Fujifilm's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

34 48th percentile higher than 48% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2020

Grants by year

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

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Fujifilm Imaging Colorants, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	5	29.4%
2016	4	23.5%
2017	4	23.5%
2018	1	5.9%
2019	1	5.9%
2020	2	11.8%

Which technologies does Fujifilm Imaging Colorants, Inc. patent most?

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 17

B41J - TYPEWRITERS; Selective Printing Mechanisms, i.e. Mechanisms Printing Otherwise Than From A FORME; Correction OF Typographical Errors 5

C08K - Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances as compounding ingredients 5

C09B - Organic Dyes OR Closely-related Compounds FOR Producing Dyes ; , e.g. PIGMENTS; MORDANTS; Lakes 5

C08G - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than BY Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds 3

B41M - Printing, Duplicating, Marking, OR Copying PROCESSES; Colour Printing, 2

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 2

B01J - Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus 2

D06P - Dyeing OR Printing TEXTILES; Dyeing Leather, Furs OR Solid Macromolecular Substances IN ANY Form 1

C09K - Materials FOR Miscellaneous Applications, NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere 1

B41P - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Printing, Lining Machines, Typewriters, AND TO Stamps 1

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 1

C01P - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Structural AND Physical Aspects OF Solid Inorganic Compounds 1

C09C - Treatment OF Inorganic Materials, Other Than Fibrous Fillers, TO Enhance Their Pigmenting OR Filling Properties ; Preparation OF Carbon Black ; ; Preparation OF Inorganic Materials Which ARE NO Single Chemical Compounds AND Which ARE Mainly Used AS Pigments OR Fillers 1

B82Y - Specific Uses OR Applications OF NANOSTRUCTURES; Measurement OR Analysis OF NANOSTRUCTURES; Manufacture OR Treatment OF Nanostructures 1

Top 15 of 16 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

Fujifilm Imaging Colorants, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Fujifilm Imaging Colorants, Inc.'s lead technology class is 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 Materi), 100% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C09D
Ranked #16,812 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Fujifilm Imaging Colorants, Inc. against ForemostCo., Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 34.4/100 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.

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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

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