Where does Fukuda Metal Foil & Powder Co., Ltd. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Fukuda Metal Foil & Powder Co., Ltd. ranks #13,993 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 Fukuda Metal Foil & Powder Co., Ltd. hold?

Fukuda Metal Foil & Powder Co., Ltd. holds 21 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 22 technology areas.

What is Fukuda Metal Foil & Powder Co., Ltd.'s Innovation Score?

Fukuda Metal Foil & Powder Co., Ltd. has an Innovation Score of 42.9 out of 100 (top 29% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Fukuda Metal Foil & Powder Co., Ltd. focus on?

Fukuda Metal Foil & Powder Co., Ltd.'s top technology area is C22C (Alloys) with 18 patents, ranking #99 of 948 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 22 CPC subclasses total.

Is Fukuda Metal Foil & Powder Co., Ltd.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Fukuda Metal Foil & Powder 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 Fukuda Metal Foil & Powder Co., Ltd.'s patents?

Fukuda Metal Foil & Powder 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 Fukuda Metal Foil & Powder 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

Fukuda Metal Foil & Powder Co., Ltd.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 21 granted patents across 22 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2025. 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: C22C (Alloys).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Fukuda ranks #13,993 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 21 patents across 22 technology areas.

#13,993
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 29%
by Innovation Score (42.9/100): 9.4
avg claims per patent: +200%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R13993 · Foreign Corporation #13,993 · 21 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 21 grants
MID-PACK #13,993/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Eyenovia
CPC-FOCUS C22C · 22 areas
INNOV-PAR 42.9/100
CLAIMS-PAR 9.4 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +200% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Eyenovia, 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 Fukuda’s 42.9 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 10.7 pts (25%) Velocity 10.0 pts (23%) Breadth 16.6 pts (39%) Claim depth 5.6 pts (13%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

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What this shows Fukuda's Innovation Score is 42.9/100 (top 29% 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 Fukuda?

Each dot is one of Fukuda’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). Fukuda’s own 9.4 claims/patent is at or below the 16.8 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Fukuda's grants concentrate

Fukuda Metal Foil & Powder Co., Ltd. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 22 CPC subclasses with 85.7% of grants classified under C22C (Alloys). Peak complete grant year is 2021 (5 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2020. By volume, Fukuda sits between Eyenovia, Inc. and Foshan Shunde Higold Furniture Manufacturing Co., Ltd..

Fukuda's three-year grant acceleration

Fukuda Metal Foil & Powder Co., Ltd. shows 9 grants in 2022–2024 against only 6 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.

Eyenovia

21
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Freevalve AB

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Food Industry Res…

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What this shows Fukuda holds 21 patents at rank #13,987, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Fukuda

By rank, the assignees closest to #13,987 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C22C (Alloys)

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

Fukuda's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

43 Top 29% higher than 71% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2025

Grants by year

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

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Fukuda Metal Foil & Powder Co., Ltd. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	2	9.5%
2016	3	14.3%
2020	1	4.8%
2021	5	23.8%
2022	1	4.8%
2023	4	19.0%
2024	4	19.0%
2025partial year	1	4.8%

Which technologies does Fukuda Metal Foil & Powder Co., Ltd. patent most?

C22C - Alloys 18

B22F - Working Metallic POWDER; Manufacture OF Articles From Metallic POWDER; Making Metallic Powder ; Apparatus OR Devices Specially Adapted FOR Metallic Powder 16

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 10

F01L - Cyclically Operating Valves FOR Machines OR Engines 8

B33Y - Additive Manufacturing, i.e. Manufacturing OF Three-dimensional [3-D] Objects BY Additive Deposition, Additive Agglomeration OR Additive Layering, e.g. BY 3-D Printing, Stereolithography OR Selective Laser Sintering 7

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 7

B23K - Soldering OR UNSOLDERING; WELDING; Cladding OR Plating BY Soldering OR WELDING; Cutting BY Applying Heat Locally, e.g. Flame CUTTING; Working BY Laser Beam 7

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 7

C22F - Changing THE Physical Structure OF Non-ferrous Metals AND Non-ferrous Alloys 4

H05K - Printed CIRCUITS; Casings OR Constructional Details OF Electric APPARATUS; Manufacture OF Assemblages OF Electrical Components 3

F16C - SHAFTS; Flexible SHAFTS; Elements OR Crankshaft MECHANISMS; Rotary Bodies Other Than Gearing ELEMENTS; Bearings 3

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 2

F16K - VALVES; TAPS; COCKS; ACTUATING-FLOATS; Devices FOR Venting OR Aerating 2

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 2

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

Top 15 of 22 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

Fukuda Metal Foil & Powder Co., Ltd.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Fukuda Metal Foil & Powder Co., Ltd.'s lead technology class is C22C (Alloys), 85.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C22C
Ranked #13,993 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Fukuda Metal Foil & Powder Co., Ltd. against Eyenovia, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 42.9/100 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

Compiled by PlainPatent, US Patent Intelligence Editorial Process · May 15, 2026

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