Where does Fukui Prefectural Government rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Fukui Prefectural Government ranks #15,300 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 Fukui Prefectural Government hold?

Fukui Prefectural Government holds 19 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 25 technology areas.

What is Fukui Prefectural Government's Innovation Score?

Fukui Prefectural Government has an Innovation Score of 43.6 out of 100 (top 28% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Fukui Prefectural Government's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Fukui Prefectural Government's recent grant velocity is +0% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). The company is maintaining or growing its granted-patent output.

What does claim depth mean for Fukui Prefectural Government's patents?

Fukui Prefectural Government's patents average 10.4 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 Fukui Prefectural Government 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 Government

Fukui Prefectural Government

Q: What technology areas does Fukui Prefectural Government focus on?

Fukui Prefectural Government's top technology area is 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) with 7 patents, ranking #833 of 4,378 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 25 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 19 granted patents across 25 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: 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).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Fukui ranks #15,300 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 19 patents across 25 technology areas.

#15,300
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 28%
by Innovation Score (43.6/100): 10.4
avg claims per patent: +0%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R15300 · Foreign Government #15,300 · 19 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 19 grants
MID-PACK #15,300/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Fabriq
CPC-FOCUS B29C · 25 areas
INNOV-PAR 43.6/100
CLAIMS-PAR 10.4 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNGOV Foreign Gov
VEL-FLAT +0% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Fabriq, 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.

How Fukui’s 43.6 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 10.3 pts (24%) Velocity 9.3 pts (21%) Breadth 17.7 pts (41%) Claim depth 6.2 pts (14%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Fukui Prefectural… · this assignee

44
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Fukui's Innovation Score is 43.6/100 (top 28% 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 Fukui?

Each dot is one of Fukui’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). Fukui’s own 10.4 claims/patent is at or below the 14.9 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Fukui's grants concentrate

Fukui Prefectural Government is a focused PatentsView assignee: 25 CPC subclasses with 36.8% of grants classified under 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). Peak complete grant year is 2023 (5 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2015. By volume, Fukui sits between Freie UNIVERSITÄT Berlin and Falcon Power, LLC.

Fukui's three-year grant acceleration

Fukui Prefectural Government shows 7 grants in 2022–2024 against only 5 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.

Freie UniversitÄT…

19
Fresca Medical

19
Fujian Sanan Sino…

19
Fujifilm Cellular…

19
Furuya Metal

19
Fabriq

19
Factual

19
Falcon Power

19
Fukui Prefectural… ◀

19

What this shows Fukui holds 19 patents at rank #15,279, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Fukui

By rank, the assignees closest to #15,279 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B29C (Shaping OR Joining OF Plastics)

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

Fukui's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

44 Top 28% higher than 72% 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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Fukui Prefectural Government patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1	5.3%
2017	2	10.5%
2018	3	15.8%
2019	3	15.8%
2020	2	10.5%
2022	1	5.3%
2023	5	26.3%
2024	1	5.3%
2025partial year	1	5.3%

Which technologies does Fukui Prefectural Government patent most?

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 7

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 6

B29B - Preparation OR Pretreatment OF THE Material TO BE SHAPED; Making Granules OR PREFORMS; Recovery OF Plastics OR Other Constituents OF Waste Material Containing Plastics 4

C08J - WORKING-UP; General Processes OF COMPOUNDING; After-treatment NOT Covered BY Subclasses C08b, C08c, C08f, C08g or C08h 4

D01D - Mechanical Methods OR Apparatus IN THE Manufacture OF Artificial Filaments, Threads, Fibres, Bristles OR Ribbons 3

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 3

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 3

H01P - WAVEGUIDES; Resonators, Lines, OR Other Devices OF THE Waveguide Type 2

D02J - Finishing OR Dressing OF Filaments, Yarns, Threads, Cords, Ropes OR THE Like 2

D04H - Making Textile Fabrics, e.g. From Fibres OR Filamentary Material ; Fabrics Made BY Such Processes OR Apparatus, e.g. Felts, Non-woven FABRICS; COTTON-WOOL; Wadding ; ; Non-woven Fabrics From Staple Fibres, Filaments OR Yarns, Bonded With AT Least ONE Web-like Material During Their Consolidation 2

H02K - Dynamo-electric Machines 2

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 1

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 1

B22F - Working Metallic POWDER; Manufacture OF Articles From Metallic POWDER; Making Metallic Powder ; Apparatus OR Devices Specially Adapted FOR Metallic Powder 1

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 1

Top 15 of 25 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

Fukui Prefectural Government's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Fukui Prefectural Government's lead technology class is 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), 36.8% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B29C
Ranked #15,300 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Fukui Prefectural Government against Freie UNIVERSITÄT Berlin, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 43.6/100 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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