Where does Funai Electric Co., Ltd. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Funai Electric Co., Ltd. ranks #843 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 Funai Electric Co., Ltd. hold?

Funai Electric Co., Ltd. holds 541 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2024, spanning 121 technology areas.

What is Funai Electric Co., Ltd.'s Innovation Score?

Funai Electric Co., Ltd. has an Innovation Score of 60.6 out of 100 (top 3% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Funai Electric Co., Ltd.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Funai Electric Co., Ltd.'s recent grant velocity is -53% 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 Funai Electric Co., Ltd.'s patents?

Funai Electric Co., Ltd.'s patents average 15.5 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 Funai Electric 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

Funai Electric Co., Ltd.

Q: What technology areas does Funai Electric Co., Ltd. focus on?

Funai Electric Co., Ltd.'s top technology area is B41J (TYPEWRITERS; Selective Printing Mechanisms, i.e. Mechanisms Printing Otherwise Than From A FORME; Correction OF Typographical Errors) with 174 patents, ranking #16 of 598 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 121 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 541 granted patents across 121 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2024. 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: B41J (TYPEWRITERS; Selective Printing Mechanisms, i.e. Mechanisms Printing Otherwise Than From A FORME; Correction OF Typographical Errors).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Funai ranks #843 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 541 patents across 121 technology areas.

#843
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 3%
by Innovation Score (60.6/100): 15.5
avg claims per patent: -53%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R843 · Foreign Corporation #843 · 541 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 541 grants
TOP-DECILE #843/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Siemens Healthcare…
CPC-WIDE B41J · 121 areas
INNOV-STRONG 60.6/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.5 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -53% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics 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 Funai’s 60.6 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 21.7 pts (36%) Velocity 4.6 pts (8%) Breadth 25.0 pts (41%) Claim depth 9.3 pts (15%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Intelligrated… · near

61
Funai Electric · this assignee

61
Great Wall Motor · near

61
Thor Tech · near

61
Johnson & Johnson… · near

61
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Funai's Innovation Score is 60.6/100 (top 3% 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 Funai?

Each dot is one of Funai’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). Funai’s own 15.5 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.2 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How Funai's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Funai Electric Co., Ltd. received 173 grants versus 368 in 2015–2019 (-53% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2017 at 91 grants and bottomed in 2024 at 25. Lead class B41J accounts for 32.2% of the portfolio across 121 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Digimarc Corporation (#839) and Citic Dicastal Co., Ltd. (#847).

Funai's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Funai Electric Co., Ltd. moved from 135 to 93 grants (0.69x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). Among 3,296 tracked assignees with ≥100 grants and ≥20 prior-period grants, that multiple ranks #2,191. See the growth leaderboard.

Digimarc

543
Johnson & Johnson…

543
Xiamen Tianma Mic…

543
Autoliv Developme…

542
Siemens Healthcar…

541
Funai Electric ◀

541
Keysight

540
Primax

539
Citic Dicastal

538

What this shows Funai holds 541 patents at rank #843, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Funai

By rank, the assignees closest to #843 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B41J (Typewriters)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Funai, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B41J (Typewriters), Funai ranks #16 of 598 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (61 here).

Intelligrated Headquarters, LLC 61 Great Wall Motor Company Limited 61 Thor Tech, Inc. 61 Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc. 61

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (15.5 here).

Semiconductor Manufacturing International (Beijing) Corporation 15.5 avg GE Precision Healthcare LLC 15.5 avg Hisense International Co., Ltd. 15.5 avg Hefei BOE Display Technology Co., Ltd. 15.5 avg

Funai's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

61 Top 3% higher than 97% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2024

Grants by year

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

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Funai Electric Co., Ltd. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	71	13.1%
2016	74	13.7%
2017	91	16.8%
2018	77	14.2%
2019	55	10.2%
2020	45	8.3%
2021	35	6.5%
2022	31	5.7%
2023	37	6.8%
2024	25	4.6%

Which technologies does Funai Electric Co., Ltd. patent most?

B41J - TYPEWRITERS; Selective Printing Mechanisms, i.e. Mechanisms Printing Otherwise Than From A FORME; Correction OF Typographical Errors 174

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 133

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 91

G02F - Optical Devices OR Arrangements FOR THE Control OF Light BY Modification OF THE Optical Properties OF THE Media OF THE Elements Involved THEREIN; Non-linear OPTICS; Frequency-changing OF LIGHT; Optical Logic ELEMENTS; Optical ANALOGUE/DIGITAL Converters 87

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 61

G09G - Arrangements OR Circuits FOR Control OF Indicating Devices Using Static Means TO Present Variable Information 28

H05K - Printed CIRCUITS; Casings OR Constructional Details OF Electric APPARATUS; Manufacture OF Assemblages OF Electrical Components 24

H04B - Transmission 20

G03B - Apparatus OR Arrangements FOR Taking Photographs OR FOR Projecting OR Viewing THEM; Apparatus OR Arrangements Employing Analogous Techniques Using Waves Other Than Optical WAVES; Accessories Therefor 19

G11B - Information Storage Based ON Relative Movement Between Record Carrier AND Transducer 19

B01L - Chemical OR Physical Laboratory Apparatus FOR General USE 17

H02J - Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy 17

A61M - Devices FOR Introducing Media Into, OR Onto, THE Body ; Devices FOR Transducing Body Media OR FOR Taking Media From THE Body ; Devices FOR Producing OR Ending Sleep OR Stupor 14

G01S - Radio DIRECTION-FINDING; Radio NAVIGATION; Determining Distance OR Velocity BY USE OF Radio WAVES; Locating OR Presence-detecting BY USE OF THE Reflection OR Reradiation OF Radio WAVES; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves 14

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 14

Top 15 of 121 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

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

Funai Electric Co., Ltd.'s lead technology class is B41J (TYPEWRITERS; Selective Printing Mechanisms, i.e. Mechanisms Printing Otherwise Than From A FORME; Correction OF Typographical Errors), 32.2% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B41J
Ranked #843 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Funai Electric Co., Ltd. against Digimarc Corporation, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 60.6/100 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

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