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Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 883 granted patents across 176 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: G02B (Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Furukawa ranks #510 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 883 patents across 176 technology areas.

#510
of 49,997 US assignees by volume
Top 3%
by Innovation Score (61.4/100)
11.4
avg claims per patent
+0%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R510 · Foreign Corporation #510 · 883 grants

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

  • GRANTS-MID 883 grants
  • TOP-DECILE #510/49,997
  • PHOTO-FINISH E I DU Pont DE…
  • CPC-WIDE G02B · 176 areas
  • INNOV-STRONG 61.4/100
  • CLAIMS-PAR 11.4 claims/avg
  • TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
  • VEL-FLAT +0% vel
  • BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: E.I. DU Pont DE Nemours AND Company (±1 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 Furukawa’s 61.4 Innovation Score adds up

The same four weighted components behind every Innovation Score on PlainPatent: portfolio volume, grant velocity, technology breadth, and claim depth.

Innovation-score neighbourhood around Furukawa

Lowest and highest poles plus nearest Innovation Score peers, not a full corpus board reprint.

score

What this shows Furukawa's Innovation Score is 61.4/100 (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.

Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score As of 2015–2025

Does more volume mean deeper claims for Furukawa?

Each dot is one of Furukawa’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). Furukawa’s own 11.4 claims/patent is at or below the 12.2 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

Furukawa vs its 8 nearest volume peers: granted patents vs average claims per patent. Source: USPTO PatentsView. 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 9 entities by Granted patents (volume) (X) and Avg claims / patent (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. Volume + depthSelective & thoroughVolume over depthLean filer 875880885890 0510152025 Granted patents (volume) Avg claims / patent Zhejiang University - 888, 8.36Zhejiang Universi…Societe des Produits Nestle S.A. - 887, 12.22Societe des Produ…Weatherford Technology Holdings, LLC - 886, 21.32Weatherford Techn…Toyota Boshoku Kabushiki Kaisha - 885, 8.07Toyota BoshokuE.I. DU Pont DE Nemours AND Company - 882, 13.59E I DU Pont DE Ne…Charter Communications Operating, LLC - 878, 22.29Charter Communica…Harry Winston SA - 876, 1.22Harry WinstonImec VZW - 876, 16.18Imec VZWFurukawa Electric Co., Ltd. - 883, 11.4Furukawa Electric
Furukawa vs its 8 nearest volume peers: granted patents vs average claims per patent. Source: USPTO PatentsView.

How Furukawa's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd. received 413 grants versus 411 in 2015–2019 (+0% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2015 at 98 grants and bottomed in 2017 at 68. Lead class G02B accounts for 21% of the portfolio across 176 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Zhejiang University (#506) and Imec VZW (#514).

Furukawa's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd. moved from 260 to 238 grants (0.92x 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 #1,424. See the growth leaderboard.

Who files at Furukawa's volume?

Granted US patents 2015–2025 versus its nearest-ranked assignees by volume, this company marked ◀

patents

What this shows Furukawa holds 883 patents at rank #510, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Source USPTO PatentsView, granted utility patents As of 2015–2025

Companies ranked near Furukawa

By rank, the assignees closest to #510 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G02B (Optical Elements)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Furukawa, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G02B (Optical Elements), Furukawa ranks #83 of 4,891 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (61 here).

Hydro-Quebec 61 Foxconn Technology Group Co., Ltd. 61 Luminar, LLC 61 The Penn State Research Foundation 61

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (11.4 here).

Goertek Inc. 11.4 avg Tosoh Corporation 11.4 avg Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences 11.4 avg ViaCyte, Inc. 11.4 avg

Furukawa'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

This assignee 0 100 every tracked assignee, bucketed by value

Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more US assignees. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.

Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

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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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Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year Patents Granted Share of Period
2015 98 11.1%
2016 77 8.7%
2017 68 7.7%
2018 83 9.4%
2019 85 9.6%
2020 92 10.4%
2021 83 9.4%
2022 83 9.4%
2023 78 8.8%
2024 77 8.7%
2025partial year 59 6.7%

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

Top 15 of 176 technology areas

More on this record

Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

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What to do with this data

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

  • Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd.'s lead technology class is G02B (Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus), 21% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G02B
  • Ranked #510 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
  • Compare Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd. against Zhejiang University, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
  • Innovation Score of 61.4/100 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

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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

Every figure on PlainPatent is rendered directly from USPTO source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on USPTO source data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 2026.