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

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd. ranks #510 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 Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd. hold?

Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd. holds 883 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 176 technology areas.

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

Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd. has an Innovation Score of 61.4 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%).

What technology areas does Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd. focus on?

Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd.'s top technology area is G02B (Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus) with 185 patents. Grants appear in 176 CPC subclasses total.

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

Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd.'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 Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd.'s patents?

Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd.'s patents average 11.4 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 Furukawa 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

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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
The Penn State… · near

61
Foxconn Technology… · near

61
Furukawa Electric · this assignee

61
Hydro-Quebec · near

61
Luminar · near

61
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

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.

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.

Zhejiang Universi…

888
Societe des Produ…

887
Weatherford Techn…

886
Toyota Boshoku

885
Furukawa Electric ◀

883
E I DU Pont DE Ne…

882
Charter Communica…

878
Harry Winston

876
Imec VZW

876

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.

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).

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

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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.

View data table

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?

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 185

H01B - CABLES; CONDUCTORS; INSULATORS; Selection OF Materials FOR Their Conductive, Insulating OR Dielectric Properties 178

H01R - Electrically-conductive CONNECTIONS; Structural Associations OF A Plurality OF Mutually-insulated Electrical Connecting ELEMENTS; Coupling DEVICES; Current Collectors 136

H01S - Devices Using THE Process OF Light Amplification BY Stimulated Emission OF Radiation [LASER] TO Amplify OR Generate LIGHT; Devices Using Stimulated Emission OF Electromagnetic Radiation IN Wave Ranges Other Than Optical 111

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 89

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 86

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 73

C22C - Alloys 73

H05K - Printed CIRCUITS; Casings OR Constructional Details OF Electric APPARATUS; Manufacture OF Assemblages OF Electrical Components 71

B60R - Vehicles, Vehicle Fittings, OR Vehicle Parts, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 68

C22F - Changing THE Physical Structure OF Non-ferrous Metals AND Non-ferrous Alloys 65

H02G - Installation OF Electric Cables OR Lines, OR OF Combined Optical AND Electric Cables OR Lines 58

C08L - Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds 53

F28D - Heat-exchange Apparatus, NOT Provided FOR IN Another Subclass, IN Which THE Heat-exchange Media DO NOT Come Into Direct Contact 51

C08K - Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances as compounding ingredients 50

Top 15 of 176 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#510

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

61.4 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

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

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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