Where does Furuya Metal Co., Ltd. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Furuya Metal Co., Ltd. ranks #15,302 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 Furuya Metal Co., Ltd. hold?

Furuya Metal Co., Ltd. holds 19 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 29 technology areas.

What is Furuya Metal Co., Ltd.'s Innovation Score?

Furuya Metal Co., Ltd. has an Innovation Score of 36.0 out of 100 (top 47% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Furuya Metal Co., Ltd.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Furuya Metal Co., Ltd.'s recent grant velocity is -55% 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 Furuya Metal Co., Ltd.'s patents?

Furuya Metal Co., Ltd.'s patents average 10.0 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 Furuya Metal 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

Furuya Metal Co., Ltd.

Q: What technology areas does Furuya Metal Co., Ltd. focus on?

Furuya Metal Co., Ltd.'s top technology area is 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) with 7 patents, ranking #342 of 1,658 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 29 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 19 granted patents across 29 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: 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 Evap).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Furuya ranks #15,302 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 19 patents across 29 technology areas.

#15,302
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 47%
by Innovation Score (36.0/100): 10.0
avg claims per patent: -55%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R15302 · Foreign Corporation #15,302 · 19 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-PAR · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 19 grants
MID-PACK #15,302/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Fabriq
CPC-FOCUS C23C · 29 areas
INNOV-THIN 36.0/100
CLAIMS-PAR 10.0 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -55% 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 Furuya’s 36.0 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 (29%) Velocity 0.7 pts (2%) Breadth 19.0 pts (53%) Claim depth 6.0 pts (17%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Furuya Metal · this assignee

36
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Furuya's Innovation Score is 36.0/100 (top 47% 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 Furuya?

Each dot is one of Furuya’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). Furuya’s own 10.0 claims/patent is at or below the 19.2 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Furuya's grants concentrate

Furuya Metal Co., Ltd. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 29 CPC subclasses with 36.8% of grants classified under 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 Evap). Peak complete grant year is 2019 (6 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2024. By volume, Furuya sits between Fresca Medical, Inc. and Feedzai—Consultadoria e Inovação Tecnológica, S.A..

Furuya's three-year grant acceleration

Furuya Metal Co., Ltd. shows 1 grants in 2022–2024 against only 10 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.

Fresca Medical

19
Fujian Sanan Sino…

19
Fujifilm Cellular…

19
Fukui Prefectural…

19
Fabriq

19
Factual

19
Falcon Power

19
Feedzai—Consultad…

19
Furuya Metal ◀

19

What this shows Furuya holds 19 patents at rank #15,280, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Furuya

By rank, the assignees closest to #15,280 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C23C (Coating Metallic Material)

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

Furuya's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

36 Top 47% higher than 53% 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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Furuya Metal Co., Ltd. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	2	10.5%
2018	3	15.8%
2019	6	31.6%
2020	2	10.5%
2021	2	10.5%
2024	1	5.3%
2025partial year	3	15.8%

Which technologies does Furuya Metal Co., Ltd. patent most?

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 7

B01J - Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus 5

G01K - Measuring TEMPERATURE; Measuring Quantity OF HEAT; Thermally-sensitive Elements NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 5

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 3

H01J - Electric Discharge Tubes OR Discharge Lamps 3

C30B - Single-crystal Growth ; Unidirectional Solidification OF Eutectic Material OR Unidirectional Demixing OF Eutectoid MATERIAL; Refining BY Zone-melting OF Material ; Production OF A Homogeneous Polycrystalline Material With Defined Structure ; Single Crystals OR Homogeneous Polycrystalline Material WI 2

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 2

B82Y - Specific Uses OR Applications OF NANOSTRUCTURES; Measurement OR Analysis OF NANOSTRUCTURES; Manufacture OR Treatment OF Nanostructures 2

C07D - Heterocyclic Compounds 2

H10N - Electric Solid-state Devices NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 2

C22F - Changing THE Physical Structure OF Non-ferrous Metals AND Non-ferrous Alloys 2

C03B - Manufacture, Shaping, OR Supplementary Processes 2

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

C07B - General Methods OF Organic CHEMISTRY; Apparatus Therefor 1

C22C - Alloys 1

Top 15 of 29 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

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

Furuya Metal Co., Ltd.'s lead technology class is 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 Evap), 36.8% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C23C
Ranked #15,302 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Furuya Metal Co., Ltd. against Fresca Medical, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 36.0/100 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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