Where does Futaba Industrial Co., Ltd. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Futaba Industrial Co., Ltd. ranks #3,080 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 Futaba Industrial Co., Ltd. hold?

Futaba Industrial Co., Ltd. holds 123 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 36 technology areas.

What is Futaba Industrial Co., Ltd.'s Innovation Score?

Futaba Industrial Co., Ltd. has an Innovation Score of 51.9 out of 100 (top 11% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Futaba Industrial Co., Ltd.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Futaba Industrial Co., Ltd.'s recent grant velocity is +117% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Futaba Industrial Co., Ltd.'s patents?

Futaba Industrial Co., Ltd.'s patents average 8.5 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 Futaba Industrial 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

Futaba Industrial Co., Ltd.

Q: What technology areas does Futaba Industrial Co., Ltd. focus on?

Futaba Industrial Co., Ltd.'s top technology area is F01N (Gas-flow Silencers OR Exhaust Apparatus FOR Machines OR Engines IN GENERAL; Gas-flow Silencers OR Exhaust Apparatus FOR Internal-combustion Engines) with 51 patents, ranking #30 of 487 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 36 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 123 granted patents across 36 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: F01N (Gas-flow Silencers OR Exhaust Apparatus FOR Machines OR Engines IN GENERAL; Gas-flow Silencers OR Exhaust Apparatus FOR Internal-combustion Engines).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Futaba ranks #3,080 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 123 patents across 36 technology areas.

#3,080
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 11%
by Innovation Score (51.9/100): 8.5
avg claims per patent: +117%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R3080 · Foreign Corporation #3,080 · 123 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-PAR · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 123 grants
TOP-DECILE #3,080/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Abbott Medical Optics
CPC-FOCUS F01N · 36 areas
INNOV-PAR 51.9/100
CLAIMS-PAR 8.5 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +117% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Abbott Medical Optics 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 Futaba’s 51.9 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 16.7 pts (32%) Velocity 8.9 pts (17%) Breadth 21.2 pts (41%) Claim depth 5.1 pts (10%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

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Brillnics Singapore… · near

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Futaba Industrial · this assignee

52
University OF… · near

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Live Nation… · near

52
Mitsubishi Heavy… · near

52
3D Lighting… · lowest

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What this shows Futaba's Innovation Score is 51.9/100 (top 11% 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 Futaba?

Each dot is one of Futaba’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). Futaba’s own 8.5 claims/patent is at or below the 13.6 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Futaba's grants concentrate

Futaba Industrial Co., Ltd. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 36 CPC subclasses with 41.5% of grants classified under F01N (Gas-flow Silencers OR Exhaust Apparatus FOR Machines OR Engines IN GENERAL; Gas-flow Silencers OR Exhaust Apparatus FOR Internal-combustion Engines). Peak complete grant year is 2022 (24 grants) versus a trough of 3 in 2015. By volume, Futaba sits between Abbott Medical Optics Inc. and Lifetime Products, Inc..

Futaba's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Futaba Industrial Co., Ltd. moved from 39 to 52 grants (1.33x 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 #603. See the growth leaderboard.

Abbott Medical Op…

123
Endress+Hauser +KG

123
Endochoice

123
Everi Games

123
Festo SE & KG

123
Headwater Research

123
Knorr-bremse Syst…

123
Lifetime Products

123
Futaba Industrial ◀

123

What this shows Futaba holds 123 patents at rank #3,079, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Futaba

By rank, the assignees closest to #3,079 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F01N (Gas-flow Silencers OR Exhaust Apparatus FOR Machines OR E…)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Futaba, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In F01N (Gas-flow Silencers OR Exhaust Apparatus FOR Machines OR E…), Futaba ranks #30 of 487 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (52 here).

University OF Yamanashi 52 Brillnics Singapore PTE. Ltd. 52 Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Thermal Systems, Ltd. 52 Live Nation Entertainment, Inc. 52

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (8.5 here).

New-Tec Integration (Xiamen) Co., Ltd. 8.5 avg Kwang Yang Motor Co., Ltd. 8.5 avg Razor USA LLC 8.5 avg Aisan Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha 8.5 avg

Futaba's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

52 Top 11% higher than 89% 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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Futaba Industrial Co., Ltd. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	3	2.4%
2016	9	7.3%
2017	8	6.5%
2018	3	2.4%
2019	13	10.6%
2020	15	12.2%
2021	11	8.9%
2022	24	19.5%
2023	14	11.4%
2024	14	11.4%
2025partial year	9	7.3%

Which technologies does Futaba Industrial Co., Ltd. patent most?

F01N - Gas-flow Silencers OR Exhaust Apparatus FOR Machines OR Engines IN GENERAL; Gas-flow Silencers OR Exhaust Apparatus FOR Internal-combustion Engines 51

F02M - Supplying Combustion Engines IN General With Combustible Mixtures OR Constituents Thereof 30

B01D - Separation 19

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 19

B21D - Working OR Processing OF Sheet Metal OR Metal Tubes, Rods OR Profiles Without Essentially Removing MATERIAL; Punching Metal 15

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 13

B62D - Motor VEHICLES; Trailers 12

B60K - Arrangement OR Mounting OF Propulsion Units OR OF Transmissions IN VEHICLES; Arrangement OR Mounting OF Plural Diverse Prime-movers IN VEHICLES; Auxiliary Drives FOR VEHICLES; Instrumentation OR Dashboards FOR VEHICLES; Arrangements IN Connection With Cooling, AIR Intake, GAS Exhaust OR Fuel Supply 10

F16K - VALVES; TAPS; COCKS; ACTUATING-FLOATS; Devices FOR Venting OR Aerating 9

G10K - Sound-producing DEVICES; Methods OR Devices FOR Protecting Against, OR FOR Damping, Noise OR Other Acoustic Waves IN GENERAL; Acoustics NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 7

F16L - PIPES; Joints OR Fittings FOR PIPES; Supports FOR Pipes, Cables OR Protective TUBING; Means FOR Thermal Insulation IN General 7

F28F - Details OF Heat-exchange AND Heat-transfer Apparatus, OF General Application 6

F28D - Heat-exchange Apparatus, NOT Provided FOR IN Another Subclass, IN Which THE Heat-exchange Media DO NOT Come Into Direct Contact 5

F02D - Controlling Combustion Engines 4

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 4

Top 15 of 36 technology areas

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Data Source

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What to do with this data

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

Futaba Industrial Co., Ltd.'s lead technology class is F01N (Gas-flow Silencers OR Exhaust Apparatus FOR Machines OR Engines IN GENERAL; Gas-flow Silencers OR Exhaust Apparatus FOR Internal-combustion Engines), 41.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F01N
Ranked #3,080 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Futaba Industrial Co., Ltd. against Abbott Medical Optics Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 51.9/100 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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