Where does Futamura Kagaku Kabushiki Kaisha rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Futamura Kagaku Kabushiki Kaisha ranks #22,617 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 Futamura Kagaku Kabushiki Kaisha hold?

Futamura Kagaku Kabushiki Kaisha holds 12 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 24 technology areas.

What is Futamura Kagaku Kabushiki Kaisha's Innovation Score?

Futamura Kagaku Kabushiki Kaisha has an Innovation Score of 34.0 out of 100 (46th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Futamura Kagaku Kabushiki Kaisha's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Futamura Kagaku Kabushiki Kaisha'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 Futamura Kagaku Kabushiki Kaisha's patents?

Futamura Kagaku Kabushiki Kaisha'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 Futamura Kagaku Kabushiki Kaisha 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

Futamura Kagaku Kabushiki Kaisha

Q: What technology areas does Futamura Kagaku Kabushiki Kaisha focus on?

Futamura Kagaku Kabushiki Kaisha's top technology area is C08J (WORKING-UP; General Processes OF COMPOUNDING; After-treatment NOT Covered BY Subclasses C08b, C08c, C08f, C08g or C08h) with 5 patents, ranking #403 of 1,665 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 24 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 12 granted patents across 24 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: C08J (WORKING-UP; General Processes OF COMPOUNDING; After-treatment NOT Covered BY Subclasses C08b, C08c, C08f, C08g or C08h).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Futamura ranks #22,617 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 12 patents across 24 technology areas.

#22,617
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 46th percentile
by Innovation Score (34.0/100): 11.4
avg claims per patent: +0%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R22617 · Foreign Corporation #22,617 · 12 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 12 grants
MID-PACK #22,617/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Famous Industries
CPC-FOCUS C08J · 24 areas
INNOV-THIN 34.0/100
CLAIMS-PAR 11.4 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-FLAT +0% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Famous Industries, 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 Futamura’s 34.0 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 8.9 pts (26%) Velocity 1.0 pts (3%) Breadth 17.3 pts (51%) Claim depth 6.9 pts (20%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Futamura Kagaku · this assignee

34
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Futamura's Innovation Score is 34.0/100 (46th percentile 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 Futamura?

Each dot is one of Futamura’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). Futamura’s own 11.4 claims/patent is at or below the 12.8 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Futamura's grants concentrate

Futamura Kagaku Kabushiki Kaisha is a focused PatentsView assignee: 24 CPC subclasses with 41.7% of grants classified under C08J (WORKING-UP; General Processes OF COMPOUNDING; After-treatment NOT Covered BY Subclasses C08b, C08c, C08f, C08g or C08h). Peak complete grant year is 2019 (3 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2015. By volume, Futamura sits between FUNDACIÓ Eurecat and Famous Industries, Inc..

Futamura's three-year grant acceleration

Futamura Kagaku Kabushiki Kaisha shows 1 grants in 2022–2024 against only 7 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.

FundaciÓ Eurecat

12
FundaÇÃO Oswaldo…

12
Funke Digital TV…

12
Furui Precise Com…

12
Futu Network Tech…

12
Fuvi Cognitive Ne…

12
FXI

12
Famous Industries

12
Futamura Kagaku ◀

12

What this shows Futamura holds 12 patents at rank #22,593, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Futamura

By rank, the assignees closest to #22,593 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C08J (Working-up)

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

Futamura's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

34 46th percentile higher than 46% 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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Futamura Kagaku Kabushiki Kaisha patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1	8.3%
2017	1	8.3%
2019	3	25.0%
2020	1	8.3%
2021	3	25.0%
2023	1	8.3%
2025partial year	2	16.7%

Which technologies does Futamura Kagaku Kabushiki Kaisha patent most?

C08J - WORKING-UP; General Processes OF COMPOUNDING; After-treatment NOT Covered BY Subclasses C08b, C08c, C08f, C08g or C08h 5

B01J - Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus 4

B01D - Separation 4

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 4

H01B - CABLES; CONDUCTORS; INSULATORS; Selection OF Materials FOR Their Conductive, Insulating OR Dielectric Properties 4

H01M - Processes OR Means, e.g. Batteries, FOR THE Direct Conversion OF Chemical Energy Into Electrical Energy 4

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 4

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 3

C02F - Treatment OF Water, Waste Water, Sewage, OR Sludge 2

B29C - Shaping OR Joining OF PLASTICS; Shaping OF Material IN A Plastic State, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; After-treatment OF THE Shaped Products, e.g. Repairing 2

C08K - Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances as compounding ingredients 1

C09D - Coating Compositions, e.g. Paints, Varnishes OR LACQUERS; Filling PASTES; Chemical Paint OR INK REMOVERS; INKS; Correcting FLUIDS; WOODSTAINS; Pastes OR Solids FOR Colouring OR PRINTING; USE OF Materials Therefor 1

C08G - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than BY Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds 1

C08L - Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds 1

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 1

Top 15 of 24 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

Futamura Kagaku Kabushiki Kaisha's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Futamura Kagaku Kabushiki Kaisha's lead technology class is C08J (WORKING-UP; General Processes OF COMPOUNDING; After-treatment NOT Covered BY Subclasses C08b, C08c, C08f, C08g or C08h), 41.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C08J
Ranked #22,617 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Futamura Kagaku Kabushiki Kaisha against FUNDACIÓ Eurecat, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 34.0/100 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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