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General Plastic Industrial Co., Ltd.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 41 granted patents across 5 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: G03G (ELECTROGRAPHY; ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHY; Magnetography).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, General ranks #7,851 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 41 patents across 5 technology areas.

#7,851
of 49,997 US assignees by volume
36th percentile
by Innovation Score (30.8/100)
15.4
avg claims per patent
-61%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R7851 · Foreign Corporation #7,851 · 41 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

  • GRANTS-SMALL 41 grants
  • UPPER-Q #7,851/49,997
  • PHOTO-FINISH FotoNation Cayman
  • CPC-NARROW G03G · 5 areas
  • INNOV-THIN 30.8/100
  • CLAIMS-RICH 15.4 claims/avg
  • TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
  • VEL-DROP -61% vel
  • BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: FotoNation Cayman Limited (±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 General’s 30.8 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 General

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

score

What this shows General's Innovation Score is 30.8/100 (36th 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.

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

Does more volume mean deeper claims for General?

Each dot is one of General’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). General’s own 15.4 claims/patent is at or below the 16.2 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

General 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 40.941.041.04141.041.041.1 5101520253035 Granted patents (volume) Avg claims / patent FotoNation Cayman Limited - 41, 19.68Fotonation CaymanGE Oil & Gas ESP, Inc. - 41, 14.63GE Oil & Gas ESPGED Integrated Solutions, Inc. - 41, 16.78GED Integrated So…GEM Co., Ltd. - 41, 7.15GEMGurulogic Microsystems OY - 41, 25.37Gurulogic Microsy…Game Play Network, Inc. - 41, 29.76Game Play NetworkGarland Industries, Inc. - 41, 16.17Garland IndustriesGemVax & Kael Co., Ltd. - 41, 12.02Gemvax & KaelGeneral Plastic Industrial Co., Ltd. - 41, 15.37General Plastic I…
General vs its 8 nearest volume peers: granted patents vs average claims per patent. Source: USPTO PatentsView.

Where General's grants concentrate

General Plastic Industrial Co., Ltd. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 5 CPC subclasses with 92.7% of grants classified under G03G (ELECTROGRAPHY; ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHY; Magnetography). Peak complete grant year is 2019 (8 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2022. By volume, General sits between FotoNation Cayman Limited and GemVax & Kael Co., Ltd..

General's three-year grant acceleration

General Plastic Industrial Co., Ltd. shows 2 grants in 2022–2024 against only 17 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.

Who files at General's volume?

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

patents

What this shows General holds 41 patents at rank #7,848, 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 General

By rank, the assignees closest to #7,848 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G03G (Electrography)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for General, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G03G (Electrography), General ranks #27 of 196 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (31 here).

De'longhi Braun Household GMBH 31 Visual Supply Company 31 Big Switch Networks LLC 31 Storart Technology Co., Ltd. 31

General's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

31 36th percentile higher than 36% of 49,997 US assignees

This assignee 0 100 every tracked assignee, bucketed by value

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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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General Plastic Industrial Co., Ltd. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year Patents Granted Share of Period
2015 5 12.2%
2016 4 9.8%
2017 5 12.2%
2018 6 14.6%
2019 8 19.5%
2020 4 9.8%
2021 5 12.2%
2022 1 2.4%
2024 1 2.4%
2025partial year 2 4.9%

Which technologies does General Plastic Industrial Co., Ltd. patent most?

Top 5 of 5 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

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

  • General Plastic Industrial Co., Ltd.'s lead technology class is G03G (ELECTROGRAPHY; ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHY; Magnetography), 92.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G03G
  • Ranked #7,851 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
  • Compare General Plastic Industrial Co., Ltd. against FotoNation Cayman Limited, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
  • Innovation Score of 30.8/100 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.