Where does Gifu Plastic Industry Co. Ltd. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Gifu Plastic Industry Co. Ltd. ranks #31,768 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 Gifu Plastic Industry Co. Ltd. hold?

Gifu Plastic Industry Co. Ltd. holds 8 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2024, spanning 9 technology areas.

What is Gifu Plastic Industry Co. Ltd.'s Innovation Score?

Gifu Plastic Industry Co. Ltd. has an Innovation Score of 31.5 out of 100 (38th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Gifu Plastic Industry Co. Ltd. focus on?

Gifu Plastic Industry Co. Ltd.'s top technology area is B32B (Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form) with 4 patents, ranking #899 of 3,088 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 9 CPC subclasses total.

Is Gifu Plastic Industry Co. Ltd.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Gifu Plastic Industry Co. Ltd.'s recent grant velocity is +67% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Gifu Plastic Industry Co. Ltd.'s patents?

Gifu Plastic Industry Co. Ltd.'s patents average 7.4 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 Gifu Plastic Industry 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

Gifu Plastic Industry Co. Ltd.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 8 granted patents across 9 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2024. 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: B32B (Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Gifu ranks #31,768 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 8 patents across 9 technology areas.

#31,768
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 38th percentile
by Innovation Score (31.5/100): 7.4
avg claims per patent: +67%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R31768 · Foreign Corporation #31,768 · 8 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-SPARSE · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 8 grants
MID-PACK #31,768/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Geisinger Clinic
CPC-NARROW B32B · 9 areas
INNOV-THIN 31.5/100
CLAIMS-SPARSE 7.4 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +67% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Geisinger Clinic (±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 Gifu’s 31.5 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 7.6 pts (24%) Velocity 8.9 pts (28%) Breadth 10.6 pts (34%) Claim depth 4.4 pts (14%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Gifu Plastic Industry · this assignee

32
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Gifu's Innovation Score is 31.5/100 (38th 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 Gifu?

Each dot is one of Gifu’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). Gifu’s own 7.4 claims/patent is at or below the 12.3 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Gifu's grants concentrate

Gifu Plastic Industry Co. Ltd. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 9 CPC subclasses with 50% of grants classified under B32B (Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form). Peak complete grant year is 2019 (2 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2015. By volume, Gifu sits between Geisinger Clinic and GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare GmbH and Co. KG.

Gifu's three-year grant acceleration

Gifu Plastic Industry Co. Ltd. shows 4 grants in 2022–2024 against only 3 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.

Geisinger Clinic

8
General LED Opco

8
General Monitors

8
Gentuity

8
Ginsey Industries

8
Giti Radial Tire…

8
Glam Labs

8
Glaxosmithkline C…

8
Gifu Plastic Indu… ◀

8

What this shows Gifu holds 8 patents at rank #31,808, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Gifu

By rank, the assignees closest to #31,808 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B32B (Layered Products)

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

Gifu's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

32 38th percentile higher than 38% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2024

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2015–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Gifu Plastic Industry Co. Ltd. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1	12.5%
2019	2	25.0%
2021	1	12.5%
2022	1	12.5%
2023	2	25.0%
2024	1	12.5%

Which technologies does Gifu Plastic Industry Co. Ltd. patent most?

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 4

E04H - Buildings OR Like Structures FOR Particular PURPOSES; Swimming OR Splash Baths OR POOLS; MASTS; FENCING; Tents OR Canopies, IN General 3

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 1

F02C - Gas-turbine PLANTS; AIR Intakes FOR Jet-propulsion PLANTS; Controlling Fuel Supply IN Air-breathing Jet-propulsion Plants 1

F05D - Indexing Scheme FOR Aspects Relating TO Non-positive-displacement Machines OR Engines, Gas-turbines OR Jet-propulsion Plants 1

B64C - AEROPLANES; Helicopters 1

B64D - Equipment FOR Fitting IN OR TO AIRCRAFT; Flight SUITS; PARACHUTES; Arrangement OR Mounting OF Power Plants OR Propulsion Transmissions IN Aircraft 1

B31D - Making Articles OF Paper, Cardboard OR Material Worked IN A Manner Analogous TO Paper, NOT Provided FOR IN Subclasses B31b OR B31c 1

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 1

Top 9 of 9 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

Gifu Plastic Industry Co. Ltd.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Gifu Plastic Industry Co. Ltd.'s lead technology class is B32B (Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form), 50% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B32B
Ranked #31,768 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Gifu Plastic Industry Co. Ltd. against Geisinger Clinic, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 31.5/100 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

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