Where does Horiba Instruments Incorporated rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Horiba Instruments Incorporated ranks #9,278 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 Horiba Instruments Incorporated hold?

Horiba Instruments Incorporated holds 34 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 23 technology areas.

What is Horiba Instruments Incorporated's Innovation Score?

Horiba Instruments Incorporated has an Innovation Score of 42.5 out of 100 (top 30% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Horiba Instruments Incorporated's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Horiba Instruments Incorporated's recent grant velocity is +46% 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 Horiba Instruments Incorporated's patents?

Horiba Instruments Incorporated's patents average 16.9 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 Horiba Instruments Incorporated 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 US Corporation

Horiba Instruments Incorporated

Q: What technology areas does Horiba Instruments Incorporated focus on?

Horiba Instruments Incorporated's top technology area is G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties) with 17 patents, ranking #897 of 7,863 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 23 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 34 granted patents across 23 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: G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Horiba ranks #9,278 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 34 patents across 23 technology areas.

#9,278
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 30%
by Innovation Score (42.5/100): 16.9
avg claims per patent: +46%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R9278 · US Corporation #9,278 · 34 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-UP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 34 grants
UPPER-Q #9,278/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Global Oled Technology
CPC-FOCUS G01N · 23 areas
INNOV-PAR 42.5/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.9 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-UP +46% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Global Oled Technology LLC (±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 Horiba’s 42.5 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 12.3 pts (29%) Velocity 3.1 pts (7%) Breadth 17.0 pts (40%) Claim depth 10.2 pts (24%)

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Horiba Instruments… · this assignee

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Sirona Dental Systems · near

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Termax · near

43
Wi-Charge · near

43
3D Lighting… · lowest

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What this shows Horiba's Innovation Score is 42.5/100 (top 30% 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 Horiba?

Each dot is one of Horiba’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). Horiba’s own 16.9 claims/patent is ABOVE the 10.5 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Horiba's grants concentrate

Horiba Instruments Incorporated is a focused PatentsView assignee: 23 CPC subclasses with 50% of grants classified under G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties). Peak complete grant year is 2020 (8 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2017. By volume, Horiba sits between Global Oled Technology LLC and Hublot SA, Genève.

Horiba's three-year grant acceleration

Horiba Instruments Incorporated shows 8 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.

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What this shows Horiba holds 34 patents at rank #9,276, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Horiba

By rank, the assignees closest to #9,276 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their…)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Horiba, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their…), Horiba ranks #897 of 7,863 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (43 here).

Wi-Charge Ltd. 43 Sirona Dental Systems GmbH 43 Termax Company 43 Barefoot Networks, Inc. 43

Horiba's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

43 Top 30% higher than 70% 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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Horiba Instruments Incorporated patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	4	11.8%
2017	1	2.9%
2018	2	5.9%
2019	6	17.6%
2020	8	23.5%
2021	3	8.8%
2022	3	8.8%
2023	2	5.9%
2024	3	8.8%
2025partial year	2	5.9%

Which technologies does Horiba Instruments Incorporated patent most?

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 17

G01M - Testing Static OR Dynamic Balance OF Machines OR STRUCTURES; Testing OF Structures OR Apparatus, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 10

G01J - Measurement OF Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase OR Pulse Characteristics OF Infrared, Visible OR Ultraviolet LIGHT; COLORIMETRY; Radiation Pyrometry 8

B60W - Conjoint Control OF Vehicle Sub-units OF Different Type OR Different FUNCTION; Control Systems Specially Adapted FOR Hybrid VEHICLES; Road Vehicle Drive Control Systems FOR Purposes NOT Related TO THE Control OF A Particular Sub-unit 4

C02F - Treatment OF Water, Waste Water, Sewage, OR Sludge 3

F01N - Gas-flow Silencers OR Exhaust Apparatus FOR Machines OR Engines IN GENERAL; Gas-flow Silencers OR Exhaust Apparatus FOR Internal-combustion Engines 3

F02D - Controlling Combustion Engines 3

F02B - Internal-combustion Piston ENGINES; Combustion Engines IN General 3

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 3

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 2

G07C - Time OR Attendance REGISTERS; Registering OR Indicating THE Working OF MACHINES; Generating Random NUMBERS; Voting OR Lottery APPARATUS; Arrangements, Systems OR Apparatus FOR Checking NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere 2

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 2

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 2

G01Q - Scanning-probe Techniques OR APPARATUS; Applications OF Scanning-probe Techniques, e.g. Scanning Probe Microscopy [SPM] 2

G01L - Measuring Force, Stress, Torque, Work, Mechanical Power, Mechanical Efficiency, OR Fluid Pressure 1

Top 15 of 23 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

Horiba Instruments Incorporated's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Horiba Instruments Incorporated's lead technology class is G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties), 50% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G01N
Ranked #9,278 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Horiba Instruments Incorporated against Global Oled Technology LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 42.5/100 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

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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