Where does Horiba, Ltd. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Horiba, Ltd. ranks #1,608 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, Ltd. hold?

Horiba, Ltd. holds 257 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 77 technology areas.

What is Horiba, Ltd.'s Innovation Score?

Horiba, Ltd. has an Innovation Score of 52.9 out of 100 (top 9% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Horiba, Ltd. focus on?

Horiba, Ltd.'s top technology area is G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties) with 192 patents, ranking #67 of 7,863 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 77 CPC subclasses total.

Is Horiba, Ltd.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Horiba, Ltd.'s recent grant velocity is -33% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). Grant activity has slowed relative to earlier years.

What does claim depth mean for Horiba, Ltd.'s patents?

Horiba, Ltd.'s patents average 8.3 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, 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

Horiba, Ltd.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 257 granted patents across 77 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 #1,608 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 257 patents across 77 technology areas.

#1,608
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 9%
by Innovation Score (52.9/100): 8.3
avg claims per patent: -33%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1608 · Foreign Corporation #1,608 · 257 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 257 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,608/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH AAC Acoustic…
CPC-WIDE G01N · 77 areas
INNOV-PAR 52.9/100
CLAIMS-PAR 8.3 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -33% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: AAC Acoustic Technologies (SHENZHEN) Co., Ltd. (±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 52.9 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 19.2 pts (36%) Velocity 3.8 pts (7%) Breadth 25.0 pts (47%) Claim depth 5.0 pts (9%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Horiba · this assignee

53
KTM · near

53
THE Timken · near

53
Universite de… · near

53
ViOptix · near

53
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Horiba's Innovation Score is 52.9/100 (top 9% 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 8.3 claims/patent is at or below the 13.9 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

How Horiba's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Horiba, Ltd. received 99 grants versus 147 in 2015–2019 (-33% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2015 at 36 grants and bottomed in 2023 at 5. Lead class G01N accounts for 74.7% of the portfolio across 77 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Kantatsu Co., Ltd (#1,604) and Johnson Electric S.A. (#1,612).

Horiba's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Horiba, Ltd. moved from 80 to 45 grants (0.56x 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 #2,540. See the growth leaderboard.

Kantatsu

258
Turner Broadcasti…

258
AAC Acoustic (She…

257
Flir Systems

257
SMS group

257
Horiba ◀

257
Asahi Kasei Micro…

256
Bull SAS

256
Johnson Electric

256

What this shows Horiba holds 257 patents at rank #1,608, 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 #1,608 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 #67 of 7,863 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (53 here).

ViOptix, Inc. 53 THE Timken Company 53 KTM AG 53 Universite de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines 53

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (8.3 here).

Sumitomo Seika Chemicals Co., Ltd. 8.3 avg Toto Ltd. 8.3 avg The Noco Company 8.3 avg Mitsubishi Jidosha Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha 8.3 avg

Horiba's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

53 Top 9% higher than 91% 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, Ltd. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	36	14.0%
2016	31	12.1%
2017	23	8.9%
2018	31	12.1%
2019	26	10.1%
2020	24	9.3%
2021	30	11.7%
2022	26	10.1%
2023	5	1.9%
2024	14	5.4%
2025partial year	11	4.3%

Which technologies does Horiba, Ltd. patent most?

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 192

G01M - Testing Static OR Dynamic Balance OF Machines OR STRUCTURES; Testing OF Structures OR Apparatus, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 69

F01N - Gas-flow Silencers OR Exhaust Apparatus FOR Machines OR Engines IN GENERAL; Gas-flow Silencers OR Exhaust Apparatus FOR Internal-combustion Engines 23

G01J - Measurement OF Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase OR Pulse Characteristics OF Infrared, Visible OR Ultraviolet LIGHT; COLORIMETRY; Radiation Pyrometry 18

G01T - Measurement OF Nuclear OR X-radiation 15

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 14

G01F - Measuring Volume, Volume Flow, Mass Flow OR Liquid LEVEL; Metering BY Volume 11

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 10

H01J - Electric Discharge Tubes OR Discharge Lamps 9

G01L - Measuring Force, Stress, Torque, Work, Mechanical Power, Mechanical Efficiency, OR Fluid Pressure 8

G21K - Techniques FOR Handling Particles OR Ionising Radiation NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Irradiation DEVICES; Gamma RAY OR X-ray Microscopes 7

Y02A - Technologies FOR Adaptation TO Climate Change 6

G05D - Systems FOR Controlling OR Regulating Non-electric Variables 6

F02D - Controlling Combustion Engines 6

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 5

Top 15 of 77 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, Ltd.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Horiba, Ltd.'s lead technology class is G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties), 74.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G01N
Ranked #1,608 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Horiba, Ltd. against Kantatsu Co., Ltd, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 52.9/100 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

Compiled by PlainPatent , US Patent Intelligence Editorial Process · May 15, 2026

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