Where does Ibiden Co., Ltd. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Ibiden Co., Ltd. ranks #947 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 Ibiden Co., Ltd. hold?

Ibiden Co., Ltd. holds 467 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 74 technology areas.

What is Ibiden Co., Ltd.'s Innovation Score?

Ibiden Co., Ltd. has an Innovation Score of 65.7 out of 100 (top 1% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

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

Ibiden Co., Ltd.'s recent grant velocity is -51% 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 Ibiden Co., Ltd.'s patents?

Ibiden Co., Ltd.'s patents average 18.1 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 Ibiden 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

Ibiden Co., Ltd.

Q: What technology areas does Ibiden Co., Ltd. focus on?

Ibiden Co., Ltd.'s top technology area is H05K (Printed CIRCUITS; Casings OR Constructional Details OF Electric APPARATUS; Manufacture OF Assemblages OF Electrical Components) with 315 patents, ranking #22 of 3,545 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 74 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 467 granted patents across 74 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: H05K (Printed CIRCUITS; Casings OR Constructional Details OF Electric APPARATUS; Manufacture OF Assemblages OF Electrical Components).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Ibiden ranks #947 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 467 patents across 74 technology areas.

#947
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 1%
by Innovation Score (65.7/100): 18.1
avg claims per patent: -51%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R947 · Foreign Corporation #947 · 467 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 467 grants
TOP-DECILE #947/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Nanyang Technologica…
CPC-WIDE H05K · 74 areas
INNOV-STRONG 65.7/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.1 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -51% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Nanyang Technological University (±1 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 Ibiden’s 65.7 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 21.2 pts (32%) Velocity 8.6 pts (13%) Breadth 25.0 pts (38%) Claim depth 10.9 pts (17%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Evonik Operations · near

66
Copeland · near

66
Ewha UNIVERSITY—INDU… · near

66
Ibiden · this assignee

66
Boston Scientific… · near

66
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Ibiden's Innovation Score is 65.7/100 (top 1% 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 Ibiden?

Each dot is one of Ibiden’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). Ibiden’s own 18.1 claims/patent is ABOVE the 17.0 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How Ibiden's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Ibiden Co., Ltd. received 147 grants versus 297 in 2015–2019 (-51% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2015 at 88 grants and bottomed in 2020 at 21. Lead class H05K accounts for 67.5% of the portfolio across 74 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Nordson Corporation (#943) and Syngenta Crop Protection AG (#951).

Ibiden's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Ibiden Co., Ltd. moved from 81 to 104 grants (1.28x 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 #668. See the growth leaderboard.

Nordson

469
Varian Semiconduc…

469
Nanyang Technolog…

468
Ramot at Tel-aviv…

468
Ibiden ◀

467
Phison

466
Siemens Healthine…

466
Snap-on Incorpora…

465
Syngenta Crop Pro…

465

What this shows Ibiden holds 467 patents at rank #947, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Ibiden

By rank, the assignees closest to #947 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H05K (Printed Circuits)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Ibiden, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H05K (Printed Circuits), Ibiden ranks #22 of 3,545 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (66 here).

Ewha UNIVERSITY—INDUSTRY Collaboration Foundation 66 Copeland LP 66 Evonik Operations GmbH 66 Boston Scientific Neuromodulation Corporation 66

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (18.1 here).

Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company 18.1 avg Saint-gobain Abrasifs 18.1 avg Kansas State University Research Foundation 18.1 avg Siemens Product Lifecycle Management Software Inc. 18.1 avg

Ibiden's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

66 Top 1% higher than 99% 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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Ibiden Co., Ltd. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	88	18.8%
2016	71	15.2%
2017	70	15.0%
2018	30	6.4%
2019	38	8.1%
2020	21	4.5%
2021	22	4.7%
2022	36	7.7%
2023	30	6.4%
2024	38	8.1%
2025partial year	23	4.9%

Which technologies does Ibiden Co., Ltd. patent most?

H05K - Printed CIRCUITS; Casings OR Constructional Details OF Electric APPARATUS; Manufacture OF Assemblages OF Electrical Components 315

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 174

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 114

F01N - Gas-flow Silencers OR Exhaust Apparatus FOR Machines OR Engines IN GENERAL; Gas-flow Silencers OR Exhaust Apparatus FOR Internal-combustion Engines 60

B01D - Separation 50

C04B - Lime, MAGNESIA; SLAG; CEMENTS; Compositions Thereof, e.g. Mortars, Concrete OR Like Building MATERIALS; Artificial Stone ; Ceramics ; REFRACTORIES; Treatment OF Natural Stone 45

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 40

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 38

H01F - MAGNETS; INDUCTANCES; TRANSFORMERS; Selection OF Materials FOR Their Magnetic Properties 26

B01J - Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus 26

B28B - Shaping Clay OR Other Ceramic COMPOSITIONS; Shaping SLAG; Shaping Mixtures Containing Cementitious Material, e.g. Plaster 13

H02K - Dynamo-electric Machines 13

C25D - Processes FOR THE Electrolytic OR Electrophoretic Production OF COATINGS; ELECTROFORMING; Apparatus Therefor 12

C23C - Coating Metallic MATERIAL; Coating Material With Metallic MATERIAL; Surface Treatment OF Metallic Material BY Diffusion Into THE Surface, BY Chemical Conversion OR SUBSTITUTION; Coating BY Vacuum Evaporation, BY Sputtering, BY ION Implantation OR BY Chemical Vapour Deposition, IN General 12

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 11

Top 15 of 74 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

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

Ibiden Co., Ltd.'s lead technology class is H05K (Printed CIRCUITS; Casings OR Constructional Details OF Electric APPARATUS; Manufacture OF Assemblages OF Electrical Components), 67.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H05K
Ranked #947 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Ibiden Co., Ltd. against Nordson Corporation, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 65.7/100 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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