Where does Ishida Europe Limited rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Ishida Europe Limited ranks #13,503 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 Ishida Europe Limited hold?

Ishida Europe Limited holds 22 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 20 technology areas.

What is Ishida Europe Limited's Innovation Score?

Ishida Europe Limited has an Innovation Score of 53.4 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 Ishida Europe Limited focus on?

Ishida Europe Limited's top technology area is B65B (Machines, Apparatus OR Devices FOR, OR Methods OF, Packaging Articles OR MATERIALS; Unpacking) with 7 patents, ranking #205 of 1,343 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 20 CPC subclasses total.

Is Ishida Europe Limited's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Ishida Europe Limited's recent grant velocity is +29% 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 Ishida Europe Limited's patents?

Ishida Europe Limited's patents average 18.7 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 Ishida Europe Limited 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

Ishida Europe Limited

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 22 granted patents across 20 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: B65B (Machines, Apparatus OR Devices FOR, OR Methods OF, Packaging Articles OR MATERIALS; Unpacking).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Ishida ranks #13,503 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 22 patents across 20 technology areas.

#13,503
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 9%
by Innovation Score (53.4/100): 18.7
avg claims per patent: +29%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R13503 · Foreign Corporation #13,503 · 22 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-UP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 22 grants
MID-PACK #13,503/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Imasen Electric…
CPC-FOCUS B65B · 20 areas
INNOV-PAR 53.4/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.7 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-UP +29% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Imasen Electric Industrial 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 Ishida’s 53.4 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 10.8 pts (20%) Velocity 15.6 pts (29%) Breadth 15.8 pts (30%) Claim depth 11.2 pts (21%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Ishida Europe · this assignee

53
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Ishida's Innovation Score is 53.4/100 (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 Ishida?

Each dot is one of Ishida’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). Ishida’s own 18.7 claims/patent is ABOVE the 12.9 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Ishida's grants concentrate

Ishida Europe Limited is a focused PatentsView assignee: 20 CPC subclasses with 31.8% of grants classified under B65B (Machines, Apparatus OR Devices FOR, OR Methods OF, Packaging Articles OR MATERIALS; Unpacking). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (3 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2016. By volume, Ishida sits between International Currency Technologies Corporation and Infortrend Technology, Inc..

Ishida's three-year grant acceleration

Ishida Europe Limited shows 7 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.

International Cur…

22
Inthesmart

22
Inventisbio

22
Inzicontrols

22
Imasen Electric I…

22
Impressions Vanity

22
Impulse Dynamics

22
Infortrend Techno…

22
Ishida Europe ◀

22

What this shows Ishida holds 22 patents at rank #13,484, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Ishida

By rank, the assignees closest to #13,484 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B65B (Machines)

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

Ishida'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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Ishida Europe Limited patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	3	13.6%
2016	1	4.5%
2017	1	4.5%
2018	1	4.5%
2019	1	4.5%
2020	1	4.5%
2021	1	4.5%
2022	3	13.6%
2023	2	9.1%
2024	2	9.1%
2025partial year	6	27.3%

Which technologies does Ishida Europe Limited patent most?

B65B - Machines, Apparatus OR Devices FOR, OR Methods OF, Packaging Articles OR MATERIALS; Unpacking 7

A22C - Processing Meat, Poultry, OR Fish 6

A23P - Shaping OR Working OF Foodstuffs, NOT Fully Covered BY A Single Other Subclass 4

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 4

B29C - Shaping OR Joining OF PLASTICS; Shaping OF Material IN A Plastic State, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; After-treatment OF THE Shaped Products, e.g. Repairing 3

A23L - Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Preparation OR Treatment Thereof 3

B26D - CUTTING; Details Common TO Machines FOR Perforating, Punching, Cutting-out, Stamping-out OR Severing 3

B07B - Separating Solids From Solids BY Sieving, Screening, Sifting OR BY Using GAS CURRENTS; Separating BY Other DRY Methods Applicable TO Bulk Material, e.g. Loose Articles FIT TO BE Handled Like Bulk Material 3

B07C - Postal SORTING; Sorting Individual Articles, OR Bulk Material FIT TO BE Sorted Piece-meal, e.g. BY Picking 3

G01M - Testing Static OR Dynamic Balance OF Machines OR STRUCTURES; Testing OF Structures OR Apparatus, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 3

G01G - Weighing 3

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 2

B65G - Transport OR Storage Devices, e.g. Conveyors FOR Loading OR Tipping, Shop Conveyor Systems OR Pneumatic Tube Conveyors 2

G01F - Measuring Volume, Volume Flow, Mass Flow OR Liquid LEVEL; Metering BY Volume 2

B30B - Presses IN General 1

Top 15 of 20 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

Ishida Europe Limited's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Ishida Europe Limited's lead technology class is B65B (Machines, Apparatus OR Devices FOR, OR Methods OF, Packaging Articles OR MATERIALS; Unpacking), 31.8% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B65B
Ranked #13,503 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Ishida Europe Limited against International Currency Technologies Corporation, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 53.4/100 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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