Where does JFE Engineering Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), JFE Engineering Corporation ranks #26,631 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 JFE Engineering Corporation hold?

JFE Engineering Corporation holds 10 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 19 technology areas.

What is JFE Engineering Corporation's Innovation Score?

JFE Engineering Corporation 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 JFE Engineering Corporation focus on?

JFE Engineering Corporation's top technology area is B01D (Separation) with 4 patents, ranking #1,134 of 3,536 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 19 CPC subclasses total.

Is JFE Engineering Corporation's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

JFE Engineering Corporation's recent grant velocity is -71% 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 JFE Engineering Corporation's patents?

JFE Engineering Corporation's patents average 10.2 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 JFE Engineering Corporation 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

JFE Engineering Corporation

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 10 granted patents across 19 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: B01D (Separation).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, JFE ranks #26,631 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 10 patents across 19 technology areas.

#26,631
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 38th percentile
by Innovation Score (31.5/100): 10.2
avg claims per patent: -71%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R26631 · Foreign Corporation #26,631 · 10 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-PAR · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 10 grants
MID-PACK #26,631/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH JBS USA
CPC-FOCUS B01D · 19 areas
INNOV-THIN 31.5/100
CLAIMS-PAR 10.2 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -71% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: JBS USA, 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 JFE’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 8.3 pts (26%) Velocity 1.7 pts (5%) Breadth 15.4 pts (49%) Claim depth 6.1 pts (19%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
JFE Engineering · this assignee

31
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows JFE'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 JFE?

Each dot is one of JFE’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). JFE’s own 10.2 claims/patent is ABOVE the 9.9 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where JFE's grants concentrate

JFE Engineering Corporation is a focused PatentsView assignee: 19 CPC subclasses with 40% of grants classified under B01D (Separation). Peak complete grant year is 2018 (3 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2015. By volume, JFE sits between JBS USA, LLC and Jiangsu Micromedmark Biotech Co., Ltd..

JFE's three-year grant acceleration

JFE Engineering Corporation shows 1 grants in 2022–2024 against only 4 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.

JBS USA

10
JCU

10
Jeda Networks

10
JEI MOU Industrial

10
Jiangmen City Xin…

10
Jiangsu Electric…

10
Jiangsu Kanion Ph…

10
Jiangsu Micromedm…

10
JFE Engineering ◀

10

What this shows JFE holds 10 patents at rank #26,620, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near JFE

By rank, the assignees closest to #26,620 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B01D (Separation)

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

JFE's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

31 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 · 2015–2025

Grants by year

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

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JFE Engineering Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1	10.0%
2018	3	30.0%
2019	3	30.0%
2020	1	10.0%
2022	1	10.0%
2025partial year	1	10.0%

Which technologies does JFE Engineering Corporation patent most?

B01D - Separation 4

C02F - Treatment OF Water, Waste Water, Sewage, OR Sludge 2

B01L - Chemical OR Physical Laboratory Apparatus FOR General USE 1

B01J - Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus 1

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 1

G16C - Computational CHEMISTRY; CHEMOINFORMATICS; Computational Materials Science 1

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 1

C07D - Heterocyclic Compounds 1

C22B - Production AND Refining OF Metals ; Pretreatment OF RAW Materials 1

C07F - Acyclic, Carbocyclic OR Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium OR Tellurium 1

B65G - Transport OR Storage Devices, e.g. Conveyors FOR Loading OR Tipping, Shop Conveyor Systems OR Pneumatic Tube Conveyors 1

B60P - Vehicles Adapted FOR Load Transportation OR TO Transport, TO Carry, OR TO Comprise Special Loads OR Objects 1

B63J - Auxiliaries ON Vessels 1

B63B - Ships OR Other Waterborne VESSELS; Equipment FOR Shipping 1

F16L - PIPES; Joints OR Fittings FOR PIPES; Supports FOR Pipes, Cables OR Protective TUBING; Means FOR Thermal Insulation IN General 1

Top 15 of 19 technology areas

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

View all rankings → How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

JFE Engineering Corporation's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

JFE Engineering Corporation's lead technology class is B01D (Separation), 40% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B01D
Ranked #26,631 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare JFE Engineering Corporation against JBS USA, LLC, 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

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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