Where does Kabushiki Kaisha Isowa rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Kabushiki Kaisha Isowa ranks #10,366 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 Kabushiki Kaisha Isowa hold?

Kabushiki Kaisha Isowa holds 30 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 16 technology areas.

What is Kabushiki Kaisha Isowa's Innovation Score?

Kabushiki Kaisha Isowa has an Innovation Score of 35.7 out of 100 (top 49% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Kabushiki Kaisha Isowa focus on?

Kabushiki Kaisha Isowa's top technology area is B31B (Making Containers OF Paper, Cardboard OR Material Worked IN A Manner Analogous TO Paper) with 14 patents, ranking #15 of 282 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 16 CPC subclasses total.

Is Kabushiki Kaisha Isowa's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Kabushiki Kaisha Isowa's recent grant velocity is -29% 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 Kabushiki Kaisha Isowa's patents?

Kabushiki Kaisha Isowa's patents average 9.9 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 Kabushiki Kaisha Isowa 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

Kabushiki Kaisha Isowa

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 30 granted patents across 16 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: B31B (Making Containers OF Paper, Cardboard OR Material Worked IN A Manner Analogous TO Paper).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Kabushiki ranks #10,366 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 30 patents across 16 technology areas.

#10,366
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 49%
by Innovation Score (35.7/100): 9.9
avg claims per patent: -29%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R10366 · Foreign Corporation #10,366 · 30 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-PAR · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 30 grants
UPPER-Q #10,366/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Kao USA
CPC-FOCUS B31B · 16 areas
INNOV-THIN 35.7/100
CLAIMS-PAR 9.9 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -29% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Kao USA Inc. (±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 Kabushiki’s 35.7 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 11.9 pts (33%) Velocity 3.7 pts (10%) Breadth 14.1 pts (39%) Claim depth 6.0 pts (17%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Biomet C V · near

36
Cardinal Health… · near

36
Cmech (GUANGZHOU) · near

36
Isowa · this assignee

36
Shanghai OXi… · near

36
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Kabushiki's Innovation Score is 35.7/100 (top 49% 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 Kabushiki?

Each dot is one of Kabushiki’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). Kabushiki’s own 9.9 claims/patent is at or below the 10.1 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Kabushiki's grants concentrate

Kabushiki Kaisha Isowa is a focused PatentsView assignee: 16 CPC subclasses with 46.7% of grants classified under B31B (Making Containers OF Paper, Cardboard OR Material Worked IN A Manner Analogous TO Paper). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (5 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2022. By volume, Kabushiki sits between KNIPEX-Werk C. Gustav Putsch KG and Kolcraft Enterprises, Inc..

Kabushiki's three-year grant acceleration

Kabushiki Kaisha Isowa shows 5 grants in 2022–2024 against only 9 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.

Knipex-werk C Gus…

30
Knu-industry Coop…

30
Kount

30
Kuka Systems

30
Kao USA

30
Keystone Tower Sy…

30
Kohler (China) In…

30
Kolcraft Enterpri…

30
Isowa ◀

30

What this shows Kabushiki holds 30 patents at rank #10,372, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Kabushiki

By rank, the assignees closest to #10,372 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B31B (Making Containers OF Paper)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Kabushiki, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B31B (Making Containers OF Paper), Kabushiki ranks #15 of 282 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (36 here).

Cmech (GUANGZHOU) Ltd. 36 Shanghai OXi Technology Co., Ltd 36 Cardinal Health Switzerland 515 GMBH 36 Biomet C.V. 36

Kabushiki's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

36 Top 49% higher than 51% 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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Kabushiki Kaisha Isowa patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	5	16.7%
2016	3	10.0%
2017	3	10.0%
2018	4	13.3%
2019	2	6.7%
2020	5	16.7%
2021	2	6.7%
2022	1	3.3%
2023	4	13.3%
2025partial year	1	3.3%

Which technologies does Kabushiki Kaisha Isowa patent most?

B31B - Making Containers OF Paper, Cardboard OR Material Worked IN A Manner Analogous TO Paper 14

B65H - Handling Thin OR Filamentary Material, e.g. Sheets, Webs, Cables 9

B31F - Mechanical Working OR Deformation OF Paper, Cardboard OR Material Worked IN A Manner Analogous TO Paper 7

B26D - CUTTING; Details Common TO Machines FOR Perforating, Punching, Cutting-out, Stamping-out OR Severing 6

B41F - Printing Machines OR Presses 5

B41P - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Printing, Lining Machines, Typewriters, AND TO Stamps 3

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

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 2

G06Q - Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory Purposes, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 2

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

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 1

B05C - Apparatus FOR Applying Fluent Materials TO Surfaces, IN General 1

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 1

B41J - TYPEWRITERS; Selective Printing Mechanisms, i.e. Mechanisms Printing Otherwise Than From A FORME; Correction OF Typographical Errors 1

B26F - PERFORATING; PUNCHING; CUTTING-OUT; STAMPING-OUT; Severing BY Means Other Than Cutting 1

Top 15 of 16 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

Kabushiki Kaisha Isowa's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Kabushiki Kaisha Isowa's lead technology class is B31B (Making Containers OF Paper, Cardboard OR Material Worked IN A Manner Analogous TO Paper), 46.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B31B
Ranked #10,366 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Kabushiki Kaisha Isowa against KNIPEX-Werk C. Gustav Putsch KG, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 35.7/100 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

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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