Where does Kabushiki Kaisha Kawai Gakki Seisakusho rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Kabushiki Kaisha Kawai Gakki Seisakusho ranks #7,869 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 Kawai Gakki Seisakusho hold?

Kabushiki Kaisha Kawai Gakki Seisakusho holds 41 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 21 technology areas.

What is Kabushiki Kaisha Kawai Gakki Seisakusho's Innovation Score?

Kabushiki Kaisha Kawai Gakki Seisakusho has an Innovation Score of 37.1 out of 100 (top 44% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Kabushiki Kaisha Kawai Gakki Seisakusho's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Kabushiki Kaisha Kawai Gakki Seisakusho'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 Kabushiki Kaisha Kawai Gakki Seisakusho's patents?

Kabushiki Kaisha Kawai Gakki Seisakusho's patents average 6.9 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 Kawai Gakki Seisakusho 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 Kawai Gakki Seisakusho

Q: What technology areas does Kabushiki Kaisha Kawai Gakki Seisakusho focus on?

Kabushiki Kaisha Kawai Gakki Seisakusho's top technology area is G10C (Pianos, Harpsichords, Spinets OR Similar Stringed Musical Instruments With ONE OR More Keyboards) with 26 patents, ranking #2 of 7 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 21 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 41 granted patents across 21 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: G10C (Pianos, Harpsichords, Spinets OR Similar Stringed Musical Instruments With ONE OR More Keyboards).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Kabushiki ranks #7,869 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 41 patents across 21 technology areas.

#7,869
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 44%
by Innovation Score (37.1/100): 6.9
avg claims per patent: -33%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R7869 · Foreign Corporation #7,869 · 41 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 41 grants
UPPER-Q #7,869/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Inventec Appliances…
CPC-FOCUS G10C · 21 areas
INNOV-THIN 37.1/100
CLAIMS-SPARSE 6.9 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -33% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Inventec Appliances (Shanghai) 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 Kabushiki’s 37.1 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 12.9 pts (35%) Velocity 3.9 pts (11%) Breadth 16.2 pts (44%) Claim depth 4.1 pts (11%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Calgary Scientific · near

37
Jiangsu Hansoh… · near

37
Johnson Matthey… · near

37
Kawai Gakki Seisakusho · this assignee

37
LG Fuel Cell Systems · near

37
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Kabushiki's Innovation Score is 37.1/100 (top 44% 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 6.9 claims/patent is at or below the 8.1 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 Kawai Gakki Seisakusho is a focused PatentsView assignee: 21 CPC subclasses with 63.4% of grants classified under G10C (Pianos, Harpsichords, Spinets OR Similar Stringed Musical Instruments With ONE OR More Keyboards). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (9 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2017. By volume, Kabushiki sits between Inventec Appliances (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. and KYE Systems Corp..

Kabushiki's three-year grant acceleration

Kabushiki Kaisha Kawai Gakki Seisakusho shows 7 grants in 2022–2024 against only 12 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.

Inventec Applianc…

41
Japan Polyethylene

41
JDS Uniphase

41
JX Metals

41
TOP

41
Katmai Tech

41
Korea Food Resear…

41
KYE Systems

41
Kawai Gakki Seisa… ◀

41

What this shows Kabushiki holds 41 patents at rank #7,869, 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 #7,869 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G10C (Pianos)

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 G10C (Pianos), Kabushiki ranks #2 of 7 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (37 here).

Calgary Scientific Inc. 37 LG Fuel Cell Systems Inc. 37 Johnson Matthey Fuel Cells Limited 37 Jiangsu Hansoh Pharmaceutical Group Co., Ltd 37

Kabushiki's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

37 Top 44% higher than 56% 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 Kawai Gakki Seisakusho patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	9	22.0%
2016	4	9.8%
2017	1	2.4%
2018	2	4.9%
2019	5	12.2%
2020	5	12.2%
2021	2	4.9%
2022	2	4.9%
2023	3	7.3%
2024	2	4.9%
2025partial year	6	14.6%

Which technologies does Kabushiki Kaisha Kawai Gakki Seisakusho patent most?

G10C - Pianos, Harpsichords, Spinets OR Similar Stringed Musical Instruments With ONE OR More Keyboards 26

G10H - Electrophonic Musical INSTRUMENTS; Instruments IN Which THE Tones ARE Generated BY Electromechanical Means OR Electronic Generators, OR IN Which THE Tones ARE Synthesised From A Data Store 22

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 3

G10B - Organs, Harmoniums OR Similar Wind Musical Instruments With Associated Blowing Apparatus 3

G10G - Representation OF MUSIC; Recording Music IN Notation FORM; Accessories FOR Music OR Musical Instruments NOT Otherwise Provided FOR, e.g. Supports 2

H04R - Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups OR Like Acoustic Electromechanical TRANSDUCERS; Deaf-aid SETS; Public Address Systems 2

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 1

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 1

H05B - Electric HEATING; Electric Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Circuit Arrangements FOR Electric Light Sources, IN General 1

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 1

Y02B - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Buildings, e.g. Housing, House Appliances OR Related End-user Applications 1

H03K - Pulse Technique 1

A47B - TABLES; DESKS; Office FURNITURE; CABINETS; DRAWERS; General Details OF Furniture 1

G11C - Static Stores 1

B60Q - Arrangement OF Signalling OR Lighting Devices, THE Mounting OR Supporting Thereof OR Circuits Therefor, FOR Vehicles IN General 1

Top 15 of 21 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 Kawai Gakki Seisakusho's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Kabushiki Kaisha Kawai Gakki Seisakusho's lead technology class is G10C (Pianos, Harpsichords, Spinets OR Similar Stringed Musical Instruments With ONE OR More Keyboards), 63.4% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G10C
Ranked #7,869 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Kabushiki Kaisha Kawai Gakki Seisakusho against Inventec Appliances (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 37.1/100 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

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