Where does Kabushiki Kaisha Nihon Micronics rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Kabushiki Kaisha Nihon Micronics ranks #2,825 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 Nihon Micronics hold?

Kabushiki Kaisha Nihon Micronics holds 136 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 33 technology areas.

What is Kabushiki Kaisha Nihon Micronics's Innovation Score?

Kabushiki Kaisha Nihon Micronics has an Innovation Score of 46.9 out of 100 (top 20% 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 Nihon Micronics focus on?

Kabushiki Kaisha Nihon Micronics's top technology area is G01R (Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables) with 83 patents, ranking #68 of 3,424 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 33 CPC subclasses total.

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

Kabushiki Kaisha Nihon Micronics's recent grant velocity is -3% 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 Nihon Micronics's patents?

Kabushiki Kaisha Nihon Micronics's patents average 8.7 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 Kabushiki Kaisha Nihon Micronics 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 Nihon Micronics

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 136 granted patents across 33 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: G01R (Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Kabushiki ranks #2,825 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 136 patents across 33 technology areas.

#2,825
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 20%
by Innovation Score (46.9/100): 8.7
avg claims per patent: -3%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2825 · Foreign Corporation #2,825 · 136 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-PAR · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-FLAT · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 136 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,825/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Haworth
CPC-FOCUS G01R · 33 areas
INNOV-PAR 46.9/100
CLAIMS-PAR 8.7 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-FLAT -3% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Haworth, 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 46.9 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 17.0 pts (36%) Velocity 4.3 pts (9%) Breadth 20.3 pts (43%) Claim depth 5.2 pts (11%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
ECO Holding 1 · near

47
Harro Hoefliger… · near

47
KnowBe4 · near

47
Magna Powertrain · near

47
Nihon Micronics · this assignee

47
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Kabushiki's Innovation Score is 46.9/100 (top 20% 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 8.7 claims/patent is at or below the 12.4 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 Nihon Micronics is a focused PatentsView assignee: 33 CPC subclasses with 61% of grants classified under G01R (Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (19 grants) versus a trough of 6 in 2023. By volume, Kabushiki sits between Haworth, Inc. and PlayNitride Display Co., Ltd..

Kabushiki's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Kabushiki Kaisha Nihon Micronics moved from 43 to 28 grants (0.65x 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 #2,311. See the growth leaderboard.

Haworth

136
Huawei Device (Do…

136
Industry Academy…

136
Jungheinrich

136
Makino Milling Ma…

136
NOF

136
Parade

136
Playnitride Displ…

136
Nihon Micronics ◀

136

What this shows Kabushiki holds 136 patents at rank #2,825, 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 #2,825 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G01R (Measuring Electric Variables)

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 G01R (Measuring Electric Variables), Kabushiki ranks #68 of 3,424 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (47 here).

KnowBe4, Inc. 47 ECO Holding 1 GmbH 47 Magna Powertrain, Inc. 47 Harro Hoefliger Verpackungsmaschinen GmbH 47

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (8.7 here).

Sanyo Denki Co., Ltd. 8.7 avg Panasonic Energy Co., Ltd. 8.7 avg Kaohsiung Medical University 8.7 avg Church & Dwight Co., Inc. 8.7 avg

Kabushiki's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

47 Top 20% higher than 80% 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 Nihon Micronics patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	19	14.0%
2016	12	8.8%
2017	13	9.6%
2018	11	8.1%
2019	9	6.6%
2020	17	12.5%
2021	17	12.5%
2022	10	7.4%
2023	6	4.4%
2024	12	8.8%
2025partial year	10	7.4%

Which technologies does Kabushiki Kaisha Nihon Micronics patent most?

G01R - Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables 83

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 22

H01M - Processes OR Means, e.g. Batteries, FOR THE Direct Conversion OF Chemical Energy Into Electrical Energy 21

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 13

H01R - Electrically-conductive CONNECTIONS; Structural Associations OF A Plurality OF Mutually-insulated Electrical Connecting ELEMENTS; Coupling DEVICES; Current Collectors 12

H05K - Printed CIRCUITS; Casings OR Constructional Details OF Electric APPARATUS; Manufacture OF Assemblages OF Electrical Components 11

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 9

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 9

H10N - Electric Solid-state Devices NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 5

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 5

H10F - Inorganic Semiconductor Devices Sensitive TO Infrared Radiation, Light, Electromagnetic Radiation OF Shorter Wavelength OR Corpuscular Radiation 4

H02J - Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy 4

H10D - Inorganic Electric Semiconductor Devices 4

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 3

H01G - CAPACITORS; Capacitors, Rectifiers, Detectors, Switching Devices, Light-sensitive OR Temperature-sensitive Devices OF THE Electrolytic Type 3

Top 15 of 33 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 Nihon Micronics's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Kabushiki Kaisha Nihon Micronics's lead technology class is G01R (Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables), 61% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G01R
Ranked #2,825 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Kabushiki Kaisha Nihon Micronics against Haworth, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 46.9/100 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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