Where does Kabushiki Kaisha Pilot Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Kabushiki Kaisha Pilot Corporation ranks #3,017 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 Pilot Corporation hold?

Kabushiki Kaisha Pilot Corporation holds 126 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 45 technology areas.

What is Kabushiki Kaisha Pilot Corporation's Innovation Score?

Kabushiki Kaisha Pilot Corporation has an Innovation Score of 48.9 out of 100 (top 16% 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 Pilot Corporation focus on?

Kabushiki Kaisha Pilot Corporation's top technology area is B43K (Implements FOR Writing OR Drawing) with 43 patents, ranking #3 of 82 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 45 CPC subclasses total.

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

Kabushiki Kaisha Pilot Corporation's recent grant velocity is -14% 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 Pilot Corporation's patents?

Kabushiki Kaisha Pilot Corporation's patents average 7.9 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 Pilot 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

Kabushiki Kaisha Pilot Corporation

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 126 granted patents across 45 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: B43K (Implements FOR Writing OR Drawing).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Kabushiki ranks #3,017 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 126 patents across 45 technology areas.

#3,017
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 16%
by Innovation Score (48.9/100): 7.9
avg claims per patent: -14%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R3017 · Foreign Corporation #3,017 · 126 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-SPARSE · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 126 grants
TOP-DECILE #3,017/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Fyusion
CPC-WIDE B43K · 45 areas
INNOV-PAR 48.9/100
CLAIMS-SPARSE 7.9 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -14% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Fyusion, 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 48.9 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 16.7 pts (34%) Velocity 3.7 pts (8%) Breadth 23.7 pts (48%) Claim depth 4.8 pts (10%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
General Cable · near

49
Glock Technology · near

49
Pilot · this assignee

49
Rush University… · near

49
Universitat Bern · near

49
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Kabushiki's Innovation Score is 48.9/100 (top 16% 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 7.9 claims/patent is at or below the 13.9 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 Pilot Corporation is a focused PatentsView assignee: 45 CPC subclasses with 34.1% of grants classified under B43K (Implements FOR Writing OR Drawing). Peak complete grant year is 2019 (27 grants) versus a trough of 4 in 2023. By volume, Kabushiki sits between Fyusion, Inc. and NEC Laboratories America, Inc..

Kabushiki's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Kabushiki Kaisha Pilot Corporation moved from 54 to 30 grants (0.56x 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 #2,560. See the growth leaderboard.

Fyusion

126
Goodrich Actuatio…

126
Hisense Electric

126
Hunter Industries

126
Keurig Green Moun…

126
L3harris

126
MX

126
NEC Laboratories…

126
Pilot ◀

126

What this shows Kabushiki holds 126 patents at rank #3,016, 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 #3,016 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B43K (Implements FOR Writing OR Drawing)

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 B43K (Implements FOR Writing OR Drawing), Kabushiki ranks #3 of 82 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (49 here).

Rush University Medical Center 49 General Cable Technologies Corporation 49 Universitat Bern 49 Glock Technology GmbH 49

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (7.9 here).

Midmark Corporation 7.9 avg Nihon Dempa Kogyo Co., Ltd. 7.9 avg Southeast University 7.9 avg Takara BIO Inc. 7.9 avg

Kabushiki's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

49 Top 16% higher than 84% 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 Pilot Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	5	4.0%
2016	9	7.1%
2017	14	11.1%
2018	11	8.7%
2019	27	21.4%
2020	19	15.1%
2021	8	6.3%
2022	13	10.3%
2023	4	3.2%
2024	13	10.3%
2025partial year	3	2.4%

Which technologies does Kabushiki Kaisha Pilot Corporation patent most?

B43K - Implements FOR Writing OR Drawing 43

C09D - Coating Compositions, e.g. Paints, Varnishes OR LACQUERS; Filling PASTES; Chemical Paint OR INK REMOVERS; INKS; Correcting FLUIDS; WOODSTAINS; Pastes OR Solids FOR Colouring OR PRINTING; USE OF Materials Therefor 25

H02J - Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy 7

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 7

B60L - Propulsion OF Electrically-propelled Vehicles ; Supplying Electric Power FOR Auxiliary Equipment OF Electrically-propelled Vehicles ; Electrodynamic Brake Systems FOR Vehicles IN General ; Magnetic Suspension OR Levitation FOR VEHICLES; Monitoring Operating Variables OF Electrically-propelled Vehicl 7

B43L - Articles FOR Writing OR Drawing UPON; ; Writing OR Drawing AIDS;; Accessories FOR Writing OR Drawing 6

C08K - Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances as compounding ingredients 4

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 4

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 4

H04M - Telephonic Communication 4

C09K - Materials FOR Miscellaneous Applications, NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere 3

C08L - Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds 3

G03G - ELECTROGRAPHY; ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHY; Magnetography 2

A63H - Toys, e.g. Tops, Dolls, Hoops OR Building Blocks 2

C09B - Organic Dyes OR Closely-related Compounds FOR Producing Dyes ; , e.g. PIGMENTS; MORDANTS; Lakes 2

Top 15 of 45 technology areas

More on this record

Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

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What to do with this data

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

Kabushiki Kaisha Pilot Corporation's lead technology class is B43K (Implements FOR Writing OR Drawing), 34.1% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B43K
Ranked #3,017 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Kabushiki Kaisha Pilot Corporation against Fyusion, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 48.9/100 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

Compiled by PlainPatent , US Patent Intelligence Editorial Process · May 15, 2026

Every figure on PlainPatent is rendered directly from USPTO source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on USPTO source data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 2026.