Where does Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba ranks #24 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 Toshiba hold?

Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba holds 12,848 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 347 technology areas.

What is Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba's Innovation Score?

Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba has an Innovation Score of 70.6 out of 100 (top 1% 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 Toshiba focus on?

Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba's top technology area is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing) with 1,892 patents. Grants appear in 347 CPC subclasses total.

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

Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba's recent grant velocity is -55% 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 Toshiba's patents?

Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba's patents average 13.4 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 Toshiba 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 Toshiba

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 12,848 granted patents across 347 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: G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Kabushiki ranks #24 of 49,997 US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 12,848 patents across 347 technology areas.

#24
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 1%
by Innovation Score (70.6/100): 13.4
avg claims per patent: -55%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R24 · Foreign Corporation #24 · 12,848 grants

GRANTS-MEGA · TOP-DECILE · CLEAR-GAP · CPC-BROAD · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MEGA 13K grants
TOP-DECILE #24/49,997
CLEAR-GAP Panasonic Intellectu…
CPC-BROAD G06F · 347 areas
INNOV-STRONG 70.6/100
CLAIMS-RICH 13.4 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -55% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd. (±300 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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Chengdu Qinchuan… · near

71
Textron Innovations · near

71
Toshiba · this assignee

71
Toyota Jidosha · near

71
Volvo Truck · near

71
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Kabushiki's Innovation Score is 70.6/100 (top 1% 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.

How Kabushiki's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba received 3,810 grants versus 8,551 in 2015–2019 (-55% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2015 at 2,679 grants and bottomed in 2023 at 645. Lead class G06F accounts for 14.7% of the portfolio across 347 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Hyundai Motor Company (#20) and GM Global Technology Operations LLC (#28).

Kabushiki's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba moved from 2,899 to 2,093 grants (0.72x 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 #2,077. See the growth leaderboard.

Hyundai Motor

15,033
General Electric

14,436
Seiko Epson

14,235
Panasonic Intelle…

13,148
Toshiba ◀

12,848
Honda Motor

12,454
The Boeing

11,922
Robert Bosch

11,869
GM Global Technol…

11,736

What this shows Kabushiki holds 12,848 patents at rank #24, 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 #24 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing)

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).

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (71 here).

Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha 71 Textron Innovations Inc. 71 Volvo Truck Corporation 71 Chengdu Qinchuan IOT Technology Co., Ltd. 71

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (13.4 here).

C&D Zodiac, Inc. 13.4 avg FMC Kongsberg Subsea AS 13.4 avg Philip Morris Products S.A. 13.4 avg Nidec Corporation 13.4 avg

Kabushiki's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

71 Top 1% higher than 99% 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 Toshiba patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	2,679	20.9%
2016	1,996	15.5%
2017	1,583	12.3%
2018	1,111	8.6%
2019	1,182	9.2%
2020	968	7.5%
2021	749	5.8%
2022	800	6.2%
2023	645	5.0%
2024	648	5.0%
2025partial year	487	3.8%

Which technologies does Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba patent most?

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 1,892

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 1,532

H10D - Inorganic Electric Semiconductor Devices 1,449

G11C - Static Stores 1,030

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 968

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 926

G11B - Information Storage Based ON Relative Movement Between Record Carrier AND Transducer 850

H10B - Electronic Memory Devices 820

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 817

G03G - ELECTROGRAPHY; ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHY; Magnetography 623

H10N - Electric Solid-state Devices NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 507

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 504

H01M - Processes OR Means, e.g. Batteries, FOR THE Direct Conversion OF Chemical Energy Into Electrical Energy 500

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 440

H04B - Transmission 383

Top 15 of 347 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#24

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

70.6 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

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

Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba's lead technology class is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), 14.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06F
Ranked #24 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba against Hyundai Motor Company, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 70.6/100 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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