Where does Kansai Paint Co., Ltd. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Kansai Paint Co., Ltd. ranks #3,200 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 Kansai Paint Co., Ltd. hold?

Kansai Paint Co., Ltd. holds 117 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 32 technology areas.

What is Kansai Paint Co., Ltd.'s Innovation Score?

Kansai Paint Co., Ltd. has an Innovation Score of 49.3 out of 100 (top 15% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Kansai Paint Co., Ltd.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Kansai Paint Co., Ltd.'s recent grant velocity is +21% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). The company is maintaining or growing its granted-patent output.

What does claim depth mean for Kansai Paint Co., Ltd.'s patents?

Kansai Paint Co., Ltd.'s patents average 9.5 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 Kansai Paint Co., Ltd. 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

Kansai Paint Co., Ltd.

Q: What technology areas does Kansai Paint Co., Ltd. focus on?

Kansai Paint Co., Ltd.'s top technology area is 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) with 96 patents, ranking #33 of 1,818 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 32 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 117 granted patents across 32 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: 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 Materi).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Kansai ranks #3,200 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 117 patents across 32 technology areas.

#3,200
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 15%
by Innovation Score (49.3/100): 9.5
avg claims per patent: +21%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R3200 · Foreign Corporation #3,200 · 117 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 117 grants
TOP-DECILE #3,200/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Evonik Röhm
CPC-FOCUS C09D · 32 areas
INNOV-PAR 49.3/100
CLAIMS-PAR 9.5 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-UP +21% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Evonik Röhm GmbH (±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 Kansai’s 49.3 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 16.5 pts (34%) Velocity 7.0 pts (14%) Breadth 20.0 pts (41%) Claim depth 5.7 pts (12%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Clari · near

49
Kansai Paint · this assignee

49
Satake · near

49
Abbott Medical Optics · near

49
TPR · near

49
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Kansai's Innovation Score is 49.3/100 (top 15% 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 Kansai?

Each dot is one of Kansai’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). Kansai’s own 9.5 claims/patent is at or below the 14.3 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Kansai's grants concentrate

Kansai Paint Co., Ltd. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 32 CPC subclasses with 82.1% of grants classified under 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 Materi). Peak complete grant year is 2019 (14 grants) versus a trough of 7 in 2017. By volume, Kansai sits between Evonik Röhm GmbH and Merry Electronics(Shenzhen) Co., Ltd..

Kansai's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Kansai Paint Co., Ltd. moved from 35 to 37 grants (1.06x 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 #1,050. See the growth leaderboard.

Evonik Röhm

117
GSI Technology

117
Infobridge PTE

117
John Mezzalingua…

117
Karlsruher Instit…

117
Krohne Messtechnik

117
Leidos

117
Merry (Shenzhen)

117
Kansai Paint ◀

117

What this shows Kansai holds 117 patents at rank #3,200, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Kansai

By rank, the assignees closest to #3,200 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C09D (Coating Compositions)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Kansai, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In C09D (Coating Compositions), Kansai ranks #33 of 1,818 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (49 here).

Satake Corporation 49 Abbott Medical Optics Inc. 49 TPR Co., Ltd. 49 Clari Inc. 49

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (9.5 here).

Inventec Corporation 9.5 avg Avery Dennison Retail Information Services LLC 9.5 avg Manitou Italia S.R.L. 9.5 avg Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Engine & Turbocharger, Ltd. 9.6 avg

Kansai's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

49 Top 15% higher than 85% 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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Kansai Paint Co., Ltd. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	10	8.5%
2016	9	7.7%
2017	7	6.0%
2018	8	6.8%
2019	14	12.0%
2020	12	10.3%
2021	9	7.7%
2022	12	10.3%
2023	11	9.4%
2024	14	12.0%
2025partial year	11	9.4%

Which technologies does Kansai Paint Co., Ltd. patent most?

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 96

B05D - Processes FOR Applying Fluent Materials TO Surfaces, IN General 72

C08G - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than BY Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds 55

C08K - Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances as compounding ingredients 45

C08F - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained BY Reactions Only Involving Carbon-to-carbon Unsaturated Bonds 38

C08L - Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds 27

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 17

C25D - Processes FOR THE Electrolytic OR Electrophoretic Production OF COATINGS; ELECTROFORMING; Apparatus Therefor 13

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 12

C09J - ADHESIVES; Non-mechanical Aspects OF Adhesive Processes IN GENERAL; Adhesive Processes NOT Provided FOR ELSEWHERE; USE OF Materials AS Adhesives 6

C08J - WORKING-UP; General Processes OF COMPOUNDING; After-treatment NOT Covered BY Subclasses C08b, C08c, C08f, C08g or C08h 4

H01M - Processes OR Means, e.g. Batteries, FOR THE Direct Conversion OF Chemical Energy Into Electrical Energy 4

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 4

C23C - Coating Metallic MATERIAL; Coating Material With Metallic MATERIAL; Surface Treatment OF Metallic Material BY Diffusion Into THE Surface, BY Chemical Conversion OR SUBSTITUTION; Coating BY Vacuum Evaporation, BY Sputtering, BY ION Implantation OR BY Chemical Vapour Deposition, IN General 4

C09C - Treatment OF Inorganic Materials, Other Than Fibrous Fillers, TO Enhance Their Pigmenting OR Filling Properties ; Preparation OF Carbon Black ; ; Preparation OF Inorganic Materials Which ARE NO Single Chemical Compounds AND Which ARE Mainly Used AS Pigments OR Fillers 4

Top 15 of 32 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

Kansai Paint Co., Ltd.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Kansai Paint Co., Ltd.'s lead technology class is 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 Materi), 82.1% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C09D
Ranked #3,200 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Kansai Paint Co., Ltd. against Evonik Röhm GmbH, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 49.3/100 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

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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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