Where does Kawai Musical Instruments Manufacturing Co., Ltd. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Kawai Musical Instruments Manufacturing Co., Ltd. ranks #17,821 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 Kawai Musical Instruments Manufacturing Co., Ltd. hold?

Kawai Musical Instruments Manufacturing Co., Ltd. holds 16 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2022, spanning 12 technology areas.

What is Kawai Musical Instruments Manufacturing Co., Ltd.'s Innovation Score?

Kawai Musical Instruments Manufacturing Co., Ltd. has an Innovation Score of 28.6 out of 100 (28th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Kawai Musical Instruments Manufacturing Co., Ltd.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Kawai Musical Instruments Manufacturing Co., Ltd.'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 Kawai Musical Instruments Manufacturing Co., Ltd.'s patents?

Kawai Musical Instruments Manufacturing Co., Ltd.'s patents average 9.3 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.

USPTO 2015–2025 USPTO PatentsView Foreign Corporation

Kawai Musical Instruments Manufacturing Co., Ltd.

Q: What technology areas does Kawai Musical Instruments Manufacturing Co., Ltd. focus on?

Kawai Musical Instruments Manufacturing Co., Ltd.'s top technology area is 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) with 11 patents, ranking #23 of 238 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 12 CPC subclasses total.

Q: How is the Kawai Musical Instruments Manufacturing 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 PatentsView assignee record - 16 granted patents across 12 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2022. 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: 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).

Compiled by PlainPatent · May 15, 2026

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Kawai ranks #17,821 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 16 patents across 12 technology areas.

#17,821
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 28th percentile
by Innovation Score (28.6/100): 9.3
avg claims per patent: -55%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R17821 · Foreign Corporation #17,821 · 16 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-PAR · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 16 grants
MID-PACK #17,821/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Jingning Meige…
CPC-FOCUS G10H · 12 areas
INNOV-THIN 28.6/100
CLAIMS-PAR 9.3 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -55% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Jingning Meige Operation Management 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 Kawai’s 28.6 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 9.8 pts (34%) Velocity 1.0 pts (3%) Breadth 12.2 pts (43%) Claim depth 5.6 pts (20%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Kawai Musical… · this assignee

29
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Kawai's Innovation Score is 28.6/100 (28th percentile 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 Kawai?

Each dot is one of Kawai’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). Kawai’s own 9.3 claims/patent is ABOVE the 8.3 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Kawai's grants concentrate

Kawai Musical Instruments Manufacturing Co., Ltd. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 12 CPC subclasses with 68.8% of grants classified under 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). Peak complete grant year is 2018 (5 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2015. By volume, Kawai sits between Jingning Meige Operation Management Co., Ltd. and Kurt Manufacturing Company, Inc..

Kawai's three-year grant acceleration

Kawai Musical Instruments Manufacturing Co., Ltd. shows 1 grants in 2022–2024 against only 7 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.

Jingning Meige Op…

16
Johnson & Johnson

16
K&H Manufacturing

16
Kask S P A

16
Kingspan Holdings…

16
KK Wind Solutions…

16
Korea Polytechnic…

16
Kurt Manufacturing

16
Kawai Musical Ins… ◀

16

What this shows Kawai holds 16 patents at rank #17,817, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Kawai

By rank, the assignees closest to #17,817 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G10H (Electrophonic Musical Instruments)

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

Kawai's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

29 28th percentile higher than 28% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2022

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2015–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Kawai Musical Instruments Manufacturing Co., Ltd. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1	6.3%
2016	1	6.3%
2017	1	6.3%
2018	5	31.3%
2019	3	18.8%
2020	1	6.3%
2021	3	18.8%
2022	1	6.3%

Which technologies does Kawai Musical Instruments Manufacturing Co., Ltd. patent most?

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 11

G10C - Pianos, Harpsichords, Spinets OR Similar Stringed Musical Instruments With ONE OR More Keyboards 4

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 2

F16M - Frames, Casings OR Beds OF Engines, Machines OR Apparatus, NOT Specific TO Engines, Machines OR Apparatus Provided FOR ELSEWHERE; STANDS; Supports 1

H04S - Stereophonic Systems 1

H04R - Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups OR Like Acoustic Electromechanical TRANSDUCERS; Deaf-aid SETS; Public Address Systems 1

G09B - Educational OR Demonstration APPLIANCES; Appliances FOR Teaching, OR Communicating With, THE Blind, Deaf OR MUTE; MODELS; PLANETARIA; GLOBES; MAPS; Diagrams 1

H03G - Control OF Amplification 1

G10G - Representation OF MUSIC; Recording Music IN Notation FORM; Accessories FOR Music OR Musical Instruments NOT Otherwise Provided FOR, e.g. Supports 1

F21S - Non-portable Lighting DEVICES; Systems THEREOF; Vehicle Lighting Devices Specially Adapted FOR Vehicle Exteriors 1

F21Y - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses F21k, F21l, F21s and F21v, Relating TO THE Form OR THE Kind OF THE Light Sources OR OF THE Colour OF THE Light Emitted 1

F21V - Functional Features OR Details OF Lighting Devices OR Systems THEREOF; Structural Combinations OF Lighting Devices With Other Articles, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1

Top 12 of 12 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

Kawai Musical Instruments Manufacturing Co., Ltd.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Kawai Musical Instruments Manufacturing Co., Ltd.'s lead technology class is 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), 68.8% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G10H
Ranked #17,821 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Kawai Musical Instruments Manufacturing Co., Ltd. against Jingning Meige Operation Management Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 28.6/100 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

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.