Where does Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd. ranks #41,193 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 Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd. hold?

Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd. holds 6 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 14 technology areas.

What is Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd.'s Innovation Score?

Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd. has an Innovation Score of 28.0 out of 100 (26th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd.'s recent grant velocity is +50% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd.'s patents?

Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd.'s patents average 9.7 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 Kawasaki Heavy Industries, 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

Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd.

Q: What technology areas does Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd. focus on?

Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd.'s top technology area is F16L (PIPES; Joints OR Fittings FOR PIPES; Supports FOR Pipes, Cables OR Protective TUBING; Means FOR Thermal Insulation IN General) with 3 patents, ranking #652 of 1,907 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 14 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 6 granted patents across 14 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: F16L (PIPES; Joints OR Fittings FOR PIPES; Supports FOR Pipes, Cables OR Protective TUBING; Means FOR Thermal Insulation IN General).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Kawasaki ranks #41,193 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 6 patents across 14 technology areas.

#41,193
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 26th percentile
by Innovation Score (28.0/100): 9.7
avg claims per patent: +50%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R41193 · Foreign Corporation #41,193 · 6 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · LOWER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-PAR · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 6 grants
LOWER-Q #41,193/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Karltex Machine
CPC-FOCUS F16L · 14 areas
INNOV-THIN 28.0/100
CLAIMS-PAR 9.7 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +50% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Karltex Machine, 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 Kawasaki’s 28.0 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 6.7 pts (24%) Velocity 2.2 pts (8%) Breadth 13.2 pts (47%) Claim depth 5.8 pts (21%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Kawasaki Heavy… · this assignee

28
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Kawasaki's Innovation Score is 28.0/100 (26th 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 Kawasaki?

Each dot is one of Kawasaki’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). Kawasaki’s own 9.7 claims/patent is at or below the 11.7 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Kawasaki's grants concentrate

Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 14 CPC subclasses with 50% of grants classified under F16L (PIPES; Joints OR Fittings FOR PIPES; Supports FOR Pipes, Cables OR Protective TUBING; Means FOR Thermal Insulation IN General). By volume, Kawasaki sits between Karltex Machine, Inc. and Keizerskroon Beheer BV.

Kawasaki's three-year grant acceleration

Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd. shows 1 grants in 2022–2024 against only 3 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.

Karltex Machine

6
Kashiv Pharma

6
Katayama Kogyo

6
Katena Products

6
Kayrros

6
Kazan Federal Uni…

6
Keeper Technology

6
Keizerskroon Behe…

6
Kawasaki Heavy In… ◀

6

What this shows Kawasaki holds 6 patents at rank #41,236, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Kawasaki

By rank, the assignees closest to #41,236 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F16L (Pipes)

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

Kawasaki's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

28 26th percentile higher than 26% 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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Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1	16.7%
2019	1	16.7%
2020	1	16.7%
2021	1	16.7%
2024	1	16.7%
2025partial year	1	16.7%

Which technologies does Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd. patent most?

F16L - PIPES; Joints OR Fittings FOR PIPES; Supports FOR Pipes, Cables OR Protective TUBING; Means FOR Thermal Insulation IN General 3

B67D - Dispensing, Delivering OR Transferring Liquids, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 3

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 2

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 1

B07C - Postal SORTING; Sorting Individual Articles, OR Bulk Material FIT TO BE Sorted Piece-meal, e.g. BY Picking 1

B21J - FORGING; HAMMERING; Pressing METAL; RIVETING; Forge Furnaces 1

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 1

B60G - Vehicle Suspension Arrangements 1

F16F - SPRINGS; SHOCK-ABSORBERS; Means FOR Damping Vibration 1

B61F - Rail Vehicle Suspensions, e.g. Underframes, Bogies OR Arrangements OF Wheel AXLES; Rail Vehicles FOR USE ON Tracks OF Different WIDTH; Preventing Derailing OF Rail VEHICLES; Wheel Guards, Obstruction Removers OR THE Like FOR Rail Vehicles 1

F17C - Vessels FOR Containing OR Storing Compressed, Liquefied OR Solidified GASES; Fixed-capacity GAS-HOLDERS; Filling Vessels With, OR Discharging From Vessels, Compressed, Liquefied, OR Solidified Gases 1

F16K - VALVES; TAPS; COCKS; ACTUATING-FLOATS; Devices FOR Venting OR Aerating 1

C01B - Non-metallic ELEMENTS; Compounds THEREOF; ; Metalloids OR Compounds Thereof NOT Covered BY Subclass C01c 1

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 1

Top 14 of 14 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

Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd.'s lead technology class is F16L (PIPES; Joints OR Fittings FOR PIPES; Supports FOR Pipes, Cables OR Protective TUBING; Means FOR Thermal Insulation IN General), 50% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F16L
Ranked #41,193 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd. against Karltex Machine, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 28.0/100 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

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