Where does Kayaba Industry Co., Ltd. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Kayaba Industry Co., Ltd. ranks #5,526 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 Kayaba Industry Co., Ltd. hold?

Kayaba Industry Co., Ltd. holds 62 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2016, spanning 33 technology areas.

What is Kayaba Industry Co., Ltd.'s Innovation Score?

Kayaba Industry Co., Ltd. has an Innovation Score of 38.5 out of 100 (top 41% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Kayaba Industry Co., Ltd. focus on?

Kayaba Industry Co., Ltd.'s top technology area is F16F (SPRINGS; SHOCK-ABSORBERS; Means FOR Damping Vibration) with 21 patents, ranking #47 of 892 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 33 CPC subclasses total.

Is Kayaba Industry Co., Ltd.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Kayaba Industry Co., Ltd.'s recent grant velocity is -100% 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 Kayaba Industry Co., Ltd.'s patents?

Kayaba Industry Co., Ltd.'s patents average 6.5 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 Kayaba Industry 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

Kayaba Industry Co., Ltd.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 62 granted patents across 33 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2016. 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: F16F (SPRINGS; SHOCK-ABSORBERS; Means FOR Damping Vibration).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Kayaba ranks #5,526 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 62 patents across 33 technology areas.

#5,526
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 41%
by Innovation Score (38.5/100): 6.5
avg claims per patent: -100%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R5526 · Foreign Corporation #5,526 · 62 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-SPARSE · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 62 grants
UPPER-Q #5,526/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Implus Footcare
CPC-FOCUS F16F · 33 areas
INNOV-THIN 38.5/100
CLAIMS-SPARSE 6.5 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -100% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Implus Footcare, LLC (±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 Kayaba’s 38.5 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 14.3 pts (37%) Velocity 0.0 pts (0%) Breadth 20.3 pts (53%) Claim depth 3.9 pts (10%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Hitachi Power… · near

39
Kayaba Industry · this assignee

39
Zora Biosciences OY · near

39
Maui Imaging · near

39
Moen Incorporated · near

39
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Kayaba's Innovation Score is 38.5/100 (top 41% 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 Kayaba?

Each dot is one of Kayaba’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). Kayaba’s own 6.5 claims/patent is at or below the 12.2 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Kayaba's grants concentrate

Kayaba Industry Co., Ltd. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 33 CPC subclasses with 33.9% of grants classified under F16F (SPRINGS; SHOCK-ABSORBERS; Means FOR Damping Vibration). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (54 grants) versus a trough of 8 in 2016. By volume, Kayaba sits between Implus Footcare, LLC and Microsemi SoC Corp..

Implus Footcare

62
Infinity Pharmace…

62
Innova

62
International Aid…

62
Korea Kumho Petro…

62
Mitsubishi Paper…

62
Medivators

62
Microsemi Soc

62
Kayaba Industry ◀

62

What this shows Kayaba holds 62 patents at rank #5,524, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Kayaba

By rank, the assignees closest to #5,524 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F16F (Springs)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Kayaba, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In F16F (Springs), Kayaba ranks #47 of 892 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (39 here).

Hitachi Power Semiconductor Device, Ltd. 39 Zora Biosciences OY 39 Moen Incorporated 39 Maui Imaging, Inc. 39

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (6.5 here).

Honda Access Corp. 6.5 avg Toshiba Electron Tubes & Devices Co., Ltd. 6.5 avg Aliphcom 6.5 avg Runway Blue, LLC 6.5 avg

Kayaba's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

39 Top 41% higher than 59% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2016

Grants by year

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

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Kayaba Industry Co., Ltd. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	54	87.1%
2016	8	12.9%

Which technologies does Kayaba Industry Co., Ltd. patent most?

F16F - SPRINGS; SHOCK-ABSORBERS; Means FOR Damping Vibration 21

F15B - Systems Acting BY Means OF Fluids IN GENERAL; Fluid-pressure Actuators, e.g. SERVOMOTORS; Details OF Fluid-pressure Systems, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 12

E02F - DREDGING; Soil-shifting 10

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 6

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 5

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 5

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 5

B60G - Vehicle Suspension Arrangements 4

B62B - Hand-propelled Vehicles, e.g. Hand Carts OR PERAMBULATORS; Sledges 4

F16K - VALVES; TAPS; COCKS; ACTUATING-FLOATS; Devices FOR Venting OR Aerating 3

H02K - Dynamo-electric Machines 3

B62D - Motor VEHICLES; Trailers 3

F16H - Gearing 3

B66F - Hoisting, Lifting, Hauling OR Pushing, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR, e.g. Devices Which Apply A Lifting OR Pushing Force Directly TO THE Surface OF A Load 2

G01L - Measuring Force, Stress, Torque, Work, Mechanical Power, Mechanical Efficiency, OR Fluid Pressure 2

Top 15 of 33 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

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

Kayaba Industry Co., Ltd.'s lead technology class is F16F (SPRINGS; SHOCK-ABSORBERS; Means FOR Damping Vibration), 33.9% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F16F
Ranked #5,526 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Kayaba Industry Co., Ltd. against Implus Footcare, LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 38.5/100 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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