Where does Kirin Beer Kabushiki Kaisha rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Kirin Beer Kabushiki Kaisha ranks #41,240 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 Kirin Beer Kabushiki Kaisha hold?

Kirin Beer Kabushiki Kaisha holds 6 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2020, spanning 9 technology areas.

What is Kirin Beer Kabushiki Kaisha's Innovation Score?

Kirin Beer Kabushiki Kaisha has an Innovation Score of 29.6 out of 100 (31st percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

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

Kirin Beer Kabushiki Kaisha's recent grant velocity is -80% 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 Kirin Beer Kabushiki Kaisha's patents?

Kirin Beer Kabushiki Kaisha's patents average 20.5 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 Kirin Beer Kabushiki Kaisha 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

Kirin Beer Kabushiki Kaisha

Q: What technology areas does Kirin Beer Kabushiki Kaisha focus on?

Kirin Beer Kabushiki Kaisha's top technology area is B65D (Containers FOR Storage OR Transport OF Articles OR Materials, e.g. Bags, Barrels, Bottles, Boxes, Cans, Cartons, Crates, Drums, Jars, Tanks, Hoppers, Forwarding CONTAINERS; Accessories, Closures, OR Fittings THEREFOR; Packaging ELEMENTS; Packages) with 5 patents, ranking #733 of 3,365 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 9 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 6 granted patents across 9 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2020. 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: B65D (Containers FOR Storage OR Transport OF Articles OR Materials, e.g. Bags, Barrels, Bottles, Boxes, Cans, Cartons, Crates, Drums, Jars, Tanks, Hoppers, Forwarding CONTAINERS; Accessories, Closures, OR F).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Kirin ranks #41,240 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 6 patents across 9 technology areas.

#41,240
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 31st percentile
by Innovation Score (29.6/100): 20.5
avg claims per patent: -80%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R41240 · Foreign Corporation #41,240 · 6 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · LOWER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 6 grants
LOWER-Q #41,240/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH King Yuan
CPC-NARROW B65D · 9 areas
INNOV-THIN 29.6/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 20.5 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -80% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: King Yuan Electronics 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 Kirin’s 29.6 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 6.7 pts (23%) Velocity 0.0 pts (0%) Breadth 10.6 pts (36%) Claim depth 12.3 pts (42%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Kirin Beer · this assignee

30
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Kirin's Innovation Score is 29.6/100 (31st 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 Kirin?

Each dot is one of Kirin’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). Kirin’s own 20.5 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.7 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Kirin's grants concentrate

Kirin Beer Kabushiki Kaisha is a focused PatentsView assignee: 9 CPC subclasses with 83.3% of grants classified under B65D (Containers FOR Storage OR Transport OF Articles OR Materials, e.g. Bags, Barrels, Bottles, Boxes, Cans, Cartons, Crates, Drums, Jars, Tanks, Hoppers, Forwarding CONTAINERS; Accessories, Closures, OR F). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (3 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2016. By volume, Kirin sits between King Yuan Electronics Co, Ltd. and Kl-kepong Oleomas SDN BHD.

King Yuan

6
Kingdream Public

6
Kinko-optical

6
Kinsun Industries

6
Kirintec

6
Kisan

6
Kivu Consulting

6
Kl-kepong Oleomas…

6
Kirin Beer ◀

6

What this shows Kirin holds 6 patents at rank #41,181, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Kirin

By rank, the assignees closest to #41,181 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B65D (Containers FOR Storage OR Transport OF Articles OR Materials)

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

Kirin's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

30 31st percentile higher than 31% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2020

Grants by year

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

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Kirin Beer Kabushiki Kaisha patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	3	50.0%
2016	1	16.7%
2017	1	16.7%
2020	1	16.7%

Which technologies does Kirin Beer Kabushiki Kaisha patent most?

B65D - Containers FOR Storage OR Transport OF Articles OR Materials, e.g. Bags, Barrels, Bottles, Boxes, Cans, Cartons, Crates, Drums, Jars, Tanks, Hoppers, Forwarding CONTAINERS; Accessories, Closures, OR Fittings THEREFOR; Packaging ELEMENTS; Packages 5

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

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 1

H01J - Electric Discharge Tubes OR Discharge Lamps 1

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 1

A23L - Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Preparation OR Treatment Thereof 1

A23P - Shaping OR Working OF Foodstuffs, NOT Fully Covered BY A Single Other Subclass 1

A23G - COCOA; Cocoa Products, e.g. CHOCOLATE; Substitutes FOR Cocoa OR Cocoa PRODUCTS; CONFECTIONERY; Chewing GUM; ICE-CREAM; Preparation Thereof 1

C12C - BEER; Preparation OF Beer BY Fermentation ; Preparation OF Malt FOR Making BEER; Preparation OF Hops FOR Making Beer 1

Top 9 of 9 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

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

Kirin Beer Kabushiki Kaisha's lead technology class is B65D (Containers FOR Storage OR Transport OF Articles OR Materials, e.g. Bags, Barrels, Bottles, Boxes, Cans, Cartons, Crates, Drums, Jars, Tanks, Hoppers, Forwarding CONTAINERS; Accessories, Closures, OR F), 83.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B65D
Ranked #41,240 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Kirin Beer Kabushiki Kaisha against King Yuan Electronics Co, Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 29.6/100 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

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