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

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Kirin Holdings Kabushiki Kaisha ranks #8,062 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 Holdings Kabushiki Kaisha hold?

Kirin Holdings Kabushiki Kaisha holds 40 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 26 technology areas.

What is Kirin Holdings Kabushiki Kaisha's Innovation Score?

Kirin Holdings Kabushiki Kaisha has an Innovation Score of 41.2 out of 100 (top 34% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

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

Kirin Holdings Kabushiki Kaisha's recent grant velocity is +11% 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 Kirin Holdings Kabushiki Kaisha's patents?

Kirin Holdings Kabushiki Kaisha's patents average 7.9 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 Holdings 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 Holdings Kabushiki Kaisha

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

Kirin Holdings Kabushiki Kaisha's top technology area is A23L (Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Preparation OR Treatment Thereof) with 22 patents, ranking #61 of 1,325 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 26 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 40 granted patents across 26 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: A23L (Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Preparation OR Treatment Thereof).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Kirin ranks #8,062 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 40 patents across 26 technology areas.

#8,062
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 34%
by Innovation Score (41.2/100): 7.9
avg claims per patent: +11%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R8062 · Foreign Corporation #8,062 · 40 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 40 grants
UPPER-Q #8,062/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH JetZero
CPC-FOCUS A23L · 26 areas
INNOV-PAR 41.2/100
CLAIMS-SPARSE 7.9 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-UP +11% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: JetZero, 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 Kirin’s 41.2 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 12.8 pts (31%) Velocity 5.6 pts (14%) Breadth 18.0 pts (44%) Claim depth 4.7 pts (11%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Fate Therapeutics · near

41
Biomed Valley… · near

41
Kirin Holdings · this assignee

41
China Electric… · near

41
EBR Systems · near

41
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Kirin's Innovation Score is 41.2/100 (top 34% 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 7.9 claims/patent is at or below the 12.1 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Kirin's grants concentrate

Kirin Holdings Kabushiki Kaisha is a focused PatentsView assignee: 26 CPC subclasses with 55% of grants classified under A23L (Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Preparation OR Treatment Thereof). Peak complete grant year is 2020 (6 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2023. By volume, Kirin sits between JetZero, Inc. and Landis+Gyr Technologies, LLC.

Kirin's three-year grant acceleration

Kirin Holdings Kabushiki Kaisha shows 11 grants in 2022–2024 against only 13 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.

Jetzero

40
Johannes Gutenber…

40
John Zink

40
Keihin Thermal Te…

40
Kuhn

40
Kumiai Chemical I…

40
Kojima Industries

40
Landis+Gyr

40
Kirin Holdings ◀

40

What this shows Kirin holds 40 patents at rank #8,061, 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 #8,061 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A23L (Foods)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Kirin, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A23L (Foods), Kirin ranks #61 of 1,325 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (41 here).

Biomed Valley Discoveries, Inc. 41 China Electric Power Research Institute 41 EBR Systems, Inc. 41 Fate Therapeutics, Inc. 41

Kirin's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

41 Top 34% higher than 66% 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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Kirin Holdings Kabushiki Kaisha patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	3	7.5%
2016	3	7.5%
2017	5	12.5%
2018	3	7.5%
2019	4	10.0%
2020	6	15.0%
2021	3	7.5%
2022	5	12.5%
2023	2	5.0%
2024	4	10.0%
2025partial year	2	5.0%

Which technologies does Kirin Holdings Kabushiki Kaisha patent most?

A23L - Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Preparation OR Treatment Thereof 22

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 22

C12N - Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media 20

A61P - Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations 19

A23V - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages AND Lactic OR Propionic Acid Bacteria Used IN Foodstuffs OR Food Preparation 16

C12Q - Measuring OR Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids OR Microorganisms ; Compositions OR Test Papers THEREFOR; Processes OF Preparing Such COMPOSITIONS; Condition-responsive Control IN Microbiological OR Enzymological Processes 11

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 10

C12R - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses C12c - C12q, Relating TO Microorganisms 8

C08F - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained BY Reactions Only Involving Carbon-to-carbon Unsaturated Bonds 6

A01H - NEW Plants OR ; NON-TRANSGENIC; Processes FOR Obtaining THEM; Plant Reproduction BY Tissue Culture Techniques 5

C07K - Peptides 4

C12Y - Enzymes 4

A23C - Dairy Products, e.g. Milk, Butter OR CHEESE; Milk OR Cheese SUBSTITUTES; Making OR Treatment Thereof 4

C07D - Heterocyclic Compounds 3

C12C - BEER; Preparation OF Beer BY Fermentation ; Preparation OF Malt FOR Making BEER; Preparation OF Hops FOR Making Beer 3

Top 15 of 26 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 Holdings Kabushiki Kaisha's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Kirin Holdings Kabushiki Kaisha's lead technology class is A23L (Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Preparation OR Treatment Thereof), 55% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A23L
Ranked #8,062 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Kirin Holdings Kabushiki Kaisha against JetZero, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 41.2/100 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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