Where does Konami Digital Entertainment Co., Ltd. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Konami Digital Entertainment Co., Ltd. ranks #2,045 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 Konami Digital Entertainment Co., Ltd. hold?

Konami Digital Entertainment Co., Ltd. holds 194 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 19 technology areas.

What is Konami Digital Entertainment Co., Ltd.'s Innovation Score?

Konami Digital Entertainment Co., Ltd. has an Innovation Score of 44.6 out of 100 (top 25% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Konami Digital Entertainment Co., Ltd.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Konami Digital Entertainment Co., Ltd.'s recent grant velocity is -51% 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 Konami Digital Entertainment Co., Ltd.'s patents?

Konami Digital Entertainment Co., Ltd.'s patents average 13.2 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 Konami Digital Entertainment 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

Konami Digital Entertainment Co., Ltd.

Q: What technology areas does Konami Digital Entertainment Co., Ltd. focus on?

Konami Digital Entertainment Co., Ltd.'s top technology area is A63F (Card, Board, OR Roulette GAMES; Indoor Games Using Small Moving Playing BODIES; Video GAMES; Games NOT Otherwise Provided FOR) with 164 patents. Grants appear in 19 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 194 granted patents across 19 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: A63F (Card, Board, OR Roulette GAMES; Indoor Games Using Small Moving Playing BODIES; Video GAMES; Games NOT Otherwise Provided FOR).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Konami ranks #2,045 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 194 patents across 19 technology areas.

#2,045
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 25%
by Innovation Score (44.6/100): 13.2
avg claims per patent: -51%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2045 · Foreign Corporation #2,045 · 194 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 194 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,045/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Forcepoint
CPC-FOCUS A63F · 19 areas
INNOV-PAR 44.6/100
CLAIMS-RICH 13.2 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -51% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Forcepoint 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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Em-tech · near

45
GE Hybrid · near

45
Konami Digital… · this assignee

45
Pivotal Software · near

45
Therma-stor · near

45
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Konami's Innovation Score is 44.6/100 (top 25% 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.

Where Konami's grants concentrate

Konami Digital Entertainment Co., Ltd. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 19 CPC subclasses with 84.5% of grants classified under A63F (Card, Board, OR Roulette GAMES; Indoor Games Using Small Moving Playing BODIES; Video GAMES; Games NOT Otherwise Provided FOR). Peak complete grant year is 2017 (32 grants) versus a trough of 7 in 2023. By volume, Konami sits between Forcepoint LLC and Tongji University.

Konami's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Konami Digital Entertainment Co., Ltd. moved from 60 to 28 grants (0.47x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). Among 3,296 tracked assignees with ≥100 grants and ≥20 prior-period grants, that multiple ranks #2,766. See the growth leaderboard.

Forcepoint

194
Gemalto

194
Ingersoll-rand

194
Intertrust

194
Proofpoint

194
Siemens Schweiz

194
Telecommunication…

194
Tongji University

194
Konami Digital En… ◀

194

What this shows Konami holds 194 patents at rank #2,045, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Konami

By rank, the assignees closest to #2,045 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A63F (Card)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Konami, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above).

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (45 here).

Pivotal Software, Inc. 45 GE Hybrid Technologies, LLC 45 Therma-stor LLC 45 Em-tech Co., Ltd 45

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (13.2 here).

Hitachi Vantara, Ltd. 13.2 avg Umicore 13.2 avg LSI Solutions, Inc. 13.2 avg Sigma-Aldrich Co. LLC 13.2 avg

Konami's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

45 Top 25% higher than 75% 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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Konami Digital Entertainment Co., Ltd. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	21	10.8%
2016	26	13.4%
2017	32	16.5%
2018	22	11.3%
2019	26	13.4%
2020	22	11.3%
2021	12	6.2%
2022	12	6.2%
2023	7	3.6%
2024	9	4.6%
2025partial year	5	2.6%

Which technologies does Konami Digital Entertainment Co., Ltd. patent most?

A63F - Card, Board, OR Roulette GAMES; Indoor Games Using Small Moving Playing BODIES; Video GAMES; Games NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 164

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 41

G07F - Coin-freed OR Like Apparatus 40

G06Q - Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory Purposes, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 20

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 15

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 14

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 8

H03K - Pulse Technique 2

H04M - Telephonic Communication 2

G06K - Graphical Data Reading ; Presentation OF DATA; Record CARRIERS; Handling Record Carriers 1

A63B - Apparatus FOR Physical Training, Gymnastics, Swimming, Climbing, OR FENCING; Ball GAMES; Training Equipment 1

B44F - Special Designs OR Pictures 1

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 1

G07D - Handling OF Coins OR Valuable Papers, e.g. Testing, Sorting BY Denominations, Counting, Dispensing, Changing OR Depositing 1

G09G - Arrangements OR Circuits FOR Control OF Indicating Devices Using Static Means TO Present Variable Information 1

Top 15 of 19 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#2,045

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

44.6 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

Konami Digital Entertainment Co., Ltd.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Konami Digital Entertainment Co., Ltd.'s lead technology class is A63F (Card, Board, OR Roulette GAMES; Indoor Games Using Small Moving Playing BODIES; Video GAMES; Games NOT Otherwise Provided FOR), 84.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A63F
Ranked #2,045 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Konami Digital Entertainment Co., Ltd. against Forcepoint LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 44.6/100 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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