Where does Konica Minolta, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Konica Minolta, Inc. ranks #84 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 Konica Minolta, Inc. hold?

Konica Minolta, Inc. holds 4,158 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 225 technology areas.

What is Konica Minolta, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Konica Minolta, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 64.8 out of 100 (top 1% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Konica Minolta, Inc. focus on?

Konica Minolta, Inc.'s top technology area is G03G (ELECTROGRAPHY; ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHY; Magnetography) with 1,431 patents, ranking #6 of 196 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 225 CPC subclasses total.

Is Konica Minolta, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Konica Minolta, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -46% 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 Konica Minolta, Inc.'s patents?

Konica Minolta, Inc.'s patents average 13.6 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 Konica Minolta, Inc. 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

Konica Minolta, Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 4,158 granted patents across 225 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: G03G (ELECTROGRAPHY; ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHY; Magnetography).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Konica ranks #84 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 4,158 patents across 225 technology areas.

#84
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 1%
by Innovation Score (64.8/100): 13.6
avg claims per patent: -46%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R84 · Foreign Corporation #84 · 4,158 grants

GRANTS-LARGE · TOP-DECILE · NEAR-PEER · CPC-BROAD · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-LARGE 4.2K grants
TOP-DECILE #84/49,997
NEAR-PEER Kyocera
CPC-BROAD G03G · 225 areas
INNOV-STRONG 64.8/100
CLAIMS-RICH 13.6 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -46% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Kyocera Corporation (±7 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 Konica’s 64.8 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 28.8 pts (44%) Velocity 2.9 pts (4%) Breadth 25.0 pts (39%) Claim depth 8.2 pts (13%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Canon Medical Systems · near

65
HON HAI Precision… · near

65
Silicon Laboratories · near

65
Konica Minolta · this assignee

65
Advansix Resins &… · near

65
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Konica's Innovation Score is 64.8/100 (top 1% 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 Konica?

Each dot is one of Konica’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). Konica’s own 13.6 claims/patent is at or below the 14.8 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

How Konica's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Konica Minolta, Inc. received 1,401 grants versus 2,600 in 2015–2019 (-46% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2019 at 628 grants and bottomed in 2023 at 170. Lead class G03G accounts for 34.4% of the portfolio across 225 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Commissariat A L'energie Atomique ET AUX Energies Alternatives (#80) and HON HAI Precision Industry Co., Ltd. (#88).

Konica's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Konica Minolta, Inc. moved from 1,420 to 609 grants (0.43x 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 #2,830. See the growth leaderboard.

Commissariat A L'…

4,218
ZTE

4,193
Basf SE

4,191
Caterpillar

4,178
Konica Minolta ◀

4,158
Kyocera

4,151
United

4,091
United Microelect…

4,034
HON HAI Precision…

4,005

What this shows Konica holds 4,158 patents at rank #84, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Konica

By rank, the assignees closest to #84 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G03G (Electrography)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Konica, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G03G (Electrography), Konica ranks #6 of 196 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (65 here).

Advansix Resins & Chemicals LLC 65 HON HAI Precision Industry Co., Ltd. 65 Canon Medical Systems Corporation 65 Silicon Laboratories Inc. 65

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (13.6 here).

E.I. DU Pont DE Nemours AND Company 13.6 avg Institut National de la Sante et de la Recherche Medicale (INSERM) 13.6 avg Bull SAS 13.6 avg Universite De Montpellier 13.6 avg

Konica's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

65 Top 1% higher than 99% 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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Konica Minolta, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	397	9.5%
2016	471	11.3%
2017	501	12.0%
2018	603	14.5%
2019	628	15.1%
2020	544	13.1%
2021	248	6.0%
2022	252	6.1%
2023	170	4.1%
2024	187	4.5%
2025partial year	157	3.8%

Which technologies does Konica Minolta, Inc. patent most?

G03G - ELECTROGRAPHY; ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHY; Magnetography 1,431

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 1,040

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 642

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 427

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 315

B41J - TYPEWRITERS; Selective Printing Mechanisms, i.e. Mechanisms Printing Otherwise Than From A FORME; Correction OF Typographical Errors 304

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 277

B65H - Handling Thin OR Filamentary Material, e.g. Sheets, Webs, Cables 242

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 236

G06K - Graphical Data Reading ; Presentation OF DATA; Record CARRIERS; Handling Record Carriers 204

H10K - Organic Electric Solid-state Devices 187

G16H - Healthcare Informatics, i.e. Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR THE Handling OR Processing OF Medical OR Healthcare Data 134

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 113

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 110

C09K - Materials FOR Miscellaneous Applications, NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere 104

Top 15 of 225 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

Konica Minolta, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Konica Minolta, Inc.'s lead technology class is G03G (ELECTROGRAPHY; ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHY; Magnetography), 34.4% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G03G
Ranked #84 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Konica Minolta, Inc. against Commissariat A L'energie Atomique ET AUX Energies Alternatives, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 64.8/100 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

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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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