Where does Konica Minolta Laboratory U.S.A., Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Konica Minolta Laboratory U.S.A., Inc. ranks #1,422 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 Laboratory U.S.A., Inc. hold?

Konica Minolta Laboratory U.S.A., Inc. holds 295 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2021, spanning 56 technology areas.

What is Konica Minolta Laboratory U.S.A., Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Konica Minolta Laboratory U.S.A., Inc. has an Innovation Score of 54.8 out of 100 (top 7% 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 Laboratory U.S.A., Inc. focus on?

Konica Minolta Laboratory U.S.A., Inc.'s top technology area is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing) with 158 patents, ranking #373 of 13,878 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 56 CPC subclasses total.

Is Konica Minolta Laboratory U.S.A., Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Konica Minolta Laboratory U.S.A., Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -83% 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 Laboratory U.S.A., Inc.'s patents?

Konica Minolta Laboratory U.S.A., Inc.'s patents average 16.8 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 Laboratory U.S.A., 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 US Corporation

Konica Minolta Laboratory U.S.A., Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 295 granted patents across 56 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2021. 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: G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Konica ranks #1,422 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 295 patents across 56 technology areas.

#1,422
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 7%
by Innovation Score (54.8/100): 16.8
avg claims per patent: -83%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1422 · US Corporation #1,422 · 295 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 295 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,422/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Epcos
CPC-WIDE G06F · 56 areas
INNOV-PAR 54.8/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.8 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -83% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Epcos AG (±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 Konica’s 54.8 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 19.7 pts (36%) Velocity 0.0 pts (0%) Breadth 25.0 pts (46%) Claim depth 10.1 pts (18%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Heraeus Medical · near

55
Konica Minolta… · this assignee

55
Meishan Boya… · near

55
Snecma · near

55
AAC Optics Solutions… · near

55
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Konica's Innovation Score is 54.8/100 (top 7% 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 16.8 claims/patent is ABOVE the 16.8 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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 Laboratory U.S.A., Inc. received 42 grants versus 253 in 2015–2019 (-83% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2018 at 64 grants and bottomed in 2021 at 6. Lead class G06F accounts for 53.6% of the portfolio across 56 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Toshiba Energy Systems & Solutions Corporation (#1,418) and General Mills, Inc. (#1,426).

Toshiba Energy Sy…

297
Epcos

295
Essity Hygiene AN…

295
Flextronics AP

295
Macom Technology…

295
Nucurrent

295
Konica Minolta La… ◀

295
Chengdu Monolithi…

294
General Mills

294

What this shows Konica holds 295 patents at rank #1,422, 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 #1,422 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing)

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 G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), Konica ranks #373 of 13,878 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (55 here).

Snecma 55 Heraeus Medical GmbH 55 Meishan Boya Advanced Materials Co., Ltd. 55 AAC Optics Solutions Pte. Ltd. 55

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (16.8 here).

Yandex Europe AG 16.8 avg Verint Systems Inc. 16.8 avg Maxim Integrated Products, Inc. 16.8 avg Itrec B.V. 16.8 avg

Konica's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

55 Top 7% higher than 93% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2021

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 Laboratory U.S.A., Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	34	11.5%
2016	40	13.6%
2017	60	20.3%
2018	64	21.7%
2019	55	18.6%
2020	36	12.2%
2021	6	2.0%

Which technologies does Konica Minolta Laboratory U.S.A., Inc. patent most?

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 158

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 89

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 76

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 61

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 26

G06K - Graphical Data Reading ; Presentation OF DATA; Record CARRIERS; Handling Record Carriers 24

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 13

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 10

G01M - Testing Static OR Dynamic Balance OF Machines OR STRUCTURES; Testing OF Structures OR Apparatus, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 6

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 6

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 6

G03G - ELECTROGRAPHY; ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHY; Magnetography 5

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 5

B01L - Chemical OR Physical Laboratory Apparatus FOR General USE 4

H10K - Organic Electric Solid-state Devices 4

Top 15 of 56 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 Laboratory U.S.A., Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Konica Minolta Laboratory U.S.A., Inc.'s lead technology class is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), 53.6% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06F
Ranked #1,422 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Konica Minolta Laboratory U.S.A., Inc. against Toshiba Energy Systems & Solutions Corporation, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 54.8/100 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

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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