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

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Konica Minolta Medical & Graphic, Inc. ranks #11,699 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 Medical & Graphic, Inc. hold?

Konica Minolta Medical & Graphic, Inc. holds 26 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2018, spanning 25 technology areas.

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

Konica Minolta Medical & Graphic, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 36.6 out of 100 (top 46% 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 Medical & Graphic, Inc. focus on?

Konica Minolta Medical & Graphic, Inc.'s top technology area is A61B (DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification) with 13 patents, ranking #1,352 of 7,127 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 25 CPC subclasses total.

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

Konica Minolta Medical & Graphic, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -100% 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 Medical & Graphic, Inc.'s patents?

Konica Minolta Medical & Graphic, Inc.'s patents average 12.7 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 Medical & Graphic, 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 Medical & Graphic, Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 26 granted patents across 25 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2018. 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: A61B (DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Konica ranks #11,699 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 26 patents across 25 technology areas.

#11,699
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 46%
by Innovation Score (36.6/100): 12.7
avg claims per patent: -100%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R11699 · Foreign Corporation #11,699 · 26 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 26 grants
UPPER-Q #11,699/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Kathrein SE
CPC-FOCUS A61B · 25 areas
INNOV-THIN 36.6/100
CLAIMS-RICH 12.7 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -100% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Kathrein SE (±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 36.6 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 11.4 pts (31%) Velocity 0.0 pts (0%) Breadth 17.7 pts (48%) Claim depth 7.6 pts (21%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Albany Medical College · near

37
Citizen Finedevice · near

37
Eltek AS · near

37
Konica Minolta… · this assignee

37
Nevada Nanotech… · near

37
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Konica's Innovation Score is 36.6/100 (top 46% 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 12.7 claims/patent is ABOVE the 10.6 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.

Where Konica's grants concentrate

Konica Minolta Medical & Graphic, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 25 CPC subclasses with 50% of grants classified under A61B (DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (17 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2017. By volume, Konica sits between Kathrein SE and KS Kolbenschmidt GmbH.

Kathrein SE

26
KEM Hongkong

26
King JIM

26
Kingpak Technology

26
Koppe Royalty B V

26
Korea National Un…

26
Krauss-maffei Weg…

26
KS Kolbenschmidt

26
Konica Minolta Me… ◀

26

What this shows Konica holds 26 patents at rank #11,697, 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 #11,697 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A61B (Diagnosis)

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 A61B (Diagnosis), Konica ranks #1,352 of 7,127 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (37 here).

Citizen Finedevice Co., Ltd. 37 Eltek AS 37 Nevada Nanotech Systems Inc. 37 Albany Medical College 37

Konica's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

37 Top 46% higher than 54% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2018

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 Medical & Graphic, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	17	65.4%
2016	5	19.2%
2017	2	7.7%
2018	2	7.7%

Which technologies does Konica Minolta Medical & Graphic, Inc. patent most?

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 13

G01S - Radio DIRECTION-FINDING; Radio NAVIGATION; Determining Distance OR Velocity BY USE OF Radio WAVES; Locating OR Presence-detecting BY USE OF THE Reflection OR Reradiation OF Radio WAVES; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves 7

G01T - Measurement OF Nuclear OR X-radiation 6

G21K - Techniques FOR Handling Particles OR Ionising Radiation NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Irradiation DEVICES; Gamma RAY OR X-ray Microscopes 5

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 5

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 3

H10N - Electric Solid-state Devices NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 3

C09K - Materials FOR Miscellaneous Applications, NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere 2

B06B - Methods OR Apparatus FOR Generating OR Transmitting Mechanical Vibrations OF Infrasonic, Sonic, OR Ultrasonic Frequency, ; e.g.; FOR Performing Mechanical Work IN General 2

C08K - Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances as compounding ingredients 2

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 2

Y10S - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former Uspc Cross-reference ART Collections [XRACs] AND Digests 2

B82Y - Specific Uses OR Applications OF NANOSTRUCTURES; Measurement OR Analysis OF NANOSTRUCTURES; Manufacture OR Treatment OF Nanostructures 2

H10F - Inorganic Semiconductor Devices Sensitive TO Infrared Radiation, Light, Electromagnetic Radiation OF Shorter Wavelength OR Corpuscular Radiation 2

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

Top 15 of 25 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 Medical & Graphic, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Konica Minolta Medical & Graphic, Inc.'s lead technology class is A61B (DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification), 50% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A61B
Ranked #11,699 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Konica Minolta Medical & Graphic, Inc. against Kathrein SE, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 36.6/100 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

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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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