Where does Kumiai Chemical Industry Co., Ltd. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Kumiai Chemical Industry Co., Ltd. ranks #8,065 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 Kumiai Chemical Industry Co., Ltd. hold?

Kumiai Chemical Industry Co., Ltd. holds 40 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 25 technology areas.

What is Kumiai Chemical Industry Co., Ltd.'s Innovation Score?

Kumiai Chemical Industry Co., Ltd. has an Innovation Score of 43.5 out of 100 (top 28% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Kumiai Chemical Industry Co., Ltd.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Kumiai Chemical Industry Co., Ltd.'s recent grant velocity is +71% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Kumiai Chemical Industry Co., Ltd.'s patents?

Kumiai Chemical Industry Co., Ltd.'s patents average 12.1 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 Kumiai Chemical Industry 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

Kumiai Chemical Industry Co., Ltd.

Q: What technology areas does Kumiai Chemical Industry Co., Ltd. focus on?

Kumiai Chemical Industry Co., Ltd.'s top technology area is A01N (Preservation OF Bodies OF Humans OR Animals OR Plants OR Parts Thereof ; Biocides, e.g. AS Disinfectants, AS Pesticides OR AS Herbicides ; Pest Repellants OR ATTRACTANTS; Plant Growth Regulators) with 20 patents, ranking #59 of 1,216 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 25 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 40 granted patents across 25 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: A01N (Preservation OF Bodies OF Humans OR Animals OR Plants OR Parts Thereof ; Biocides, e.g. AS Disinfectants, AS Pesticides OR AS Herbicides ; Pest Repellants OR ATTRACTANTS; Plant Growth Regulators).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Kumiai ranks #8,065 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 40 patents across 25 technology areas.

#8,065
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 28%
by Innovation Score (43.5/100): 12.1
avg claims per patent: +71%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R8065 · Foreign Corporation #8,065 · 40 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 40 grants
UPPER-Q #8,065/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH John Zink
CPC-FOCUS A01N · 25 areas
INNOV-PAR 43.5/100
CLAIMS-RICH 12.1 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +71% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: John Zink Company, 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.

How Kumiai’s 43.5 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 (29%) Velocity 5.8 pts (13%) Breadth 17.7 pts (41%) Claim depth 7.2 pts (17%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Cercacor Laboratories · near

44
Kumiai Chemical… · this assignee

44
Neuboron Medtech · near

44
Vaxcel International · near

44
Velo3d · near

44
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Kumiai's Innovation Score is 43.5/100 (top 28% 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 Kumiai?

Each dot is one of Kumiai’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). Kumiai’s own 12.1 claims/patent is ABOVE the 10.3 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Kumiai's grants concentrate

Kumiai Chemical Industry Co., Ltd. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 25 CPC subclasses with 50% of grants classified under A01N (Preservation OF Bodies OF Humans OR Animals OR Plants OR Parts Thereof ; Biocides, e.g. AS Disinfectants, AS Pesticides OR AS Herbicides ; Pest Repellants OR ATTRACTANTS; Plant Growth Regulators). Peak complete grant year is 2020 (7 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2015. By volume, Kumiai sits between John Zink Company, LLC and M&R Printing Equipment, Inc..

Kumiai's three-year grant acceleration

Kumiai Chemical Industry Co., Ltd. shows 13 grants in 2022–2024 against only 15 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.

John Zink

40
Keihin Thermal Te…

40
Kirin Holdings

40
Kuhn

40
Kojima Industries

40
Landis+Gyr

40
Locus Robotics

40
M&R Printing Equi…

40
Kumiai Chemical I… ◀

40

What this shows Kumiai holds 40 patents at rank #8,063, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Kumiai

By rank, the assignees closest to #8,063 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A01N (Preservation OF Bodies OF Humans OR Animals OR Plants OR…)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Kumiai, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A01N (Preservation OF Bodies OF Humans OR Animals OR Plants OR…), Kumiai ranks #59 of 1,216 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (44 here).

Velo3d, Inc. 44 Vaxcel International Co., Ltd. 44 Neuboron Medtech Ltd. 44 Cercacor Laboratories, Inc. 44

Kumiai's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

44 Top 28% higher than 72% 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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Kumiai Chemical Industry Co., Ltd. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	2	5.0%
2016	2	5.0%
2017	2	5.0%
2018	4	10.0%
2019	4	10.0%
2020	7	17.5%
2021	4	10.0%
2022	3	7.5%
2023	4	10.0%
2024	6	15.0%
2025partial year	2	5.0%

Which technologies does Kumiai Chemical Industry Co., Ltd. patent most?

A01N - Preservation OF Bodies OF Humans OR Animals OR Plants OR Parts Thereof ; Biocides, e.g. AS Disinfectants, AS Pesticides OR AS Herbicides ; Pest Repellants OR ATTRACTANTS; Plant Growth Regulators 20

C07D - Heterocyclic Compounds 13

C07C - Acyclic OR Carbocyclic Compounds 13

C12N - Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media 9

B01J - Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus 7

A01P - Biocidal, Pest Repellant, Pest Attractant OR Plant Growth Regulatory Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Preparations 6

C07K - Peptides 5

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 4

C12P - Fermentation OR Enzyme-using Processes TO Synthesise A Desired Chemical Compound OR Composition OR TO Separate Optical Isomers From A Racemic Mixture 4

C07B - General Methods OF Organic CHEMISTRY; Apparatus Therefor 4

A61P - Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations 3

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 3

C12R - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses C12c - C12q, Relating TO Microorganisms 2

C08G - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than BY Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds 2

H01M - Processes OR Means, e.g. Batteries, FOR THE Direct Conversion OF Chemical Energy Into Electrical Energy 2

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

Kumiai Chemical Industry Co., Ltd.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Kumiai Chemical Industry Co., Ltd.'s lead technology class is A01N (Preservation OF Bodies OF Humans OR Animals OR Plants OR Parts Thereof ; Biocides, e.g. AS Disinfectants, AS Pesticides OR AS Herbicides ; Pest Repellants OR ATTRACTANTS; Plant Growth Regulators), 50% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A01N
Ranked #8,065 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Kumiai Chemical Industry Co., Ltd. against John Zink Company, LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 43.5/100 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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