Where does Kuraray Noritake Dental Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Kuraray Noritake Dental Inc. ranks #3,847 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 Kuraray Noritake Dental Inc. hold?

Kuraray Noritake Dental Inc. holds 94 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 38 technology areas.

What is Kuraray Noritake Dental Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Kuraray Noritake Dental Inc. has an Innovation Score of 55.4 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 Kuraray Noritake Dental Inc. focus on?

Kuraray Noritake Dental Inc.'s top technology area is A61K (Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes) with 56 patents, ranking #376 of 7,163 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 38 CPC subclasses total.

Is Kuraray Noritake Dental Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Kuraray Noritake Dental Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +46% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). The company is maintaining or growing its granted-patent output.

What does claim depth mean for Kuraray Noritake Dental Inc.'s patents?

Kuraray Noritake Dental Inc.'s patents average 13.8 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 Kuraray Noritake Dental 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

Kuraray Noritake Dental Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 94 granted patents across 38 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: A61K (Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Kuraray ranks #3,847 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 94 patents across 38 technology areas.

#3,847
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 7%
by Innovation Score (55.4/100): 13.8
avg claims per patent: +46%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R3847 · Foreign Corporation #3,847 · 94 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 94 grants
TOP-DECILE #3,847/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Howard Hughes…
CPC-FOCUS A61K · 38 areas
INNOV-PAR 55.4/100
CLAIMS-RICH 13.8 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-UP +46% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Howard Hughes Medical Institute (±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 Kuraray’s 55.4 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 15.7 pts (28%) Velocity 9.6 pts (17%) Breadth 21.8 pts (39%) Claim depth 8.3 pts (15%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Arcam AB · near

55
Kuraray Noritake… · this assignee

55
OUR United · near

55
Ruckus IP Holdings · near

55
Wal-mart Stores · near

55
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Kuraray's Innovation Score is 55.4/100 (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 Kuraray?

Each dot is one of Kuraray’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). Kuraray’s own 13.8 claims/patent is at or below the 18.2 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Kuraray's grants concentrate

Kuraray Noritake Dental Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 38 CPC subclasses with 59.6% of grants classified under A61K (Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes). Peak complete grant year is 2022 (15 grants) versus a trough of 6 in 2016. By volume, Kuraray sits between Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Mertec, LLC.

Kuraray's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Kuraray Noritake Dental Inc. moved from 25 to 36 grants (1.44x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Howard Hughes Med…

94
Huizhou China Sta…

94
Imperial College…

94
Inno-sports

94
Liebherr-componen…

94
Magna Steyr Fahrz…

94
Mbit Wireless

94
Mertec

94
Kuraray Noritake… ◀

94

What this shows Kuraray holds 94 patents at rank #3,847, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Kuraray

By rank, the assignees closest to #3,847 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A61K (Preparations FOR Medical)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Kuraray, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A61K (Preparations FOR Medical), Kuraray ranks #376 of 7,163 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (55 here).

Arcam AB 55 OUR United Corporation 55 Wal-mart Stores, Inc. 55 Ruckus IP Holdings LLC 55

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (13.8 here).

ZF Automotive UK Limited 13.8 avg UNIVERSITÉ D'aix-marseille 13.8 avg eYs3D Microelectronics, Co. 13.8 avg Siemens Aktiengesellschaft 13.8 avg

Kuraray'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 · 2015–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2015–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Kuraray Noritake Dental Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	7	7.4%
2016	6	6.4%
2017	6	6.4%
2018	6	6.4%
2019	10	10.6%
2020	6	6.4%
2021	9	9.6%
2022	15	16.0%
2023	8	8.5%
2024	13	13.8%
2025partial year	8	8.5%

Which technologies does Kuraray Noritake Dental Inc. patent most?

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 56

A61C - DENTISTRY; Apparatus OR Methods FOR Oral OR Dental Hygiene 46

C04B - Lime, MAGNESIA; SLAG; CEMENTS; Compositions Thereof, e.g. Mortars, Concrete OR Like Building MATERIALS; Artificial Stone ; Ceramics ; REFRACTORIES; Treatment OF Natural Stone 28

C08F - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained BY Reactions Only Involving Carbon-to-carbon Unsaturated Bonds 17

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 12

C01G - Compounds Containing Metals NOT Covered BY Subclasses C01d OR C01f 9

B29C - Shaping OR Joining OF PLASTICS; Shaping OF Material IN A Plastic State, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; After-treatment OF THE Shaped Products, e.g. Repairing 9

B33Y - Additive Manufacturing, i.e. Manufacturing OF Three-dimensional [3-D] Objects BY Additive Deposition, Additive Agglomeration OR Additive Layering, e.g. BY 3-D Printing, Stereolithography OR Selective Laser Sintering 8

C08K - Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances as compounding ingredients 8

C01P - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Structural AND Physical Aspects OF Solid Inorganic Compounds 6

B29K - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses B29b, B29c OR B29d, Relating TO Moulding Materials OR TO Materials FOR ; Moulds, ; Reinforcements, Fillers OR Preformed Parts, e.g. Inserts 6

C09K - Materials FOR Miscellaneous Applications, NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere 5

A61Q - Specific USE OF Cosmetics OR Similar Toiletry Preparations 4

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 4

C08G - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than BY Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds 4

Top 15 of 38 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

Kuraray Noritake Dental Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Kuraray Noritake Dental Inc.'s lead technology class is A61K (Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes), 59.6% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A61K
Ranked #3,847 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Kuraray Noritake Dental Inc. against Howard Hughes Medical Institute, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 55.4/100 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.

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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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