Where does Kyocera Document Solutions Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Kyocera Document Solutions Inc. ranks #67 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 Kyocera Document Solutions Inc. hold?

Kyocera Document Solutions Inc. holds 5,491 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 184 technology areas.

What is Kyocera Document Solutions Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Kyocera Document Solutions Inc. has an Innovation Score of 64.3 out of 100 (top 2% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Kyocera Document Solutions Inc. focus on?

Kyocera Document Solutions Inc.'s top technology area is G03G (ELECTROGRAPHY; ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHY; Magnetography) with 2,506 patents, ranking #3 of 196 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 184 CPC subclasses total.

Is Kyocera Document Solutions Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Kyocera Document Solutions Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -37% 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 Kyocera Document Solutions Inc.'s patents?

Kyocera Document Solutions Inc.'s patents average 8.8 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 Kyocera Document Solutions 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

Kyocera Document Solutions Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 5,491 granted patents across 184 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, Kyocera ranks #67 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 5,491 patents across 184 technology areas.

#67
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 2%
by Innovation Score (64.3/100): 8.8
avg claims per patent: -37%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R67 · Foreign Corporation #67 · 5,491 grants

GRANTS-LARGE · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-PAR · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-LARGE 5.5K grants
TOP-DECILE #67/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Nokia OY
CPC-WIDE G03G · 184 areas
INNOV-STRONG 64.3/100
CLAIMS-PAR 8.8 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -37% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Nokia Technologies OY (±5 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 Kyocera’s 64.3 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 29.7 pts (46%) Velocity 4.2 pts (7%) Breadth 25.0 pts (39%) Claim depth 5.3 pts (8%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Rohr · near

64
Goodrich · near

64
Hunan Brunp… · near

64
Kyocera Document… · this assignee

64
LAT Enterprises · near

64
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Kyocera's Innovation Score is 64.3/100 (top 2% 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 Kyocera?

Each dot is one of Kyocera’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). Kyocera’s own 8.8 claims/patent is at or below the 13.7 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

How Kyocera's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Kyocera Document Solutions Inc. received 2,048 grants versus 3,247 in 2015–2019 (-37% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2016 at 746 grants and bottomed in 2024 at 264. Lead class G03G accounts for 45.6% of the portfolio across 184 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Hitachi, Ltd. (#63) and Bank of America Corporation (#71).

Kyocera's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Kyocera Document Solutions Inc. moved from 1,616 to 1,023 grants (0.63x 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 #2,360. See the growth leaderboard.

Hitachi

5,890
SAP SE

5,717
The Procter & Gam…

5,586
Nokia OY

5,496
Kyocera Document… ◀

5,491
Japan Display

5,401
Hewlett Packard E…

5,165
Tokyo Electron

5,061
Bank of America

4,988

What this shows Kyocera holds 5,491 patents at rank #67, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Kyocera

By rank, the assignees closest to #67 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G03G (Electrography)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Kyocera, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G03G (Electrography), Kyocera ranks #3 of 196 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (64 here).

Goodrich Corporation 64 Hunan Brunp Recycling Technology Co., Ltd. 64 Rohr, Inc. 64 LAT Enterprises, Inc. 64

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (8.8 here).

Seikagaku Corporation 8.8 avg Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation 8.8 avg Godo Kaisha IP Bridge 1 8.9 avg Rohm and Haas Electronic Materials CMP Holdings, Inc. 8.8 avg

Kyocera's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

64 Top 2% higher than 98% 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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Kyocera Document Solutions Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	681	12.4%
2016	746	13.6%
2017	640	11.7%
2018	589	10.7%
2019	591	10.8%
2020	561	10.2%
2021	464	8.5%
2022	397	7.2%
2023	362	6.6%
2024	264	4.8%
2025partial year	196	3.6%

Which technologies does Kyocera Document Solutions Inc. patent most?

G03G - ELECTROGRAPHY; ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHY; Magnetography 2,506

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 1,791

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 1,367

B65H - Handling Thin OR Filamentary Material, e.g. Sheets, Webs, Cables 585

B41J - TYPEWRITERS; Selective Printing Mechanisms, i.e. Mechanisms Printing Otherwise Than From A FORME; Correction OF Typographical Errors 553

G06K - Graphical Data Reading ; Presentation OF DATA; Record CARRIERS; Handling Record Carriers 388

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 217

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 210

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 128

Y02D - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN Information AND Communication Technologies [ICT], I.E. Information AND Communication Technologies Aiming AT THE Reduction OF Their OWN Energy USE 122

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 101

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 88

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 61

F16H - Gearing 41

C09D - Coating Compositions, e.g. Paints, Varnishes OR LACQUERS; Filling PASTES; Chemical Paint OR INK REMOVERS; INKS; Correcting FLUIDS; WOODSTAINS; Pastes OR Solids FOR Colouring OR PRINTING; USE OF Materials Therefor 41

Top 15 of 184 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

Kyocera Document Solutions Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Kyocera Document Solutions Inc.'s lead technology class is G03G (ELECTROGRAPHY; ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHY; Magnetography), 45.6% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G03G
Ranked #67 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Kyocera Document Solutions Inc. against Hitachi, Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 64.3/100 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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