Where does Kyodo Printing Co., Ltd. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Kyodo Printing Co., Ltd. ranks #18,823 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 Kyodo Printing Co., Ltd. hold?

Kyodo Printing Co., Ltd. holds 15 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 21 technology areas.

What is Kyodo Printing Co., Ltd.'s Innovation Score?

Kyodo Printing Co., Ltd. has an Innovation Score of 38.3 out of 100 (top 41% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Kyodo Printing Co., Ltd. focus on?

Kyodo Printing Co., Ltd.'s top technology area is B32B (Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form) with 6 patents, ranking #633 of 3,088 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 21 CPC subclasses total.

Is Kyodo Printing Co., Ltd.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Kyodo Printing Co., Ltd.'s recent grant velocity is -60% 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 Kyodo Printing Co., Ltd.'s patents?

Kyodo Printing Co., Ltd.'s patents average 13.5 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 Kyodo Printing 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

Kyodo Printing Co., Ltd.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 15 granted patents across 21 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: B32B (Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Kyodo ranks #18,823 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 15 patents across 21 technology areas.

#18,823
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 41%
by Innovation Score (38.3/100): 13.5
avg claims per patent: -60%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R18823 · Foreign Corporation #18,823 · 15 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 15 grants
MID-PACK #18,823/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Yoshikawakuni Kogyosho
CPC-FOCUS B32B · 21 areas
INNOV-THIN 38.3/100
CLAIMS-RICH 13.5 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -60% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Kabushiki Kaisha Yoshikawakuni Kogyosho (±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 Kyodo’s 38.3 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 9.6 pts (25%) Velocity 4.4 pts (11%) Breadth 16.2 pts (42%) Claim depth 8.1 pts (21%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Kyodo Printing · this assignee

38
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Kyodo's Innovation Score is 38.3/100 (top 41% 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 Kyodo?

Each dot is one of Kyodo’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). Kyodo’s own 13.5 claims/patent is ABOVE the 10.4 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Kyodo's grants concentrate

Kyodo Printing Co., Ltd. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 21 CPC subclasses with 40% of grants classified under B32B (Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form). Peak complete grant year is 2018 (5 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2015. By volume, Kyodo sits between Kode Biotech Limited and Kancera AB.

Kyodo's three-year grant acceleration

Kyodo Printing Co., Ltd. shows 2 grants in 2022–2024 against only 3 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.

Kode Biotech

15
Kronoplus Technic…

15
Kuryakyn Holdings

15
KWS Saat

15
Kyowa Medex

15
Yoshikawakuni Kog…

15
Kakaobank

15
Kancera AB

15
Kyodo Printing ◀

15

What this shows Kyodo holds 15 patents at rank #18,805, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Kyodo

By rank, the assignees closest to #18,805 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B32B (Layered Products)

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

Kyodo's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

38 Top 41% higher than 59% 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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Kyodo Printing Co., Ltd. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1	6.7%
2017	3	20.0%
2018	5	33.3%
2019	1	6.7%
2020	1	6.7%
2021	1	6.7%
2022	1	6.7%
2024	1	6.7%
2025partial year	1	6.7%

Which technologies does Kyodo Printing Co., Ltd. patent most?

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 6

G06K - Graphical Data Reading ; Presentation OF DATA; Record CARRIERS; Handling Record Carriers 5

B65D - Containers FOR Storage OR Transport OF Articles OR Materials, e.g. Bags, Barrels, Bottles, Boxes, Cans, Cartons, Crates, Drums, Jars, Tanks, Hoppers, Forwarding CONTAINERS; Accessories, Closures, OR Fittings THEREFOR; Packaging ELEMENTS; Packages 5

B01J - Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus 4

A61J - Containers Specially Adapted FOR Medical OR Pharmaceutical PURPOSES; Devices OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Bringing Pharmaceutical Products Into Particular Physical OR Administering FORMS; Devices FOR Administering Food OR Medicines ORALLY; Baby COMFORTERS; Devices FOR Receiving Spittle 3

C08K - Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances as compounding ingredients 3

C08L - Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds 2

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 1

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 1

H10K - Organic Electric Solid-state Devices 1

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 1

B01D - Separation 1

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 1

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 1

D01F - Chemical Features IN THE Manufacture OF Artificial Filaments, Threads, Fibres, Bristles OR RIBBONS; Apparatus Specially Adapted FOR THE Manufacture OF Carbon Filaments 1

Top 15 of 21 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

Kyodo Printing Co., Ltd.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Kyodo Printing Co., Ltd.'s lead technology class is B32B (Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form), 40% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B32B
Ranked #18,823 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Kyodo Printing Co., Ltd. against Kode Biotech Limited, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 38.3/100 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

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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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