Where does Kyoto University rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Kyoto University ranks #780 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 Kyoto University hold?

Kyoto University holds 588 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 188 technology areas.

What is Kyoto University's Innovation Score?

Kyoto University has an Innovation Score of 58.1 out of 100 (top 5% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Kyoto University's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Kyoto University's recent grant velocity is -24% 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 Kyoto University's patents?

Kyoto University's patents average 10.7 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 Kyoto University 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

Kyoto University

Q: What technology areas does Kyoto University focus on?

Kyoto University's top technology area is C12N (Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media) with 160 patents, ranking #46 of 4,144 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 188 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 588 granted patents across 188 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: C12N (Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Kyoto ranks #780 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 588 patents across 188 technology areas.

#780
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 5%
by Innovation Score (58.1/100): 10.7
avg claims per patent: -24%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R780 · Foreign Corporation #780 · 588 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 588 grants
TOP-DECILE #780/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Carnegie Mellon…
CPC-WIDE C12N · 188 areas
INNOV-PAR 58.1/100
CLAIMS-PAR 10.7 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -24% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Carnegie Mellon University (±1 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 Kyoto’s 58.1 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 22.0 pts (38%) Velocity 4.6 pts (8%) Breadth 25.0 pts (43%) Claim depth 6.4 pts (11%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Foundation for… · near

58
Indiana University… · near

58
Korea Institute OF… · near

58
Kyoto University · this assignee

58
Liebherr-Components… · near

58
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Kyoto's Innovation Score is 58.1/100 (top 5% 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 Kyoto?

Each dot is one of Kyoto’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). Kyoto’s own 10.7 claims/patent is at or below the 13.6 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

How Kyoto's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Kyoto University received 243 grants versus 318 in 2015–2019 (-24% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2015 at 69 grants and bottomed in 2023 at 33. Lead class C12N accounts for 27.2% of the portfolio across 188 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Baxter Healthcare SA (#776) and North Carolina State University (#784).

Kyoto's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Kyoto University moved from 180 to 125 grants (0.69x 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 #2,172. See the growth leaderboard.

Baxter Healthcare

590
Carnegie Mellon U…

589
Showa Denko K K

589
Tohoku University

589
Kyoto University ◀

588
Kokusai Electric

587
Phoenix Contact &…

587
PPG Industries Oh…

586
North Carolina St…

585

What this shows Kyoto holds 588 patents at rank #780, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Kyoto

By rank, the assignees closest to #780 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C12N (Microorganisms OR Enzymes)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Kyoto, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In C12N (Microorganisms OR Enzymes), Kyoto ranks #46 of 4,144 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (58 here).

Indiana University Research AND Technology Corporation 58 Liebherr-Components Biberach GmbH 58 Foundation for Research and Business, Seoul National University of Science and Technology 58 Korea Institute OF Materials Science 58

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (10.7 here).

Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America 10.7 avg Agency FOR Defense Development 10.7 avg Fameccanica.Data S.p.A. 10.7 avg Daido Steel Co., Ltd. 10.7 avg

Kyoto's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

58 Top 5% higher than 95% 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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Kyoto University patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	69	11.7%
2016	63	10.7%
2017	61	10.4%
2018	63	10.7%
2019	62	10.5%
2020	52	8.8%
2021	66	11.2%
2022	40	6.8%
2023	33	5.6%
2024	52	8.8%
2025partial year	27	4.6%

Which technologies does Kyoto University patent most?

C12N - Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media 160

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 123

A61P - Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations 111

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 109

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 70

H01M - Processes OR Means, e.g. Batteries, FOR THE Direct Conversion OF Chemical Energy Into Electrical Energy 45

C07K - Peptides 42

C12Q - Measuring OR Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids OR Microorganisms ; Compositions OR Test Papers THEREFOR; Processes OF Preparing Such COMPOSITIONS; Condition-responsive Control IN Microbiological OR Enzymological Processes 40

C07D - Heterocyclic Compounds 33

H01S - Devices Using THE Process OF Light Amplification BY Stimulated Emission OF Radiation [LASER] TO Amplify OR Generate LIGHT; Devices Using Stimulated Emission OF Electromagnetic Radiation IN Wave Ranges Other Than Optical 28

C07C - Acyclic OR Carbocyclic Compounds 27

G01R - Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables 25

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 24

C08F - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained BY Reactions Only Involving Carbon-to-carbon Unsaturated Bonds 23

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 23

Top 15 of 188 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

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Kyoto University's lead technology class is C12N (Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media), 27.2% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C12N
Ranked #780 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Kyoto University against Baxter Healthcare SA, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 58.1/100 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

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