Where does Makino Milling Machine Co., Ltd. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Makino Milling Machine Co., Ltd. ranks #2,826 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 Makino Milling Machine Co., Ltd. hold?

Makino Milling Machine Co., Ltd. holds 136 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 37 technology areas.

What is Makino Milling Machine Co., Ltd.'s Innovation Score?

Makino Milling Machine Co., Ltd. has an Innovation Score of 45.1 out of 100 (top 24% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Makino Milling Machine Co., Ltd.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Makino Milling Machine Co., Ltd.'s recent grant velocity is -30% 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 Makino Milling Machine Co., Ltd.'s patents?

Makino Milling Machine Co., Ltd.'s patents average 5.1 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 Makino Milling Machine 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

Makino Milling Machine Co., Ltd.

Q: What technology areas does Makino Milling Machine Co., Ltd. focus on?

Makino Milling Machine Co., Ltd.'s top technology area is G05B (Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements) with 67 patents, ranking #56 of 3,455 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 37 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 136 granted patents across 37 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: G05B (Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Makino ranks #2,826 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 136 patents across 37 technology areas.

#2,826
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 24%
by Innovation Score (45.1/100): 5.1
avg claims per patent: -30%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2826 · Foreign Corporation #2,826 · 136 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 136 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,826/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Huawei Device…
CPC-FOCUS G05B · 37 areas
INNOV-PAR 45.1/100
CLAIMS-SPARSE 5.1 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -30% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Huawei Device (Dongguan) Co., Ltd. (±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 Makino’s 45.1 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 17.0 pts (38%) Velocity 3.6 pts (8%) Breadth 21.5 pts (48%) Claim depth 3.1 pts (7%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Blue Goji · near

45
Downing Wellhead… · near

45
FSP Technology · near

45
Makino Milling Machine · this assignee

45
SOS LAB · near

45
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Makino's Innovation Score is 45.1/100 (top 24% 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 Makino?

Each dot is one of Makino’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). Makino’s own 5.1 claims/patent is at or below the 11.7 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Makino's grants concentrate

Makino Milling Machine Co., Ltd. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 37 CPC subclasses with 49.3% of grants classified under G05B (Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements). Peak complete grant year is 2019 (24 grants) versus a trough of 6 in 2015. By volume, Makino sits between Huawei Device (Dongguan) Co., Ltd. and Shell USA, Inc..

Makino's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Makino Milling Machine Co., Ltd. moved from 50 to 27 grants (0.54x 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 #2,599. See the growth leaderboard.

Huawei Device (Do…

136
Industry Academy…

136
Jungheinrich

136
Nihon Micronics

136
NOF

136
Parade

136
Playnitride Displ…

136
Shell USA

136
Makino Milling Ma… ◀

136

What this shows Makino holds 136 patents at rank #2,826, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Makino

By rank, the assignees closest to #2,826 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G05B (Control OR Regulating Systems IN General)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Makino, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G05B (Control OR Regulating Systems IN General), Makino ranks #56 of 3,455 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (45 here).

FSP Technology Inc. 45 Blue Goji LLC 45 Downing Wellhead Equipment, LLC 45 SOS LAB Co., Ltd 45

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (5.1 here).

Artemide S.P.A. 5.1 avg Luxottica S.R.L. 5.1 avg iNtRON Biotechnology, Inc. 5.1 avg National Presto Industries, Inc. 5.1 avg

Makino's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

45 Top 24% higher than 76% 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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Makino Milling Machine Co., Ltd. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	6	4.4%
2016	13	9.6%
2017	12	8.8%
2018	21	15.4%
2019	24	17.6%
2020	15	11.0%
2021	11	8.1%
2022	9	6.6%
2023	8	5.9%
2024	10	7.4%
2025partial year	7	5.1%

Which technologies does Makino Milling Machine Co., Ltd. patent most?

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 67

B23Q - Details, Components, OR Accessories FOR Machine Tools, e.g. Arrangements FOR Copying OR Controlling ; Machine Tools IN General Characterised BY THE Construction OF Particular Details OR COMPONENTS; Combinations OR Associations OF Metal-working Machines, NOT Directed TO A Particular Result 64

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 38

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 29

B23C - Milling 21

B23H - Working OF Metal BY THE Action OF A High Concentration OF Electric Current ON A Workpiece Using AN Electrode Which Takes THE Place OF A TOOL; Such Working Combined With Other Forms OF Working OF Metal 15

G01B - Measuring Length, Thickness OR Similar Linear DIMENSIONS; Measuring ANGLES; Measuring AREAS; Measuring Irregularities OF Surfaces OR Contours 12

B23B - TURNING; Boring 7

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 7

B23K - Soldering OR UNSOLDERING; WELDING; Cladding OR Plating BY Soldering OR WELDING; Cutting BY Applying Heat Locally, e.g. Flame CUTTING; Working BY Laser Beam 7

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 4

F16C - SHAFTS; Flexible SHAFTS; Elements OR Crankshaft MECHANISMS; Rotary Bodies Other Than Gearing ELEMENTS; Bearings 4

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 3

B26D - CUTTING; Details Common TO Machines FOR Perforating, Punching, Cutting-out, Stamping-out OR Severing 2

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 2

Top 15 of 37 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

Makino Milling Machine Co., Ltd.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Makino Milling Machine Co., Ltd.'s lead technology class is G05B (Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements), 49.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G05B
Ranked #2,826 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Makino Milling Machine Co., Ltd. against Huawei Device (Dongguan) Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 45.1/100 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.

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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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