Where does Makita Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Makita Corporation ranks #337 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 Makita Corporation hold?

Makita Corporation holds 1,292 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 142 technology areas.

What is Makita Corporation's Innovation Score?

Makita Corporation has an Innovation Score of 68.0 out of 100 (top 1% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Makita Corporation's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Makita Corporation's recent grant velocity is +64% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Makita Corporation's patents?

Makita Corporation's patents average 13.1 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 Makita Corporation 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

Makita Corporation

Q: What technology areas does Makita Corporation focus on?

Makita Corporation's top technology area is B25F (Combination OR Multi-purpose Tools NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Details OR Components OF Portable Power-driven Tools NOT Particularly Related TO THE Operations Performed AND NOT Otherwise Provided FOR) with 456 patents, ranking #1 of 229 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 142 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 1,292 granted patents across 142 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: B25F (Combination OR Multi-purpose Tools NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Details OR Components OF Portable Power-driven Tools NOT Particularly Related TO THE Operations Performed AND NOT Otherwise Provided FOR).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Makita ranks #337 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 1,292 patents across 142 technology areas.

#337
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 1%
by Innovation Score (68.0/100): 13.1
avg claims per patent: +64%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R337 · Foreign Corporation #337 · 1,292 grants

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

GRANTS-LARGE 1.3K grants
TOP-DECILE #337/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Google Technology…
CPC-WIDE B25F · 142 areas
INNOV-STRONG 68.0/100
CLAIMS-RICH 13.1 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +64% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Google Technology Holdings LLC (±2 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 Makita’s 68.0 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 24.7 pts (36%) Velocity 10.4 pts (15%) Breadth 25.0 pts (37%) Claim depth 7.9 pts (12%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Globe (Jiangsu) · near

68
Daikin Industries · near

68
LS Electric · near

68
Makita · this assignee

68
Cable Television… · near

68
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Makita's Innovation Score is 68.0/100 (top 1% 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 Makita?

Each dot is one of Makita’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). Makita’s own 13.1 claims/patent is at or below the 15.6 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

How Makita's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Makita Corporation received 708 grants versus 431 in 2015–2019 (+64% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2024 at 198 grants and bottomed in 2018 at 64. Lead class B25F accounts for 35.3% of the portfolio across 142 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Arizona Board OF Regents FOR AND ON Behalf OF Arizona State University (#333) and The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (#341).

Makita's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Makita Corporation moved from 314 to 488 grants (1.55x 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 #405. See the growth leaderboard.

Arizona Board OF…

1,298
Life

1,296
Yamaha

1,296
Google Technology…

1,294
Makita ◀

1,292
Nippon Steel

1,289
SZ DJI Technology

1,268
Edwards Lifescien…

1,265
The Trustees of t…

1,264

What this shows Makita holds 1,292 patents at rank #337, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Makita

By rank, the assignees closest to #337 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B25F (Combination OR Multi-purpose Tools)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Makita, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B25F (Combination OR Multi-purpose Tools), Makita ranks #1 of 229 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (68 here).

Daikin Industries, Ltd. 68 LS Electric Co., Ltd. 68 Cable Television Laboratories, Inc. 68 Globe (Jiangsu) Co., Ltd. 68

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (13.1 here).

Karsten Manufacturing Corporation 13.1 avg Toppan Inc. 13.1 avg University OF Cape Town 13.1 avg Vallourec OIL AND GAS France 13.1 avg

Makita's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

68 Top 1% higher than 99% 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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Makita Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	99	7.7%
2016	89	6.9%
2017	85	6.6%
2018	64	5.0%
2019	94	7.3%
2020	97	7.5%
2021	123	9.5%
2022	119	9.2%
2023	171	13.2%
2024	198	15.3%
2025partial year	153	11.8%

Which technologies does Makita Corporation patent most?

B25F - Combination OR Multi-purpose Tools NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Details OR Components OF Portable Power-driven Tools NOT Particularly Related TO THE Operations Performed AND NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 456

B25D - Percussive Tools 175

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 167

B25B - Tools OR Bench Devices NOT Otherwise Provided FOR, FOR Fastening, Connecting, Disengaging OR Holding 153

H01M - Processes OR Means, e.g. Batteries, FOR THE Direct Conversion OF Chemical Energy Into Electrical Energy 138

H02K - Dynamo-electric Machines 136

B23D - PLANING; SLOTTING; SHEARING; BROACHING; SAWING; FILING; SCRAPING; Like Operations FOR Working Metal BY Removing Material, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 135

H02J - Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy 126

B24B - Machines, Devices, OR Processes FOR Grinding OR Polishing ; Dressing OR Conditioning OF Abrading SURFACES; Feeding OF Grinding, Polishing, OR Lapping Agents 110

B27B - Saws FOR Wood OR Similar MATERIAL; Components OR Accessories Therefor 104

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 93

H02P - Control OR Regulation OF Electric Motors, Electric Generators OR Dynamo-electric CONVERTERS; Controlling Transformers, Reactors OR Choke Coils 86

A47L - Domestic Washing OR Cleaning ; Suction Cleaners IN General 69

B23B - TURNING; Boring 54

A01G - HORTICULTURE; Cultivation OF Vegetables, Flowers, Rice, Fruit, Vines, Hops OR SEAWEED; FORESTRY; Watering 52

Top 15 of 142 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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Makita Corporation's lead technology class is B25F (Combination OR Multi-purpose Tools NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Details OR Components OF Portable Power-driven Tools NOT Particularly Related TO THE Operations Performed AND NOT Otherwise Provided FOR), 35.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B25F
Ranked #337 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Makita Corporation against Arizona Board OF Regents FOR AND ON Behalf OF Arizona State University, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 68.0/100 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

Compiled by PlainPatent , US Patent Intelligence Editorial Process · May 15, 2026

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