Where does Matsutani Chemical Industry Co., Ltd. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Matsutani Chemical Industry Co., Ltd. ranks #13,042 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 Matsutani Chemical Industry Co., Ltd. hold?

Matsutani Chemical Industry Co., Ltd. holds 23 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2024, spanning 21 technology areas.

What is Matsutani Chemical Industry Co., Ltd.'s Innovation Score?

Matsutani Chemical Industry Co., Ltd. has an Innovation Score of 42.3 out of 100 (top 31% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Matsutani Chemical Industry Co., Ltd.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Matsutani Chemical Industry Co., Ltd.'s recent grant velocity is -47% 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 Matsutani Chemical Industry Co., Ltd.'s patents?

Matsutani Chemical Industry Co., Ltd.'s patents average 6.7 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 Matsutani Chemical Industry 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

Matsutani Chemical Industry Co., Ltd.

Q: What technology areas does Matsutani Chemical Industry Co., Ltd. focus on?

Matsutani Chemical Industry Co., Ltd.'s top technology area is A23L (Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Preparation OR Treatment Thereof) with 13 patents, ranking #106 of 1,325 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 21 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 23 granted patents across 21 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2024. 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: A23L (Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Preparation OR Treatment Thereof).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Matsutani ranks #13,042 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 23 patents across 21 technology areas.

#13,042
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 31%
by Innovation Score (42.3/100): 6.7
avg claims per patent: -47%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R13042 · Foreign Corporation #13,042 · 23 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-SPARSE · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 23 grants
MID-PACK #13,042/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Lucidity Lights
CPC-FOCUS A23L · 21 areas
INNOV-PAR 42.3/100
CLAIMS-SPARSE 6.7 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -47% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Lucidity Lights, Inc. (±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 Matsutani’s 42.3 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 11.0 pts (26%) Velocity 11.1 pts (26%) Breadth 16.2 pts (38%) Claim depth 4.0 pts (9%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

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3D Lighting… · lowest

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What this shows Matsutani's Innovation Score is 42.3/100 (top 31% 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 Matsutani?

Each dot is one of Matsutani’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). Matsutani’s own 6.7 claims/patent is at or below the 12.8 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Matsutani's grants concentrate

Matsutani Chemical Industry Co., Ltd. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 21 CPC subclasses with 56.5% of grants classified under A23L (Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Preparation OR Treatment Thereof). Peak complete grant year is 2016 (7 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2017. By volume, Matsutani sits between Lucidity Lights, Inc. and Ming CHI University OF Technology.

Matsutani's three-year grant acceleration

Matsutani Chemical Industry Co., Ltd. shows 5 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.

Lucidity Lights

23
MAC Valves

23
Mack Rides & KG

23
Marco VAN Noort B…

23
Max-delbrÜCk-cent…

23
Medtrade Products

23
Micro-tech (Nanji…

23
Ming CHI Universi…

23
Matsutani Chemica… ◀

23

What this shows Matsutani holds 23 patents at rank #13,034, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Matsutani

By rank, the assignees closest to #13,034 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A23L (Foods)

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

Matsutani's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

42 Top 31% higher than 69% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2024

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2015–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Matsutani Chemical Industry Co., Ltd. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	4	17.4%
2016	7	30.4%
2017	1	4.3%
2018	3	13.0%
2020	1	4.3%
2021	2	8.7%
2022	2	8.7%
2023	2	8.7%
2024	1	4.3%

Which technologies does Matsutani Chemical Industry Co., Ltd. patent most?

A23L - Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Preparation OR Treatment Thereof 13

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 12

A61P - Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations 8

A23V - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages AND Lactic OR Propionic Acid Bacteria Used IN Foodstuffs OR Food Preparation 7

C12P - Fermentation OR Enzyme-using Processes TO Synthesise A Desired Chemical Compound OR Composition OR TO Separate Optical Isomers From A Racemic Mixture 5

C07H - SUGARS; Derivatives THEREOF; NUCLEOSIDES; NUCLEOTIDES; Nucleic Acids 4

A61Q - Specific USE OF Cosmetics OR Similar Toiletry Preparations 4

A23G - COCOA; Cocoa Products, e.g. CHOCOLATE; Substitutes FOR Cocoa OR Cocoa PRODUCTS; CONFECTIONERY; Chewing GUM; ICE-CREAM; Preparation Thereof 4

C12N - Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media 3

C13K - Saccharides Obtained From Natural Sources OR BY Hydrolysis OF Naturally Occurring Disaccharides, Oligosaccharides OR Polysaccharides 2

C08B - POLYSACCHARIDES; Derivatives Thereof 2

C12Y - Enzymes 2

A23C - Dairy Products, e.g. Milk, Butter OR CHEESE; Milk OR Cheese SUBSTITUTES; Making OR Treatment Thereof 2

C30B - Single-crystal Growth ; Unidirectional Solidification OF Eutectic Material OR Unidirectional Demixing OF Eutectoid MATERIAL; Refining BY Zone-melting OF Material ; Production OF A Homogeneous Polycrystalline Material With Defined Structure ; Single Crystals OR Homogeneous Polycrystalline Material WI 2

C07B - General Methods OF Organic CHEMISTRY; Apparatus Therefor 2

Top 15 of 21 technology areas

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Data Source

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What to do with this data

Matsutani Chemical Industry Co., Ltd.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Matsutani Chemical Industry Co., Ltd.'s lead technology class is A23L (Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Preparation OR Treatment Thereof), 56.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A23L
Ranked #13,042 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Matsutani Chemical Industry Co., Ltd. against Lucidity Lights, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 42.3/100 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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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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