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

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Max Co., Ltd. ranks #1,374 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 Max Co., Ltd. hold?

Max Co., Ltd. holds 305 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 68 technology areas.

What is Max Co., Ltd.'s Innovation Score?

Max Co., Ltd. has an Innovation Score of 60.6 out of 100 (top 3% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Max Co., Ltd. focus on?

Max Co., Ltd.'s top technology area is B25C (Hand-held Nailing OR Stapling TOOLS; Manually Operated Portable Stapling Tools) with 96 patents, ranking #2 of 70 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 68 CPC subclasses total.

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

Max Co., Ltd.'s recent grant velocity is +131% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Max Co., Ltd.'s patents?

Max Co., Ltd.'s patents average 9.3 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 Max 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

Max Co., Ltd.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 305 granted patents across 68 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: B25C (Hand-held Nailing OR Stapling TOOLS; Manually Operated Portable Stapling Tools).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Max ranks #1,374 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 305 patents across 68 technology areas.

#1,374
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 3%
by Innovation Score (60.6/100): 9.3
avg claims per patent: +131%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1374 · Foreign Corporation #1,374 · 305 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 305 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,374/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Nihon Kohden
CPC-WIDE B25C · 68 areas
INNOV-STRONG 60.6/100
CLAIMS-PAR 9.3 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +131% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Nihon Kohden Corporation (±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 Max’s 60.6 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 19.8 pts (33%) Velocity 10.2 pts (17%) Breadth 25.0 pts (41%) Claim depth 5.6 pts (9%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
William Marsh Rice… · near

61
GAF Energy · near

61
Global Tel*Link · near

61
Max · this assignee

61
Teknologian… · near

61
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Max's Innovation Score is 60.6/100 (top 3% 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 Max?

Each dot is one of Max’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). Max’s own 9.3 claims/patent is at or below the 16.8 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

How Max's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Max Co., Ltd. received 194 grants versus 84 in 2015–2019 (+131% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2024 at 53 grants and bottomed in 2018 at 12. Lead class B25C accounts for 31.5% of the portfolio across 68 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Coulter Ventures, LLC. (#1,370) and Yandex Europe AG (#1,378).

Max's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Max Co., Ltd. moved from 84 to 129 grants (1.54x 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 #423. See the growth leaderboard.

Coulter Ventures

306
DRÄGerwerk & Kgaa

306
FMR

306
Stmicroelectronic…

306
Nihon Kohden

305
University of Ken…

305
Yahoo Assets

305
Yandex Europe

305
Max ◀

305

What this shows Max holds 305 patents at rank #1,374, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Max

By rank, the assignees closest to #1,374 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B25C (Hand-held Nailing OR Stapling Tools)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Max, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B25C (Hand-held Nailing OR Stapling Tools), Max ranks #2 of 70 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (61 here).

Global Tel*Link Corporation 61 GAF Energy LLC 61 William Marsh Rice University 61 Teknologian tutkimuskeskus VTT Oy 61

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (9.3 here).

Sintokogio, Ltd. 9.3 avg Adeka Corporation 9.3 avg Korea Research Institute OF Bioscience AND Biotechnology 9.3 avg Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha 9.3 avg

Max's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

61 Top 3% higher than 97% 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.

View data table

Max Co., Ltd. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	13	4.3%
2016	23	7.5%
2017	17	5.6%
2018	12	3.9%
2019	19	6.2%
2020	30	9.8%
2021	35	11.5%
2022	38	12.5%
2023	38	12.5%
2024	53	17.4%
2025partial year	27	8.9%

Which technologies does Max Co., Ltd. patent most?

B25C - Hand-held Nailing OR Stapling TOOLS; Manually Operated Portable Stapling Tools 96

E04G - SCAFFOLDING; FORMS; SHUTTERING; Building Implements OR Aids, OR Their USE; Handling Building Materials ON THE SITE; Repairing, Breaking-up OR Other Work ON Existing Buildings 91

B65B - Machines, Apparatus OR Devices FOR, OR Methods OF, Packaging Articles OR MATERIALS; Unpacking 82

B21F - Working OR Processing OF Metal Wire 61

B65H - Handling Thin OR Filamentary Material, e.g. Sheets, Webs, Cables 40

B25B - Tools OR Bench Devices NOT Otherwise Provided FOR, FOR Fastening, Connecting, Disengaging OR Holding 39

B27F - Dovetailed WORK; TENONS; Slotting Machines FOR Wood OR Similar MATERIAL; Nailing OR Stapling Machines 37

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 25

A01G - HORTICULTURE; Cultivation OF Vegetables, Flowers, Rice, Fruit, Vines, Hops OR SEAWEED; FORESTRY; Watering 20

F16B - Devices FOR Fastening OR Securing Constructional Elements OR Machine Parts Together, e.g. Nails, Bolts, Circlips, Clamps, Clips OR WEDGES; Joints OR Jointing 12

F04B - Positive-displacement Machines FOR LIQUIDS; Pumps 12

B42B - Permanently Attaching Together Sheets, Quires OR Signatures OR Permanently Attaching Objects Thereto 11

B25D - Percussive Tools 9

B41J - TYPEWRITERS; Selective Printing Mechanisms, i.e. Mechanisms Printing Otherwise Than From A FORME; Correction OF Typographical Errors 8

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 6

Top 15 of 68 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

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

Max Co., Ltd.'s lead technology class is B25C (Hand-held Nailing OR Stapling TOOLS; Manually Operated Portable Stapling Tools), 31.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B25C
Ranked #1,374 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Max Co., Ltd. against Coulter Ventures, LLC., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 60.6/100 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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