Where does Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc. ranks #577 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 Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc. hold?

Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc. holds 780 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 119 technology areas.

What is Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 63.4 out of 100 (top 2% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc. focus on?

Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.'s top technology area is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing) with 162 patents. Grants appear in 119 CPC subclasses total.

Is Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -21% 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 Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.'s patents?

Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.'s patents average 17.1 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.

USPTO 2015–2025 USPTO PatentsView US Corporation

Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.

Q: How is the Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc. 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 PatentsView assignee record - 780 granted patents across 119 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: G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Mitsubishi ranks #577 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 780 patents across 119 technology areas.

#577
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 2%
by Innovation Score (63.4/100): 17.1
avg claims per patent: -21%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R577 · US Corporation #577 · 780 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 780 grants
TOP-DECILE #577/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Osram Oled
CPC-WIDE G06F · 119 areas
INNOV-STRONG 63.4/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.1 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DOWN -21% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Osram Oled GMBH (±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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Deep Science · near

63
Guangdong Midea… · near

63
Kookmin University… · near

63
Mitsubishi Electric… · this assignee

63
Nanjing University… · near

63
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Mitsubishi's Innovation Score is 63.4/100 (top 2% 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.

How Mitsubishi's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc. received 321 grants versus 408 in 2015–2019 (-21% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2016 at 90 grants and bottomed in 2024 at 53. Lead class G06F accounts for 20.8% of the portfolio across 119 subclasses. Volume neighbours: STMicroelectronics International N.V. (#573) and Novozymes A/S (#581).

Mitsubishi's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc. moved from 229 to 177 grants (0.77x 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 #1,922. See the growth leaderboard.

Stmicroelectronic…

787
National Tsing HU…

783
Snecma

783
Osram Oled

781
Mitsubishi Electr… ◀

780
Chevron Phillips…

777
SK Telecom

772
Hitachi Construct…

771
Novozymes A/S

770

What this shows Mitsubishi holds 780 patents at rank #577, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Mitsubishi

By rank, the assignees closest to #577 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Mitsubishi, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above).

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (63 here).

Kookmin University Industry Academy Cooperation Foundation 63 Nanjing University OF Posts AND Telecommunications 63 Guangdong Midea White Home Appliance Technology Innovation Center Co., Ltd. 63 Deep Science, LLC 63

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (17.1 here).

Boehringer Ingelheim International GmbH 17.1 avg Bell Helicopter Textron Inc. 17.1 avg Nordson Corporation 17.1 avg DePuy Synthes Products, Inc. 17.1 avg

Mitsubishi's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

63 Top 2% higher than 98% 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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Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	83	10.6%
2016	90	11.5%
2017	84	10.8%
2018	66	8.5%
2019	85	10.9%
2020	66	8.5%
2021	78	10.0%
2022	57	7.3%
2023	67	8.6%
2024	53	6.8%
2025partial year	51	6.5%

Which technologies does Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc. patent most?

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 162

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 152

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 128

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 125

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 88

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 83

G01S - Radio DIRECTION-FINDING; Radio NAVIGATION; Determining Distance OR Velocity BY USE OF Radio WAVES; Locating OR Presence-detecting BY USE OF THE Reflection OR Reradiation OF Radio WAVES; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves 73

H04B - Transmission 62

B60W - Conjoint Control OF Vehicle Sub-units OF Different Type OR Different FUNCTION; Control Systems Specially Adapted FOR Hybrid VEHICLES; Road Vehicle Drive Control Systems FOR Purposes NOT Related TO THE Control OF A Particular Sub-unit 57

G05D - Systems FOR Controlling OR Regulating Non-electric Variables 57

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 49

G10L - Speech Analysis Techniques OR Speech SYNTHESIS; Speech RECOGNITION; Speech OR Voice Processing TECHNIQUES; Speech OR Audio Coding OR Decoding 40

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 39

H02J - Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy 39

G01R - Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables 34

Top 15 of 119 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#577

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

63.4 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.'s lead technology class is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), 20.8% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06F
Ranked #577 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc. against STMicroelectronics International N.V., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 63.4/100 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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