Where does Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Compressor Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Compressor Corporation ranks #1,352 of 49,997 assignees by granted-patent volume, the same sort as the companies listing and top-holders ranking. See /methodology/#corpus-placement.

What is Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Compressor Corporation's Innovation Score?

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Compressor Corporation has an Innovation Score of 52.9 out of 100 (top 9% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Compressor Corporation's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Compressor Corporation's recent grant velocity is +133% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Compressor Corporation's patents?

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Compressor Corporation's patents average 7.6 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 Foreign Corporation

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Compressor Corporation

Q: How many patents does Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Compressor Corporation hold?

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Compressor Corporation holds 311 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 83 technology areas.

Q: What technology areas does Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Compressor Corporation focus on?

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Compressor Corporation's top technology area is F04D (Non-positive-displacement Pumps) with 181 patents. Grants appear in 83 CPC subclasses total.

Q: How is the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Compressor 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 PatentsView assignee record - 311 granted patents across 83 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: F04D (Non-positive-displacement Pumps).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Mitsubishi ranks #1,352 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 311 patents across 83 technology areas.

#1,352
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 9%
by Innovation Score (52.9/100): 7.6
avg claims per patent: +133%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1352 · Foreign Corporation #1,352 · 311 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 311 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,352/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Marvell Israel (M I…
CPC-WIDE F04D · 83 areas
INNOV-PAR 52.9/100
CLAIMS-SPARSE 7.6 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +133% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Marvell Israel (M.I.S.L) 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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Applied Biosystems · near

53
Nippon Steel… · near

53
Toshiba Digital… · near

53
United Therapeutics · near

53
Mitsubishi Heavy… · this assignee

53
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Mitsubishi's Innovation Score is 52.9/100 (top 9% 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 Heavy Industries Compressor Corporation received 212 grants versus 91 in 2015–2019 (+133% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2020 at 75 grants and bottomed in 2015 at 4. Lead class F04D accounts for 58.2% of the portfolio across 83 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute Company Limited (#1,347) and Otter Products, LLC (#1,355).

Mitsubishi's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Compressor Corporation moved from 164 to 87 grants (0.53x 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 #2,618. See the growth leaderboard.

Hong Kong Applied…

313
Sumitomo Osaka Ce…

313
Global Tel*Link

312
Motional AD

312
Marvell Israel (M…

311
Mitsubishi Heavy… ◀

311
CGG Services SAS

310
Cheil Industries

310
Otter Products

310

What this shows Mitsubishi holds 311 patents at rank #1,351, 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 #1,351 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F04D (Non-positive-displacement Pumps)

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 (53 here).

Applied Biosystems, LLC 53 Nippon Steel Chemical & Material Co., Ltd. 53 Toshiba Digital Solutions Corporation 53 United Therapeutics Corporation 53

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (7.6 here).

Fuji Machine MFG. Co., Ltd. 7.6 avg Nihon Nohyaku Co., Ltd. 7.6 avg NGK Spark Plug Co., Ltd. 7.6 avg Fuji Electric FA Components & Systems Co., Ltd. 7.6 avg

Mitsubishi's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

53 Top 9% higher than 91% 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 Heavy Industries Compressor Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	4	1.3%
2016	6	1.9%
2017	19	6.1%
2018	23	7.4%
2019	39	12.5%
2020	75	24.1%
2021	50	16.1%
2022	42	13.5%
2023	31	10.0%
2024	14	4.5%
2025partial year	8	2.6%

Which technologies does Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Compressor Corporation patent most?

F04D - Non-positive-displacement Pumps 181

F05D - Indexing Scheme FOR Aspects Relating TO Non-positive-displacement Machines OR Engines, Gas-turbines OR Jet-propulsion Plants 153

F01D - Non-positive Displacement Machines OR Engines, e.g. Steam Turbines 113

F16H - Gearing 41

H02K - Dynamo-electric Machines 25

F02C - Gas-turbine PLANTS; AIR Intakes FOR Jet-propulsion PLANTS; Controlling Fuel Supply IN Air-breathing Jet-propulsion Plants 21

F05B - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Wind, Spring, Weight, Inertia OR Like Motors, TO Machines OR Engines FOR Liquids Covered BY Subclasses F03b, F03d AND F03g 21

F04B - Positive-displacement Machines FOR LIQUIDS; Pumps 20

F01K - Steam Engine PLANTS; Steam ACCUMULATORS; Engine Plants NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Engines Using Special Working Fluids OR Cycles 17

F16K - VALVES; TAPS; COCKS; ACTUATING-FLOATS; Devices FOR Venting OR Aerating 16

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 16

F16J - Pistons ; CYLINDERS; Sealings 15

F16C - SHAFTS; Flexible SHAFTS; Elements OR Crankshaft MECHANISMS; Rotary Bodies Other Than Gearing ELEMENTS; Bearings 15

H02P - Control OR Regulation OF Electric Motors, Electric Generators OR Dynamo-electric CONVERTERS; Controlling Transformers, Reactors OR Choke Coils 13

B23P - Metal-working NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Combined OPERATIONS; Universal Machine Tools 13

Top 15 of 83 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#1,352

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

52.9 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 Heavy Industries Compressor Corporation's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Compressor Corporation's lead technology class is F04D (Non-positive-displacement Pumps), 58.2% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F04D
Ranked #1,352 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Compressor Corporation against Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute Company Limited, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 52.9/100 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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