Where does Mitsubishi Hitec Paper Europe GMBH rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Mitsubishi Hitec Paper Europe GMBH ranks #17,000 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 Hitec Paper Europe GMBH hold?

Mitsubishi Hitec Paper Europe GMBH holds 17 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2024, spanning 12 technology areas.

What is Mitsubishi Hitec Paper Europe GMBH's Innovation Score?

Mitsubishi Hitec Paper Europe GMBH has an Innovation Score of 41.8 out of 100 (top 32% 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 Hitec Paper Europe GMBH focus on?

Mitsubishi Hitec Paper Europe GMBH's top technology area is B41M (Printing, Duplicating, Marking, OR Copying PROCESSES; Colour Printing,) with 14 patents, ranking #47 of 466 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 12 CPC subclasses total.

Is Mitsubishi Hitec Paper Europe GMBH's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Mitsubishi Hitec Paper Europe GMBH's recent grant velocity is -11% 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 Hitec Paper Europe GMBH's patents?

Mitsubishi Hitec Paper Europe GMBH's patents average 15.9 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 Mitsubishi Hitec Paper Europe GMBH 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

Mitsubishi Hitec Paper Europe GMBH

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 17 granted patents across 12 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: B41M (Printing, Duplicating, Marking, OR Copying PROCESSES; Colour Printing,).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Mitsubishi ranks #17,000 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 17 patents across 12 technology areas.

#17,000
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 32%
by Innovation Score (41.8/100): 15.9
avg claims per patent: -11%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R17000 · Foreign Corporation #17,000 · 17 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 17 grants
MID-PACK #17,000/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Midwest Innovative…
CPC-FOCUS B41M · 12 areas
INNOV-PAR 41.8/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.9 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -11% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Midwest Innovative Products, LLC (±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 Mitsubishi’s 41.8 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 10.0 pts (24%) Velocity 10.0 pts (24%) Breadth 12.2 pts (29%) Claim depth 9.6 pts (23%)

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What this shows Mitsubishi's Innovation Score is 41.8/100 (top 32% 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 Mitsubishi?

Each dot is one of Mitsubishi’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). Mitsubishi’s own 15.9 claims/patent is ABOVE the 12.4 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Mitsubishi's grants concentrate

Mitsubishi Hitec Paper Europe GMBH is a focused PatentsView assignee: 12 CPC subclasses with 82.4% of grants classified under B41M (Printing, Duplicating, Marking, OR Copying PROCESSES; Colour Printing,). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (2 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2017. By volume, Mitsubishi sits between Midwest Innovative Products, LLC and Mogam Institute FOR Biomedical Research.

Mitsubishi's three-year grant acceleration

Mitsubishi Hitec Paper Europe GMBH shows 6 grants in 2022–2024 against only 4 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.

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What this shows Mitsubishi holds 17 patents at rank #16,985, 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 #16,985 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B41M (Printing)

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

Mitsubishi's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

42 Top 32% higher than 68% 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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Mitsubishi Hitec Paper Europe GMBH patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	2	11.8%
2016	2	11.8%
2017	1	5.9%
2018	2	11.8%
2019	2	11.8%
2020	1	5.9%
2021	1	5.9%
2022	2	11.8%
2023	2	11.8%
2024	2	11.8%

Which technologies does Mitsubishi Hitec Paper Europe GMBH patent most?

B41M - Printing, Duplicating, Marking, OR Copying PROCESSES; Colour Printing, 14

C09D - Coating Compositions, e.g. Paints, Varnishes OR LACQUERS; Filling PASTES; Chemical Paint OR INK REMOVERS; INKS; Correcting FLUIDS; WOODSTAINS; Pastes OR Solids FOR Colouring OR PRINTING; USE OF Materials Therefor 2

D21H - Pulp COMPOSITIONS; Preparation Thereof NOT Covered BY Subclasses D21c OR D21D; Impregnating OR Coating OF PAPER; Treatment OF Finished Paper NOT Covered BY Class B31 OR Subclass D21G; Paper NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 2

B60H - Arrangements OF Heating, Cooling, Ventilating OR Other Air-treating Devices Specially Adapted FOR Passenger OR Goods Spaces OF Vehicles 1

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 1

B60L - Propulsion OF Electrically-propelled Vehicles ; Supplying Electric Power FOR Auxiliary Equipment OF Electrically-propelled Vehicles ; Electrodynamic Brake Systems FOR Vehicles IN General ; Magnetic Suspension OR Levitation FOR VEHICLES; Monitoring Operating Variables OF Electrically-propelled Vehicl 1

D21G - CALENDERS; Accessories FOR Paper-making Machines 1

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 1

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 1

C09B - Organic Dyes OR Closely-related Compounds FOR Producing Dyes ; , e.g. PIGMENTS; MORDANTS; Lakes 1

C08K - Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances as compounding ingredients 1

C09J - ADHESIVES; Non-mechanical Aspects OF Adhesive Processes IN GENERAL; Adhesive Processes NOT Provided FOR ELSEWHERE; USE OF Materials AS Adhesives 1

Top 12 of 12 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

Mitsubishi Hitec Paper Europe GMBH's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Mitsubishi Hitec Paper Europe GMBH's lead technology class is B41M (Printing, Duplicating, Marking, OR Copying PROCESSES; Colour Printing,), 82.4% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B41M
Ranked #17,000 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Mitsubishi Hitec Paper Europe GMBH against Midwest Innovative Products, LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 41.8/100 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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