Where does Mitsuboshi Belting Ltd. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Mitsuboshi Belting Ltd. ranks #3,853 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 Mitsuboshi Belting Ltd. hold?

Mitsuboshi Belting Ltd. holds 94 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 47 technology areas.

What is Mitsuboshi Belting Ltd.'s Innovation Score?

Mitsuboshi Belting Ltd. has an Innovation Score of 57.0 out of 100 (top 6% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Mitsuboshi Belting Ltd.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Mitsuboshi Belting Ltd.'s recent grant velocity is +49% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). The company is maintaining or growing its granted-patent output.

What does claim depth mean for Mitsuboshi Belting Ltd.'s patents?

Mitsuboshi Belting Ltd.'s patents average 10.6 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.

How is the Mitsuboshi Belting 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

Mitsuboshi Belting Ltd.

Q: What technology areas does Mitsuboshi Belting Ltd. focus on?

Mitsuboshi Belting Ltd.'s top technology area is F16G (Belts, Cables, OR Ropes, Predominantly Used FOR Driving PURPOSES; CHAINS; Fittings Predominantly Used Therefor) with 69 patents, ranking #1 of 244 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 47 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 94 granted patents across 47 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: F16G (Belts, Cables, OR Ropes, Predominantly Used FOR Driving PURPOSES; CHAINS; Fittings Predominantly Used Therefor).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Mitsuboshi ranks #3,853 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 94 patents across 47 technology areas.

#3,853
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 6%
by Innovation Score (57.0/100): 10.6
avg claims per patent: +49%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R3853 · Foreign Corporation #3,853 · 94 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-PAR · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-UP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 94 grants
TOP-DECILE #3,853/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Magna Steyr…
CPC-WIDE F16G · 47 areas
INNOV-PAR 57.0/100
CLAIMS-PAR 10.6 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-UP +49% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Magna Steyr Fahrzeugtechnik GmbH & Co KG (±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 Mitsuboshi’s 57.0 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 15.7 pts (28%) Velocity 10.7 pts (19%) Breadth 24.2 pts (42%) Claim depth 6.4 pts (11%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Biogen MA · near

57
Exact Sciences · near

57
Mitsuboshi Belting · this assignee

57
Politecnico DI Torino · near

57
Postech Academy-indu… · near

57
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Mitsuboshi's Innovation Score is 57.0/100 (top 6% 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 Mitsuboshi?

Each dot is one of Mitsuboshi’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). Mitsuboshi’s own 10.6 claims/patent is at or below the 15.8 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Mitsuboshi's grants concentrate

Mitsuboshi Belting Ltd. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 47 CPC subclasses with 73.4% of grants classified under F16G (Belts, Cables, OR Ropes, Predominantly Used FOR Driving PURPOSES; CHAINS; Fittings Predominantly Used Therefor). Peak complete grant year is 2024 (16 grants) versus a trough of 4 in 2015. By volume, Mitsuboshi sits between Magna Steyr Fahrzeugtechnik GmbH & Co KG and Sanyo Chemical Industries, Ltd..

Mitsuboshi's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Mitsuboshi Belting Ltd. moved from 25 to 40 grants (1.60x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Magna Steyr Fahrz…

94
Mbit Wireless

94
Mertec

94
Mimedx Group

94
National Universi…

94
Plume Design

94
Riverbed Technolo…

94
Sanyo Chemical In…

94
Mitsuboshi Belting ◀

94

What this shows Mitsuboshi holds 94 patents at rank #3,853, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Mitsuboshi

By rank, the assignees closest to #3,853 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F16G (Belts)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Mitsuboshi, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In F16G (Belts), Mitsuboshi ranks #1 of 244 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (57 here).

Exact Sciences Corporation 57 Biogen MA Inc. 57 Postech Academy-industry Foundation 57 Politecnico DI Torino 57

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (10.6 here).

National University Corporation Shizuoka University 10.6 avg Arlington Industries, Inc. 10.6 avg Changzhou Patent Electronic Technology Co., Ltd 10.6 avg King Technology, Inc. 10.6 avg

Mitsuboshi's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

57 Top 6% higher than 94% 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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Mitsuboshi Belting Ltd. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	4	4.3%
2016	4	4.3%
2017	7	7.4%
2018	7	7.4%
2019	13	13.8%
2020	8	8.5%
2021	4	4.3%
2022	13	13.8%
2023	11	11.7%
2024	16	17.0%
2025partial year	7	7.4%

Which technologies does Mitsuboshi Belting Ltd. patent most?

F16G - Belts, Cables, OR Ropes, Predominantly Used FOR Driving PURPOSES; CHAINS; Fittings Predominantly Used Therefor 69

F16H - Gearing 27

B29D - Producing Particular Articles From Plastics OR From Substances IN A Plastic State 26

C08L - Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds 19

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 16

C08K - Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances as compounding ingredients 14

D10B - Indexing Scheme Associated With Sublasses OF Section D, Relating TO Textiles 13

B29K - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses B29b, B29c OR B29d, Relating TO Moulding Materials OR TO Materials FOR ; Moulds, ; Reinforcements, Fillers OR Preformed Parts, e.g. Inserts 11

F16D - Couplings FOR Transmitting ROTATION; CLUTCHES; Brakes 10

D02G - Crimping OR Curling Fibres, Filaments, Threads, OR YARNS; Yarns OR Threads 9

D06M - Treatment, NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere IN Class D06, OF Fibres, Threads, Yarns, Fabrics, Feathers OR Fibrous Goods Made From Such Materials 8

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 7

B29C - Shaping OR Joining OF PLASTICS; Shaping OF Material IN A Plastic State, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; After-treatment OF THE Shaped Products, e.g. Repairing 7

F16F - SPRINGS; SHOCK-ABSORBERS; Means FOR Damping Vibration 7

C09J - ADHESIVES; Non-mechanical Aspects OF Adhesive Processes IN GENERAL; Adhesive Processes NOT Provided FOR ELSEWHERE; USE OF Materials AS Adhesives 6

Top 15 of 47 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

Mitsuboshi Belting Ltd.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Mitsuboshi Belting Ltd.'s lead technology class is F16G (Belts, Cables, OR Ropes, Predominantly Used FOR Driving PURPOSES; CHAINS; Fittings Predominantly Used Therefor), 73.4% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F16G
Ranked #3,853 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Mitsuboshi Belting Ltd. against Magna Steyr Fahrzeugtechnik GmbH & Co KG, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 57.0/100 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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