Where does Musashi Engineering, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Musashi Engineering, Inc. ranks #4,387 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 Musashi Engineering, Inc. hold?

Musashi Engineering, Inc. holds 81 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 41 technology areas.

What is Musashi Engineering, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Musashi Engineering, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 53.9 out of 100 (top 8% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Musashi Engineering, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Musashi Engineering, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +30% 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 Musashi Engineering, Inc.'s patents?

Musashi Engineering, Inc.'s patents average 14.2 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 Musashi Engineering, 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 2015–2025 USPTO PatentsView Foreign Corporation

Musashi Engineering, Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Musashi Engineering, Inc. focus on?

Musashi Engineering, Inc.'s top technology area is B05C (Apparatus FOR Applying Fluent Materials TO Surfaces, IN General) with 52 patents. Grants appear in 41 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 81 granted patents across 41 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: B05C (Apparatus FOR Applying Fluent Materials TO Surfaces, IN General).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Musashi ranks #4,387 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 81 patents across 41 technology areas.

#4,387
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 8%
by Innovation Score (53.9/100): 14.2
avg claims per patent: +30%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R4387 · Foreign Corporation #4,387 · 81 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 81 grants
TOP-DECILE #4,387/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Griffin Technology
CPC-WIDE B05C · 41 areas
INNOV-PAR 53.9/100
CLAIMS-RICH 14.2 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-UP +30% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Griffin Technology, 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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Brose Fahrzeugteile… · near

54
Entrust · near

54
Inventec Appliances… · near

54
Musashi Engineering · this assignee

54
Seer · near

54
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Musashi's Innovation Score is 53.9/100 (top 8% 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.

Where Musashi's grants concentrate

Musashi Engineering, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 41 CPC subclasses with 64.2% of grants classified under B05C (Apparatus FOR Applying Fluent Materials TO Surfaces, IN General). Peak complete grant year is 2022 (14 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2023. By volume, Musashi sits between Griffin Technology, LLC and Onkyo Corporation.

Musashi's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Musashi Engineering, Inc. moved from 23 to 26 grants (1.13x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Griffin Technology

81
Hydrangea Breeder…

81
Hisense Mobile Co…

81
Korrus

81
Molten Metal Equi…

81
Natura COSMÉTicos

81
Obrist Closures S…

81
Onkyo

81
Musashi Engineeri… ◀

81

What this shows Musashi holds 81 patents at rank #4,385, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Musashi

By rank, the assignees closest to #4,385 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B05C (Apparatus FOR Applying Fluent Materials TO Surfaces)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

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

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (54 here).

Entrust Corporation 54 Brose Fahrzeugteile GmbH & Co. Kommanditgesellschaft 54 Inventec Appliances (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. 54 Seer, Inc. 54

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (14.2 here).

Oculus VR, LLC 14.2 avg Exact Sciences Corporation 14.2 avg Saipem S.A. 14.2 avg GD Midea Heating & Ventilating Equipment Co., Ltd. 14.2 avg

Musashi's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

54 Top 8% higher than 92% 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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Musashi Engineering, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	5	6.2%
2016	6	7.4%
2017	8	9.9%
2018	8	9.9%
2019	6	7.4%
2020	8	9.9%
2021	9	11.1%
2022	14	17.3%
2023	2	2.5%
2024	10	12.3%
2025partial year	5	6.2%

Which technologies does Musashi Engineering, Inc. patent most?

B05C - Apparatus FOR Applying Fluent Materials TO Surfaces, IN General 52

B05B - Spraying APPARATUS; Atomising APPARATUS; Nozzles 25

B05D - Processes FOR Applying Fluent Materials TO Surfaces, IN General 20

B41J - TYPEWRITERS; Selective Printing Mechanisms, i.e. Mechanisms Printing Otherwise Than From A FORME; Correction OF Typographical Errors 9

B65D - Containers FOR Storage OR Transport OF Articles OR Materials, e.g. Bags, Barrels, Bottles, Boxes, Cans, Cartons, Crates, Drums, Jars, Tanks, Hoppers, Forwarding CONTAINERS; Accessories, Closures, OR Fittings THEREFOR; Packaging ELEMENTS; Packages 8

B01F - Mixing, e.g. Dissolving, Emulsifying OR Dispersing 5

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 5

H05K - Printed CIRCUITS; Casings OR Constructional Details OF Electric APPARATUS; Manufacture OF Assemblages OF Electrical Components 5

F16K - VALVES; TAPS; COCKS; ACTUATING-FLOATS; Devices FOR Venting OR Aerating 4

F04B - Positive-displacement Machines FOR LIQUIDS; Pumps 4

F16L - PIPES; Joints OR Fittings FOR PIPES; Supports FOR Pipes, Cables OR Protective TUBING; Means FOR Thermal Insulation IN General 3

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 3

B67D - Dispensing, Delivering OR Transferring Liquids, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 3

H02N - Electric Machines NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 2

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 2

Top 15 of 41 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#4,387

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

53.9 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

Musashi Engineering, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Musashi Engineering, Inc.'s lead technology class is B05C (Apparatus FOR Applying Fluent Materials TO Surfaces, IN General), 64.2% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B05C
Ranked #4,387 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Musashi Engineering, Inc. against Griffin Technology, LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 53.9/100 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

Compiled by PlainPatent, US Patent Intelligence Editorial Process · May 15, 2026

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