Where does Nabtesco Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Nabtesco Corporation ranks #1,524 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 Nabtesco Corporation hold?

Nabtesco Corporation holds 273 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 113 technology areas.

What is Nabtesco Corporation's Innovation Score?

Nabtesco Corporation has an Innovation Score of 59.3 out of 100 (top 4% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Nabtesco Corporation focus on?

Nabtesco Corporation's top technology area is F16H (Gearing) with 93 patents, ranking #46 of 1,603 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 113 CPC subclasses total.

Is Nabtesco Corporation's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Nabtesco Corporation's recent grant velocity is +6% 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 Nabtesco Corporation's patents?

Nabtesco Corporation's patents average 8.9 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 Nabtesco 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 2015–2025 USPTO PatentsView Foreign Corporation

Nabtesco Corporation

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 273 granted patents across 113 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: F16H (Gearing).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Nabtesco ranks #1,524 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 273 patents across 113 technology areas.

#1,524
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 4%
by Innovation Score (59.3/100): 8.9
avg claims per patent: +6%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1524 · Foreign Corporation #1,524 · 273 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 273 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,524/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Corephotonics
CPC-WIDE F16H · 113 areas
INNOV-PAR 59.3/100
CLAIMS-PAR 8.9 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-FLAT +6% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Corephotonics 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.

How Nabtesco’s 59.3 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 19.4 pts (33%) Velocity 9.6 pts (16%) Breadth 25.0 pts (42%) Claim depth 5.3 pts (9%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Nidec Motor · near

59
Andreas Stihl & KG · near

59
I M A Industria… · near

59
Nabtesco · this assignee

59
Worldpay · near

59
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Nabtesco's Innovation Score is 59.3/100 (top 4% 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 Nabtesco?

Each dot is one of Nabtesco’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). Nabtesco’s own 8.9 claims/patent is at or below the 15.9 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

How Nabtesco's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Nabtesco Corporation received 128 grants versus 121 in 2015–2019 (+6% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2017 at 34 grants and bottomed in 2020 at 15. Lead class F16H accounts for 34.1% of the portfolio across 113 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Thermo King LLC (#1,520) and Roche Sequencing Solutions, Inc. (#1,528).

Nabtesco's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Nabtesco Corporation moved from 62 to 89 grants (1.44x 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 #498. See the growth leaderboard.

Thermo King

274
Corephotonics

273
Denso TEN

273
DH Development PTE

273
Omya International

273
Otsuka Pharmaceut…

273
Pearson Education

273
Roche Sequencing…

273
Nabtesco ◀

273

What this shows Nabtesco holds 273 patents at rank #1,524, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Nabtesco

By rank, the assignees closest to #1,524 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F16H (Gearing)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Nabtesco, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In F16H (Gearing), Nabtesco ranks #46 of 1,603 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (59 here).

Andreas Stihl AG & Co. KG 59 Worldpay, LLC 59 I.M.A. Industria Macchine Automatiche S.P.A. 59 Nidec Motor Corporation 59

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (8.9 here).

Unisantis Electronics Singapore PTE. Ltd. 8.9 avg Neoperl GMBH 8.9 avg Hardware Resources, Inc. 8.9 avg Andis Company 8.9 avg

Nabtesco's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

59 Top 4% higher than 96% 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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Nabtesco Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	19	7.0%
2016	21	7.7%
2017	34	12.5%
2018	24	8.8%
2019	23	8.4%
2020	15	5.5%
2021	24	8.8%
2022	27	9.9%
2023	32	11.7%
2024	30	11.0%
2025partial year	24	8.8%

Which technologies does Nabtesco Corporation patent most?

F16H - Gearing 93

F15B - Systems Acting BY Means OF Fluids IN GENERAL; Fluid-pressure Actuators, e.g. SERVOMOTORS; Details OF Fluid-pressure Systems, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 32

E05Y - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses E05d AND E05f, Relating TO Construction Elements, Electric Control, Power Supply, Power Signal OR Transmission, User Interfaces, Mounting OR Coupling, Details, Accessories, Auxiliary Operations NOT Otherwise Provided FOR, Application Thereof 25

E05F - Devices FOR Moving Wings Into Open OR Closed POSITION; Checks FOR WINGS; Wing Fittings NOT Otherwise Provided FOR, Concerned With THE Functioning OF THE Wing 24

B61D - Body Details OR Kinds OF Railway Vehicles 22

B64C - AEROPLANES; Helicopters 22

B25J - MANIPULATORS; Chambers Provided With Manipulation Devices 21

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 21

F16D - Couplings FOR Transmitting ROTATION; CLUTCHES; Brakes 19

E02F - DREDGING; Soil-shifting 16

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 16

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

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 15

F03D - Wind Motors 15

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 15

Top 15 of 113 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

Nabtesco Corporation's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Nabtesco Corporation's lead technology class is F16H (Gearing), 34.1% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F16H
Ranked #1,524 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Nabtesco Corporation against Thermo King LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 59.3/100 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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