Where does Nagase & Co., Ltd. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Nagase & Co., Ltd. ranks #14,796 of 50,000 assignees by granted-patent volume, the same sort as the companies listing and top-holders ranking. See /methodology/#corpus-placement.

How many patents does Nagase & Co., Ltd. hold?

Nagase & Co., Ltd. holds 20 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2025, spanning 34 technology areas.

What is Nagase & Co., Ltd.'s Innovation Score?

Nagase & Co., Ltd. has an Innovation Score of 42.9 out of 100 (top 29% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Nagase & Co., Ltd.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Nagase & Co., Ltd.'s recent grant velocity is +67% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Nagase & Co., Ltd.'s patents?

Nagase & Co., Ltd.'s patents average 10.1 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 Nagase & Co., 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

Nagase & Co., Ltd.

Q: What technology areas does Nagase & Co., Ltd. focus on?

Nagase & Co., Ltd.'s top technology area is C12P (FERMENTATION OR ENZYME-USING PROCESSES TO SYNTHESISE A DESIRED CHEMICAL COMPOUND OR COMPOSITION OR TO SEPARATE OPTICAL ISOMERS FROM A RACEMIC MIXTURE) with 5 patents. Grants appear in 34 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 20 granted patents across 34 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2025. 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: C12P (FERMENTATION OR ENZYME-USING PROCESSES TO SYNTHESISE A DESIRED CHEMICAL COMPOUND OR COMPOSITION OR TO SEPARATE OPTICAL ISOMERS FROM A RACEMIC MIXTURE).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Nagase ranks #14,796 of 50,000 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 20 patents across 34 technology areas.

#14,796
of 50,000 US assignees by volume: Top 29%
by Innovation Score (42.9/100): 10.1
avg claims per patent: +67%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R14796 · Foreign Corporation #14,796 · 20 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-PAR · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 20 grants
MID-PACK #14,796/50,000
PHOTO-FINISH Montag Investments
CPC-FOCUS C12P · 34 areas
INNOV-PAR 42.9/100
CLAIMS-PAR 10.1 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +67% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Montag Investments, 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
Elite Material (kuns… · near

43
Itool Equipment Hold… · near

43
Medlumics S l · near

43
Nagase & · this assignee

43
Reciprocal Labs · near

43
3D Lighting Innovati… · lowest

7

What this shows Nagase & Co., Ltd. stamps GRANTS-SMALL, MID-PACK, PHOTO-FINISH, CPC-FOCUS, INNOV-PAR, CLAIMS-PAR, TYPE-FRNCORP, VEL-SURGE, BOOK-FULL. Volume places it #14,796 of 50,000; Innovation Score 42.9/100 sits in the top 29% of the PatentsView-derived corpus. Closest grant-volume peer on this plate is Montag Investments, Llc (±0 grants).

Portfolio overview

Nagase & Co., Ltd. has been granted 20 US utility patents between 2016 and 2025, placing Nagase & Co., Ltd. at #14,796 of 50,000 across all assignees tracked by PlainPatent. This portfolio spans 34 distinct Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC) subclasses, averaging 10.1 claims per patent with primary concentration in C12P (FERMENTATION OR ENZYME-USING PROCESSES TO SYNTHESISE A DESIRED CHEMICAL COMPOUND OR COMPOSITION OR TO SEPARATE OPTICAL ISOMERS FROM A RACEMIC MIXTURE). As a Foreign Corporation, Nagase & Co., Ltd. is one of the more focused assignees in the PatentsView dataset. By volume, Nagase sits between Montag Investments, Llc (20 patents, rank #14,787) and Netvue Technologies Co., Ltd. (20 patents, rank #14,795) - the closest US assignees by grant volume. The composite Innovation Score of 42.9/100 blends portfolio volume, grant velocity, technology breadth, and claim depth into a single comparable measure drawn directly from USPTO PatentsView records.

Grant cadence records the difference between two grant-year windows. Between 2020 and 2024 the company received 10 grants, compared with 6 in the 2015–2019 window, a +67% shift in five-year grant velocity. Both windows cover five complete grant years; the latest PatentsView year is a partial release and is excluded from this comparison, though it still appears in the yearly table and chart below. Grant timing can lag the related application by years, so this comparison does not establish current R&D spending, strategic intent, or a company’s application activity. The Foreign Corporation classification provides context for the assignee record, not a conclusion about its business strategy.

Claim depth and technology breadth describe this aggregate record. Nagase & Co., Ltd.'s 10.1 average claims per patent is an average count, not a measure of claim scope, legal strength, enforceability, or design-around risk. The record spans 34 CPC subclasses. Combined with portfolio volume, these figures let readers compare the documented grant records of assignees in similar technology classes.

Montag Investments

20
Moon Surgical SAS

20
Motus GI Medical

20
Music Choice

20
Nano-c

20
Nanopharmaceutica…

20
Naver Webtoon

20
Netvue

20
Nagase & ◀

20

What this shows Nagase holds 20 patents at rank #14,791, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Nagase

By rank, the assignees closest to #14,791 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C12P (Fermentation OR Enzyme-using Processes TO Synthesise A De…)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

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

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (43 here).

Medlumics S.l. 43 Elite Electronic Material (kunshan) Co., Ltd. 43 Reciprocal Labs Corporation 43 Itool Equipment Holding Llc 43

Nagase's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

43 Top 29% higher than 71% of 50,000 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2016–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Nagase & Co., Ltd. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	1	5.0%
2017	2	10.0%
2019	3	15.0%
2020	3	15.0%
2021	1	5.0%
2022	3	15.0%
2023	3	15.0%
2025partial year	4	20.0%

Which technologies does Nagase & Co., Ltd. patent most?

C12P - FERMENTATION OR ENZYME-USING PROCESSES TO SYNTHESISE A DESIRED CHEMICAL COMPOUND OR COMPOSITION OR TO SEPARATE OPTICAL ISOMERS FROM A RACEMIC MIXTURE 5

C12N - MICROORGANISMS OR ENZYMES; COMPOSITIONS THEREOF; PROPAGATING, PRESERVING, OR MAINTAINING MICROORGANISMS; MUTATION OR GENETIC ENGINEERING; CULTURE MEDIA 5

C07K - PEPTIDES 4

H01L - SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES NOT COVERED BY CLASS H10 4

G11C - STATIC STORES 4

G06F - ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING 3

Y02A - TECHNOLOGIES FOR ADAPTATION TO CLIMATE CHANGE 3

C12Y - ENZYMES 3

G06N - COMPUTING ARRANGEMENTS BASED ON SPECIFIC COMPUTATIONAL MODELS 2

Y02D - CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION TECHNOLOGIES IN INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES [ICT], I.E. INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES AIMING AT THE REDUCTION OF THEIR OWN ENERGY USE 2

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 2

H01R - ELECTRICALLY-CONDUCTIVE CONNECTIONS; STRUCTURAL ASSOCIATIONS OF A PLURALITY OF MUTUALLY-INSULATED ELECTRICAL CONNECTING ELEMENTS; COUPLING DEVICES; CURRENT COLLECTORS 2

A61P - SPECIFIC THERAPEUTIC ACTIVITY OF CHEMICAL COMPOUNDS OR MEDICINAL PREPARATIONS 2

A61Q - SPECIFIC USE OF COSMETICS OR SIMILAR TOILETRY PREPARATIONS 2

A61K - PREPARATIONS FOR MEDICAL, DENTAL OR TOILETRY PURPOSES 2

Top 15 of 34 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#14,796

of 50,000 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

42.9 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

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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