Is National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology's recent grant velocity is -32% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). Grant activity has slowed relative to earlier years.

USPTO 2015–2025 USPTO PatentsView Foreign Corporation

National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology

Q: Where does National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology ranks #548 of 49,997 assignees by granted-patent volume, the same sort as the companies listing and top-holders ranking. See /methodology/#corpus-placement.

Q: How is the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology 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 PatentsView assignee record - 822 granted patents across 250 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: Y02E (Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution).

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According to USPTO PatentsView, National ranks #548 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 822 patents across 250 technology areas.

#548
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 4%
by Innovation Score (59.2/100): 11.3
avg claims per patent: -32%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R548 · Foreign Corporation #548 · 822 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 822 grants
TOP-DECILE #548/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Industry-academic…
CPC-BROAD Y02E · 250 areas
INNOV-PAR 59.2/100
CLAIMS-PAR 11.3 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -32% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Industry-academic Cooperation Foundation, Yonsei University (±1 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
Schott Pharma Schweiz · near

59
National Institute… · this assignee

59
NUtech Ventures · near

59
THE Provost Fellows… · near

59
Phoenix Contact & KG · near

59
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows National's Innovation Score is 59.2/100 (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.

How National's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology received 313 grants versus 461 in 2015–2019 (-32% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2015 at 114 grants and bottomed in 2023 at 41. Lead class Y02E accounts for 13.4% of the portfolio across 250 subclasses. Volume neighbours: E Ink Holdings Inc. (#544) and Fuji Corporation (#552).

National's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology moved from 251 to 158 grants (0.63x 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 #2,370. See the growth leaderboard.

E Ink Holdings

824
Kaneka

824
Industry-academic…

823
NGK Spark Plug

823
National Institut… ◀

822
Mitutoyo

820
Saint-gobain Glas…

820
Sony Mobile Commu…

815
Fuji

812

What this shows National holds 822 patents at rank #548, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near National

By rank, the assignees closest to #548 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in Y02E (Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

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

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (59 here).

NUtech Ventures 59 THE Provost, Fellows, Foundation Scholars, AND THE Other Members OF Board, OF THE College OF THE Holy AND Undivided Trinity OF Queen Elizabeth Near Dublin 59 Schott Pharma Schweiz AG 59 Phoenix Contact GMBH & Co. KG 59

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (11.3 here).

Kenall Manufacturing Company 11.3 avg Compal Electronics, Inc. 11.3 avg Fujitsu Limited 11.3 avg Aptar France SAS 11.3 avg

National'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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National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	114	13.9%
2016	84	10.2%
2017	90	10.9%
2018	77	9.4%
2019	96	11.7%
2020	78	9.5%
2021	77	9.4%
2022	69	8.4%
2023	41	5.0%
2024	48	5.8%
2025partial year	48	5.8%

Which technologies does National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology patent most?

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 110

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 105

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 91

H10D - Inorganic Electric Semiconductor Devices 79

H01M - Processes OR Means, e.g. Batteries, FOR THE Direct Conversion OF Chemical Energy Into Electrical Energy 74

C01B - Non-metallic ELEMENTS; Compounds THEREOF; ; Metalloids OR Compounds Thereof NOT Covered BY Subclass C01c 74

C12N - Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media 69

B01J - Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus 56

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 54

B82Y - Specific Uses OR Applications OF NANOSTRUCTURES; Measurement OR Analysis OF NANOSTRUCTURES; Manufacture OR Treatment OF Nanostructures 54

H10N - Electric Solid-state Devices NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 51

C01P - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Structural AND Physical Aspects OF Solid Inorganic Compounds 46

C07K - Peptides 42

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 38

C23C - Coating Metallic MATERIAL; Coating Material With Metallic MATERIAL; Surface Treatment OF Metallic Material BY Diffusion Into THE Surface, BY Chemical Conversion OR SUBSTITUTION; Coating BY Vacuum Evaporation, BY Sputtering, BY ION Implantation OR BY Chemical Vapour Deposition, IN General 37

Top 15 of 250 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#548

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

59.2 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

National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology's lead technology class is Y02E (Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution), 13.4% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore Y02E
Ranked #548 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology against E Ink Holdings Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 59.2/100 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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