Overall rank by patents
#3,854
of 49,997 tracked assignees
USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 94 granted patents across 103 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2020–2025. 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: B82Y (Specific Uses OR Applications OF NANOSTRUCTURES; Measurement OR Analysis OF NANOSTRUCTURES; Manufacture OR Treatment OF Nanostructures).
The verdict
According to USPTO PatentsView, National ranks #3,854 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 94 patents across 103 technology areas.
USPTO PatentsView assignee plate
Corpus R3854 · Foreign Corporation #3,854 · 94 grants
GRANTS-SMALL · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-PAR · TYPE-FRNCORP · SPAN-YRS · BOOK-RICH
Nearest grant-volume peer: Mbit Wireless, Inc. (±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.
Lowest and highest poles plus nearest Innovation Score peers, not a full corpus board reprint.
Qualcomm Incorporated · highest
85 score
Hitachi High-tech · near
67 score
Coopervision… · near
67 score
National University… · this assignee
67 score
Sew-eurodrive & KG · near
67 score
VÄLINGE Innovation AB · near
67 score
3D Lighting… · lowest
7 score
What this shows National's Innovation Score is 67.0/100 (top 1% 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.
Grant history spans 2020–2025. Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2024 at 27 grants and bottomed in 2020 at 4. Lead class B82Y accounts for 20.2% of the portfolio across 103 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Mbit Wireless, Inc. (#3,850) and SUN Yat-sen University (#3,858).
National University Corporation Tokai National Higher Education AND Research System shows 62 grants in 2022–2024 against only 9 in 2019–2021. That prior window is too thin for a growth multiple (rename and spin-out assignees look artificially high when the baseline is near zero), so PlainPatent withholds a ranked acceleration claim here.
Granted US patents 2015–2025 versus its nearest-ranked assignees by volume, this company marked ◀
Mbit Wireless, Inc.
94 patents
Mertec, LLC
94 patents
MiMedx Group, Inc.
94 patents
Mitsuboshi Belting Ltd.
94 patents
Plume Design, Inc.
94 patents
Riverbed Technology LLC
94 patents
Sanyo Chemical Industries, Ltd.
94 patents
SUN Yat-sen University
94 patents
National University Corporation Tokai National Higher Education AND Research System
94 patents
What this shows National holds 94 patents at rank #3,854, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.
By rank, the assignees closest to #3,854 in granted patent volume.
Other assignees with the most granted patents in National's primary technology class.
Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for National, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above).
Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (67 here).
Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (10.4 here).
National's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee
Composite of portfolio volume, grant velocity, technology breadth, and claim depth (0–100)
67 Top 1% higher than 99% of 49,997 US assignees
Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more US assignees. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.
Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025
Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2020–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.
| Year | Patents Granted | Share of Period |
|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 4 | 4.3% |
| 2021 | 5 | 5.3% |
| 2022 | 13 | 13.8% |
| 2023 | 22 | 23.4% |
| 2024 | 27 | 28.7% |
| 2025partial year | 23 | 24.5% |
Top 15 of 103 technology areas
Overall rank by patents
#3,854
of 49,997 tracked assignees
67.0 out of 100
What to do with this data
National University Corporation Tokai National Higher Education AND Research System's patent record in context - here's where to go next.
Figures reflect USPTO PatentsView grant data through May 2026; pending applications not yet granted are not counted.
Every figure on PlainPatent is rendered directly from USPTO source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on USPTO source data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 2026.