Where does Nichia Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Nichia Corporation ranks #154 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 Nichia Corporation hold?

Nichia Corporation holds 2,544 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 159 technology areas.

What is Nichia Corporation's Innovation Score?

Nichia Corporation has an Innovation Score of 67.1 out of 100 (top 1% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Nichia Corporation focus on?

Nichia Corporation's top technology area is H10H (Inorganic Light-emitting Semiconductor Devices Having Potential Barriers) with 1,693 patents, ranking #1 of 857 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 159 CPC subclasses total.

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

Nichia Corporation's recent grant velocity is +36% 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 Nichia Corporation's patents?

Nichia Corporation's patents average 15.3 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 Nichia 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

Nichia Corporation

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 2,544 granted patents across 159 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: H10H (Inorganic Light-emitting Semiconductor Devices Having Potential Barriers).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Nichia ranks #154 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 2,544 patents across 159 technology areas.

#154
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 1%
by Innovation Score (67.1/100): 15.3
avg claims per patent: +36%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R154 · Foreign Corporation #154 · 2,544 grants

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

GRANTS-LARGE 2.5K grants
TOP-DECILE #154/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Schaeffler & KG
CPC-WIDE H10H · 159 areas
INNOV-STRONG 67.1/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.3 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-UP +36% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG (±4 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 Nichia’s 67.1 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 27.1 pts (40%) Velocity 5.8 pts (9%) Breadth 25.0 pts (37%) Claim depth 9.2 pts (14%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Accenture Global… · near

67
GN Hearing A/S · near

67
Nichia · this assignee

67
ABB Schweiz · near

67
DePuy Synthes Products · near

67
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Nichia's Innovation Score is 67.1/100 (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.

Does more volume mean deeper claims for Nichia?

Each dot is one of Nichia’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). Nichia’s own 15.3 claims/patent is at or below the 17.2 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

How Nichia's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Nichia Corporation received 1,377 grants versus 1,009 in 2015–2019 (+36% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2020 at 303 grants and bottomed in 2015 at 117. Lead class H10H accounts for 66.5% of the portfolio across 159 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Omron Corporation (#150) and The Board of Regents of the University of Texas System (#158).

Nichia's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Nichia Corporation moved from 891 to 775 grants (0.87x 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 #1,597. See the growth leaderboard.

Omron

2,552
Commscope

2,550
United Services A…

2,549
Schaeffler & KG

2,548
Nichia ◀

2,544
Advanced Micro De…

2,513
T-mobile USA

2,513
Raytheon

2,501
The Board of Rege…

2,495

What this shows Nichia holds 2,544 patents at rank #154, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Nichia

By rank, the assignees closest to #154 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H10H (Inorganic Light-emitting Semiconductor Devices Having Pot…)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Nichia, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H10H (Inorganic Light-emitting Semiconductor Devices Having Pot…), Nichia ranks #1 of 857 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (67 here).

GN Hearing A/S 67 ABB Schweiz AG 67 DePuy Synthes Products, Inc. 67 Accenture Global Solutions Limited 67

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (15.3 here).

UNM Rainforest Innovations 15.3 avg Microsemi Corporation 15.3 avg ST. Jude Medical, Cardiology Division, Inc. 15.3 avg Hexion Inc. 15.3 avg

Nichia'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

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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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Nichia Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	117	4.6%
2016	163	6.4%
2017	217	8.5%
2018	223	8.8%
2019	289	11.4%
2020	303	11.9%
2021	299	11.8%
2022	272	10.7%
2023	280	11.0%
2024	223	8.8%
2025partial year	158	6.2%

Which technologies does Nichia Corporation patent most?

H10H - Inorganic Light-emitting Semiconductor Devices Having Potential Barriers 1,693

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 1,186

F21V - Functional Features OR Details OF Lighting Devices OR Systems THEREOF; Structural Combinations OF Lighting Devices With Other Articles, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 323

H01S - Devices Using THE Process OF Light Amplification BY Stimulated Emission OF Radiation [LASER] TO Amplify OR Generate LIGHT; Devices Using Stimulated Emission OF Electromagnetic Radiation IN Wave Ranges Other Than Optical 293

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 291

F21Y - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses F21k, F21l, F21s and F21v, Relating TO THE Form OR THE Kind OF THE Light Sources OR OF THE Colour OF THE Light Emitted 282

C09K - Materials FOR Miscellaneous Applications, NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere 242

G02F - Optical Devices OR Arrangements FOR THE Control OF Light BY Modification OF THE Optical Properties OF THE Media OF THE Elements Involved THEREIN; Non-linear OPTICS; Frequency-changing OF LIGHT; Optical Logic ELEMENTS; Optical ANALOGUE/DIGITAL Converters 171

F21K - Non-electric Light Sources Using LUMINESCENCE; Light Sources Using ELECTROCHEMILUMINESCENCE; Light Sources Using Charges OF Combustible MATERIAL; Light Sources Using Semiconductor Devices AS Light-generating ELEMENTS; Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 144

F21S - Non-portable Lighting DEVICES; Systems THEREOF; Vehicle Lighting Devices Specially Adapted FOR Vehicle Exteriors 124

H05K - Printed CIRCUITS; Casings OR Constructional Details OF Electric APPARATUS; Manufacture OF Assemblages OF Electrical Components 101

C01P - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Structural AND Physical Aspects OF Solid Inorganic Compounds 73

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 68

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 68

H05B - Electric HEATING; Electric Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Circuit Arrangements FOR Electric Light Sources, IN General 67

Top 15 of 159 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

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

Nichia Corporation's lead technology class is H10H (Inorganic Light-emitting Semiconductor Devices Having Potential Barriers), 66.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H10H
Ranked #154 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Nichia Corporation against Omron Corporation, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 67.1/100 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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