Where does Nichirei Foods Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Nichirei Foods Inc. ranks #20,147 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 Nichirei Foods Inc. hold?

Nichirei Foods Inc. holds 14 US utility patents granted between 2017 and 2025, spanning 17 technology areas.

What is Nichirei Foods Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Nichirei Foods Inc. has an Innovation Score of 50.0 out of 100 (top 14% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Nichirei Foods Inc. focus on?

Nichirei Foods Inc.'s top technology area is A23P (Shaping OR Working OF Foodstuffs, NOT Fully Covered BY A Single Other Subclass) with 9 patents, ranking #23 of 308 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 17 CPC subclasses total.

Is Nichirei Foods Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Nichirei Foods Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +450% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Nichirei Foods Inc.'s patents?

Nichirei Foods Inc.'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 Nichirei Foods Inc. 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

Nichirei Foods Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 14 granted patents across 17 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2017–2025. 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: A23P (Shaping OR Working OF Foodstuffs, NOT Fully Covered BY A Single Other Subclass).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Nichirei ranks #20,147 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 14 patents across 17 technology areas.

#20,147
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 14%
by Innovation Score (50.0/100): 10.1
avg claims per patent: +450%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R20147 · Foreign Corporation #20,147 · 14 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 14 grants
MID-PACK #20,147/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH NEW Japan Chemical
CPC-FOCUS A23P · 17 areas
INNOV-PAR 50.0/100
CLAIMS-PAR 10.1 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +450% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: NEW Japan Chemical Co., 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 Nichirei’s 50.0 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 9.4 pts (19%) Velocity 20.0 pts (40%) Breadth 14.6 pts (29%) Claim depth 6.0 pts (12%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Nichirei Foods · this assignee

50
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Nichirei's Innovation Score is 50.0/100 (top 14% 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 Nichirei?

Each dot is one of Nichirei’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). Nichirei’s own 10.1 claims/patent is at or below the 12.9 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Nichirei's grants concentrate

Nichirei Foods Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 17 CPC subclasses with 64.3% of grants classified under A23P (Shaping OR Working OF Foodstuffs, NOT Fully Covered BY A Single Other Subclass). Peak complete grant year is 2024 (6 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2017. By volume, Nichirei sits between NEW Japan Chemical Co., Ltd. and Nikang Therapeutics, Inc..

Nichirei's three-year grant acceleration

Nichirei Foods Inc. shows 11 grants in 2022–2024 against only 1 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.

NEW Japan Chemical

14
Newlink Genetics

14
Ngee ANN Polytech…

14
Nichiman

14
Nicox

14
Nidec Control Tec…

14
Nidec Global Appl…

14
Nikang Therapeuti…

14
Nichirei Foods ◀

14

What this shows Nichirei holds 14 patents at rank #20,132, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Nichirei

By rank, the assignees closest to #20,132 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A23P (Shaping OR Working OF Foodstuffs)

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

Nichirei's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

50 Top 14% higher than 86% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2017–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2017–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Nichirei Foods Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2017	1	7.1%
2019	1	7.1%
2022	1	7.1%
2023	4	28.6%
2024	6	42.9%
2025partial year	1	7.1%

Which technologies does Nichirei Foods Inc. patent most?

A23P - Shaping OR Working OF Foodstuffs, NOT Fully Covered BY A Single Other Subclass 9

A23L - Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Preparation OR Treatment Thereof 6

A21C - Machines OR Equipment FOR Making OR Processing DOUGHS; Handling Baked Articles Made From Dough 6

A23V - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages AND Lactic OR Propionic Acid Bacteria Used IN Foodstuffs OR Food Preparation 3

A22C - Processing Meat, Poultry, OR Fish 2

B65G - Transport OR Storage Devices, e.g. Conveyors FOR Loading OR Tipping, Shop Conveyor Systems OR Pneumatic Tube Conveyors 2

A47J - Kitchen EQUIPMENT; Coffee MILLS; Spice MILLS; Apparatus FOR Making Beverages 2

B65B - Machines, Apparatus OR Devices FOR, OR Methods OF, Packaging Articles OR MATERIALS; Unpacking 1

G01G - Weighing 1

B07C - Postal SORTING; Sorting Individual Articles, OR Bulk Material FIT TO BE Sorted Piece-meal, e.g. BY Picking 1

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 1

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 1

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 1

B65H - Handling Thin OR Filamentary Material, e.g. Sheets, Webs, Cables 1

A21D - Treatment OF Flour OR Dough FOR Baking, e.g. BY Addition OF MATERIALS; BAKING; Bakery Products 1

Top 15 of 17 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

Nichirei Foods Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Nichirei Foods Inc.'s lead technology class is A23P (Shaping OR Working OF Foodstuffs, NOT Fully Covered BY A Single Other Subclass), 64.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A23P
Ranked #20,147 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Nichirei Foods Inc. against NEW Japan Chemical Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 50.0/100 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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