Where does Nidec Instruments Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Nidec Instruments Corporation ranks #17,942 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 Nidec Instruments Corporation hold?

Nidec Instruments Corporation holds 16 US utility patents granted between 2024 and 2025, spanning 16 technology areas.

What is Nidec Instruments Corporation's Innovation Score?

Nidec Instruments Corporation has an Innovation Score of 49.1 out of 100 (top 15% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Nidec Instruments Corporation focus on?

Nidec Instruments Corporation's top technology area is H02K (DYNAMO-ELECTRIC MACHINES) with 9 patents. Grants appear in 16 CPC subclasses total.

Is Nidec Instruments Corporation's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Insufficient historical data is available to calculate a velocity trend for Nidec Instruments Corporation.

What does claim depth mean for Nidec Instruments Corporation's patents?

Nidec Instruments Corporation's patents average 8.6 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 Nidec Instruments 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

Nidec Instruments Corporation

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 16 granted patents across 16 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2024–2025. 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: H02K (DYNAMO-ELECTRIC MACHINES).

Compiled by PlainPatent · May 15, 2026

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Nidec ranks #17,942 of 50,000 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 16 patents across 16 technology areas.

#17,942
of 50,000 US assignees by volume: Top 15%
by Innovation Score (49.1/100): 8.6
avg claims per patent

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R17942 · Foreign Corporation #17,942 · 16 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-PAR · TYPE-FRNCORP · SPAN-YRS · BOOK-RICH

GRANTS-MICRO 16 grants
MID-PACK #17,942/50,000
PHOTO-FINISH NEC Laboratories Eur…
CPC-FOCUS H02K · 16 areas
INNOV-PAR 49.1/100
CLAIMS-PAR 8.6 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
SPAN-YRS 2024–2025 · 2y
BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: NEC Laboratories Europe Gmbh (±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
Nidec Instruments · this assignee

49
3D Lighting Innovati… · lowest

7

What this shows Nidec Instruments Corporation stamps GRANTS-MICRO, MID-PACK, PHOTO-FINISH, CPC-FOCUS, INNOV-PAR, CLAIMS-PAR, TYPE-FRNCORP, SPAN-YRS, BOOK-RICH. Volume places it #17,942 of 50,000; Innovation Score 49.1/100 sits in the top 15% of the PatentsView-derived corpus. Closest grant-volume peer on this plate is NEC Laboratories Europe Gmbh (±0 grants).

Portfolio overview

Nidec Instruments Corporation has been granted 16 US utility patents between 2024 and 2025, placing Nidec Instruments Corporation at #17,942 of 50,000 across all assignees tracked by PlainPatent. This portfolio spans 16 distinct Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC) subclasses, averaging 8.6 claims per patent with primary concentration in H02K (DYNAMO-ELECTRIC MACHINES). As a Foreign Corporation, Nidec Instruments Corporation is one of the more focused assignees in the PatentsView dataset. By volume, Nidec sits between NEC Laboratories Europe Gmbh (16 patents, rank #17,924) and Ningbo Yusing Optoelectonic Technology Co., Ltd. (16 patents, rank #17,932) - the closest US assignees by grant volume. The composite Innovation Score of 49.1/100 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. Historical data spans 2024 through 2025, with 16 total grants over that period. 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. Nidec Instruments Corporation's 8.6 average claims per patent is an average count, not a measure of claim scope, legal strength, enforceability, or design-around risk. The record spans 16 CPC subclasses. Combined with portfolio volume, these figures let readers compare the documented grant records of assignees in similar technology classes.

NEC Laboratories…

16
Netappli

16
Neurophet

16
Nguyen CHI

16
Nikon-essilor

16
NINE Downhole

16
Ningbo Yinzhou Ji…

16
Ningbo Yusing Opt…

16
Nidec Instruments ◀

16

What this shows Nidec holds 16 patents at rank #17,928, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Nidec

By rank, the assignees closest to #17,928 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H02K (Dynamo-electric Machines)

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

Nidec's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

49 Top 15% higher than 85% of 50,000 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2024–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2024–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Nidec Instruments Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2024	3	18.8%
2025partial year	13	81.3%

Which technologies does Nidec Instruments Corporation patent most?

H02K - DYNAMO-ELECTRIC MACHINES 9

G06K - GRAPHICAL DATA READING ; PRESENTATION OF DATA; RECORD CARRIERS; HANDLING RECORD CARRIERS 3

F04D - NON-POSITIVE-DISPLACEMENT PUMPS 3

B06B - METHODS OR APPARATUS FOR GENERATING OR TRANSMITTING MECHANICAL VIBRATIONS OF INFRASONIC, SONIC, OR ULTRASONIC FREQUENCY, ; e.g.; FOR PERFORMING MECHANICAL WORK IN GENERAL 3

H01L - SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES NOT COVERED BY CLASS H10 1

B25J - MANIPULATORS; CHAMBERS PROVIDED WITH MANIPULATION DEVICES 1

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 1

G11B - INFORMATION STORAGE BASED ON RELATIVE MOVEMENT BETWEEN RECORD CARRIER AND TRANSDUCER 1

H01F - MAGNETS; INDUCTANCES; TRANSFORMERS; SELECTION OF MATERIALS FOR THEIR MAGNETIC PROPERTIES 1

G02B - OPTICAL ELEMENTS, SYSTEMS OR APPARATUS 1

H04N - PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION 1

G03B - APPARATUS OR ARRANGEMENTS FOR TAKING PHOTOGRAPHS OR FOR PROJECTING OR VIEWING THEM; APPARATUS OR ARRANGEMENTS EMPLOYING ANALOGOUS TECHNIQUES USING WAVES OTHER THAN OPTICAL WAVES; ACCESSORIES THEREFOR 1

H05K - PRINTED CIRCUITS; CASINGS OR CONSTRUCTIONAL DETAILS OF ELECTRIC APPARATUS; MANUFACTURE OF ASSEMBLAGES OF ELECTRICAL COMPONENTS 1

F05D - INDEXING SCHEME FOR ASPECTS RELATING TO NON-POSITIVE-DISPLACEMENT MACHINES OR ENGINES, GAS-TURBINES OR JET-PROPULSION PLANTS 1

G07F - COIN-FREED OR LIKE APPARATUS 1

Top 15 of 16 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#17,942

of 50,000 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

49.1 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

Compiled by PlainPatent, US Patent Intelligence Editorial Process · May 15, 2026

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