Where does Nihon University rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Nihon University ranks #9,096 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 Nihon University hold?

Nihon University holds 35 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 41 technology areas.

What is Nihon University's Innovation Score?

Nihon University has an Innovation Score of 46.5 out of 100 (top 21% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Nihon University's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Nihon University's recent grant velocity is -26% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). Grant activity has slowed relative to earlier years.

What does claim depth mean for Nihon University's patents?

Nihon University's patents average 10.8 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 Nihon University 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

Nihon University

Q: What technology areas does Nihon University focus on?

Nihon University's top technology area is A61P (SPECIFIC THERAPEUTIC ACTIVITY OF CHEMICAL COMPOUNDS OR MEDICINAL PREPARATIONS) with 10 patents. Grants appear in 41 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 35 granted patents across 41 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: A61P (SPECIFIC THERAPEUTIC ACTIVITY OF CHEMICAL COMPOUNDS OR MEDICINAL PREPARATIONS).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Nihon ranks #9,096 of 50,000 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 35 patents across 41 technology areas.

#9,096
of 50,000 US assignees by volume: Top 21%
by Innovation Score (46.5/100): 10.8
avg claims per patent: -26%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R9096 · Foreign Corporation #9,096 · 35 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-PAR · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 35 grants
UPPER-Q #9,096/50,000
PHOTO-FINISH NCR Atleos
CPC-WIDE A61P · 41 areas
INNOV-PAR 46.5/100
CLAIMS-PAR 10.8 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -26% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: NCR Atleos Corporation (±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
Bedgear · near

47
Industrial Cooperati… · near

47
Innovative Logistics · near

47
Kite Pharma · near

47
Nihon University · this assignee

47
3D Lighting Innovati… · lowest

7

What this shows Nihon University stamps GRANTS-SMALL, UPPER-Q, PHOTO-FINISH, CPC-WIDE, INNOV-PAR, CLAIMS-PAR, TYPE-FRNCORP, VEL-DOWN, BOOK-FULL. Volume places it #9,096 of 50,000; Innovation Score 46.5/100 sits in the top 21% of the PatentsView-derived corpus. Closest grant-volume peer on this plate is NCR Atleos Corporation (±0 grants).

Portfolio overview

Nihon University has been granted 35 US utility patents between 2015 and 2025, placing Nihon University at #9,096 of 50,000 across all assignees tracked by PlainPatent. This portfolio spans 41 distinct Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC) subclasses, averaging 10.8 claims per patent with primary concentration in A61P (SPECIFIC THERAPEUTIC ACTIVITY OF CHEMICAL COMPOUNDS OR MEDICINAL PREPARATIONS). As a Foreign Corporation, Nihon University is one of the more focused assignees in the PatentsView dataset. By volume, Nihon sits between NCR Atleos Corporation (35 patents, rank #9,089) and Other LAB, Llc (35 patents, rank #9,097) - the closest US assignees by grant volume. The composite Innovation Score of 46.5/100 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. Between 2020 and 2024 the company received 14 grants, compared with 19 in the 2015–2019 window, a -26% shift in five-year grant velocity. Both windows cover five complete grant years; the latest PatentsView year is a partial release and is excluded from this comparison, though it still appears in the yearly table and chart below. 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. Nihon University's 10.8 average claims per patent is an average count, not a measure of claim scope, legal strength, enforceability, or design-around risk. The record spans 41 CPC subclasses. Combined with portfolio volume, these figures let readers compare the documented grant records of assignees in similar technology classes.

NCR Atleos

35
Ncsoft

35
Neuwave Medical

35
Nidec Elesys

35
Neuronexus

35
OIL States Energy…

35
Osstem Implant

35
Other LAB

35
Nihon University ◀

35

What this shows Nihon holds 35 patents at rank #9,093, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Nihon

By rank, the assignees closest to #9,093 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A61P (Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Me…)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

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

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (47 here).

Kite Pharma, Inc. 47 Industrial Cooperation Foundation Chonbuk National University 47 Bedgear, Llc 47 Innovative Logistics, Llc 47

Nihon's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

47 Top 21% higher than 79% of 50,000 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

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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Nihon University patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	8	22.9%
2016	4	11.4%
2017	4	11.4%
2018	3	8.6%
2020	4	11.4%
2021	4	11.4%
2022	3	8.6%
2023	1	2.9%
2024	2	5.7%
2025partial year	2	5.7%

Which technologies does Nihon University patent most?

A61P - SPECIFIC THERAPEUTIC ACTIVITY OF CHEMICAL COMPOUNDS OR MEDICINAL PREPARATIONS 10

A61K - PREPARATIONS FOR MEDICAL, DENTAL OR TOILETRY PURPOSES 8

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; IDENTIFICATION 7

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 4

G01N - INVESTIGATING OR ANALYSING MATERIALS BY DETERMINING THEIR CHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL PROPERTIES 4

C12N - MICROORGANISMS OR ENZYMES; COMPOSITIONS THEREOF; PROPAGATING, PRESERVING, OR MAINTAINING MICROORGANISMS; MUTATION OR GENETIC ENGINEERING; CULTURE MEDIA 3

C07K - PEPTIDES 3

C08G - MACROMOLECULAR COMPOUNDS OBTAINED OTHERWISE THAN BY REACTIONS ONLY INVOLVING UNSATURATED CARBON-TO-CARBON BONDS 3

C07D - HETEROCYCLIC COMPOUNDS 3

G06T - IMAGE DATA PROCESSING OR GENERATION, IN GENERAL 2

C09K - MATERIALS FOR MISCELLANEOUS APPLICATIONS, NOT PROVIDED FOR ELSEWHERE 2

B33Y - ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING, i.e. MANUFACTURING OF THREE-DIMENSIONAL [3-D] OBJECTS BY ADDITIVE DEPOSITION, ADDITIVE AGGLOMERATION OR ADDITIVE LAYERING, e.g. BY 3-D PRINTING, STEREOLITHOGRAPHY OR SELECTIVE LASER SINTERING 2

Y02E - REDUCTION OF GREENHOUSE GAS [GHG] EMISSIONS, RELATED TO ENERGY GENERATION, TRANSMISSION OR DISTRIBUTION 2

C12Q - MEASURING OR TESTING PROCESSES INVOLVING ENZYMES, NUCLEIC ACIDS OR MICROORGANISMS ; COMPOSITIONS OR TEST PAPERS THEREFOR; PROCESSES OF PREPARING SUCH COMPOSITIONS; CONDITION-RESPONSIVE CONTROL IN MICROBIOLOGICAL OR ENZYMOLOGICAL PROCESSES 2

H05H - PLASMA TECHNIQUE ; PRODUCTION OF ACCELERATED ELECTRICALLY-CHARGED PARTICLES OR OF NEUTRONS; PRODUCTION OR ACCELERATION OF NEUTRAL MOLECULAR OR ATOMIC BEAMS 2

Top 15 of 41 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#9,096

of 50,000 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

46.5 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

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