Where does Nippon Control System Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Nippon Control System Corporation ranks #41,983 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 Nippon Control System Corporation hold?

Nippon Control System Corporation holds 6 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2021, spanning 10 technology areas.

What is Nippon Control System Corporation's Innovation Score?

Nippon Control System Corporation has an Innovation Score of 24.2 out of 100 (14th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Nippon Control System Corporation's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Nippon Control System Corporation's recent grant velocity is -80% 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 Nippon Control System Corporation's patents?

Nippon Control System Corporation's patents average 10.5 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 Nippon Control System 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

Nippon Control System Corporation

Q: What technology areas does Nippon Control System Corporation focus on?

Nippon Control System Corporation's top technology area is G03F (Photomechanical Production OF Textured OR Patterned Surfaces, e.g. FOR Printing, FOR Processing OF Semiconductor DEVICES; Materials THEREFOR; Originals THEREFOR; Apparatus Specially Adapted THEREFOR;) with 4 patents, ranking #228 of 595 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 10 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 6 granted patents across 10 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2021. 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: G03F (Photomechanical Production OF Textured OR Patterned Surfaces, e.g. FOR Printing, FOR Processing OF Semiconductor DEVICES; Materials THEREFOR; Originals THEREFOR; Apparatus Specially Adapted THEREFOR;).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Nippon ranks #41,983 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 6 patents across 10 technology areas.

#41,983
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 14th percentile
by Innovation Score (24.2/100): 10.5
avg claims per patent: -80%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R41983 · Foreign Corporation #41,983 · 6 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · LOWER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-PAR · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 6 grants
LOWER-Q #41,983/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Ningbo Maoli…
CPC-FOCUS G03F · 10 areas
INNOV-THIN 24.2/100
CLAIMS-PAR 10.5 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -80% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Ningbo Maoli Electric Appliance 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 Nippon’s 24.2 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 6.7 pts (28%) Velocity 0.0 pts (0%) Breadth 11.2 pts (46%) Claim depth 6.3 pts (26%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Nippon Control System · this assignee

24
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Nippon's Innovation Score is 24.2/100 (14th percentile 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 Nippon?

Each dot is one of Nippon’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). Nippon’s own 10.5 claims/patent is ABOVE the 5.3 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Nippon's grants concentrate

Nippon Control System Corporation is a focused PatentsView assignee: 10 CPC subclasses with 66.7% of grants classified under G03F (Photomechanical Production OF Textured OR Patterned Surfaces, e.g. FOR Printing, FOR Processing OF Semiconductor DEVICES; Materials THEREFOR; Originals THEREFOR; Apparatus Specially Adapted THEREFOR;). Peak complete grant year is 2017 (2 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2016. By volume, Nippon sits between Ningbo Maoli Electric Appliance Co., Ltd and Nissan Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha.

Ningbo Maoli Elec…

6
Ningbo Pelican Dr…

6
Ningbo Tianqi Int…

6
Nippoh Chemicals

6
Nippon Kasei Chem…

6
Nippon Steel & Su…

6
Nirec

6
Nissan Jidosha

6
Nippon Control Sy… ◀

6

What this shows Nippon holds 6 patents at rank #41,881, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Nippon

By rank, the assignees closest to #41,881 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G03F (Photomechanical Production OF Textured OR Patterned Surfaces)

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

Nippon's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

24 14th percentile higher than 14% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2021

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2016–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Nippon Control System Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	1	16.7%
2017	2	33.3%
2019	2	33.3%
2021	1	16.7%

Which technologies does Nippon Control System Corporation patent most?

G03F - Photomechanical Production OF Textured OR Patterned Surfaces, e.g. FOR Printing, FOR Processing OF Semiconductor DEVICES; Materials THEREFOR; Originals THEREFOR; Apparatus Specially Adapted THEREFOR; 4

H01J - Electric Discharge Tubes OR Discharge Lamps 4

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 3

G21K - Techniques FOR Handling Particles OR Ionising Radiation NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Irradiation DEVICES; Gamma RAY OR X-ray Microscopes 1

A61N - ELECTROTHERAPY; MAGNETOTHERAPY; Radiation THERAPY; Ultrasound Therapy 1

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

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 1

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 1

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 1

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 1

Top 10 of 10 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

Nippon Control System Corporation's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Nippon Control System Corporation's lead technology class is G03F (Photomechanical Production OF Textured OR Patterned Surfaces, e.g. FOR Printing, FOR Processing OF Semiconductor DEVICES; Materials THEREFOR; Originals THEREFOR; Apparatus Specially Adapted THEREFOR;), 66.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G03F
Ranked #41,983 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Nippon Control System Corporation against Ningbo Maoli Electric Appliance Co., Ltd, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 24.2/100 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.

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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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