Where does Nippon OIL Pump Co., Ltd. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Nippon OIL Pump Co., Ltd. ranks #49,132 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 OIL Pump Co., Ltd. hold?

Nippon OIL Pump Co., Ltd. holds 5 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2020, spanning 7 technology areas.

What is Nippon OIL Pump Co., Ltd.'s Innovation Score?

Nippon OIL Pump Co., Ltd. has an Innovation Score of 17.8 out of 100 (5th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Nippon OIL Pump Co., Ltd.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Nippon OIL Pump Co., Ltd.'s recent grant velocity is -33% 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 OIL Pump Co., Ltd.'s patents?

Nippon OIL Pump Co., Ltd.'s patents average 3.8 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 Nippon OIL Pump Co., Ltd. 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 OIL Pump Co., Ltd.

Q: What technology areas does Nippon OIL Pump Co., Ltd. focus on?

Nippon OIL Pump Co., Ltd.'s top technology area is B23Q (Details, Components, OR Accessories FOR Machine Tools, e.g. Arrangements FOR Copying OR Controlling ; Machine Tools IN General Characterised BY THE Construction OF Particular Details OR COMPONENTS; Combinations OR Associations OF Metal-working Machines, NOT Directed TO A Particular Result) with 3 patents, ranking #198 of 613 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 7 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 5 granted patents across 7 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2020. 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: B23Q (Details, Components, OR Accessories FOR Machine Tools, e.g. Arrangements FOR Copying OR Controlling ; Machine Tools IN General Characterised BY THE Construction OF Particular Details OR COMPONENTS; Co).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Nippon ranks #49,132 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 5 patents across 7 technology areas.

#49,132
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 5th percentile
by Innovation Score (17.8/100): 3.8
avg claims per patent: -33%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R49132 · Foreign Corporation #49,132 · 5 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · BOTTOM-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-LOW · CLAIMS-SPARSE · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 5 grants
BOTTOM-DECILE #49,132/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Nintex PTY
CPC-NARROW B23Q · 7 areas
INNOV-LOW 17.8/100
CLAIMS-SPARSE 3.8 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -33% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Nintex PTY 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 17.8 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 6.2 pts (35%) Velocity 0.0 pts (0%) Breadth 9.4 pts (53%) Claim depth 2.3 pts (13%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Nippon OIL Pump · this assignee

18
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Nippon's Innovation Score is 17.8/100 (5th 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 3.8 claims/patent is at or below the 8.2 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Nippon's grants concentrate

Nippon OIL Pump Co., Ltd. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 7 CPC subclasses with 60% of grants classified under B23Q (Details, Components, OR Accessories FOR Machine Tools, e.g. Arrangements FOR Copying OR Controlling ; Machine Tools IN General Characterised BY THE Construction OF Particular Details OR COMPONENTS; Co). Peak complete grant year is 2020 (2 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2016. By volume, Nippon sits between Nintex PTY Ltd and Nipsea Technologies PTE Ltd.

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5
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5
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5
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5
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5
Nippon OIL Pump ◀

5

What this shows Nippon holds 5 patents at rank #49,040, 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 #49,040 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B23Q (Details)

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)

18 5th percentile higher than 5% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2020

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 OIL Pump Co., Ltd. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	1	20.0%
2017	1	20.0%
2018	1	20.0%
2020	2	40.0%

Which technologies does Nippon OIL Pump Co., Ltd. patent most?

B23Q - Details, Components, OR Accessories FOR Machine Tools, e.g. Arrangements FOR Copying OR Controlling ; Machine Tools IN General Characterised BY THE Construction OF Particular Details OR COMPONENTS; Combinations OR Associations OF Metal-working Machines, NOT Directed TO A Particular Result 3

B01D - Separation 3

F04B - Positive-displacement Machines FOR LIQUIDS; Pumps 2

F04C - Rotary-piston, OR Oscillating-piston, Positive-displacement Machines FOR Liquids ; Rotary-piston, OR Oscillating-piston, Positive-displacement Pumps 1

B04C - Apparatus Using Free Vortex Flow, e.g. Cyclones 1

C02F - Treatment OF Water, Waste Water, Sewage, OR Sludge 1

F04D - Non-positive-displacement Pumps 1

Top 7 of 7 technology areas

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USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

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What to do with this data

Nippon OIL Pump Co., Ltd.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Nippon OIL Pump Co., Ltd.'s lead technology class is B23Q (Details, Components, OR Accessories FOR Machine Tools, e.g. Arrangements FOR Copying OR Controlling ; Machine Tools IN General Characterised BY THE Construction OF Particular Details OR COMPONENTS; Co), 60% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B23Q
Ranked #49,132 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Nippon OIL Pump Co., Ltd. against Nintex PTY Ltd, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 17.8/100 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

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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

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

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