Where does Nippon Paint Automotive Coatings Co., Ltd. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Nippon Paint Automotive Coatings Co., Ltd. ranks #7,446 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 Paint Automotive Coatings Co., Ltd. hold?

Nippon Paint Automotive Coatings Co., Ltd. holds 44 US utility patents granted between 2017 and 2025, spanning 28 technology areas.

What is Nippon Paint Automotive Coatings Co., Ltd.'s Innovation Score?

Nippon Paint Automotive Coatings Co., Ltd. has an Innovation Score of 44.4 out of 100 (top 26% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Nippon Paint Automotive Coatings Co., Ltd.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Nippon Paint Automotive Coatings Co., Ltd.'s recent grant velocity is +275% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Nippon Paint Automotive Coatings Co., Ltd.'s patents?

Nippon Paint Automotive Coatings Co., Ltd.'s patents average 9.8 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 Paint Automotive Coatings 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 Paint Automotive Coatings Co., Ltd.

Q: What technology areas does Nippon Paint Automotive Coatings Co., Ltd. focus on?

Nippon Paint Automotive Coatings Co., Ltd.'s top technology area is C09D (Coating Compositions, e.g. Paints, Varnishes OR LACQUERS; Filling PASTES; Chemical Paint OR INK REMOVERS; INKS; Correcting FLUIDS; WOODSTAINS; Pastes OR Solids FOR Colouring OR PRINTING; USE OF Materials Therefor) with 37 patents, ranking #93 of 1,818 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 28 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 44 granted patents across 28 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: C09D (Coating Compositions, e.g. Paints, Varnishes OR LACQUERS; Filling PASTES; Chemical Paint OR INK REMOVERS; INKS; Correcting FLUIDS; WOODSTAINS; Pastes OR Solids FOR Colouring OR PRINTING; USE OF Materi).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Nippon ranks #7,446 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 44 patents across 28 technology areas.

#7,446
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 26%
by Innovation Score (44.4/100): 9.8
avg claims per patent: +275%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R7446 · Foreign Corporation #7,446 · 44 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 44 grants
UPPER-Q #7,446/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Memory
CPC-FOCUS C09D · 28 areas
INNOV-PAR 44.4/100
CLAIMS-PAR 9.8 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +275% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Memory Technologies LLC (±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 44.4 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 13.1 pts (30%) Velocity 6.7 pts (15%) Breadth 18.7 pts (42%) Claim depth 5.9 pts (13%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Dongjin Semichem · near

44
Nippon Paint… · this assignee

44
Nuvectra · near

44
PEPPERL+FUCHS · near

44
Universiti Brunei… · near

44
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Nippon's Innovation Score is 44.4/100 (top 26% 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 9.8 claims/patent is at or below the 13.2 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 Paint Automotive Coatings Co., Ltd. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 28 CPC subclasses with 84.1% of grants classified under C09D (Coating Compositions, e.g. Paints, Varnishes OR LACQUERS; Filling PASTES; Chemical Paint OR INK REMOVERS; INKS; Correcting FLUIDS; WOODSTAINS; Pastes OR Solids FOR Colouring OR PRINTING; USE OF Materi). Peak complete grant year is 2020 (10 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2019. By volume, Nippon sits between Memory Technologies LLC and Numecent Holdings, Inc..

Nippon's three-year grant acceleration

Nippon Paint Automotive Coatings Co., Ltd. shows 16 grants in 2022–2024 against only 16 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.

Memory

44
Morgan State Univ…

44
N E Chemcat

44
Nice-systems

44
Nitto Kohki

44
NTT Communications

44
Novoami B V

44
Numecent Holdings

44
Nippon Paint Auto… ◀

44

What this shows Nippon holds 44 patents at rank #7,446, 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 #7,446 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C09D (Coating Compositions)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Nippon, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In C09D (Coating Compositions), Nippon ranks #93 of 1,818 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (44 here).

PEPPERL+FUCHS GMBH 44 Dongjin Semichem Co., Ltd. 44 Universiti Brunei Darussalam 44 Nuvectra Corporation 44

Nippon's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

44 Top 26% higher than 74% 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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Nippon Paint Automotive Coatings Co., Ltd. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2017	3	6.8%
2018	3	6.8%
2019	2	4.5%
2020	10	22.7%
2021	4	9.1%
2022	5	11.4%
2023	6	13.6%
2024	5	11.4%
2025partial year	6	13.6%

Which technologies does Nippon Paint Automotive Coatings Co., Ltd. patent most?

C09D - Coating Compositions, e.g. Paints, Varnishes OR LACQUERS; Filling PASTES; Chemical Paint OR INK REMOVERS; INKS; Correcting FLUIDS; WOODSTAINS; Pastes OR Solids FOR Colouring OR PRINTING; USE OF Materials Therefor 37

B05D - Processes FOR Applying Fluent Materials TO Surfaces, IN General 25

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 15

C08G - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than BY Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds 15

C08K - Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances as compounding ingredients 13

C08F - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained BY Reactions Only Involving Carbon-to-carbon Unsaturated Bonds 12

C25D - Processes FOR THE Electrolytic OR Electrophoretic Production OF COATINGS; ELECTROFORMING; Apparatus Therefor 6

C08L - Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds 6

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 6

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 5

C09K - Materials FOR Miscellaneous Applications, NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere 4

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 4

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 3

B44C - Producing Decorative Effects ; MOSAICS; Tarsia Work ; Paperhanging 3

B29K - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses B29b, B29c OR B29d, Relating TO Moulding Materials OR TO Materials FOR ; Moulds, ; Reinforcements, Fillers OR Preformed Parts, e.g. Inserts 3

Top 15 of 28 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 Paint Automotive Coatings Co., Ltd.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Nippon Paint Automotive Coatings Co., Ltd.'s lead technology class is C09D (Coating Compositions, e.g. Paints, Varnishes OR LACQUERS; Filling PASTES; Chemical Paint OR INK REMOVERS; INKS; Correcting FLUIDS; WOODSTAINS; Pastes OR Solids FOR Colouring OR PRINTING; USE OF Materi), 84.1% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C09D
Ranked #7,446 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Nippon Paint Automotive Coatings Co., Ltd. against Memory Technologies LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 44.4/100 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

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