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

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Nippon Paint Marine Coatings Co., Ltd. ranks #29,617 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 Marine Coatings Co., Ltd. hold?

Nippon Paint Marine Coatings Co., Ltd. holds 9 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2024, spanning 9 technology areas.

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

Nippon Paint Marine Coatings Co., Ltd. has an Innovation Score of 28.8 out of 100 (29th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

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

Nippon Paint Marine Coatings Co., Ltd.'s recent grant velocity is -50% 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 Paint Marine Coatings Co., Ltd.'s patents?

Nippon Paint Marine Coatings Co., Ltd.'s patents average 11.6 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 Nippon Paint Marine 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 Marine Coatings Co., Ltd.

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

Nippon Paint Marine 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 9 patents, ranking #320 of 1,818 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 9 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 9 granted patents across 9 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2024. 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 #29,617 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 9 patents across 9 technology areas.

#29,617
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 29th percentile
by Innovation Score (28.8/100): 11.6
avg claims per patent: -50%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R29617 · Foreign Corporation #29,617 · 9 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-PAR · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 9 grants
MID-PACK #29,617/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Ningbo Wentai Sport…
CPC-NARROW C09D · 9 areas
INNOV-THIN 28.8/100
CLAIMS-PAR 11.6 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -50% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Ningbo Wentai Sport Equipment 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 28.8 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 8.0 pts (28%) Velocity 3.3 pts (11%) Breadth 10.6 pts (37%) Claim depth 6.9 pts (24%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Nippon Paint Marine… · this assignee

29
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Nippon's Innovation Score is 28.8/100 (29th 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 11.6 claims/patent is ABOVE the 11.0 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 Paint Marine Coatings Co., Ltd. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 9 CPC subclasses with 100% 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 2019 (3 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2015. By volume, Nippon sits between Ningbo Wentai Sport Equipment Co., Ltd. and NKT Cables Group A/S.

Nippon's three-year grant acceleration

Nippon Paint Marine Coatings Co., Ltd. shows 2 grants in 2022–2024 against only 4 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.

Ningbo Wentai Spo…

9
Ningbo Xingwei Cu…

9
Ningxia Orient Ta…

9
Nippon ITF

9
Nippon Steel & Su…

9
Nippon Yttrium

9
Nitero PTY

9
NKT Cables Group…

9
Nippon Paint Mari… ◀

9

What this shows Nippon holds 9 patents at rank #29,544, 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 #29,544 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C09D (Coating Compositions)

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)

29 29th percentile higher than 29% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2024

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2015–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Nippon Paint Marine Coatings Co., Ltd. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1	11.1%
2017	2	22.2%
2019	3	33.3%
2021	1	11.1%
2022	1	11.1%
2024	1	11.1%

Which technologies does Nippon Paint Marine 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 9

C08F - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained BY Reactions Only Involving Carbon-to-carbon Unsaturated Bonds 4

C08G - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than BY Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds 3

B05D - Processes FOR Applying Fluent Materials TO Surfaces, IN General 3

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 3

C08K - Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances as compounding ingredients 2

C23C - Coating Metallic MATERIAL; Coating Material With Metallic MATERIAL; Surface Treatment OF Metallic Material BY Diffusion Into THE Surface, BY Chemical Conversion OR SUBSTITUTION; Coating BY Vacuum Evaporation, BY Sputtering, BY ION Implantation OR BY Chemical Vapour Deposition, IN General 2

C04B - Lime, MAGNESIA; SLAG; CEMENTS; Compositions Thereof, e.g. Mortars, Concrete OR Like Building MATERIALS; Artificial Stone ; Ceramics ; REFRACTORIES; Treatment OF Natural Stone 2

C08L - Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds 1

Top 9 of 9 technology areas

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What to do with this data

Nippon Paint Marine Coatings Co., Ltd.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Nippon Paint Marine 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), 100% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C09D
Ranked #29,617 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Nippon Paint Marine Coatings Co., Ltd. against Ningbo Wentai Sport Equipment Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 28.8/100 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

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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