Where does Nippon Paint SURF Chemicals Co., Ltd rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Nippon Paint SURF Chemicals Co., Ltd ranks #21,524 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 Nippon Paint SURF Chemicals Co., Ltd hold?

Nippon Paint SURF Chemicals Co., Ltd holds 13 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2023, spanning 17 technology areas.

What is Nippon Paint SURF Chemicals Co., Ltd's Innovation Score?

Nippon Paint SURF Chemicals Co., Ltd has an Innovation Score of 37.7 out of 100 (top 43% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

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

Nippon Paint SURF Chemicals Co., Ltd's recent grant velocity is -37% 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 SURF Chemicals Co., Ltd's patents?

Nippon Paint SURF Chemicals Co., Ltd's patents average 6.6 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 SURF Chemicals 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 SURF Chemicals Co., Ltd

Q: What technology areas does Nippon Paint SURF Chemicals Co., Ltd focus on?

Nippon Paint SURF Chemicals Co., Ltd's top technology area is 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) with 8 patents. Grants appear in 17 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 13 granted patents across 17 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2023. 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: 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 EVAP).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Nippon ranks #21,524 of 50,000 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 13 patents across 17 technology areas.

#21,524
of 50,000 US assignees by volume: Top 43%
by Innovation Score (37.7/100): 6.6
avg claims per patent: -37%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R21524 · Foreign Corporation #21,524 · 13 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-SPARSE · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 13 grants
MID-PACK #21,524/50,000
PHOTO-FINISH NINGBO ERGOVIDA HEAL…
CPC-FOCUS C23C · 17 areas
INNOV-THIN 37.7/100
CLAIMS-SPARSE 6.6 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -37% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Ningbo Ergovida Health Technology 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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Nippon Paint SURF Ch… · this assignee

38
3D Lighting Innovati… · lowest

7

What this shows Nippon's Innovation Score is 37.7/100 (top 43% 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.

Where Nippon's grants concentrate

Nippon Paint SURF Chemicals Co., Ltd is a focused PatentsView assignee: 17 CPC subclasses with 61.5% of grants classified under 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 EVAP). Peak complete grant year is 2018 (5 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2016. By volume, Nippon sits between Ningbo Ergovida Health Technology Ltd. and NODA Screen Co., Ltd..

Ningbo Ergovida H…

13
Ningbo Liyang NEW…

13
Ningbo Richen Ele…

13
Ningbo Taller Ele…

13
Nippon Telegraph…

13
Nitto Shinko

13
NKT HV Cables

13
NODA Screen

13
Nippon Paint SURF… ◀

13

What this shows Nippon holds 13 patents at rank #21,503, 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 #21,503 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C23C (Coating Metallic Material)

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)

38 Top 43% higher than 57% of 50,000 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2023

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 Paint SURF Chemicals Co., Ltd patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	1	7.7%
2017	2	15.4%
2018	5	38.5%
2020	1	7.7%
2021	1	7.7%
2022	1	7.7%
2023	2	15.4%

Which technologies does Nippon Paint SURF Chemicals Co., Ltd patent most?

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 8

F28F - DETAILS OF HEAT-EXCHANGE AND HEAT-TRANSFER APPARATUS, OF GENERAL APPLICATION 7

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 6

B05D - PROCESSES FOR APPLYING FLUENT MATERIALS TO SURFACES, IN GENERAL 5

C08F - MACROMOLECULAR COMPOUNDS OBTAINED BY REACTIONS ONLY INVOLVING CARBON-TO-CARBON UNSATURATED BONDS 3

C25D - PROCESSES FOR THE ELECTROLYTIC OR ELECTROPHORETIC PRODUCTION OF COATINGS; ELECTROFORMING; APPARATUS THEREFOR 3

C08L - COMPOSITIONS OF MACROMOLECULAR COMPOUNDS 2

B23K - SOLDERING OR UNSOLDERING; WELDING; CLADDING OR PLATING BY SOLDERING OR WELDING; CUTTING BY APPLYING HEAT LOCALLY, e.g. FLAME CUTTING; WORKING BY LASER BEAM 2

Y10T - TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION 2

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

C22C - ALLOYS 1

B32B - LAYERED PRODUCTS, i.e. PRODUCTS BUILT-UP OF STRATA OF FLAT OR NON-FLAT, e.g. CELLULAR OR HONEYCOMB, FORM 1

B23P - METAL-WORKING NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; COMBINED OPERATIONS; UNIVERSAL MACHINE TOOLS 1

C10M - LUBRICATING COMPOSITIONS ; USE OF CHEMICAL SUBSTANCES EITHER ALONE OR AS LUBRICATING INGREDIENTS IN A LUBRICATING COMPOSITION 1

C08G - MACROMOLECULAR COMPOUNDS OBTAINED OTHERWISE THAN BY REACTIONS ONLY INVOLVING UNSATURATED CARBON-TO-CARBON BONDS 1

Top 15 of 17 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#21,524

of 50,000 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

37.7 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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