Where does Nippon Paper Industries Co., Ltd. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Nippon Paper Industries Co., Ltd. ranks #2,900 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 Paper Industries Co., Ltd. hold?

Nippon Paper Industries Co., Ltd. holds 132 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 77 technology areas.

What is Nippon Paper Industries Co., Ltd.'s Innovation Score?

Nippon Paper Industries Co., Ltd. has an Innovation Score of 59.0 out of 100 (top 4% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Nippon Paper Industries Co., Ltd. focus on?

Nippon Paper Industries Co., Ltd.'s top technology area is C08L (Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds) with 45 patents, ranking #116 of 2,352 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 77 CPC subclasses total.

Is Nippon Paper Industries Co., Ltd.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Nippon Paper Industries Co., Ltd.'s recent grant velocity is +127% 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 Paper Industries Co., Ltd.'s patents?

Nippon Paper Industries Co., Ltd.'s patents average 11.0 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 Paper Industries 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 Paper Industries Co., Ltd.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 132 granted patents across 77 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2025. 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: C08L (Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Nippon ranks #2,900 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 132 patents across 77 technology areas.

#2,900
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 4%
by Innovation Score (59.0/100): 11.0
avg claims per patent: +127%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2900 · Foreign Corporation #2,900 · 132 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-PAR · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 132 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,900/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Hutchinson Technolog…
CPC-WIDE C08L · 77 areas
INNOV-PAR 59.0/100
CLAIMS-PAR 11.0 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +127% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Hutchinson Technology Incorporated (±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 59.0 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 16.9 pts (29%) Velocity 10.5 pts (18%) Breadth 25.0 pts (42%) Claim depth 6.6 pts (11%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Robotis · near

59
Schneider Electric… · near

59
Firmenich · near

59
Nidec Sankyo · near

59
Nippon Paper… · this assignee

59
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Nippon's Innovation Score is 59.0/100 (top 4% 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 11.0 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.

How Nippon's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Nippon Paper Industries Co., Ltd. received 84 grants versus 37 in 2015–2019 (+127% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2022 at 20 grants and bottomed in 2017 at 3. Lead class C08L accounts for 34.1% of the portfolio across 77 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Hutchinson Technology Incorporated (#2,896) and Translate BIO, Inc. (#2,904).

Nippon's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Nippon Paper Industries Co., Ltd. moved from 37 to 58 grants (1.57x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). Among 3,296 tracked assignees with ≥100 grants and ≥20 prior-period grants, that multiple ranks #398. See the growth leaderboard.

Hutchinson Techno…

132
Instituto Mexican…

132
Janome Sewing Mac…

132
LSI Solutions

132
Prince Mohammad B…

132
Regalo Internatio…

132
Space Exploration

132
Translate BIO

132
Nippon Paper Indu… ◀

132

What this shows Nippon holds 132 patents at rank #2,900, 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 #2,900 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C08L (Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds)

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 C08L (Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds), Nippon ranks #116 of 2,352 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (59 here).

Firmenich SA 59 Nidec Sankyo Corporation 59 Robotis Co., Ltd. 59 Schneider Electric Systems USA, Inc. 59

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (11.0 here).

Hyundai Transys Inc. 11.0 avg Central South University 11.0 avg NeoMed, Inc. 11.0 avg Japan Cash Machine Co., Ltd. 11.0 avg

Nippon's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

59 Top 4% higher than 96% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2025

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 Paper Industries Co., Ltd. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	9	6.8%
2016	8	6.1%
2017	3	2.3%
2018	6	4.5%
2019	11	8.3%
2020	11	8.3%
2021	15	11.4%
2022	20	15.2%
2023	19	14.4%
2024	19	14.4%
2025partial year	11	8.3%

Which technologies does Nippon Paper Industries Co., Ltd. patent most?

C08L - Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds 45

D21H - Pulp COMPOSITIONS; Preparation Thereof NOT Covered BY Subclasses D21c OR D21D; Impregnating OR Coating OF PAPER; Treatment OF Finished Paper NOT Covered BY Class B31 OR Subclass D21G; Paper NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 43

C08B - POLYSACCHARIDES; Derivatives Thereof 30

C08F - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained BY Reactions Only Involving Carbon-to-carbon Unsaturated Bonds 18

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 18

C08J - WORKING-UP; General Processes OF COMPOUNDING; After-treatment NOT Covered BY Subclasses C08b, C08c, C08f, C08g or C08h 17

D21C - Production OF Cellulose BY Removing Non-cellulose Substances From Cellulose-containing MATERIALS; Regeneration OF Pulping LIQUORS; Apparatus Therefor 16

B41M - Printing, Duplicating, Marking, OR Copying PROCESSES; Colour Printing, 16

B65D - Containers FOR Storage OR Transport OF Articles OR Materials, e.g. Bags, Barrels, Bottles, Boxes, Cans, Cartons, Crates, Drums, Jars, Tanks, Hoppers, Forwarding CONTAINERS; Accessories, Closures, OR Fittings THEREFOR; Packaging ELEMENTS; Packages 15

D01F - Chemical Features IN THE Manufacture OF Artificial Filaments, Threads, Fibres, Bristles OR RIBBONS; Apparatus Specially Adapted FOR THE Manufacture OF Carbon Filaments 15

D06M - Treatment, NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere IN Class D06, OF Fibres, Threads, Yarns, Fabrics, Feathers OR Fibrous Goods Made From Such Materials 14

C08H - Derivatives OF Natural Macromolecular Compounds 14

C08K - Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances as compounding ingredients 10

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 9

B82Y - Specific Uses OR Applications OF NANOSTRUCTURES; Measurement OR Analysis OF NANOSTRUCTURES; Manufacture OR Treatment OF Nanostructures 8

Top 15 of 77 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 Paper Industries Co., Ltd.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Nippon Paper Industries Co., Ltd.'s lead technology class is C08L (Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds), 34.1% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C08L
Ranked #2,900 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Nippon Paper Industries Co., Ltd. against Hutchinson Technology Incorporated, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 59.0/100 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

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

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