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

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Nippon Paper Papylia Co., Ltd. ranks #49,133 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 Papylia Co., Ltd. hold?

Nippon Paper Papylia Co., Ltd. holds 5 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2023, spanning 6 technology areas.

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

Nippon Paper Papylia Co., Ltd. has an Innovation Score of 30.9 out of 100 (36th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

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

Nippon Paper Papylia Co., Ltd.'s recent grant velocity is +300% 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 Papylia Co., Ltd.'s patents?

Nippon Paper Papylia Co., Ltd.'s patents average 15.6 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 Paper Papylia 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 Papylia Co., Ltd.

Q: What technology areas does Nippon Paper Papylia Co., Ltd. focus on?

Nippon Paper Papylia Co., Ltd.'s top technology area is 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) with 5 patents. Grants appear in 6 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 5 granted patents across 6 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: 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 Otherw).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Nippon ranks #49,133 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 5 patents across 6 technology areas.

#49,133
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 36th percentile
by Innovation Score (30.9/100): 15.6
avg claims per patent: +300%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R49133 · Foreign Corporation #49,133 · 5 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · BOTTOM-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 5 grants
BOTTOM-DECILE #49,133/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Nippon Carbon
CPC-NARROW D21H · 6 areas
INNOV-THIN 30.9/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.6 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +300% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Nippon Carbon 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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Nippon Paper Papylia · this assignee

31
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Nippon's Innovation Score is 30.9/100 (36th 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.

Where Nippon's grants concentrate

Nippon Paper Papylia Co., Ltd. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 6 CPC subclasses with 100% of grants classified under 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 Otherw). Peak complete grant year is 2021 (2 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2016. By volume, Nippon sits between Nippon Carbon Co., Ltd. and Nitta Gelatin Inc..

Nippon's three-year grant acceleration

Nippon Paper Papylia Co., Ltd. shows 2 grants in 2022–2024 against only 2 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.

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5
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What this shows Nippon holds 5 patents at rank #49,041, 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 #49,041 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in D21H (Pulp 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)

31 36th percentile higher than 36% of 49,997 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 Paper Papylia Co., Ltd. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	1	20.0%
2021	2	40.0%
2023	2	40.0%

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

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 5

B41M - Printing, Duplicating, Marking, OR Copying PROCESSES; Colour Printing, 3

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 2

G09F - DISPLAYING; ADVERTISING; SIGNS; Labels OR NAME-PLATES; Seals 2

C09J - ADHESIVES; Non-mechanical Aspects OF Adhesive Processes IN GENERAL; Adhesive Processes NOT Provided FOR ELSEWHERE; USE OF Materials AS Adhesives 2

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 1

Top 6 of 6 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#49,133

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

30.9 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

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

Nippon Paper Papylia Co., Ltd.'s lead technology class is 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 Otherw), 100% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore D21H
Ranked #49,133 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Nippon Paper Papylia Co., Ltd. against Nippon Carbon Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 30.9/100 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

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

Every figure on PlainPatent is rendered directly from USPTO source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on USPTO source data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 2026.