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

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Nippon Shinyaku Co., Ltd. ranks #6,685 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 Shinyaku Co., Ltd. hold?

Nippon Shinyaku Co., Ltd. holds 50 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 14 technology areas.

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

Nippon Shinyaku Co., Ltd. has an Innovation Score of 38.3 out of 100 (top 41% 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 Shinyaku Co., Ltd. focus on?

Nippon Shinyaku Co., Ltd.'s top technology area is A61P (Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations) with 41 patents, ranking #446 of 6,058 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 14 CPC subclasses total.

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

Nippon Shinyaku Co., Ltd.'s recent grant velocity is +24% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). The company is maintaining or growing its granted-patent output.

What does claim depth mean for Nippon Shinyaku Co., Ltd.'s patents?

Nippon Shinyaku Co., Ltd.'s patents average 12.6 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 Shinyaku 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 Shinyaku Co., Ltd.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 50 granted patents across 14 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: A61P (Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Nippon ranks #6,685 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 50 patents across 14 technology areas.

#6,685
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 41%
by Innovation Score (38.3/100): 12.6
avg claims per patent: +24%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R6685 · Foreign Corporation #6,685 · 50 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-UP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 50 grants
UPPER-Q #6,685/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Mftb Holdco
CPC-FOCUS A61P · 14 areas
INNOV-THIN 38.3/100
CLAIMS-RICH 12.6 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-UP +24% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Mftb Holdco, Inc. (±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 38.3 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 13.6 pts (36%) Velocity 3.9 pts (10%) Breadth 13.2 pts (34%) Claim depth 7.6 pts (20%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Yamashita Rubber · near

38
Blanco + KG · near

38
Nippon Shinyaku · this assignee

38
ReconRobotics · near

38
Vium · near

38
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Nippon's Innovation Score is 38.3/100 (top 41% 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 12.6 claims/patent is ABOVE the 11.4 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 Shinyaku Co., Ltd. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 14 CPC subclasses with 82% of grants classified under A61P (Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations). Peak complete grant year is 2020 (11 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2022. By volume, Nippon sits between Mftb Holdco, Inc. and Nguyen Gaming LLC.

Nippon's three-year grant acceleration

Nippon Shinyaku Co., Ltd. shows 11 grants in 2022–2024 against only 19 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.

Mftb Holdco

50
Montage Technology

50
Ningbo Futai Elec…

50
Ningbo Institute…

50
NUC

50
Navajo Manufactur…

50
Neurocrine Biosci…

50
Nguyen Gaming

50
Nippon Shinyaku ◀

50

What this shows Nippon holds 50 patents at rank #6,680, 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 #6,680 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A61P (Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Me…)

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 A61P (Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Me…), Nippon ranks #446 of 6,058 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (38 here).

Blanco GMBH + Co KG 38 Vium, Inc. 38 ReconRobotics, Inc. 38 Yamashita Rubber Co., Ltd. 38

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (12.6 here).

Korea University OF Technology AND Education Industry-university Cooperation Foundation 12.6 avg Asensus Surgical US, Inc. 12.6 avg Prince Mohammad BIN Fahd University 12.6 avg Shenzhen Royole Technologies Co., Ltd. 12.6 avg

Nippon's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

38 Top 41% higher than 59% 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 Shinyaku Co., Ltd. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	3	6.0%
2016	4	8.0%
2017	5	10.0%
2018	5	10.0%
2019	4	8.0%
2020	11	22.0%
2021	4	8.0%
2022	2	4.0%
2023	5	10.0%
2024	4	8.0%
2025partial year	3	6.0%

Which technologies does Nippon Shinyaku Co., Ltd. patent most?

A61P - Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations 41

C12N - Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media 26

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 22

C07D - Heterocyclic Compounds 16

C07H - SUGARS; Derivatives THEREOF; NUCLEOSIDES; NUCLEOTIDES; Nucleic Acids 15

C07K - Peptides 13

C07B - General Methods OF Organic CHEMISTRY; Apparatus Therefor 9

C07C - Acyclic OR Carbocyclic Compounds 3

C12Q - Measuring OR Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids OR Microorganisms ; Compositions OR Test Papers THEREFOR; Processes OF Preparing Such COMPOSITIONS; Condition-responsive Control IN Microbiological OR Enzymological Processes 3

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 2

C07F - Acyclic, Carbocyclic OR Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium OR Tellurium 2

A61J - Containers Specially Adapted FOR Medical OR Pharmaceutical PURPOSES; Devices OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Bringing Pharmaceutical Products Into Particular Physical OR Administering FORMS; Devices FOR Administering Food OR Medicines ORALLY; Baby COMFORTERS; Devices FOR Receiving Spittle 1

G01F - Measuring Volume, Volume Flow, Mass Flow OR Liquid LEVEL; Metering BY Volume 1

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 1

Top 14 of 14 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 Shinyaku Co., Ltd.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Nippon Shinyaku Co., Ltd.'s lead technology class is A61P (Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations), 82% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A61P
Ranked #6,685 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Nippon Shinyaku Co., Ltd. against Mftb Holdco, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 38.3/100 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

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