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

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Nippon Shokubai Co., Ltd. ranks #1,502 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 Shokubai Co., Ltd. hold?

Nippon Shokubai Co., Ltd. holds 277 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 98 technology areas.

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

Nippon Shokubai Co., Ltd. has an Innovation Score of 55.5 out of 100 (top 7% 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 Shokubai Co., Ltd. focus on?

Nippon Shokubai Co., Ltd.'s top technology area is C08F (Macromolecular Compounds Obtained BY Reactions Only Involving Carbon-to-carbon Unsaturated Bonds) with 129 patents, ranking #25 of 1,231 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 98 CPC subclasses total.

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

Nippon Shokubai Co., Ltd.'s recent grant velocity is -27% 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 Shokubai Co., Ltd.'s patents?

Nippon Shokubai Co., Ltd.'s patents average 11.8 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 Shokubai 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 Shokubai Co., Ltd.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 277 granted patents across 98 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: C08F (Macromolecular Compounds Obtained BY Reactions Only Involving Carbon-to-carbon Unsaturated Bonds).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Nippon ranks #1,502 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 277 patents across 98 technology areas.

#1,502
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 7%
by Innovation Score (55.5/100): 11.8
avg claims per patent: -27%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1502 · Foreign Corporation #1,502 · 277 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 277 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,502/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Conti Temic…
CPC-WIDE C08F · 98 areas
INNOV-PAR 55.5/100
CLAIMS-PAR 11.8 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -27% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Conti Temic microelectronic GmbH (±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 55.5 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 19.4 pts (35%) Velocity 4.0 pts (7%) Breadth 25.0 pts (45%) Claim depth 7.1 pts (13%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Nippon Shokubai · this assignee

56
University of… · near

56
Joulwatt Technology · near

56
Recursion Pharmaceut… · near

56
SK microworks · near

56
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Nippon's Innovation Score is 55.5/100 (top 7% 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 11.8 claims/patent is at or below the 17.4 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 Shokubai Co., Ltd. received 112 grants versus 154 in 2015–2019 (-27% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2015 at 42 grants and bottomed in 2022 at 17. Lead class C08F accounts for 46.6% of the portfolio across 98 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Rapid7, Inc. (#1,498) and Fuji Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha (#1,506).

Nippon's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Nippon Shokubai Co., Ltd. moved from 89 to 53 grants (0.60x 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 #2,457. See the growth leaderboard.

Rapid7

278
Tableau Software

278
Vega Grieshaber KG

278
Conti Temic micro…

277
Ringcentral

277
Triad National Se…

277
Nippon Shokubai ◀

277
Lotes

276
Fuji Jukogyo

275

What this shows Nippon holds 277 patents at rank #1,502, 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 #1,502 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C08F (Macromolecular Compounds Obtained BY Reactions Only Invol…)

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 C08F (Macromolecular Compounds Obtained BY Reactions Only Invol…), Nippon ranks #25 of 1,231 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (56 here).

University of Strathclyde 56 Joulwatt Technology Co., Ltd. 56 Recursion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. 56 SK microworks Co., Ltd. 56

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (11.8 here).

Korea Institute OF Science AND Technology 11.8 avg Nidec Sankyo Corporation 11.8 avg Daicel Corporation 11.8 avg PETRÓLEO Brasileiro S.A.—PETROBRAS 11.8 avg

Nippon's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

56 Top 7% higher than 93% 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 Shokubai Co., Ltd. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	42	15.2%
2016	30	10.8%
2017	26	9.4%
2018	26	9.4%
2019	30	10.8%
2020	38	13.7%
2021	21	7.6%
2022	17	6.1%
2023	17	6.1%
2024	19	6.9%
2025partial year	11	4.0%

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

C08F - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained BY Reactions Only Involving Carbon-to-carbon Unsaturated Bonds 129

C08J - WORKING-UP; General Processes OF COMPOUNDING; After-treatment NOT Covered BY Subclasses C08b, C08c, C08f, C08g or C08h 93

B01J - Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus 84

C08L - Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds 64

A61L - Methods OR Apparatus FOR Sterilising Materials OR Objects IN GENERAL; Disinfection, Sterilisation OR Deodorisation OF AIR; Chemical Aspects OF Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads OR Surgical ARTICLES; Materials FOR Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads OR Surgical Articles 56

C08K - Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances as compounding ingredients 41

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 35

C07C - Acyclic OR Carbocyclic Compounds 32

H01M - Processes OR Means, e.g. Batteries, FOR THE Direct Conversion OF Chemical Energy Into Electrical Energy 27

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 25

C01B - Non-metallic ELEMENTS; Compounds THEREOF; ; Metalloids OR Compounds Thereof NOT Covered BY Subclass C01c 25

C08G - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than BY Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds 25

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 25

C04B - Lime, MAGNESIA; SLAG; CEMENTS; Compositions Thereof, e.g. Mortars, Concrete OR Like Building MATERIALS; Artificial Stone ; Ceramics ; REFRACTORIES; Treatment OF Natural Stone 19

C01P - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Structural AND Physical Aspects OF Solid Inorganic Compounds 18

Top 15 of 98 technology areas

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What to do with this data

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

Nippon Shokubai Co., Ltd.'s lead technology class is C08F (Macromolecular Compounds Obtained BY Reactions Only Involving Carbon-to-carbon Unsaturated Bonds), 46.6% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C08F
Ranked #1,502 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Nippon Shokubai Co., Ltd. against Rapid7, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 55.5/100 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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