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

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Nippon Soda Co., Ltd. ranks #2,383 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 Soda Co., Ltd. hold?

Nippon Soda Co., Ltd. holds 164 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 56 technology areas.

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

Nippon Soda Co., Ltd. has an Innovation Score of 50.1 out of 100 (top 13% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

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

Nippon Soda Co., Ltd.'s recent grant velocity is -62% 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 Soda Co., Ltd.'s patents?

Nippon Soda Co., Ltd.'s patents average 6.0 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 Soda 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 Soda Co., Ltd.

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

Nippon Soda Co., Ltd.'s top technology area is A01N (Preservation OF Bodies OF Humans OR Animals OR Plants OR Parts Thereof ; Biocides, e.g. AS Disinfectants, AS Pesticides OR AS Herbicides ; Pest Repellants OR ATTRACTANTS; Plant Growth Regulators) with 63 patents, ranking #17 of 1,216 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 56 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 164 granted patents across 56 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: A01N (Preservation OF Bodies OF Humans OR Animals OR Plants OR Parts Thereof ; Biocides, e.g. AS Disinfectants, AS Pesticides OR AS Herbicides ; Pest Repellants OR ATTRACTANTS; Plant Growth Regulators).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Nippon ranks #2,383 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 164 patents across 56 technology areas.

#2,383
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 13%
by Innovation Score (50.1/100): 6.0
avg claims per patent: -62%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2383 · Foreign Corporation #2,383 · 164 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 164 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,383/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Faurecia Sièges…
CPC-WIDE A01N · 56 areas
INNOV-PAR 50.1/100
CLAIMS-SPARSE 6.0 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -62% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Faurecia Sièges d'Automobile (±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 50.1 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 17.6 pts (35%) Velocity 3.9 pts (8%) Breadth 25.0 pts (50%) Claim depth 3.6 pts (7%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
AlphaSense Oy · near

50
GrafTech Internation… · near

50
Harmonic · near

50
Nippon Soda · this assignee

50
TA Instruments-Waters · near

50
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Nippon's Innovation Score is 50.1/100 (top 13% 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 6.0 claims/patent is at or below the 13.0 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 Soda Co., Ltd. received 42 grants versus 112 in 2015–2019 (-62% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2015 at 37 grants and bottomed in 2023 at 3. Lead class A01N accounts for 38.4% of the portfolio across 56 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Faurecia Sièges d'Automobile (#2,379) and Smiths Medical ASD, Inc. (#2,387).

Nippon's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Nippon Soda Co., Ltd. moved from 36 to 21 grants (0.58x 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 #2,490. See the growth leaderboard.

Faurecia Sièges d…

164
Liveperson

164
Mettler-toledo

164
NIO Technology (A…

164
SII Semiconductor

164
Smith & Nephew As…

164
Solvay

164
Smiths Medical ASD

164
Nippon Soda ◀

164

What this shows Nippon holds 164 patents at rank #2,383, 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 #2,383 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A01N (Preservation OF Bodies OF Humans OR Animals OR Plants OR…)

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 A01N (Preservation OF Bodies OF Humans OR Animals OR Plants OR…), Nippon ranks #17 of 1,216 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (50 here).

Harmonic, Inc. 50 GrafTech International Holdings Inc. 50 TA Instruments-Waters LLC 50 AlphaSense Oy 50

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (6.0 here).

Duraflex Hong Kong Limited 6.0 avg Cybex GmbH 6.0 avg 100% Speedlab, LLC 6.0 avg De' Longhi Appliances S.R.L. CON Unico Socio 6.0 avg

Nippon's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

50 Top 13% higher than 87% 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 Soda Co., Ltd. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	37	22.6%
2016	24	14.6%
2017	20	12.2%
2018	16	9.8%
2019	15	9.1%
2020	11	6.7%
2021	10	6.1%
2022	8	4.9%
2023	3	1.8%
2024	10	6.1%
2025partial year	10	6.1%

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

A01N - Preservation OF Bodies OF Humans OR Animals OR Plants OR Parts Thereof ; Biocides, e.g. AS Disinfectants, AS Pesticides OR AS Herbicides ; Pest Repellants OR ATTRACTANTS; Plant Growth Regulators 63

C07D - Heterocyclic Compounds 58

C07C - Acyclic OR Carbocyclic Compounds 32

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 22

C08F - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained BY Reactions Only Involving Carbon-to-carbon Unsaturated Bonds 22

A61P - Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations 21

C08G - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than BY Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds 21

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 20

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 15

C08L - Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds 11

B01J - Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus 10

A01P - Biocidal, Pest Repellant, Pest Attractant OR Plant Growth Regulatory Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Preparations 10

C01B - Non-metallic ELEMENTS; Compounds THEREOF; ; Metalloids OR Compounds Thereof NOT Covered BY Subclass C01c 9

C08K - Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances as compounding ingredients 9

H01M - Processes OR Means, e.g. Batteries, FOR THE Direct Conversion OF Chemical Energy Into Electrical Energy 8

Top 15 of 56 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 Soda Co., Ltd.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Nippon Soda Co., Ltd.'s lead technology class is A01N (Preservation OF Bodies OF Humans OR Animals OR Plants OR Parts Thereof ; Biocides, e.g. AS Disinfectants, AS Pesticides OR AS Herbicides ; Pest Repellants OR ATTRACTANTS; Plant Growth Regulators), 38.4% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A01N
Ranked #2,383 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Nippon Soda Co., Ltd. against Faurecia Sièges d'Automobile, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 50.1/100 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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