Where does Nippon Soken, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Nippon Soken, Inc. ranks #3,537 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 Soken, Inc. hold?

Nippon Soken, Inc. holds 104 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2021, spanning 74 technology areas.

What is Nippon Soken, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Nippon Soken, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 47.8 out of 100 (top 18% 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 Soken, Inc. focus on?

Nippon Soken, Inc.'s top technology area is Y02T (Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation) with 15 patents, ranking #416 of 2,877 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 74 CPC subclasses total.

Is Nippon Soken, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Nippon Soken, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -99% 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 Soken, Inc.'s patents?

Nippon Soken, Inc.'s patents average 11.3 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 Soken, Inc. 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 Soken, Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 104 granted patents across 74 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2021. 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: Y02T (Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Nippon ranks #3,537 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 104 patents across 74 technology areas.

#3,537
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 18%
by Innovation Score (47.8/100): 11.3
avg claims per patent: -99%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R3537 · Foreign Corporation #3,537 · 104 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 104 grants
TOP-DECILE #3,537/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Gigamon
CPC-WIDE Y02T · 74 areas
INNOV-PAR 47.8/100
CLAIMS-PAR 11.3 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -99% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Gigamon 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 47.8 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 16.1 pts (34%) Velocity 0.0 pts (0%) Breadth 25.0 pts (52%) Claim depth 6.8 pts (14%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
B G Negev AND… · near

48
Blind InSites · near

48
JNC Petrochemical · near

48
Nippon Soken · this assignee

48
Ceramtec · near

48
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Nippon's Innovation Score is 47.8/100 (top 18% 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 11.3 claims/patent is at or below the 17.8 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 Soken, Inc. received 1 grants versus 103 in 2015–2019 (-99% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2015 at 32 grants and bottomed in 2021 at 1. Lead class Y02T accounts for 14.4% of the portfolio across 74 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Gigamon Inc. (#3,533) and People.ai, Inc. (#3,541).

Gigamon

104
Leica Biosystems…

104
Lightlab Imaging

104
Malikie Innovatio…

104
Peloton Interacti…

104
Promerus

104
Proton World Inte…

104
People ai

104
Nippon Soken ◀

104

What this shows Nippon holds 104 patents at rank #3,537, 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 #3,537 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in Y02T (Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transpo…)

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 Y02T (Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transpo…), Nippon ranks #416 of 2,877 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (48 here).

JNC Petrochemical Corporation 48 B.G. Negev Technologies AND Applications Ltd. 48 Blind InSites, LLC 48 Ceramtec GMBH 48

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (11.3 here).

Ewha UNIVERSITY—INDUSTRY Collaboration Foundation 11.3 avg Nisca Corporation 11.3 avg Beijing Qihoo Techology Company Limited 11.3 avg Exergyn, Ltd. 11.3 avg

Nippon's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

48 Top 18% higher than 82% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2021

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 Soken, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	32	30.8%
2016	28	26.9%
2017	25	24.0%
2018	13	12.5%
2019	5	4.8%
2021	1	1.0%

Which technologies does Nippon Soken, Inc. patent most?

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 15

H02M - Apparatus FOR Conversion Between AC AND AC, Between AC AND DC, OR Between DC AND DC, AND FOR USE With Mains OR Similar Power Supply SYSTEMS; Conversion OF DC OR AC Input Power Into Surge Output POWER; Control OR Regulation Thereof 11

G01S - Radio DIRECTION-FINDING; Radio NAVIGATION; Determining Distance OR Velocity BY USE OF Radio WAVES; Locating OR Presence-detecting BY USE OF THE Reflection OR Reradiation OF Radio WAVES; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves 10

G08G - Traffic Control Systems 9

H01H - Electric SWITCHES; RELAYS; SELECTORS; Emergency Protective Devices 7

F16K - VALVES; TAPS; COCKS; ACTUATING-FLOATS; Devices FOR Venting OR Aerating 7

B60W - Conjoint Control OF Vehicle Sub-units OF Different Type OR Different FUNCTION; Control Systems Specially Adapted FOR Hybrid VEHICLES; Road Vehicle Drive Control Systems FOR Purposes NOT Related TO THE Control OF A Particular Sub-unit 7

B60K - Arrangement OR Mounting OF Propulsion Units OR OF Transmissions IN VEHICLES; Arrangement OR Mounting OF Plural Diverse Prime-movers IN VEHICLES; Auxiliary Drives FOR VEHICLES; Instrumentation OR Dashboards FOR VEHICLES; Arrangements IN Connection With Cooling, AIR Intake, GAS Exhaust OR Fuel Supply 7

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 7

H01F - MAGNETS; INDUCTANCES; TRANSFORMERS; Selection OF Materials FOR Their Magnetic Properties 7

F04B - Positive-displacement Machines FOR LIQUIDS; Pumps 6

Y10S - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former Uspc Cross-reference ART Collections [XRACs] AND Digests 6

B60R - Vehicles, Vehicle Fittings, OR Vehicle Parts, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 6

F01L - Cyclically Operating Valves FOR Machines OR Engines 5

H02J - Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy 5

Top 15 of 74 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 Soken, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Nippon Soken, Inc.'s lead technology class is Y02T (Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation), 14.4% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore Y02T
Ranked #3,537 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Nippon Soken, Inc. against Gigamon Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 47.8/100 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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