Where does Nippon Suisan Kaisha, Ltd rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Nippon Suisan Kaisha, Ltd ranks #5,534 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 Suisan Kaisha, Ltd hold?

Nippon Suisan Kaisha, Ltd holds 62 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 30 technology areas.

What is Nippon Suisan Kaisha, Ltd's Innovation Score?

Nippon Suisan Kaisha, Ltd has an Innovation Score of 46.9 out of 100 (top 20% 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 Suisan Kaisha, Ltd focus on?

Nippon Suisan Kaisha, Ltd's top technology area is A61K (Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes) with 31 patents, ranking #730 of 7,163 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 30 CPC subclasses total.

Is Nippon Suisan Kaisha, Ltd's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Nippon Suisan Kaisha, Ltd's recent grant velocity is +40% 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 Suisan Kaisha, Ltd's patents?

Nippon Suisan Kaisha, Ltd's patents average 13.0 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 Suisan Kaisha, 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 Suisan Kaisha, Ltd

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 62 granted patents across 30 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: A61K (Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Nippon ranks #5,534 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 62 patents across 30 technology areas.

#5,534
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 20%
by Innovation Score (46.9/100): 13.0
avg claims per patent: +40%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R5534 · Foreign Corporation #5,534 · 62 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 62 grants
UPPER-Q #5,534/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Medivators
CPC-FOCUS A61K · 30 areas
INNOV-PAR 46.9/100
CLAIMS-RICH 13.0 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-UP +40% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Medivators 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 46.9 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 14.3 pts (30%) Velocity 5.4 pts (12%) Breadth 19.4 pts (41%) Claim depth 7.8 pts (17%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Aeris Communications · near

47
Arevo · near

47
Cyber Power Systems · near

47
Nippon Suisan Kaisha · this assignee

47
Wika Alexander… · near

47
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Nippon's Innovation Score is 46.9/100 (top 20% 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 13.0 claims/patent is at or below the 14.8 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.

Where Nippon's grants concentrate

Nippon Suisan Kaisha, Ltd is a focused PatentsView assignee: 30 CPC subclasses with 50% of grants classified under A61K (Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes). Peak complete grant year is 2020 (11 grants) versus a trough of 3 in 2019. By volume, Nippon sits between Medivators Inc. and Pacific Industrial Co., Ltd..

Nippon's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Nippon Suisan Kaisha, Ltd moved from 21 to 17 grants (0.81x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Medivators

62
Microsemi Soc

62
Muffin Incorporat…

62
Ningbo Semiconduc…

62
Nantomics

62
Nokia Shanghai Be…

62
Organo

62
Pacific Industrial

62
Nippon Suisan Kai… ◀

62

What this shows Nippon holds 62 patents at rank #5,531, 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 #5,531 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A61K (Preparations FOR Medical)

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 A61K (Preparations FOR Medical), Nippon ranks #730 of 7,163 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (47 here).

Arevo, Inc. 47 Cyber Power Systems, Inc. 47 Aeris Communications, Inc. 47 Wika Alexander Wiegand SE & Co. KG 47

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (13.0 here).

Primetals Technologies Germany GMBH 13.0 avg Ceva Sante Animale 13.0 avg Belimo Holding AG 13.0 avg GD Midea Air-conditioning Equipment Co., Ltd. 13.0 avg

Nippon's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

47 Top 20% higher than 80% 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 Suisan Kaisha, Ltd patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	9	14.5%
2016	5	8.1%
2017	4	6.5%
2018	4	6.5%
2019	3	4.8%
2020	11	17.7%
2021	7	11.3%
2022	8	12.9%
2023	5	8.1%
2024	4	6.5%
2025partial year	2	3.2%

Which technologies does Nippon Suisan Kaisha, Ltd patent most?

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 31

A23L - Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Preparation OR Treatment Thereof 28

A61P - Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations 27

C11C - Fatty Acids From Fats, Oils OR WAXES; CANDLES; Fats, Oils OR Fatty Acids BY Chemical Modification OF Fats, Oils, OR Fatty Acids Obtained Therefrom 27

C11B - Producing, e.g. BY Pressing RAW Materials OR BY Extraction From Waste Materials, Refining OR Preserving Fats, Fatty Substances, e.g. Lanolin, Fatty Oils OR WAXES; Essential OILS; Perfumes 23

C12P - Fermentation OR Enzyme-using Processes TO Synthesise A Desired Chemical Compound OR Composition OR TO Separate Optical Isomers From A Racemic Mixture 18

A23D - Edible Oils OR Fats, e.g. Margarines, Shortenings OR Cooking Oils 17

C12N - Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media 14

C07C - Acyclic OR Carbocyclic Compounds 13

A23V - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages AND Lactic OR Propionic Acid Bacteria Used IN Foodstuffs OR Food Preparation 11

A23K - Fodder 11

Y02A - Technologies FOR Adaptation TO Climate Change 9

B01D - Separation 8

A01K - Animal HUSBANDRY; AVICULTURE; APICULTURE; PISCICULTURE; FISHING; Rearing OR Breeding Animals, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; NEW Breeds OF Animals 7

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 6

Top 15 of 30 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 Suisan Kaisha, Ltd's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Nippon Suisan Kaisha, Ltd's lead technology class is A61K (Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes), 50% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A61K
Ranked #5,534 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Nippon Suisan Kaisha, Ltd against Medivators Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 46.9/100 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

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