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

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Nippon Thermostat Co., Ltd. ranks #8,652 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 Thermostat Co., Ltd. hold?

Nippon Thermostat Co., Ltd. holds 37 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 22 technology areas.

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

Nippon Thermostat Co., Ltd. has an Innovation Score of 42.0 out of 100 (top 31% 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 Thermostat Co., Ltd. focus on?

Nippon Thermostat Co., Ltd.'s top technology area is F01P (Cooling OF Machines OR Engines IN GENERAL; Cooling OF Internal-combustion Engines) with 28 patents, ranking #7 of 253 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 22 CPC subclasses total.

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

Nippon Thermostat Co., Ltd.'s recent grant velocity is +7% 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 Thermostat Co., Ltd.'s patents?

Nippon Thermostat Co., Ltd.'s patents average 6.7 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 Thermostat 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 Thermostat Co., Ltd.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 37 granted patents across 22 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: F01P (Cooling OF Machines OR Engines IN GENERAL; Cooling OF Internal-combustion Engines).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Nippon ranks #8,652 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 37 patents across 22 technology areas.

#8,652
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 31%
by Innovation Score (42.0/100): 6.7
avg claims per patent: +7%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R8652 · Foreign Corporation #8,652 · 37 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 37 grants
UPPER-Q #8,652/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Nakanishi
CPC-FOCUS F01P · 22 areas
INNOV-PAR 42.0/100
CLAIMS-SPARSE 6.7 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-FLAT +7% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Nakanishi 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 42.0 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 12.6 pts (30%) Velocity 8.9 pts (21%) Breadth 16.6 pts (39%) Claim depth 4.0 pts (10%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Agfa Graphics · near

42
Microsemi Semiconduc… · near

42
Nippon Thermostat · this assignee

42
Santec Holdings · near

42
Shenzhen Keya… · near

42
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Nippon's Innovation Score is 42.0/100 (top 31% 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 6.7 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.

Where Nippon's grants concentrate

Nippon Thermostat Co., Ltd. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 22 CPC subclasses with 75.7% of grants classified under F01P (Cooling OF Machines OR Engines IN GENERAL; Cooling OF Internal-combustion Engines). Peak complete grant year is 2024 (10 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2022. By volume, Nippon sits between Nakanishi Inc. and Novavax, Inc..

Nippon's three-year grant acceleration

Nippon Thermostat Co., Ltd. shows 12 grants in 2022–2024 against only 9 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.

Nakanishi

37
Netafim

37
Nexion S P A

37
Nippon Sharyo

37
Net Entertainment…

37
Neurowave Systems

37
Novan

37
Novavax

37
Nippon Thermostat ◀

37

What this shows Nippon holds 37 patents at rank #8,649, 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 #8,649 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F01P (Cooling OF Machines OR Engines IN General)

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 F01P (Cooling OF Machines OR Engines IN General), Nippon ranks #7 of 253 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (42 here).

Shenzhen Keya Medical Technology Corporation 42 Santec Holdings Corporation 42 Microsemi Semiconductor ULC 42 Agfa Graphics NV 42

Nippon's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

42 Top 31% higher than 69% 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 Thermostat Co., Ltd. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	3	8.1%
2016	2	5.4%
2017	2	5.4%
2018	3	8.1%
2019	5	13.5%
2020	2	5.4%
2021	2	5.4%
2022	1	2.7%
2023	1	2.7%
2024	10	27.0%
2025partial year	6	16.2%

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

F01P - Cooling OF Machines OR Engines IN GENERAL; Cooling OF Internal-combustion Engines 28

F16K - VALVES; TAPS; COCKS; ACTUATING-FLOATS; Devices FOR Venting OR Aerating 24

G05D - Systems FOR Controlling OR Regulating Non-electric Variables 21

H10N - Electric Solid-state Devices NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 4

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 2

F25B - Refrigeration Machines, Plants OR SYSTEMS; Combined Heating AND Refrigeration SYSTEMS; Heat Pump Systems 2

H05B - Electric HEATING; Electric Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Circuit Arrangements FOR Electric Light Sources, IN General 2

F02M - Supplying Combustion Engines IN General With Combustible Mixtures OR Constituents Thereof 2

F28F - Details OF Heat-exchange AND Heat-transfer Apparatus, OF General Application 2

H02N - Electric Machines NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1

F01N - Gas-flow Silencers OR Exhaust Apparatus FOR Machines OR Engines IN GENERAL; Gas-flow Silencers OR Exhaust Apparatus FOR Internal-combustion Engines 1

F02G - HOT GAS OR Combustion-product Positive-displacement Engine Plants ; USE OF Waste Heat OF Combustion ENGINES; NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 1

F16J - Pistons ; CYLINDERS; Sealings 1

F03G - Spring, Weight, Inertia OR Like MOTORS; Mechanical-power Producing Devices OR Mechanisms, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR OR Using Energy Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1

Top 15 of 22 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 Thermostat Co., Ltd.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Nippon Thermostat Co., Ltd.'s lead technology class is F01P (Cooling OF Machines OR Engines IN GENERAL; Cooling OF Internal-combustion Engines), 75.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F01P
Ranked #8,652 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Nippon Thermostat Co., Ltd. against Nakanishi Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 42.0/100 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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