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

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Nippon Thompson Co., Ltd. ranks #5,864 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 Thompson Co., Ltd. hold?

Nippon Thompson Co., Ltd. holds 58 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 23 technology areas.

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

Nippon Thompson Co., Ltd. has an Innovation Score of 43.8 out of 100 (top 27% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

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

Nippon Thompson Co., Ltd.'s recent grant velocity is -39% 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 Thompson Co., Ltd.'s patents?

Nippon Thompson Co., Ltd.'s patents average 8.6 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 Thompson 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 Thompson Co., Ltd.

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

Nippon Thompson Co., Ltd.'s top technology area is F16C (SHAFTS; Flexible SHAFTS; Elements OR Crankshaft MECHANISMS; Rotary Bodies Other Than Gearing ELEMENTS; Bearings) with 40 patents. Grants appear in 23 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 58 granted patents across 23 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: F16C (SHAFTS; Flexible SHAFTS; Elements OR Crankshaft MECHANISMS; Rotary Bodies Other Than Gearing ELEMENTS; Bearings).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Nippon ranks #5,864 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 58 patents across 23 technology areas.

#5,864
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 27%
by Innovation Score (43.8/100): 8.6
avg claims per patent: -39%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R5864 · Foreign Corporation #5,864 · 58 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 58 grants
UPPER-Q #5,864/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH MAC Trailer…
CPC-FOCUS F16C · 23 areas
INNOV-PAR 43.8/100
CLAIMS-PAR 8.6 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -39% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: MAC Trailer Manufacturing, 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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Alpha and Omega… · near

44
Aptima · near

44
Leadtrend Technology · near

44
Nippon Thompson · this assignee

44
Swiftlink · near

44
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Nippon's Innovation Score is 43.8/100 (top 27% 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.

Where Nippon's grants concentrate

Nippon Thompson Co., Ltd. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 23 CPC subclasses with 69% of grants classified under F16C (SHAFTS; Flexible SHAFTS; Elements OR Crankshaft MECHANISMS; Rotary Bodies Other Than Gearing ELEMENTS; Bearings). Peak complete grant year is 2019 (10 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2020. By volume, Nippon sits between MAC Trailer Manufacturing, Inc. and Piksel, Inc..

Nippon's three-year grant acceleration

Nippon Thompson Co., Ltd. shows 16 grants in 2022–2024 against only 14 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.

MAC Trailer Manuf…

58
MAG Instrument

58
Mastercard ASIA/P…

58
Mattersight

58
Nortek Security &…

58
National Nail

58
Omni Medsci

58
Piksel

58
Nippon Thompson ◀

58

What this shows Nippon holds 58 patents at rank #5,863, 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 #5,863 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F16C (Shafts)

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).

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (44 here).

Aptima, Inc. 44 Leadtrend Technology Corporation 44 Alpha and Omega Semiconductor, Ltd. 44 Swiftlink Technologies Inc. 44

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (8.6 here).

Fujitsu Client Computing Limited 8.6 avg Korea Institute of Ocean Science & Technology 8.6 avg Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. 8.6 avg Seoul National University Hospital 8.6 avg

Nippon's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

44 Top 27% higher than 73% 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 Thompson Co., Ltd. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	9	15.5%
2016	5	8.6%
2017	5	8.6%
2018	4	6.9%
2019	10	17.2%
2020	1	1.7%
2021	3	5.2%
2022	2	3.4%
2023	6	10.3%
2024	8	13.8%
2025partial year	5	8.6%

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

F16C - SHAFTS; Flexible SHAFTS; Elements OR Crankshaft MECHANISMS; Rotary Bodies Other Than Gearing ELEMENTS; Bearings 40

F16H - Gearing 12

H02K - Dynamo-electric Machines 4

C10M - Lubricating Compositions ; USE OF Chemical Substances Either Alone OR AS Lubricating Ingredients IN A Lubricating Composition 4

C10N - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass C10m Relating TO Lubricating Compositions 4

B23Q - Details, Components, OR Accessories FOR Machine Tools, e.g. Arrangements FOR Copying OR Controlling ; Machine Tools IN General Characterised BY THE Construction OF Particular Details OR COMPONENTS; Combinations OR Associations OF Metal-working Machines, NOT Directed TO A Particular Result 4

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 3

B25J - MANIPULATORS; Chambers Provided With Manipulation Devices 3

Y10S - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former Uspc Cross-reference ART Collections [XRACs] AND Digests 2

F16J - Pistons ; CYLINDERS; Sealings 2

A47B - TABLES; DESKS; Office FURNITURE; CABINETS; DRAWERS; General Details OF Furniture 2

G12B - Constructional Details OF Instruments, OR Comparable Details OF Other Apparatus, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 1

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 1

B21D - Working OR Processing OF Sheet Metal OR Metal Tubes, Rods OR Profiles Without Essentially Removing MATERIAL; Punching Metal 1

Top 15 of 23 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#5,864

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

43.8 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

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

Nippon Thompson Co., Ltd.'s lead technology class is F16C (SHAFTS; Flexible SHAFTS; Elements OR Crankshaft MECHANISMS; Rotary Bodies Other Than Gearing ELEMENTS; Bearings), 69% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F16C
Ranked #5,864 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Nippon Thompson Co., Ltd. against MAC Trailer Manufacturing, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 43.8/100 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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