Where does Nisca Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Nisca Corporation ranks #4,252 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 Nisca Corporation hold?

Nisca Corporation holds 84 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2020, spanning 32 technology areas.

What is Nisca Corporation's Innovation Score?

Nisca Corporation has an Innovation Score of 42.1 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 Nisca Corporation focus on?

Nisca Corporation's top technology area is B65H (Handling Thin OR Filamentary Material, e.g. Sheets, Webs, Cables) with 38 patents, ranking #33 of 1,019 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 32 CPC subclasses total.

Is Nisca Corporation's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Nisca Corporation'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 Nisca Corporation's patents?

Nisca Corporation'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 Nisca Corporation 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

Nisca Corporation

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 84 granted patents across 32 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2020. 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: B65H (Handling Thin OR Filamentary Material, e.g. Sheets, Webs, Cables).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Nisca ranks #4,252 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 84 patents across 32 technology areas.

#4,252
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 31%
by Innovation Score (42.1/100): 11.3
avg claims per patent: -99%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R4252 · Foreign Corporation #4,252 · 84 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 84 grants
TOP-DECILE #4,252/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Kitagawa Industries
CPC-FOCUS B65H · 32 areas
INNOV-PAR 42.1/100
CLAIMS-PAR 11.3 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -99% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Kitagawa Industries Co., Ltd. (±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 Nisca’s 42.1 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 15.3 pts (36%) Velocity 0.0 pts (0%) Breadth 20.0 pts (48%) Claim depth 6.8 pts (16%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Comscore · near

42
Nisca · this assignee

42
Rockwell Automation… · near

42
Varian Medical… · near

42
Zhejiang Shenghui… · near

42
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Nisca's Innovation Score is 42.1/100 (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 Nisca?

Each dot is one of Nisca’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). Nisca’s own 11.3 claims/patent is at or below the 13.8 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

Nisca vs its 8 nearest volume peers: granted patents vs average claims per patent. Source: USPTO PatentsView.

Where Nisca's grants concentrate

Nisca Corporation is a focused PatentsView assignee: 32 CPC subclasses with 45.2% of grants classified under B65H (Handling Thin OR Filamentary Material, e.g. Sheets, Webs, Cables). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (31 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2020. By volume, Nisca sits between Kitagawa Industries Co., Ltd. and Qingdao Haier Joint Stock Co., Ltd..

Kitagawa Industri…

84
M Technique

84
Mallinckrodt Hosp…

84
National Health R…

84
Optis Cellular Te…

84
Orthosensor

84
Prince Castle

84
Qingdao Haier Joi…

84
Nisca ◀

84

What this shows Nisca holds 84 patents at rank #4,252, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Nisca

By rank, the assignees closest to #4,252 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B65H (Handling Thin OR Filamentary Material)

Other assignees with the most granted patents in Nisca's primary technology class.

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Nisca, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B65H (Handling Thin OR Filamentary Material), Nisca ranks #33 of 1,019 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (42 here).

Comscore, Inc. 42 Varian Medical Systems Particle Therapy GMBH & Co. KG 42 Rockwell Automation Asia Pacific Business Center Pte. Ltd. 42 Zhejiang Shenghui Lighting Co., Ltd. 42

Similar claim depth

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

Nippon Soken, Inc. 11.3 avg Ewha UNIVERSITY—INDUSTRY Collaboration Foundation 11.3 avg Exergyn, Ltd. 11.3 avg Dentsply IH AB 11.3 avg

Nisca'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 · 2015–2020

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2015–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

View data table

Nisca Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	31	36.9%
2016	30	35.7%
2017	22	26.2%
2020	1	1.2%

Which technologies does Nisca Corporation patent most?

B65H - Handling Thin OR Filamentary Material, e.g. Sheets, Webs, Cables 38

G03G - ELECTROGRAPHY; ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHY; Magnetography 24

B42C - Bookbinding 23

B41J - TYPEWRITERS; Selective Printing Mechanisms, i.e. Mechanisms Printing Otherwise Than From A FORME; Correction OF Typographical Errors 19

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 15

B42B - Permanently Attaching Together Sheets, Quires OR Signatures OR Permanently Attaching Objects Thereto 12

B31F - Mechanical Working OR Deformation OF Paper, Cardboard OR Material Worked IN A Manner Analogous TO Paper 9

B26F - PERFORATING; PUNCHING; CUTTING-OUT; STAMPING-OUT; Severing BY Means Other Than Cutting 7

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 5

B41F - Printing Machines OR Presses 4

B26D - CUTTING; Details Common TO Machines FOR Perforating, Punching, Cutting-out, Stamping-out OR Severing 4

B42F - Sheets Temporarily Attached TOGETHER; Filing APPLIANCES; File CARDS; Indexing 4

B41M - Printing, Duplicating, Marking, OR Copying PROCESSES; Colour Printing, 3

F16M - Frames, Casings OR Beds OF Engines, Machines OR Apparatus, NOT Specific TO Engines, Machines OR Apparatus Provided FOR ELSEWHERE; STANDS; Supports 3

G06K - Graphical Data Reading ; Presentation OF DATA; Record CARRIERS; Handling Record Carriers 3

Top 15 of 32 technology areas

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

View all rankings → How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

Nisca Corporation's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Nisca Corporation's lead technology class is B65H (Handling Thin OR Filamentary Material, e.g. Sheets, Webs, Cables), 45.2% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B65H
Ranked #4,252 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Nisca Corporation against Kitagawa Industries Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 42.1/100 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

Compiled by PlainPatent , US Patent Intelligence Editorial Process · May 15, 2026

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