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

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Nishikawa Co., Ltd. ranks #23,092 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 Nishikawa Co., Ltd. hold?

Nishikawa Co., Ltd. holds 12 US utility patents granted between 2021 and 2024, spanning 0 technology areas.

What is Nishikawa Co., Ltd.'s Innovation Score?

Nishikawa Co., Ltd. has an Innovation Score of 29.5 out of 100 (31st percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Nishikawa Co., Ltd. focus on?

Nishikawa Co., Ltd. holds grants across 0 technology areas classified under the Cooperative Patent Classification system.

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

Insufficient historical data is available to calculate a velocity trend for Nishikawa Co., Ltd..

What does claim depth mean for Nishikawa Co., Ltd.'s patents?

Nishikawa Co., Ltd.'s patents average 1.0 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 Nishikawa 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

Nishikawa Co., Ltd.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 12 granted patents across 0 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2021–2024. Grant-trend analysis is cross-referenced to USPTO Patent Public Search; it does not measure application filings, current R&D, or legal strength.

Compiled by PlainPatent · May 15, 2026

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Nishikawa ranks #23,092 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 12 patents across 0 technology areas.

#23,092
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 31st percentile
by Innovation Score (29.5/100): 1.0
avg claims per patent

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R23092 · Foreign Corporation #23,092 · 12 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-UNK · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-SPARSE · TYPE-FRNCORP · SPAN-YRS · BOOK-RICH

GRANTS-MICRO 12 grants
MID-PACK #23,092/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Ningbo Gecen…
CPC-UNK CPC blank
INNOV-THIN 29.5/100
CLAIMS-SPARSE 1.0 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
SPAN-YRS 2021–2024 · 4y
BOOK-RICH 8/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Ningbo Gecen Promotion & Gift 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 Nishikawa’s 29.5 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 8.9 pts (30%) Velocity 20.0 pts (68%) Breadth 0.0 pts (0%) Claim depth 0.6 pts (2%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Nishikawa · this assignee

29
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Nishikawa's Innovation Score is 29.5/100 (31st percentile 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 Nishikawa?

Each dot is one of Nishikawa’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). Nishikawa’s own 1.0 claims/patent is at or below the 5.1 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Nishikawa's grants concentrate

Nishikawa Co., Ltd. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 0 CPC subclasses . Peak complete grant year is 2024 (5 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2021. By volume, Nishikawa sits between Ningbo Gecen Promotion & Gift Co., Ltd. and Noctrix Health, Inc..

Nishikawa's three-year grant acceleration

Nishikawa Co., Ltd. shows 10 grants in 2022–2024 against only 2 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.

Ningbo Gecen Prom…

12
Ningobo Yinzhou S…

12
Nippon Conlux

12
Nippon Tungsten

12
Nisshinbo Brake

12
NLT Spine

12
NLU Products L L C

12
Noctrix Health

12
Nishikawa ◀

12

What this shows Nishikawa holds 12 patents at rank #23,049, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Nishikawa

By rank, the assignees closest to #23,049 in granted patent volume.

Nishikawa's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

29 31st percentile higher than 31% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2021–2024

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2021–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Nishikawa Co., Ltd. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2021	2	16.7%
2022	3	25.0%
2023	2	16.7%
2024	5	41.7%

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

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What to do with this data

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

Ranked #23,092 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Nishikawa Co., Ltd. against Ningbo Gecen Promotion & Gift Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 29.5/100 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

Every figure on PlainPatent is rendered directly from USPTO source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on USPTO source data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 2026.