Where does Nissan Chemical Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Nissan Chemical Corporation ranks #1,953 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 Nissan Chemical Corporation hold?

Nissan Chemical Corporation holds 206 US utility patents granted between 2018 and 2025, spanning 76 technology areas.

What is Nissan Chemical Corporation's Innovation Score?

Nissan Chemical Corporation has an Innovation Score of 63.6 out of 100 (top 2% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Nissan Chemical Corporation's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Nissan Chemical Corporation's recent grant velocity is +2229% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Nissan Chemical Corporation's patents?

Nissan Chemical Corporation's patents average 12.3 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 Nissan Chemical 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

Nissan Chemical Corporation

Q: What technology areas does Nissan Chemical Corporation focus on?

Nissan Chemical Corporation's top technology area is C09D (Coating Compositions, e.g. Paints, Varnishes OR LACQUERS; Filling PASTES; Chemical Paint OR INK REMOVERS; INKS; Correcting FLUIDS; WOODSTAINS; Pastes OR Solids FOR Colouring OR PRINTING; USE OF Materials Therefor) with 80 patents, ranking #39 of 1,818 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 76 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 206 granted patents across 76 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2018–2025. 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: C09D (Coating Compositions, e.g. Paints, Varnishes OR LACQUERS; Filling PASTES; Chemical Paint OR INK REMOVERS; INKS; Correcting FLUIDS; WOODSTAINS; Pastes OR Solids FOR Colouring OR PRINTING; USE OF Materi).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Nissan ranks #1,953 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 206 patents across 76 technology areas.

#1,953
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 2%
by Innovation Score (63.6/100): 12.3
avg claims per patent: +2229%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1953 · Foreign Corporation #1,953 · 206 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 206 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,953/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH AVX
CPC-WIDE C09D · 76 areas
INNOV-STRONG 63.6/100
CLAIMS-RICH 12.3 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +2229% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: AVX Corporation (±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 Nissan’s 63.6 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 18.4 pts (29%) Velocity 12.8 pts (20%) Breadth 25.0 pts (39%) Claim depth 7.4 pts (12%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Avaya Management · near

64
Carbon · near

64
Hefei Xinsheng… · near

64
Imec VZW · near

64
Nissan Chemical · this assignee

64
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Nissan's Innovation Score is 63.6/100 (top 2% 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 Nissan?

Each dot is one of Nissan’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). Nissan’s own 12.3 claims/patent is ABOVE the 10.5 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How Nissan's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Nissan Chemical Corporation received 163 grants versus 7 in 2015–2019 (+2229% equal-window velocity, top decile growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2024 at 48 grants and bottomed in 2018 at 1. Lead class C09D accounts for 38.8% of the portfolio across 76 subclasses. Volume neighbours: AVX Corporation (#1,949) and Weber-Stephen Products LLC (#1,957).

Nissan's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Nissan Chemical Corporation moved from 58 to 111 grants (1.91x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). Among 3,296 tracked assignees with ≥100 grants and ≥20 prior-period grants, that multiple ranks #236. See the growth leaderboard.

AVX

206
Daihen

206
Kddi

206
Lululemon Athleti…

206
Noble Systems

206
Novellus Systems

206
Renishaw

206
Weber-stephen Pro…

206
Nissan Chemical ◀

206

What this shows Nissan holds 206 patents at rank #1,953, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Nissan

By rank, the assignees closest to #1,953 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C09D (Coating Compositions)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Nissan, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In C09D (Coating Compositions), Nissan ranks #39 of 1,818 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (64 here).

Imec VZW 64 Hefei Xinsheng Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd. 64 Carbon, Inc. 64 Avaya Management L.P. 64

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (12.3 here).

True Velocity IP Holdings, Inc. 12.3 avg Southco, Inc. 12.3 avg United Microelectronics Corp. 12.3 avg Traeger Pellet Grills, LLC 12.3 avg

Nissan's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

64 Top 2% higher than 98% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2018–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2018–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Nissan Chemical Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2018	1	0.5%
2019	6	2.9%
2020	24	11.7%
2021	28	13.6%
2022	35	17.0%
2023	28	13.6%
2024	48	23.3%
2025partial year	36	17.5%

Which technologies does Nissan Chemical Corporation patent most?

C09D - Coating Compositions, e.g. Paints, Varnishes OR LACQUERS; Filling PASTES; Chemical Paint OR INK REMOVERS; INKS; Correcting FLUIDS; WOODSTAINS; Pastes OR Solids FOR Colouring OR PRINTING; USE OF Materials Therefor 80

C08G - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than BY Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds 78

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 69

G03F - Photomechanical Production OF Textured OR Patterned Surfaces, e.g. FOR Printing, FOR Processing OF Semiconductor DEVICES; Materials THEREFOR; Originals THEREFOR; Apparatus Specially Adapted THEREFOR; 64

C08L - Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds 41

C08K - Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances as compounding ingredients 40

C08F - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained BY Reactions Only Involving Carbon-to-carbon Unsaturated Bonds 33

C07D - Heterocyclic Compounds 28

C09K - Materials FOR Miscellaneous Applications, NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere 26

C01B - Non-metallic ELEMENTS; Compounds THEREOF; ; Metalloids OR Compounds Thereof NOT Covered BY Subclass C01c 20

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 16

C09J - ADHESIVES; Non-mechanical Aspects OF Adhesive Processes IN GENERAL; Adhesive Processes NOT Provided FOR ELSEWHERE; USE OF Materials AS Adhesives 15

C12N - Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media 15

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 14

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 13

Top 15 of 76 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

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

Nissan Chemical Corporation's lead technology class is C09D (Coating Compositions, e.g. Paints, Varnishes OR LACQUERS; Filling PASTES; Chemical Paint OR INK REMOVERS; INKS; Correcting FLUIDS; WOODSTAINS; Pastes OR Solids FOR Colouring OR PRINTING; USE OF Materi), 38.8% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C09D
Ranked #1,953 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Nissan Chemical Corporation against AVX Corporation, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 63.6/100 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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