Where does Nissan Chemical Industries, Ltd. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Nissan Chemical Industries, Ltd. ranks #990 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 Industries, Ltd. hold?

Nissan Chemical Industries, Ltd. holds 445 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 88 technology areas.

What is Nissan Chemical Industries, Ltd.'s Innovation Score?

Nissan Chemical Industries, Ltd. has an Innovation Score of 54.7 out of 100 (top 7% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Nissan Chemical Industries, Ltd.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Nissan Chemical Industries, Ltd.'s recent grant velocity is -68% 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 Nissan Chemical Industries, Ltd.'s patents?

Nissan Chemical Industries, Ltd.'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 Industries, 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

Nissan Chemical Industries, Ltd.

Q: What technology areas does Nissan Chemical Industries, Ltd. focus on?

Nissan Chemical Industries, Ltd.'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 191 patents. Grants appear in 88 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 445 granted patents across 88 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: 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 #990 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 445 patents across 88 technology areas.

#990
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 7%
by Innovation Score (54.7/100): 12.3
avg claims per patent: -68%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R990 · Foreign Corporation #990 · 445 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 445 grants
TOP-DECILE #990/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Pirelli Tyre S P A
CPC-WIDE C09D · 88 areas
INNOV-PAR 54.7/100
CLAIMS-RICH 12.3 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -68% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Pirelli Tyre S.P.A. (±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
K2M · near

55
EagleBurgmann… · near

55
Nissan Chemical… · this assignee

55
Otter Products · near

55
Chicago Mercantile… · near

55
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Nissan's Innovation Score is 54.7/100 (top 7% 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.

How Nissan's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Nissan Chemical Industries, Ltd. received 107 grants versus 334 in 2015–2019 (-68% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2016 at 73 grants and bottomed in 2024 at 2. Lead class C09D accounts for 42.9% of the portfolio across 88 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Ecole Polytechnique Federale DE Lausanne (EPFL) (#986) and YKK Corporation (#994).

Nissan's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Nissan Chemical Industries, Ltd. moved from 148 to 28 grants (0.19x 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 #3,105. See the growth leaderboard.

Ecole Polytechniq…

446
RAI Strategic Hol…

446
Spectrum Diversif…

446
The Charles Stark…

446
Pirelli Tyre S P A

445
Nissan Chemical I… ◀

445
University OF Mar…

444
Daifuku

443
YKK

443

What this shows Nissan holds 445 patents at rank #990, 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 #990 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).

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (55 here).

Otter Products, LLC 55 EagleBurgmann Germany GmbH & Co. KG 55 Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. 55 K2M, Inc. 55

Similar claim depth

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

Phillips 66 Company 12.3 avg L'Air Liquide, Societe Anonyme Pour l'Etude et l'Exploitation des Procedes Georges Claude 12.3 avg Continental Automotive GMBH 12.3 avg Valeo Systemes DE Controle Moteur 12.3 avg

Nissan's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

55 Top 7% higher than 93% 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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Nissan Chemical Industries, Ltd. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	62	13.9%
2016	73	16.4%
2017	59	13.3%
2018	71	16.0%
2019	69	15.5%
2020	57	12.8%
2021	22	4.9%
2022	15	3.4%
2023	11	2.5%
2024	2	0.4%
2025partial year	4	0.9%

Which technologies does Nissan Chemical Industries, Ltd. 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 191

C08G - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than BY Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds 173

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; 139

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 104

C08F - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained BY Reactions Only Involving Carbon-to-carbon Unsaturated Bonds 100

C08L - Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds 99

C08K - Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances as compounding ingredients 63

C09K - Materials FOR Miscellaneous Applications, NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere 57

C07D - Heterocyclic Compounds 55

H10K - Organic Electric Solid-state Devices 50

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 47

C07C - Acyclic OR Carbocyclic Compounds 41

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 37

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 36

G02F - Optical Devices OR Arrangements FOR THE Control OF Light BY Modification OF THE Optical Properties OF THE Media OF THE Elements Involved THEREIN; Non-linear OPTICS; Frequency-changing OF LIGHT; Optical Logic ELEMENTS; Optical ANALOGUE/DIGITAL Converters 34

Top 15 of 88 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#990

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

54.7 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

Nissan Chemical Industries, Ltd.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Nissan Chemical Industries, Ltd.'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), 42.9% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C09D
Ranked #990 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Nissan Chemical Industries, Ltd. against Ecole Polytechnique Federale DE Lausanne (EPFL), an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 54.7/100 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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