Where does Nisshinbo Chemical Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Nisshinbo Chemical Inc. ranks #14,170 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 Nisshinbo Chemical Inc. hold?

Nisshinbo Chemical Inc. holds 21 US utility patents granted between 2017 and 2025, spanning 18 technology areas.

What is Nisshinbo Chemical Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Nisshinbo Chemical Inc. has an Innovation Score of 41.1 out of 100 (top 34% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Nisshinbo Chemical Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Nisshinbo Chemical Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +100% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Nisshinbo Chemical Inc.'s patents?

Nisshinbo Chemical Inc.'s patents average 11.4 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 Nisshinbo Chemical Inc. 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

Nisshinbo Chemical Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Nisshinbo Chemical Inc. focus on?

Nisshinbo Chemical Inc.'s top technology area is C08G (Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than BY Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds) with 15 patents, ranking #246 of 1,741 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 18 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 21 granted patents across 18 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2017–2025. 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: C08G (Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than BY Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Nisshinbo ranks #14,170 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 21 patents across 18 technology areas.

#14,170
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 34%
by Innovation Score (41.1/100): 11.4
avg claims per patent: +100%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R14170 · Foreign Corporation #14,170 · 21 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-PAR · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 21 grants
MID-PACK #14,170/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Niko Semiconductor
CPC-FOCUS C08G · 18 areas
INNOV-PAR 41.1/100
CLAIMS-PAR 11.4 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +100% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Niko Semiconductor 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 Nisshinbo’s 41.1 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 10.7 pts (26%) Velocity 8.6 pts (21%) Breadth 15.0 pts (36%) Claim depth 6.8 pts (17%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Nisshinbo Chemical · this assignee

41
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Nisshinbo's Innovation Score is 41.1/100 (top 34% 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 Nisshinbo?

Each dot is one of Nisshinbo’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). Nisshinbo’s own 11.4 claims/patent is ABOVE the 10.3 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Nisshinbo's grants concentrate

Nisshinbo Chemical Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 18 CPC subclasses with 71.4% of grants classified under C08G (Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than BY Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds). Peak complete grant year is 2024 (5 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2020. By volume, Nisshinbo sits between Niko Semiconductor Co., Ltd. and Novozymes Biologicals Limited.

Nisshinbo's three-year grant acceleration

Nisshinbo Chemical Inc. shows 9 grants in 2022–2024 against only 7 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.

Niko Semiconductor

21
Nine Stars Group…

21
Ningbo Ucome Ligh…

21
Nisco

21
Njoy

21
Nohms

21
Novembal USA

21
Novozymes Biologi…

21
Nisshinbo Chemical ◀

21

What this shows Nisshinbo holds 21 patents at rank #14,162, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Nisshinbo

By rank, the assignees closest to #14,162 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C08G (Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than BY React…)

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

Nisshinbo's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

41 Top 34% higher than 66% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2017–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2017–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Nisshinbo Chemical Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2017	2	9.5%
2019	4	19.0%
2020	1	4.8%
2021	2	9.5%
2022	2	9.5%
2023	2	9.5%
2024	5	23.8%
2025partial year	3	14.3%

Which technologies does Nisshinbo Chemical Inc. patent most?

C08G - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than BY Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds 15

C08L - Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds 14

C08K - Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances as compounding ingredients 10

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 8

H01M - Processes OR Means, e.g. Batteries, FOR THE Direct Conversion OF Chemical Energy Into Electrical Energy 5

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 5

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 4

C09J - ADHESIVES; Non-mechanical Aspects OF Adhesive Processes IN GENERAL; Adhesive Processes NOT Provided FOR ELSEWHERE; USE OF Materials AS Adhesives 3

C08J - WORKING-UP; General Processes OF COMPOUNDING; After-treatment NOT Covered BY Subclasses C08b, C08c, C08f, C08g or C08h 3

C07C - Acyclic OR Carbocyclic Compounds 3

B29C - Shaping OR Joining OF PLASTICS; Shaping OF Material IN A Plastic State, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; After-treatment OF THE Shaped Products, e.g. Repairing 2

B01J - Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus 2

C07B - General Methods OF Organic CHEMISTRY; Apparatus Therefor 2

B65D - Containers FOR Storage OR Transport OF Articles OR Materials, e.g. Bags, Barrels, Bottles, Boxes, Cans, Cartons, Crates, Drums, Jars, Tanks, Hoppers, Forwarding CONTAINERS; Accessories, Closures, OR Fittings THEREFOR; Packaging ELEMENTS; Packages 1

D21H - Pulp COMPOSITIONS; Preparation Thereof NOT Covered BY Subclasses D21c OR D21D; Impregnating OR Coating OF PAPER; Treatment OF Finished Paper NOT Covered BY Class B31 OR Subclass D21G; Paper NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1

Top 15 of 18 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

Nisshinbo Chemical Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Nisshinbo Chemical Inc.'s lead technology class is C08G (Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than BY Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds), 71.4% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C08G
Ranked #14,170 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Nisshinbo Chemical Inc. against Niko Semiconductor Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 41.1/100 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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