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

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Nisshinbo Holdings Inc. ranks #5,389 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 Holdings Inc. hold?

Nisshinbo Holdings Inc. holds 64 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 46 technology areas.

What is Nisshinbo Holdings Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Nisshinbo Holdings Inc. has an Innovation Score of 52.0 out of 100 (top 11% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

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

Nisshinbo Holdings Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +61% 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 Holdings Inc.'s patents?

Nisshinbo Holdings Inc.'s patents average 10.5 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 Holdings 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 Holdings Inc.

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

Nisshinbo Holdings Inc.'s top technology area is Y02E (Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution) with 41 patents, ranking #371 of 5,963 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 46 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 64 granted patents across 46 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: Y02E (Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Nisshinbo ranks #5,389 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 64 patents across 46 technology areas.

#5,389
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 11%
by Innovation Score (52.0/100): 10.5
avg claims per patent: +61%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R5389 · Foreign Corporation #5,389 · 64 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-PAR · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 64 grants
UPPER-Q #5,389/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Medshine Discovery
CPC-WIDE Y02E · 46 areas
INNOV-PAR 52.0/100
CLAIMS-PAR 10.5 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +61% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Medshine Discovery Inc. (±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 52.0 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 14.4 pts (28%) Velocity 7.3 pts (14%) Breadth 24.0 pts (46%) Claim depth 6.3 pts (12%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
XIA TAI XIN… · near

52
Belgravia Wood · near

52
Franklin Fueling… · near

52
Nisshinbo Holdings · this assignee

52
CSP · near

52
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Nisshinbo's Innovation Score is 52.0/100 (top 11% 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 10.5 claims/patent is at or below the 16.5 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Nisshinbo's grants concentrate

Nisshinbo Holdings Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 46 CPC subclasses with 64.1% of grants classified under Y02E (Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution). Peak complete grant year is 2022 (13 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2018. By volume, Nisshinbo sits between Mitek Systems, Inc. and National University Corporation Yokohama National University.

Nisshinbo's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Nisshinbo Holdings Inc. moved from 20 to 22 grants (1.10x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Mitek Systems

64
Medshine Discovery

64
Meritor Heavy Veh…

64
Mid-west Metal Pr…

64
Narrative Science

64
National Chi Nan…

64
National Products

64
National Universi…

64
Nisshinbo Holdings ◀

64

What this shows Nisshinbo holds 64 patents at rank #5,384, 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 #5,384 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in Y02E (Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Nisshinbo, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In Y02E (Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions), Nisshinbo ranks #371 of 5,963 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (52 here).

Franklin Fueling Systems, LLC 52 Belgravia Wood Limited 52 XIA TAI XIN Semiconductor (QING DAO) Ltd. 52 CSP Technologies, Inc. 52

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (10.5 here).

Sumitomo Electric Device Innovations, Inc. 10.5 avg Tokin Corporation 10.5 avg Ubicquia, Inc. 10.5 avg National University OF Defense Technology 10.5 avg

Nisshinbo's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

52 Top 11% higher than 89% 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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Nisshinbo Holdings Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	10	15.6%
2016	3	4.7%
2017	3	4.7%
2018	2	3.1%
2019	5	7.8%
2020	6	9.4%
2021	9	14.1%
2022	13	20.3%
2023	4	6.3%
2024	5	7.8%
2025partial year	4	6.3%

Which technologies does Nisshinbo Holdings Inc. patent most?

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 41

H01M - Processes OR Means, e.g. Batteries, FOR THE Direct Conversion OF Chemical Energy Into Electrical Energy 37

B01J - Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus 21

C01B - Non-metallic ELEMENTS; Compounds THEREOF; ; Metalloids OR Compounds Thereof NOT Covered BY Subclass C01c 17

H01G - CAPACITORS; Capacitors, Rectifiers, Detectors, Switching Devices, Light-sensitive OR Temperature-sensitive Devices OF THE Electrolytic Type 8

C07F - Acyclic, Carbocyclic OR Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium OR Tellurium 8

C07D - Heterocyclic Compounds 7

C01P - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Structural AND Physical Aspects OF Solid Inorganic Compounds 6

C08J - WORKING-UP; General Processes OF COMPOUNDING; After-treatment NOT Covered BY Subclasses C08b, C08c, C08f, C08g or C08h 5

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 5

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 4

C08L - Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds 4

C08F - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained BY Reactions Only Involving Carbon-to-carbon Unsaturated Bonds 4

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 4

C08K - Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances as compounding ingredients 4

Top 15 of 46 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 Holdings Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Nisshinbo Holdings Inc.'s lead technology class is Y02E (Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution), 64.1% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore Y02E
Ranked #5,389 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Nisshinbo Holdings Inc. against Mitek Systems, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 52.0/100 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

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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

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