Where does Nissin Foods Holdings Co., Ltd. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Nissin Foods Holdings Co., Ltd. ranks #6,572 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 Nissin Foods Holdings Co., Ltd. hold?

Nissin Foods Holdings Co., Ltd. holds 51 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 31 technology areas.

What is Nissin Foods Holdings Co., Ltd.'s Innovation Score?

Nissin Foods Holdings Co., Ltd. has an Innovation Score of 41.5 out of 100 (top 33% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Nissin Foods Holdings Co., Ltd.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Nissin Foods Holdings Co., Ltd.'s recent grant velocity is +0% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). The company is maintaining or growing its granted-patent output.

What does claim depth mean for Nissin Foods Holdings Co., Ltd.'s patents?

Nissin Foods Holdings Co., Ltd.'s patents average 6.1 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 Nissin Foods Holdings 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

Nissin Foods Holdings Co., Ltd.

Q: What technology areas does Nissin Foods Holdings Co., Ltd. focus on?

Nissin Foods Holdings Co., Ltd.'s top technology area is A23L (Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Preparation OR Treatment Thereof) with 39 patents, ranking #25 of 1,325 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 31 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 51 granted patents across 31 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: A23L (Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Preparation OR Treatment Thereof).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Nissin ranks #6,572 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 51 patents across 31 technology areas.

#6,572
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 33%
by Innovation Score (41.5/100): 6.1
avg claims per patent: +0%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R6572 · Foreign Corporation #6,572 · 51 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-SPARSE · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-FLAT · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 51 grants
UPPER-Q #6,572/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Miba Sinter Austria
CPC-FOCUS A23L · 31 areas
INNOV-PAR 41.5/100
CLAIMS-SPARSE 6.1 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-FLAT +0% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Miba Sinter Austria GmbH (±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 Nissin’s 41.5 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 13.6 pts (33%) Velocity 4.6 pts (11%) Breadth 19.7 pts (47%) Claim depth 3.6 pts (9%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Innate Pharma · near

42
Interaptix · near

42
Lensvector · near

42
Nissin Foods Holdings · this assignee

42
Technology Research… · near

42
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Nissin's Innovation Score is 41.5/100 (top 33% 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 Nissin?

Each dot is one of Nissin’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). Nissin’s own 6.1 claims/patent is at or below the 16.1 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Nissin's grants concentrate

Nissin Foods Holdings Co., Ltd. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 31 CPC subclasses with 76.5% of grants classified under A23L (Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Preparation OR Treatment Thereof). Peak complete grant year is 2019 (8 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2023. By volume, Nissin sits between Miba Sinter Austria GmbH and Nokomis, Inc..

Nissin's three-year grant acceleration

Nissin Foods Holdings Co., Ltd. shows 13 grants in 2022–2024 against only 19 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.

Miba Sinter Austr…

51
Microsemi

51
Mississippi State…

51
Neopost

51
Nantbio

51
National Oilwell…

51
Nokia Solutions a…

51
Nokomis

51
Nissin Foods Hold… ◀

51

What this shows Nissin holds 51 patents at rank #6,570, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Nissin

By rank, the assignees closest to #6,570 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A23L (Foods)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Nissin, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A23L (Foods), Nissin ranks #25 of 1,325 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (42 here).

Technology Research Association FOR Future Additive Manufacturing 42 Innate Pharma 42 Lensvector 42 Interaptix Inc. 42

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (6.1 here).

Isuzu Motors Limited 6.1 avg Conair LLC 6.1 avg Cosmo OIL Co., Ltd. 6.1 avg Sunbeam Products, Inc. 6.1 avg

Nissin's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

42 Top 33% higher than 67% 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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Nissin Foods Holdings Co., Ltd. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	3	5.9%
2016	3	5.9%
2017	4	7.8%
2018	6	11.8%
2019	8	15.7%
2020	7	13.7%
2021	4	7.8%
2022	8	15.7%
2023	1	2.0%
2024	4	7.8%
2025partial year	3	5.9%

Which technologies does Nissin Foods Holdings Co., Ltd. patent most?

A23L - Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Preparation OR Treatment Thereof 39

A23V - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages AND Lactic OR Propionic Acid Bacteria Used IN Foodstuffs OR Food Preparation 20

A23P - Shaping OR Working OF Foodstuffs, NOT Fully Covered BY A Single Other Subclass 8

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 8

A47J - Kitchen EQUIPMENT; Coffee MILLS; Spice MILLS; Apparatus FOR Making Beverages 7

A21C - Machines OR Equipment FOR Making OR Processing DOUGHS; Handling Baked Articles Made From Dough 7

A23B - Preservation OF Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic BEVERAGES; Chemical Ripening OF Fruit OR Vegetables 6

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 4

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 4

F26B - Drying Solid Materials OR Objects BY Removing Liquid Therefrom 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

B29K - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses B29b, B29c OR B29d, Relating TO Moulding Materials OR TO Materials FOR ; Moulds, ; Reinforcements, Fillers OR Preformed Parts, e.g. Inserts 2

B26D - CUTTING; Details Common TO Machines FOR Perforating, Punching, Cutting-out, Stamping-out OR Severing 2

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 2

B65B - Machines, Apparatus OR Devices FOR, OR Methods OF, Packaging Articles OR MATERIALS; Unpacking 2

Top 15 of 31 technology areas

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What to do with this data

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

Nissin Foods Holdings Co., Ltd.'s lead technology class is A23L (Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Preparation OR Treatment Thereof), 76.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A23L
Ranked #6,572 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Nissin Foods Holdings Co., Ltd. against Miba Sinter Austria GmbH, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 41.5/100 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

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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

Compiled by PlainPatent , US Patent Intelligence Editorial Process · May 15, 2026

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