Where does Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd. ranks #1,236 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 Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd. hold?

Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd. holds 344 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 69 technology areas.

What is Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd.'s Innovation Score?

Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd. has an Innovation Score of 58.3 out of 100 (top 5% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd.'s recent grant velocity is -41% 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 Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd.'s patents?

Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd.'s patents average 10.8 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 Oki Electric Industry 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

Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd.

Q: What technology areas does Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd. focus on?

Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd.'s top technology area is G07D (Handling OF Coins OR Valuable Papers, e.g. Testing, Sorting BY Denominations, Counting, Dispensing, Changing OR Depositing) with 85 patents. Grants appear in 69 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 344 granted patents across 69 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: G07D (Handling OF Coins OR Valuable Papers, e.g. Testing, Sorting BY Denominations, Counting, Dispensing, Changing OR Depositing).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Oki ranks #1,236 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 344 patents across 69 technology areas.

#1,236
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 5%
by Innovation Score (58.3/100): 10.8
avg claims per patent: -41%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1236 · Foreign Corporation #1,236 · 344 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 344 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,236/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Agco
CPC-WIDE G07D · 69 areas
INNOV-PAR 58.3/100
CLAIMS-PAR 10.8 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -41% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Agco 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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Hanwha Techwin · near

58
Owens Corning… · near

58
Bridgestone… · near

58
Oki Electric Industry · this assignee

58
Under Armour · near

58
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Oki's Innovation Score is 58.3/100 (top 5% 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 Oki's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd. received 122 grants versus 207 in 2015–2019 (-41% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2015 at 59 grants and bottomed in 2020 at 17. Lead class G07D accounts for 24.7% of the portfolio across 69 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Agco Corporation (#1,232) and Hartford Fire Insurance Company (#1,240).

Oki's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd. moved from 73 to 73 grants (1.00x 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 #1,191. See the growth leaderboard.

Agco

344
Fujian Jinhua Int…

344
Nagravision Sarl

344
NEC Platforms

344
SHL Medical

344
Sonoco Development

344
Oki Electric Indu… ◀

344
Cox Communications

342
Hartford Fire Ins…

342

What this shows Oki holds 344 patents at rank #1,236, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Oki

By rank, the assignees closest to #1,236 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G07D (Handling OF Coins OR Valuable Papers)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Oki, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above).

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (58 here).

Bridgestone Americas Tire Operations, LLC 58 Under Armour, Inc. 58 Owens Corning Intellectual Capital, LLC 58 Hanwha Techwin Co., Ltd. 58

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (10.8 here).

Unicharm Corporation 10.8 avg Samsung Life Public Welfare Foundation 10.8 avg Takasago International Corporation 10.8 avg Toshiba Digital Solutions Corporation 10.8 avg

Oki's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

58 Top 5% higher than 95% 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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Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	59	17.2%
2016	43	12.5%
2017	47	13.7%
2018	34	9.9%
2019	24	7.0%
2020	17	4.9%
2021	32	9.3%
2022	37	10.8%
2023	18	5.2%
2024	18	5.2%
2025partial year	15	4.4%

Which technologies does Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd. patent most?

G07D - Handling OF Coins OR Valuable Papers, e.g. Testing, Sorting BY Denominations, Counting, Dispensing, Changing OR Depositing 85

G03G - ELECTROGRAPHY; ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHY; Magnetography 72

B65H - Handling Thin OR Filamentary Material, e.g. Sheets, Webs, Cables 62

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 43

G07F - Coin-freed OR Like Apparatus 40

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 25

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 24

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 20

G10L - Speech Analysis Techniques OR Speech SYNTHESIS; Speech RECOGNITION; Speech OR Voice Processing TECHNIQUES; Speech OR Audio Coding OR Decoding 18

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 17

H04R - Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups OR Like Acoustic Electromechanical TRANSDUCERS; Deaf-aid SETS; Public Address Systems 16

H04B - Transmission 15

H04J - Multiplex Communication 15

Y02D - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN Information AND Communication Technologies [ICT], I.E. Information AND Communication Technologies Aiming AT THE Reduction OF Their OWN Energy USE 10

H04Q - Selecting 10

Top 15 of 69 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#1,236

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

58.3 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

Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd.'s lead technology class is G07D (Handling OF Coins OR Valuable Papers, e.g. Testing, Sorting BY Denominations, Counting, Dispensing, Changing OR Depositing), 24.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G07D
Ranked #1,236 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd. against Agco Corporation, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 58.3/100 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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