Where does Omron Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Omron Corporation ranks #150 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 Omron Corporation hold?

Omron Corporation holds 2,552 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 198 technology areas.

What is Omron Corporation's Innovation Score?

Omron Corporation has an Innovation Score of 63.8 out of 100 (top 2% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Omron Corporation's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Omron Corporation's recent grant velocity is +47% 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 Omron Corporation's patents?

Omron Corporation's patents average 10.3 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 Omron Corporation 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

Omron Corporation

Q: What technology areas does Omron Corporation focus on?

Omron Corporation's top technology area is G05B (Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements) with 590 patents. Grants appear in 198 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 2,552 granted patents across 198 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: G05B (Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Omron ranks #150 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 2,552 patents across 198 technology areas.

#150
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 2%
by Innovation Score (63.8/100): 10.3
avg claims per patent: +47%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R150 · Foreign Corporation #150 · 2,552 grants

GRANTS-LARGE · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-PAR · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-UP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-LARGE 2.6K grants
TOP-DECILE #150/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Commscope
CPC-WIDE G05B · 198 areas
INNOV-STRONG 63.8/100
CLAIMS-PAR 10.3 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-UP +47% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Commscope Technologies LLC (±2 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
Arizona Board of… · near

64
Exo Imaging · near

64
Mayo Foundation for… · near

64
Omron · this assignee

64
Nissan Motor · near

64
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Omron's Innovation Score is 63.8/100 (top 2% 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 Omron's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Omron Corporation received 1,405 grants versus 953 in 2015–2019 (+47% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2020 at 349 grants and bottomed in 2015 at 145. Lead class G05B accounts for 23.1% of the portfolio across 198 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Arm Limited (#146) and Nichia Corporation (#154).

Omron's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Omron Corporation moved from 923 to 757 grants (0.82x 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 #1,770. See the growth leaderboard.

Arm

2,613
Paypal

2,609
Red Hat

2,585
Semiconductor Com…

2,555
Omron ◀

2,552
Commscope

2,550
United Services A…

2,549
Schaeffler & KG

2,548
Nichia

2,544

What this shows Omron holds 2,552 patents at rank #150, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Omron

By rank, the assignees closest to #150 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G05B (Control OR Regulating Systems IN General)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

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

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (64 here).

Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research 64 Exo Imaging, Inc. 64 Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. 64 Arizona Board of Regents on Behalf of the University of Arizona 64

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (10.3 here).

Baoshan Iron & Steel Co., Ltd. 10.4 avg Arcelik Anonim Sirketi 10.3 avg Tejas Networks Limited 10.4 avg Murakami Corporation 10.4 avg

Omron's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

64 Top 2% higher than 98% 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.

View data table

Omron Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	145	5.7%
2016	176	6.9%
2017	192	7.5%
2018	165	6.5%
2019	275	10.8%
2020	349	13.7%
2021	299	11.7%
2022	238	9.3%
2023	221	8.7%
2024	298	11.7%
2025partial year	194	7.6%

Which technologies does Omron Corporation patent most?

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 590

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 440

H01H - Electric SWITCHES; RELAYS; SELECTORS; Emergency Protective Devices 272

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 243

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 199

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 169

B25J - MANIPULATORS; Chambers Provided With Manipulation Devices 168

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 165

H02J - Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy 139

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 132

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 131

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 113

G01B - Measuring Length, Thickness OR Similar Linear DIMENSIONS; Measuring ANGLES; Measuring AREAS; Measuring Irregularities OF Surfaces OR Contours 102

H02M - Apparatus FOR Conversion Between AC AND AC, Between AC AND DC, OR Between DC AND DC, AND FOR USE With Mains OR Similar Power Supply SYSTEMS; Conversion OF DC OR AC Input Power Into Surge Output POWER; Control OR Regulation Thereof 93

H01R - Electrically-conductive CONNECTIONS; Structural Associations OF A Plurality OF Mutually-insulated Electrical Connecting ELEMENTS; Coupling DEVICES; Current Collectors 88

Top 15 of 198 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#150

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

63.8 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

Omron Corporation's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Omron Corporation's lead technology class is G05B (Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements), 23.1% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G05B
Ranked #150 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Omron Corporation against Arm Limited, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 63.8/100 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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