Where does Orihiro Engineering Co., Ltd. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Orihiro Engineering Co., Ltd. ranks #18,988 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 Orihiro Engineering Co., Ltd. hold?

Orihiro Engineering Co., Ltd. holds 15 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2024, spanning 6 technology areas.

What is Orihiro Engineering Co., Ltd.'s Innovation Score?

Orihiro Engineering Co., Ltd. has an Innovation Score of 44.5 out of 100 (top 25% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Orihiro Engineering Co., Ltd. focus on?

Orihiro Engineering Co., Ltd.'s top technology area is B65B (Machines, Apparatus OR Devices FOR, OR Methods OF, Packaging Articles OR MATERIALS; Unpacking) with 9 patents, ranking #146 of 1,343 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 6 CPC subclasses total.

Is Orihiro Engineering Co., Ltd.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Orihiro Engineering Co., Ltd.'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 Orihiro Engineering Co., Ltd.'s patents?

Orihiro Engineering Co., Ltd.'s patents average 10.4 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 Orihiro Engineering 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

Orihiro Engineering Co., Ltd.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 15 granted patents across 6 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2024. 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: B65B (Machines, Apparatus OR Devices FOR, OR Methods OF, Packaging Articles OR MATERIALS; Unpacking).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Orihiro ranks #18,988 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 15 patents across 6 technology areas.

#18,988
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 25%
by Innovation Score (44.5/100): 10.4
avg claims per patent: +100%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R18988 · Foreign Corporation #18,988 · 15 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 15 grants
MID-PACK #18,988/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH OE Solutions
CPC-NARROW B65B · 6 areas
INNOV-PAR 44.5/100
CLAIMS-PAR 10.4 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +100% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: OE Solutions 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 Orihiro’s 44.5 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 9.6 pts (22%) Velocity 20.0 pts (45%) Breadth 8.7 pts (20%) Claim depth 6.2 pts (14%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Orihiro Engineering · this assignee

44
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Orihiro's Innovation Score is 44.5/100 (top 25% 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 Orihiro?

Each dot is one of Orihiro’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). Orihiro’s own 10.4 claims/patent is at or below the 14.1 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Orihiro's grants concentrate

Orihiro Engineering Co., Ltd. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 6 CPC subclasses with 60% of grants classified under B65B (Machines, Apparatus OR Devices FOR, OR Methods OF, Packaging Articles OR MATERIALS; Unpacking). Peak complete grant year is 2023 (4 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2018. By volume, Orihiro sits between OE Solutions Co., Ltd. and Oxitec Ltd..

Orihiro's three-year grant acceleration

Orihiro Engineering Co., Ltd. shows 10 grants in 2022–2024 against only 1 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.

OE Solutions

15
Opticis

15
Orbis

15
Oriental Motor

15
Otico

15
Otsuka America Ph…

15
Oxis Energy

15
Oxitec

15
Orihiro Engineeri… ◀

15

What this shows Orihiro holds 15 patents at rank #18,967, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Orihiro

By rank, the assignees closest to #18,967 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B65B (Machines)

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

Orihiro's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

44 Top 25% higher than 75% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2024

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2016–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Orihiro Engineering Co., Ltd. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	3	20.0%
2018	1	6.7%
2019	1	6.7%
2022	2	13.3%
2023	4	26.7%
2024	4	26.7%

Which technologies does Orihiro Engineering Co., Ltd. patent most?

B65B - Machines, Apparatus OR Devices FOR, OR Methods OF, Packaging Articles OR MATERIALS; Unpacking 9

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 5

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

B65H - Handling Thin OR Filamentary Material, e.g. Sheets, Webs, Cables 2

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 1

B31B - Making Containers OF Paper, Cardboard OR Material Worked IN A Manner Analogous TO Paper 1

Top 6 of 6 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

Orihiro Engineering Co., Ltd.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Orihiro Engineering Co., Ltd.'s lead technology class is B65B (Machines, Apparatus OR Devices FOR, OR Methods OF, Packaging Articles OR MATERIALS; Unpacking), 60% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B65B
Ranked #18,988 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Orihiro Engineering Co., Ltd. against OE Solutions Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 44.5/100 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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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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