USPTO 2015–2025 USPTO PatentsView US Corporation

Panasonic Connect North America, Division of Panasonic Corporation of North America

Q: Where does Panasonic Connect North America, Division of Panasonic Corporation of North America rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Panasonic Connect North America, Division of Panasonic Corporation of North America ranks #27,074 of 49,997 assignees by granted-patent volume, the same sort as the companies listing and top-holders ranking. See /methodology/#corpus-placement.

Q: Is Panasonic Connect North America, Division of Panasonic Corporation of North America's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Insufficient historical data is available to calculate a velocity trend for Panasonic Connect North America, Division of Panasonic Corporation of North America.

Q: How is the Panasonic Connect North America, Division of Panasonic Corporation of North America 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 PatentsView assignee record - 10 granted patents across 8 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2023–2024. 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: G02B (Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus).

Compiled by PlainPatent · May 15, 2026

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Panasonic ranks #27,074 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 10 patents across 8 technology areas.

#27,074
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 10%
by Innovation Score (52.9/100): 24.3
avg claims per patent

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R27074 · US Corporation #27,074 · 10 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-USCORP · SPAN-YRS · BOOK-RICH

GRANTS-MICRO 10 grants
MID-PACK #27,074/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Pacific Coast…
CPC-NARROW G02B · 8 areas
INNOV-PAR 52.9/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 24.3 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
SPAN-YRS 2023–2024 · 2y
BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Pacific Coast Building Products, 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 Panasonic’s 52.9 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 8.3 pts (16%) Velocity 20.0 pts (38%) Breadth 10.0 pts (19%) Claim depth 14.6 pts (28%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Ingevity South… · near

53
MiTeGen · near

53
Panasonic Connect… · this assignee

53
University of… · near

53
Waldemar Link & KG · near

53
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Panasonic's Innovation Score is 52.9/100 (top 10% 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 Panasonic?

Each dot is one of Panasonic’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). Panasonic’s own 24.3 claims/patent is ABOVE the 17.2 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Panasonic's grants concentrate

Panasonic Connect North America, Division of Panasonic Corporation of North America is a focused PatentsView assignee: 8 CPC subclasses with 90% of grants classified under G02B (Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus). Peak complete grant year is 2023 (7 grants) versus a trough of 3 in 2024. By volume, Panasonic sits between Pacific Coast Building Products, Inc. and Pathmatics, Inc..

Panasonic's three-year grant acceleration

Panasonic Connect North America, Division of Panasonic Corporation of North America shows 10 grants in 2022–2024 against only 0 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.

Pacific Coast Bui…

10
Pain Therapeutics

10
Palarum

10
Panacea Quantum L…

10
Pandora A/S

10
Panelclaw

10
Parikh Holdings

10
Pathmatics

10
Panasonic Connect… ◀

10

What this shows Panasonic holds 10 patents at rank #27,129, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Panasonic

By rank, the assignees closest to #27,129 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G02B (Optical Elements)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Panasonic, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G02B (Optical Elements), Panasonic ranks #1,164 of 4,891 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (53 here).

MiTeGen, LLC 53 Waldemar Link GmbH & Co. KG 53 Ingevity South Carolina, LLC 53 University of Puerto Rico 53

Panasonic's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

53 Top 10% higher than 90% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2023–2024

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2023–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Panasonic Connect North America, Division of Panasonic Corporation of North America patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2023	7	70.0%
2024	3	30.0%

Which technologies does Panasonic Connect North America, Division of Panasonic Corporation of North America patent most?

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 9

H01S - Devices Using THE Process OF Light Amplification BY Stimulated Emission OF Radiation [LASER] TO Amplify OR Generate LIGHT; Devices Using Stimulated Emission OF Electromagnetic Radiation IN Wave Ranges Other Than Optical 5

B23K - Soldering OR UNSOLDERING; WELDING; Cladding OR Plating BY Soldering OR WELDING; Cutting BY Applying Heat Locally, e.g. Flame CUTTING; Working BY Laser Beam 5

B01L - Chemical OR Physical Laboratory Apparatus FOR General USE 1

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 1

G21K - Techniques FOR Handling Particles OR Ionising Radiation NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Irradiation DEVICES; Gamma RAY OR X-ray Microscopes 1

G02F - Optical Devices OR Arrangements FOR THE Control OF Light BY Modification OF THE Optical Properties OF THE Media OF THE Elements Involved THEREIN; Non-linear OPTICS; Frequency-changing OF LIGHT; Optical Logic ELEMENTS; Optical ANALOGUE/DIGITAL Converters 1

F21V - Functional Features OR Details OF Lighting Devices OR Systems THEREOF; Structural Combinations OF Lighting Devices With Other Articles, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1

Top 8 of 8 technology areas

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

View all rankings → How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

Panasonic Connect North America, Division of Panasonic Corporation of North America's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Panasonic Connect North America, Division of Panasonic Corporation of North America's lead technology class is G02B (Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus), 90% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G02B
Ranked #27,074 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Panasonic Connect North America, Division of Panasonic Corporation of North America against Pacific Coast Building Products, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 52.9/100 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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