Where does Panasonic Holdings Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Panasonic Holdings Corporation ranks #284 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 Panasonic Holdings Corporation hold?

Panasonic Holdings Corporation holds 1,518 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 270 technology areas.

What is Panasonic Holdings Corporation's Innovation Score?

Panasonic Holdings Corporation has an Innovation Score of 62.6 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 Panasonic Holdings Corporation's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Panasonic Holdings Corporation's recent grant velocity is -44% 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 Panasonic Holdings Corporation's patents?

Panasonic Holdings Corporation's patents average 11.1 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 Panasonic Holdings 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

Panasonic Holdings Corporation

Q: What technology areas does Panasonic Holdings Corporation focus on?

Panasonic Holdings Corporation's top technology area is H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication) with 263 patents. Grants appear in 270 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 1,518 granted patents across 270 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: H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Panasonic ranks #284 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 1,518 patents across 270 technology areas.

#284
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 2%
by Innovation Score (62.6/100): 11.1
avg claims per patent: -44%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R284 · Foreign Corporation #284 · 1,518 grants

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

GRANTS-LARGE 1.5K grants
TOP-DECILE #284/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Accenture Global…
CPC-BROAD H04L · 270 areas
INNOV-STRONG 62.6/100
CLAIMS-PAR 11.1 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -44% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Accenture Global Solutions Limited (±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
Hughes Network Systems · near

63
Osram Opto Semicondu… · near

63
Panasonic Holdings · this assignee

63
Saint-gobain… · near

63
STMicroelectronics… · near

63
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Panasonic's Innovation Score is 62.6/100 (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 Panasonic's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Panasonic Holdings Corporation received 526 grants versus 931 in 2015–2019 (-44% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2015 at 305 grants and bottomed in 2023 at 79. Lead class H04L accounts for 17.3% of the portfolio across 270 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Palantir Technologies Inc. (#280) and Altria Client Services LLC (#288).

Panasonic's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Panasonic Holdings Corporation moved from 356 to 301 grants (0.85x 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 #1,673. See the growth leaderboard.

Palantir

1,534
The General Hospi…

1,529
Aktiebolaget SKF

1,526
Accenture Global…

1,520
Panasonic Holdings ◀

1,518
Sun Patent Trust

1,507
Shimano

1,496
Marvell Internati…

1,491
Altria Client Ser…

1,483

What this shows Panasonic holds 1,518 patents at rank #284, 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 #284 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information)

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).

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (63 here).

Osram Opto Semiconductors GmbH 63 Hughes Network Systems, LLC 63 Saint-gobain Ceramics & Plastics, Inc. 63 STMicroelectronics (Alps) SAS 63

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (11.1 here).

Osaka University 11.1 avg Darwin Precisions Corporation 11.1 avg Logitech Europe S.A. 11.1 avg Research Institute OF Industrial Science & Technology 11.1 avg

Panasonic's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

63 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.

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Panasonic Holdings Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	305	20.1%
2016	161	10.6%
2017	171	11.3%
2018	163	10.7%
2019	131	8.6%
2020	127	8.4%
2021	98	6.5%
2022	115	7.6%
2023	79	5.2%
2024	107	7.0%
2025partial year	61	4.0%

Which technologies does Panasonic Holdings Corporation patent most?

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 263

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 238

H01M - Processes OR Means, e.g. Batteries, FOR THE Direct Conversion OF Chemical Energy Into Electrical Energy 181

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 181

H04B - Transmission 160

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 97

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 88

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 88

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 83

H03M - CODING; DECODING; Code Conversion IN General 78

H10K - Organic Electric Solid-state Devices 78

H10D - Inorganic Electric Semiconductor Devices 67

H02J - Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy 65

H05B - Electric HEATING; Electric Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Circuit Arrangements FOR Electric Light Sources, IN General 60

G01S - Radio DIRECTION-FINDING; Radio NAVIGATION; Determining Distance OR Velocity BY USE OF Radio WAVES; Locating OR Presence-detecting BY USE OF THE Reflection OR Reradiation OF Radio WAVES; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves 58

Top 15 of 270 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#284

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

62.6 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

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

Panasonic Holdings Corporation's lead technology class is H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication), 17.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04L
Ranked #284 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Panasonic Holdings Corporation against Palantir Technologies Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 62.6/100 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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