Where does Rakuten Kobo Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Rakuten Kobo Inc. ranks #5,396 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 Rakuten Kobo Inc. hold?

Rakuten Kobo Inc. holds 64 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2025, spanning 26 technology areas.

What is Rakuten Kobo Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Rakuten Kobo Inc. has an Innovation Score of 44.2 out of 100 (top 26% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Rakuten Kobo Inc. focus on?

Rakuten Kobo Inc.'s top technology area is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing) with 55 patents, ranking #899 of 13,878 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 26 CPC subclasses total.

Is Rakuten Kobo Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Rakuten Kobo Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -76% 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 Rakuten Kobo Inc.'s patents?

Rakuten Kobo Inc.'s patents average 18.4 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 Rakuten Kobo Inc. 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

Rakuten Kobo Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 64 granted patents across 26 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2025. 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: G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Rakuten ranks #5,396 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 64 patents across 26 technology areas.

#5,396
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 26%
by Innovation Score (44.2/100): 18.4
avg claims per patent: -76%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R5396 · Foreign Corporation #5,396 · 64 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 64 grants
UPPER-Q #5,396/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Otto Bock Healthcare…
CPC-FOCUS G06F · 26 areas
INNOV-PAR 44.2/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.4 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -76% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Otto Bock Healthcare Products GmbH (±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 Rakuten’s 44.2 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 14.4 pts (33%) Velocity 0.7 pts (2%) Breadth 18.0 pts (41%) Claim depth 11.0 pts (25%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Advanced Cooling · near

44
SDCmaterials · near

44
THE J David… · near

44
Rakuten Kobo · this assignee

44
Bedford Systems · near

44
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Rakuten's Innovation Score is 44.2/100 (top 26% 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 Rakuten?

Each dot is one of Rakuten’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). Rakuten’s own 18.4 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.3 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Rakuten's grants concentrate

Rakuten Kobo Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 26 CPC subclasses with 85.9% of grants classified under G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing). Peak complete grant year is 2018 (17 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2022. By volume, Rakuten sits between Otto Bock Healthcare Products GmbH and Sio2 Medical Products, LLC.

Rakuten's three-year grant acceleration

Rakuten Kobo Inc. shows 2 grants in 2022–2024 against only 18 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.

Otto Bock Healthc…

64
Oxilio

64
Paul Scherrer Ins…

64
Penumbra

64
Rubbermaid Incorp…

64
Senvion SE

64
Shenzhen Zhengtu…

64
Sio2 Medical Prod…

64
Rakuten Kobo ◀

64

What this shows Rakuten holds 64 patents at rank #5,395, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Rakuten

By rank, the assignees closest to #5,395 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Rakuten, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), Rakuten ranks #899 of 13,878 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (44 here).

THE J. David Gladstone Institutes 44 Bedford Systems LLC 44 SDCmaterials, Inc. 44 Advanced Cooling Technologies, Inc. 44

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (18.4 here).

CalAmp Corp 18.4 avg A123 Systems LLC 18.4 avg Veoneer US LLC 18.4 avg Huawei Cloud Computing Technologies Co., Ltd. 18.4 avg

Rakuten's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

44 Top 26% higher than 74% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2025

Grants by year

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

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Rakuten Kobo Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	11	17.2%
2017	15	23.4%
2018	17	26.6%
2019	8	12.5%
2020	10	15.6%
2022	1	1.6%
2023	1	1.6%
2025partial year	1	1.6%

Which technologies does Rakuten Kobo Inc. patent most?

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 55

G09G - Arrangements OR Circuits FOR Control OF Indicating Devices Using Static Means TO Present Variable Information 18

A45C - PURSES; LUGGAGE; Hand Carried Bags 15

H05B - Electric HEATING; Electric Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Circuit Arrangements FOR Electric Light Sources, IN General 13

Y02B - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Buildings, e.g. Housing, House Appliances OR Related End-user Applications 13

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 13

H01H - Electric SWITCHES; RELAYS; SELECTORS; Emergency Protective Devices 12

H05K - Printed CIRCUITS; Casings OR Constructional Details OF Electric APPARATUS; Manufacture OF Assemblages OF Electrical Components 12

F21V - Functional Features OR Details OF Lighting Devices OR Systems THEREOF; Structural Combinations OF Lighting Devices With Other Articles, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 12

A45F - Travelling OR Camp EQUIPMENT: Sacks OR Packs Carried ON THE Body 12

H01Q - Antennas, i.e. Radio Aerials 12

F21Y - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses F21k, F21l, F21s and F21v, Relating TO THE Form OR THE Kind OF THE Light Sources OR OF THE Colour OF THE Light Emitted 12

F21W - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses F21k, F21l, F21s and F21v, Relating TO Uses OR Applications OF Lighting Devices OR Systems 12

H04M - Telephonic Communication 12

G06Q - Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory Purposes, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 8

Top 15 of 26 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

Rakuten Kobo Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Rakuten Kobo Inc.'s lead technology class is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), 85.9% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06F
Ranked #5,396 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Rakuten Kobo Inc. against Otto Bock Healthcare Products GmbH, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 44.2/100 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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