Where does Shibaura Electronics Co., Ltd. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Shibaura Electronics Co., Ltd. ranks #9,621 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 Shibaura Electronics Co., Ltd. hold?

Shibaura Electronics Co., Ltd. holds 33 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 18 technology areas.

What is Shibaura Electronics Co., Ltd.'s Innovation Score?

Shibaura Electronics Co., Ltd. has an Innovation Score of 41.3 out of 100 (top 33% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Shibaura Electronics Co., Ltd.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Shibaura Electronics Co., Ltd.'s recent grant velocity is +283% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Shibaura Electronics Co., Ltd.'s patents?

Shibaura Electronics Co., Ltd.'s patents average 13.3 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 Shibaura Electronics 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

Shibaura Electronics Co., Ltd.

Q: What technology areas does Shibaura Electronics Co., Ltd. focus on?

Shibaura Electronics Co., Ltd.'s top technology area is G01K (Measuring TEMPERATURE; Measuring Quantity OF HEAT; Thermally-sensitive Elements NOT Otherwise Provided FOR) with 25 patents, ranking #10 of 859 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 18 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 33 granted patents across 18 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: G01K (Measuring TEMPERATURE; Measuring Quantity OF HEAT; Thermally-sensitive Elements NOT Otherwise Provided FOR).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Shibaura ranks #9,621 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 33 patents across 18 technology areas.

#9,621
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 33%
by Innovation Score (41.3/100): 13.3
avg claims per patent: +283%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R9621 · Foreign Corporation #9,621 · 33 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 33 grants
UPPER-Q #9,621/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Samyang Optics
CPC-FOCUS G01K · 18 areas
INNOV-PAR 41.3/100
CLAIMS-RICH 13.3 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +283% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Samyang Optics 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 Shibaura’s 41.3 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 12.2 pts (29%) Velocity 6.2 pts (15%) Breadth 15.0 pts (36%) Claim depth 8.0 pts (19%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Gulfstream Services · near

41
Shibaura · this assignee

41
Shoppertrak RCT · near

41
Sinclair Broadcast… · near

41
eyeSight Mobile · near

41
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Shibaura's Innovation Score is 41.3/100 (top 33% 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 Shibaura?

Each dot is one of Shibaura’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). Shibaura’s own 13.3 claims/patent is at or below the 17.6 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Shibaura's grants concentrate

Shibaura Electronics Co., Ltd. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 18 CPC subclasses with 75.8% of grants classified under G01K (Measuring TEMPERATURE; Measuring Quantity OF HEAT; Thermally-sensitive Elements NOT Otherwise Provided FOR). Peak complete grant year is 2024 (7 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2016. By volume, Shibaura sits between Samyang Optics Co., Ltd. and STM Management Pty Ltd.

Shibaura's three-year grant acceleration

Shibaura Electronics Co., Ltd. shows 12 grants in 2022–2024 against only 13 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.

Samyang Optics

33
Sensetime Interna…

33
Sentreheart

33
Shaw Industries G…

33
SLT

33
Softbank Robotics…

33
Spogen Biotech

33
STM Management Pty

33
Shibaura ◀

33

What this shows Shibaura holds 33 patents at rank #9,611, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Shibaura

By rank, the assignees closest to #9,611 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G01K (Measuring Temperature)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Shibaura, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G01K (Measuring Temperature), Shibaura ranks #10 of 859 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (41 here).

Gulfstream Services, Inc. 41 Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc. 41 Shoppertrak RCT LLC 41 eyeSight Mobile Technologies Ltd. 41

Shibaura's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

41 Top 33% higher than 67% 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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Shibaura Electronics Co., Ltd. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	2	6.1%
2016	1	3.0%
2018	1	3.0%
2019	2	6.1%
2020	5	15.2%
2021	6	18.2%
2022	4	12.1%
2023	1	3.0%
2024	7	21.2%
2025partial year	4	12.1%

Which technologies does Shibaura Electronics Co., Ltd. patent most?

G01K - Measuring TEMPERATURE; Measuring Quantity OF HEAT; Thermally-sensitive Elements NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 25

H02K - Dynamo-electric Machines 8

H01C - Resistors 4

G01J - Measurement OF Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase OR Pulse Characteristics OF Infrared, Visible OR Ultraviolet LIGHT; COLORIMETRY; Radiation Pyrometry 4

C04B - Lime, MAGNESIA; SLAG; CEMENTS; Compositions Thereof, e.g. Mortars, Concrete OR Like Building MATERIALS; Artificial Stone ; Ceramics ; REFRACTORIES; Treatment OF Natural Stone 3

F24C - Domestic Stoves OR Ranges ; Details OF Domestic Stoves OR Ranges, OF General Application 3

G03G - ELECTROGRAPHY; ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHY; Magnetography 3

H01R - Electrically-conductive CONNECTIONS; Structural Associations OF A Plurality OF Mutually-insulated Electrical Connecting ELEMENTS; Coupling DEVICES; Current Collectors 2

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 2

A47J - Kitchen EQUIPMENT; Coffee MILLS; Spice MILLS; Apparatus FOR Making Beverages 2

H02G - Installation OF Electric Cables OR Lines, OR OF Combined Optical AND Electric Cables OR Lines 1

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 1

D06F - Laundering, Drying, Ironing, Pressing OR Folding Textile Articles 1

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 1

H05B - Electric HEATING; Electric Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Circuit Arrangements FOR Electric Light Sources, IN General 1

Top 15 of 18 technology areas

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Data Source

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What to do with this data

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

Shibaura Electronics Co., Ltd.'s lead technology class is G01K (Measuring TEMPERATURE; Measuring Quantity OF HEAT; Thermally-sensitive Elements NOT Otherwise Provided FOR), 75.8% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G01K
Ranked #9,621 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Shibaura Electronics Co., Ltd. against Samyang Optics Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 41.3/100 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

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