Where does Shibuya Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Shibuya Corporation ranks #7,619 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 Shibuya Corporation hold?

Shibuya Corporation holds 43 US utility patents granted between 2017 and 2025, spanning 42 technology areas.

What is Shibuya Corporation's Innovation Score?

Shibuya Corporation has an Innovation Score of 44.4 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%).

Is Shibuya Corporation's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Shibuya Corporation's recent grant velocity is +123% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Shibuya Corporation's patents?

Shibuya Corporation's patents average 4.2 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 Shibuya 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

Shibuya Corporation

Q: What technology areas does Shibuya Corporation focus on?

Shibuya Corporation's top technology area is C12M (Apparatus FOR Enzymology OR MICROBIOLOGY; Apparatus FOR Culturing Microorganisms FOR Producing Biomass, FOR Growing Cells OR FOR Obtaining Fermentation OR Metabolic Products, i.e. Bioreactors OR Fermenters) with 12 patents, ranking #61 of 832 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 42 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 43 granted patents across 42 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2017–2025. 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: C12M (Apparatus FOR Enzymology OR MICROBIOLOGY; Apparatus FOR Culturing Microorganisms FOR Producing Biomass, FOR Growing Cells OR FOR Obtaining Fermentation OR Metabolic Products, i.e. Bioreactors OR Ferme).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Shibuya ranks #7,619 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 43 patents across 42 technology areas.

#7,619
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 26%
by Innovation Score (44.4/100): 4.2
avg claims per patent: +123%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R7619 · Foreign Corporation #7,619 · 43 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 43 grants
UPPER-Q #7,619/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Retractable
CPC-WIDE C12M · 42 areas
INNOV-PAR 44.4/100
CLAIMS-SPARSE 4.2 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +123% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Retractable Technologies, 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 Shibuya’s 44.4 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 13.1 pts (30%) Velocity 5.9 pts (13%) Breadth 22.9 pts (52%) Claim depth 2.5 pts (6%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Corel · near

44
CSL Behring · near

44
nVent Services · near

44
Shibuya · this assignee

44
Vactronix Scientific · near

44
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Shibuya's Innovation Score is 44.4/100 (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 Shibuya?

Each dot is one of Shibuya’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). Shibuya’s own 4.2 claims/patent is at or below the 10.2 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Shibuya's grants concentrate

Shibuya Corporation is a focused PatentsView assignee: 42 CPC subclasses with 27.9% of grants classified under C12M (Apparatus FOR Enzymology OR MICROBIOLOGY; Apparatus FOR Culturing Microorganisms FOR Producing Biomass, FOR Growing Cells OR FOR Obtaining Fermentation OR Metabolic Products, i.e. Bioreactors OR Ferme). Peak complete grant year is 2020 (10 grants) versus a trough of 3 in 2017. By volume, Shibuya sits between Retractable Technologies, Inc. and Suss Microtec Lithography GMBH.

Shibuya's three-year grant acceleration

Shibuya Corporation shows 15 grants in 2022–2024 against only 17 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.

Retractable

43
Roxtec AB

43
Rubicon Global Ho…

43
SGL Carbon SE

43
Showa Denko Packa…

43
Standard CAR Truck

43
Sumitomo Electric…

43
Suss Microtec Lit…

43
Shibuya ◀

43

What this shows Shibuya holds 43 patents at rank #7,616, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Shibuya

By rank, the assignees closest to #7,616 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C12M (Apparatus FOR Enzymology OR Microbiology)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Shibuya, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In C12M (Apparatus FOR Enzymology OR Microbiology), Shibuya ranks #61 of 832 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (44 here).

nVent Services GmbH 44 Corel Corporation 44 CSL Behring AG 44 Vactronix Scientific, LLC 44

Shibuya'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 · 2017–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2017–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Shibuya Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2017	3	7.0%
2018	7	16.3%
2019	3	7.0%
2020	10	23.3%
2021	4	9.3%
2022	5	11.6%
2023	5	11.6%
2024	5	11.6%
2025partial year	1	2.3%

Which technologies does Shibuya Corporation patent most?

C12M - Apparatus FOR Enzymology OR MICROBIOLOGY; Apparatus FOR Culturing Microorganisms FOR Producing Biomass, FOR Growing Cells OR FOR Obtaining Fermentation OR Metabolic Products, i.e. Bioreactors OR Fermenters 12

B65B - Machines, Apparatus OR Devices FOR, OR Methods OF, Packaging Articles OR MATERIALS; Unpacking 7

B67C - Cleaning, Filling With Liquids OR Semiliquids, OR Emptying, OF Bottles, Jars, Cans, Casks, Barrels, OR Similar Containers, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Funnels 7

A61M - Devices FOR Introducing Media Into, OR Onto, THE Body ; Devices FOR Transducing Body Media OR FOR Taking Media From THE Body ; Devices FOR Producing OR Ending Sleep OR Stupor 5

B01L - Chemical OR Physical Laboratory Apparatus FOR General USE 5

B65G - Transport OR Storage Devices, e.g. Conveyors FOR Loading OR Tipping, Shop Conveyor Systems OR Pneumatic Tube Conveyors 5

A61L - Methods OR Apparatus FOR Sterilising Materials OR Objects IN GENERAL; Disinfection, Sterilisation OR Deodorisation OF AIR; Chemical Aspects OF Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads OR Surgical ARTICLES; Materials FOR Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads OR Surgical Articles 5

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 4

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 4

B01D - Separation 3

B25J - MANIPULATORS; Chambers Provided With Manipulation Devices 3

B67B - Applying Closure Members TO Bottles Jars, OR Similar CONTAINERS; Opening Closed Containers 2

B67D - Dispensing, Delivering OR Transferring Liquids, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 2

A61N - ELECTROTHERAPY; MAGNETOTHERAPY; Radiation THERAPY; Ultrasound Therapy 1

C12Y - Enzymes 1

Top 15 of 42 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

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

Shibuya Corporation's lead technology class is C12M (Apparatus FOR Enzymology OR MICROBIOLOGY; Apparatus FOR Culturing Microorganisms FOR Producing Biomass, FOR Growing Cells OR FOR Obtaining Fermentation OR Metabolic Products, i.e. Bioreactors OR Ferme), 27.9% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C12M
Ranked #7,619 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Shibuya Corporation against Retractable Technologies, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 44.4/100 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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