Where does Shimadzu Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Shimadzu Corporation ranks #185 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 Shimadzu Corporation hold?

Shimadzu Corporation holds 2,128 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 202 technology areas.

What is Shimadzu Corporation's Innovation Score?

Shimadzu Corporation has an Innovation Score of 62.5 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%).

What technology areas does Shimadzu Corporation focus on?

Shimadzu Corporation's top technology area is G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties) with 1,111 patents, ranking #2 of 7,863 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 202 CPC subclasses total.

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

Shimadzu Corporation's recent grant velocity is +50% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

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

Shimadzu Corporation's patents average 8.6 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 Shimadzu 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

Shimadzu Corporation

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 2,128 granted patents across 202 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: G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Shimadzu ranks #185 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 2,128 patents across 202 technology areas.

#185
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 2%
by Innovation Score (62.5/100): 8.6
avg claims per patent: +50%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R185 · Foreign Corporation #185 · 2,128 grants

GRANTS-LARGE · TOP-DECILE · NEAR-PEER · CPC-BROAD · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-PAR · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-LARGE 2.1K grants
TOP-DECILE #185/49,997
NEAR-PEER Dolby Laboratories…
CPC-BROAD G01N · 202 areas
INNOV-STRONG 62.5/100
CLAIMS-PAR 8.6 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +50% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation (±10 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 Shimadzu’s 62.5 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 26.5 pts (42%) Velocity 5.9 pts (9%) Breadth 25.0 pts (40%) Claim depth 5.2 pts (8%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Airbus Helicopters · near

63
Ofinno · near

63
Trustees OF Boston… · near

63
Shanghai Tianma Micro- · near

62
Shimadzu · this assignee

62
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Shimadzu's Innovation Score is 62.5/100 (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.

Does more volume mean deeper claims for Shimadzu?

Each dot is one of Shimadzu’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). Shimadzu’s own 8.6 claims/patent is at or below the 16.3 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

How Shimadzu's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Shimadzu Corporation received 1,169 grants versus 781 in 2015–2019 (+50% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2021 at 259 grants and bottomed in 2015 at 109. Lead class G01N accounts for 52.2% of the portfolio across 202 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Jaguar Land Rover Limited (#181) and InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc. (#189).

Shimadzu's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Shimadzu Corporation moved from 753 to 662 grants (0.88x 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 #1,556. See the growth leaderboard.

Jaguar Land Rover

2,182
Rolls-royce

2,152
Nokia Solutions A…

2,149
Alcatel Lucent

2,140
Shimadzu ◀

2,128
Dolby Laboratorie…

2,118
Intuitive Surgica…

2,117
Walmart Apollo

2,112
Interdigital Pate…

2,111

What this shows Shimadzu holds 2,128 patents at rank #185, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Shimadzu

By rank, the assignees closest to #185 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their…)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Shimadzu, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their…), Shimadzu ranks #2 of 7,863 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (62 here).

Shanghai Tianma Micro-electronics Co., Ltd. 62 Ofinno, LLC 63 Airbus Helicopters 63 Trustees OF Boston University 63

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (8.6 here).

Zeon Corporation 8.6 avg The Stanley Works Israel Ltd. 8.6 avg Southwest Jiaotong University 8.6 avg Mabuchi Motor Co., Ltd. 8.6 avg

Shimadzu's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

62 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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Shimadzu Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	109	5.1%
2016	136	6.4%
2017	153	7.2%
2018	137	6.4%
2019	246	11.6%
2020	248	11.7%
2021	259	12.2%
2022	238	11.2%
2023	184	8.6%
2024	240	11.3%
2025partial year	178	8.4%

Which technologies does Shimadzu Corporation patent most?

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 1,111

H01J - Electric Discharge Tubes OR Discharge Lamps 496

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 313

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 151

B01D - Separation 116

F04D - Non-positive-displacement Pumps 95

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 90

G01J - Measurement OF Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase OR Pulse Characteristics OF Infrared, Visible OR Ultraviolet LIGHT; COLORIMETRY; Radiation Pyrometry 84

B01L - Chemical OR Physical Laboratory Apparatus FOR General USE 66

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 64

G01T - Measurement OF Nuclear OR X-radiation 62

F16K - VALVES; TAPS; COCKS; ACTUATING-FLOATS; Devices FOR Venting OR Aerating 40

C12Q - Measuring OR Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids OR Microorganisms ; Compositions OR Test Papers THEREFOR; Processes OF Preparing Such COMPOSITIONS; Condition-responsive Control IN Microbiological OR Enzymological Processes 38

G16H - Healthcare Informatics, i.e. Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR THE Handling OR Processing OF Medical OR Healthcare Data 34

G01Q - Scanning-probe Techniques OR APPARATUS; Applications OF Scanning-probe Techniques, e.g. Scanning Probe Microscopy [SPM] 31

Top 15 of 202 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

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

Shimadzu Corporation's lead technology class is G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties), 52.2% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G01N
Ranked #185 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Shimadzu Corporation against Jaguar Land Rover Limited, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 62.5/100 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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