Where does Shimano Components (MALAYSIA) SDN. BHD. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Shimano Components (MALAYSIA) SDN. BHD. ranks #9,375 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 Shimano Components (MALAYSIA) SDN. BHD. hold?

Shimano Components (MALAYSIA) SDN. BHD. holds 34 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2024, spanning 12 technology areas.

What is Shimano Components (MALAYSIA) SDN. BHD.'s Innovation Score?

Shimano Components (MALAYSIA) SDN. BHD. has an Innovation Score of 33.3 out of 100 (44th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Shimano Components (MALAYSIA) SDN. BHD.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Shimano Components (MALAYSIA) SDN. BHD.'s recent grant velocity is +27% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). The company is maintaining or growing its granted-patent output.

What does claim depth mean for Shimano Components (MALAYSIA) SDN. BHD.'s patents?

Shimano Components (MALAYSIA) SDN. BHD.'s patents average 11.8 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 Shimano Components (MALAYSIA) SDN. BHD. 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

Shimano Components (MALAYSIA) SDN. BHD.

Q: What technology areas does Shimano Components (MALAYSIA) SDN. BHD. focus on?

Shimano Components (MALAYSIA) SDN. BHD.'s top technology area is A01K (Animal HUSBANDRY; AVICULTURE; APICULTURE; PISCICULTURE; FISHING; Rearing OR Breeding Animals, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; NEW Breeds OF Animals) with 33 patents, ranking #19 of 1,035 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 12 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 34 granted patents across 12 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2024. 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: A01K (Animal HUSBANDRY; AVICULTURE; APICULTURE; PISCICULTURE; FISHING; Rearing OR Breeding Animals, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; NEW Breeds OF Animals).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Shimano ranks #9,375 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 34 patents across 12 technology areas.

#9,375
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 44th percentile
by Innovation Score (33.3/100): 11.8
avg claims per patent: +27%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R9375 · Foreign Corporation #9,375 · 34 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 34 grants
UPPER-Q #9,375/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Saint-gobain…
CPC-FOCUS A01K · 12 areas
INNOV-THIN 33.3/100
CLAIMS-PAR 11.8 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-UP +27% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Saint-gobain Performance Plastics Pampus 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 Shimano’s 33.3 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 12.3 pts (37%) Velocity 1.8 pts (5%) Breadth 12.2 pts (37%) Claim depth 7.1 pts (21%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Bluefin Payment… · near

33
KCM · near

33
Cnex Labs · near

33
Shimano Components… · this assignee

33
POE Lang Enterprise · near

33
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Shimano's Innovation Score is 33.3/100 (44th percentile 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 Shimano?

Each dot is one of Shimano’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). Shimano’s own 11.8 claims/patent is ABOVE the 9.0 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Shimano's grants concentrate

Shimano Components (MALAYSIA) SDN. BHD. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 12 CPC subclasses with 97.1% of grants classified under A01K (Animal HUSBANDRY; AVICULTURE; APICULTURE; PISCICULTURE; FISHING; Rearing OR Breeding Animals, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; NEW Breeds OF Animals). Peak complete grant year is 2020 (9 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2015. By volume, Shimano sits between Saint-gobain Performance Plastics Pampus GMBH and Stego-holding GMBH.

Shimano's three-year grant acceleration

Shimano Components (MALAYSIA) SDN. BHD. shows 5 grants in 2022–2024 against only 19 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.

Saint-gobain Perf…

34
Santa Clara Unive…

34
SDG

34
Shenzhen TCL Digi…

34
Smart

34
Sophia & William…

34
Sophia School

34
Stego-holding

34
Shimano Component… ◀

34

What this shows Shimano holds 34 patents at rank #9,366, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Shimano

By rank, the assignees closest to #9,366 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A01K (Animal Husbandry)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Shimano, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A01K (Animal Husbandry), Shimano ranks #19 of 1,035 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (33 here).

Cnex Labs, Inc. 33 KCM Corporation 33 Bluefin Payment Systems, LLC 33 POE Lang Enterprise Co., Ltd. 33

Shimano's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

33 44th percentile higher than 44% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2024

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2015–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Shimano Components (MALAYSIA) SDN. BHD. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1	2.9%
2016	2	5.9%
2017	4	11.8%
2018	3	8.8%
2019	5	14.7%
2020	9	26.5%
2021	5	14.7%
2023	4	11.8%
2024	1	2.9%

Which technologies does Shimano Components (MALAYSIA) SDN. BHD. patent most?

A01K - Animal HUSBANDRY; AVICULTURE; APICULTURE; PISCICULTURE; FISHING; Rearing OR Breeding Animals, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; NEW Breeds OF Animals 33

F16H - Gearing 2

F16D - Couplings FOR Transmitting ROTATION; CLUTCHES; Brakes 2

B65H - Handling Thin OR Filamentary Material, e.g. Sheets, Webs, Cables 2

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 1

F16J - Pistons ; CYLINDERS; Sealings 1

F16B - Devices FOR Fastening OR Securing Constructional Elements OR Machine Parts Together, e.g. Nails, Bolts, Circlips, Clamps, Clips OR WEDGES; Joints OR Jointing 1

B62K - CYCLES; Cycle FRAMES; Cycle Steering DEVICES; Rider-operated Terminal Controls Specially Adapted FOR CYCLES; Cycle Axle SUSPENSIONS; Cycle Side-cars, Forecars, OR THE Like 1

B62L - Brakes Specially Adapted FOR Cycles 1

F15B - Systems Acting BY Means OF Fluids IN GENERAL; Fluid-pressure Actuators, e.g. SERVOMOTORS; Details OF Fluid-pressure Systems, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1

B62M - Rider Propulsion OF Wheeled Vehicles OR SLEDGES; Powered Propulsion OF Sledges OR ; SINGLE-TRACK; CYCLES; Transmissions Specially Adapted FOR Such Vehicles 1

G05G - Control Devices OR Systems Insofar AS Characterised BY Mechanical Features Only 1

Top 12 of 12 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

Shimano Components (MALAYSIA) SDN. BHD.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Shimano Components (MALAYSIA) SDN. BHD.'s lead technology class is A01K (Animal HUSBANDRY; AVICULTURE; APICULTURE; PISCICULTURE; FISHING; Rearing OR Breeding Animals, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; NEW Breeds OF Animals), 97.1% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A01K
Ranked #9,375 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Shimano Components (MALAYSIA) SDN. BHD. against Saint-gobain Performance Plastics Pampus GMBH, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 33.3/100 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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