Where does Shin Nippon Biomedical Laboratories, Ltd. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Shin Nippon Biomedical Laboratories, Ltd. ranks #12,220 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 Shin Nippon Biomedical Laboratories, Ltd. hold?

Shin Nippon Biomedical Laboratories, Ltd. holds 25 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 15 technology areas.

What is Shin Nippon Biomedical Laboratories, Ltd.'s Innovation Score?

Shin Nippon Biomedical Laboratories, Ltd. has an Innovation Score of 43.3 out of 100 (top 28% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Shin Nippon Biomedical Laboratories, Ltd. focus on?

Shin Nippon Biomedical Laboratories, Ltd.'s top technology area is A61K (Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes) with 14 patents, ranking #1,619 of 7,163 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 15 CPC subclasses total.

Is Shin Nippon Biomedical Laboratories, Ltd.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Shin Nippon Biomedical Laboratories, Ltd.'s recent grant velocity is -56% 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 Shin Nippon Biomedical Laboratories, Ltd.'s patents?

Shin Nippon Biomedical Laboratories, Ltd.'s patents average 17.2 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 Shin Nippon Biomedical Laboratories, 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

Shin Nippon Biomedical Laboratories, Ltd.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 25 granted patents across 15 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: A61K (Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Shin ranks #12,220 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 25 patents across 15 technology areas.

#12,220
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 28%
by Innovation Score (43.3/100): 17.2
avg claims per patent: -56%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R12220 · Foreign Corporation #12,220 · 25 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 25 grants
UPPER-Q #12,220/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Seerstone
CPC-FOCUS A61K · 15 areas
INNOV-PAR 43.3/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.2 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -56% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Seerstone, LLC (±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 Shin’s 43.3 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 11.3 pts (26%) Velocity 8.0 pts (18%) Breadth 13.7 pts (32%) Claim depth 10.3 pts (24%)

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Canopy Growth · near

43
Herrenknecht… · near

43
N E Chemcat · near

43
Play'n GO Marks · near

43
Shin Nippon… · this assignee

43
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Shin's Innovation Score is 43.3/100 (top 28% 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 Shin?

Each dot is one of Shin’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). Shin’s own 17.2 claims/patent is ABOVE the 14.6 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Shin's grants concentrate

Shin Nippon Biomedical Laboratories, Ltd. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 15 CPC subclasses with 56% of grants classified under A61K (Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes). Peak complete grant year is 2018 (4 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2020. By volume, Shin sits between Seerstone, LLC and Sourcing Solutions International Limited.

Shin's three-year grant acceleration

Shin Nippon Biomedical Laboratories, Ltd. shows 6 grants in 2022–2024 against only 5 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.

Seerstone

25
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25
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25
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25
Shockwatch

25
Snapchat

25
Sorenson Media

25
Sourcing Solution…

25
Shin Nippon Biome… ◀

25

What this shows Shin holds 25 patents at rank #12,239, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Shin

By rank, the assignees closest to #12,239 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A61K (Preparations FOR Medical)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Shin, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A61K (Preparations FOR Medical), Shin ranks #1,619 of 7,163 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (43 here).

Herrenknecht Aktiengesellschaft 43 N.E. Chemcat Corporation 43 Canopy Growth Corporation 43 Play'n GO Marks Ltd 43

Shin's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

43 Top 28% higher than 72% 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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Shin Nippon Biomedical Laboratories, Ltd. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	3	12.0%
2016	2	8.0%
2017	3	12.0%
2018	4	16.0%
2019	4	16.0%
2020	1	4.0%
2022	1	4.0%
2023	2	8.0%
2024	3	12.0%
2025partial year	2	8.0%

Which technologies does Shin Nippon Biomedical Laboratories, Ltd. patent most?

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 14

A61P - Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations 13

C12N - Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media 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 7

Y02A - Technologies FOR Adaptation TO Climate Change 3

B05B - Spraying APPARATUS; Atomising APPARATUS; Nozzles 3

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 2

H04M - Telephonic Communication 2

C07B - General Methods OF Organic CHEMISTRY; Apparatus Therefor 2

C07D - Heterocyclic Compounds 2

A61D - Veterinary Instruments, Implements, Tools, OR Methods 2

A01K - Animal HUSBANDRY; AVICULTURE; APICULTURE; PISCICULTURE; FISHING; Rearing OR Breeding Animals, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; NEW Breeds OF Animals 2

A23J - Protein Compositions FOR FOODSTUFFS; Working-up Proteins FOR FOODSTUFFS; Phosphatide Compositions FOR Foodstuffs 1

A23K - Fodder 1

C07C - Acyclic OR Carbocyclic Compounds 1

Top 15 of 15 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

Shin Nippon Biomedical Laboratories, Ltd.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Shin Nippon Biomedical Laboratories, Ltd.'s lead technology class is A61K (Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes), 56% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A61K
Ranked #12,220 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Shin Nippon Biomedical Laboratories, Ltd. against Seerstone, LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 43.3/100 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

Compiled by PlainPatent, US Patent Intelligence Editorial Process · May 15, 2026

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