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Shinko Electric Industries Co., Ltd.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 678 granted patents across 77 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: H01L (Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Shinko ranks #661 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 678 patents across 77 technology areas.

#661
of 49,997 US assignees by volume
Top 4%
by Innovation Score (59.6/100)
10.2
avg claims per patent
-34%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R661 · Foreign Corporation #661 · 678 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-PAR · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

  • GRANTS-MID 678 grants
  • TOP-DECILE #661/49,997
  • PHOTO-FINISH Kone
  • CPC-WIDE H01L · 77 areas
  • INNOV-PAR 59.6/100
  • CLAIMS-PAR 10.2 claims/avg
  • TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
  • VEL-DOWN -34% vel
  • BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Kone Corporation (±1 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.

Innovation-score neighbourhood around Shinko

Lowest and highest poles plus nearest Innovation Score peers, not a full corpus board reprint.

score

What this shows Shinko's Innovation Score is 59.6/100 (top 4% 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.

Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score As of 2015–2025

How Shinko's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Shinko Electric Industries Co., Ltd. received 254 grants versus 387 in 2015–2019 (-34% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2015 at 91 grants and bottomed in 2024 at 41. Lead class H01L accounts for 74.2% of the portfolio across 77 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Tianma Microelectronics Co., Ltd. (#657) and KCI Licensing, Inc. (#665).

Shinko's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Shinko Electric Industries Co., Ltd. moved from 169 to 150 grants (0.89x 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 #1,523. See the growth leaderboard.

Who files at Shinko's volume?

Granted US patents 2015–2025 versus its nearest-ranked assignees by volume, this company marked ◀

patents

What this shows Shinko holds 678 patents at rank #661, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Source USPTO PatentsView, granted utility patents As of 2015–2025

Companies ranked near Shinko

By rank, the assignees closest to #661 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H01L (Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Shinko, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above).

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (60 here).

The University Of Queensland 60 Dewertokin Technology Group Co., Ltd. 60 Herrmann Ultraschalltechnik GMBH & Co. KG 60 Southwire Company, LLC 60

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (10.2 here).

Hitachi Kokusai Electric Inc. 10.2 avg Mitsubishi Power, Ltd. 10.2 avg Mainstream Engineering Corporation 10.2 avg Ellenberger & Poensgen GmbH 10.2 avg

Shinko's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

60 Top 4% higher than 96% of 49,997 US assignees

This assignee 0 100 every tracked assignee, bucketed by value

Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more US assignees. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.

Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

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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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Shinko Electric Industries Co., Ltd. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year Patents Granted Share of Period
2015 91 13.4%
2016 89 13.1%
2017 77 11.4%
2018 65 9.6%
2019 65 9.6%
2020 44 6.5%
2021 60 8.8%
2022 49 7.2%
2023 60 8.8%
2024 41 6.0%
2025partial year 37 5.5%

Which technologies does Shinko Electric Industries Co., Ltd. patent most?

Top 15 of 77 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#661

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

59.6 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

Shinko Electric Industries Co., Ltd.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

  • Shinko Electric Industries Co., Ltd.'s lead technology class is H01L (Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10), 74.2% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H01L
  • Ranked #661 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
  • Compare Shinko Electric Industries Co., Ltd. against Tianma Microelectronics Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
  • Innovation Score of 59.6/100 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

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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

Every figure on PlainPatent is rendered directly from USPTO source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on USPTO source data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 2026.