Where does Terumo Kabushiki Kaisha rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Terumo Kabushiki Kaisha ranks #342 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 Terumo Kabushiki Kaisha hold?

Terumo Kabushiki Kaisha holds 1,250 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 112 technology areas.

What is Terumo Kabushiki Kaisha's Innovation Score?

Terumo Kabushiki Kaisha has an Innovation Score of 63.4 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%).

Is Terumo Kabushiki Kaisha's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Terumo Kabushiki Kaisha's recent grant velocity is +1% 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 Terumo Kabushiki Kaisha's patents?

Terumo Kabushiki Kaisha's patents average 14.7 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 Terumo Kabushiki Kaisha 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

Terumo Kabushiki Kaisha

Q: What technology areas does Terumo Kabushiki Kaisha focus on?

Terumo Kabushiki Kaisha's top technology area is 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) with 724 patents, ranking #7 of 3,490 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 112 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 1,250 granted patents across 112 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: 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).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Terumo ranks #342 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 1,250 patents across 112 technology areas.

#342
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 2%
by Innovation Score (63.4/100): 14.7
avg claims per patent: +1%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R342 · Foreign Corporation #342 · 1,250 grants

GRANTS-LARGE · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-FLAT · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-LARGE 1.3K grants
TOP-DECILE #342/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Empire Technology…
CPC-WIDE A61M · 112 areas
INNOV-STRONG 63.4/100
CLAIMS-RICH 14.7 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-FLAT +1% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Empire Technology Development LLC (±2 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 Terumo’s 63.4 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 24.6 pts (39%) Velocity 5.0 pts (8%) Breadth 25.0 pts (39%) Claim depth 8.8 pts (14%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
3D Systems · near

63
Carl Zeiss Microscopy · near

63
Sanofi-Aventis… · near

63
Terumo · this assignee

63
United · near

63
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Terumo's Innovation Score is 63.4/100 (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 Terumo?

Each dot is one of Terumo’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). Terumo’s own 14.7 claims/patent is at or below the 17.6 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

How Terumo's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Terumo Kabushiki Kaisha received 587 grants versus 579 in 2015–2019 (+1% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2019 at 178 grants and bottomed in 2015 at 80. Lead class A61M accounts for 57.9% of the portfolio across 112 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Nippon Steel Corporation (#338) and Symantec Corporation (#346).

Terumo's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Terumo Kabushiki Kaisha moved from 438 to 327 grants (0.75x 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 #1,996. See the growth leaderboard.

Nippon Steel

1,289
SZ DJI Technology

1,268
Edwards Lifescien…

1,265
The Trustees of t…

1,264
Terumo ◀

1,250
Empire Technology…

1,248
Merck Sharp & Doh…

1,248
Synopsys

1,245
Symantec

1,244

What this shows Terumo holds 1,250 patents at rank #342, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Terumo

By rank, the assignees closest to #342 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A61M (Devices FOR Introducing Media Into)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Terumo, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A61M (Devices FOR Introducing Media Into), Terumo ranks #7 of 3,490 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (63 here).

Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GMBH 63 United Technologies Corporation 63 Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbH 63 3D Systems, Inc. 63

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (14.7 here).

AMI Industries, Inc. 14.7 avg North Carolina State University 14.7 avg Inteva Products, LLC 14.7 avg Nano and Advanced Materials Institute Limited 14.7 avg

Terumo's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

63 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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Terumo Kabushiki Kaisha patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	80	6.4%
2016	84	6.7%
2017	102	8.2%
2018	135	10.8%
2019	178	14.2%
2020	138	11.0%
2021	122	9.8%
2022	129	10.3%
2023	111	8.9%
2024	87	7.0%
2025partial year	84	6.7%

Which technologies does Terumo Kabushiki Kaisha patent most?

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 724

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 488

A61F - Filters Implantable Into Blood VESSELS; PROSTHESES; Devices Providing Patency TO, OR Preventing Collapsing OF, Tubular Structures OF THE Body, e.g. STENTS; Orthopaedic, Nursing OR Contraceptive DEVICES; FOMENTATION; Treatment OR Protection OF Eyes OR EARS; Bandages, Dressings OR Absorbent PADS; Firs 153

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 126

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 65

A61J - Containers Specially Adapted FOR Medical OR Pharmaceutical PURPOSES; Devices OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Bringing Pharmaceutical Products Into Particular Physical OR Administering FORMS; Devices FOR Administering Food OR Medicines ORALLY; Baby COMFORTERS; Devices FOR Receiving Spittle 50

G16H - Healthcare Informatics, i.e. Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR THE Handling OR Processing OF Medical OR Healthcare Data 44

B29C - Shaping OR Joining OF PLASTICS; Shaping OF Material IN A Plastic State, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; After-treatment OF THE Shaped Products, e.g. Repairing 44

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 41

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 35

A61P - Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations 35

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 33

B01D - Separation 33

C08F - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained BY Reactions Only Involving Carbon-to-carbon Unsaturated Bonds 30

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 29

Top 15 of 112 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

Terumo Kabushiki Kaisha's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Terumo Kabushiki Kaisha's lead technology class is 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), 57.9% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A61M
Ranked #342 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Terumo Kabushiki Kaisha against Nippon Steel Corporation, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 63.4/100 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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