Where does Tokuyama Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Tokuyama Corporation ranks #1,988 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 Tokuyama Corporation hold?

Tokuyama Corporation holds 202 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 93 technology areas.

What is Tokuyama Corporation's Innovation Score?

Tokuyama Corporation has an Innovation Score of 61.9 out of 100 (top 3% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

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

Tokuyama Corporation's recent grant velocity is +31% 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 Tokuyama Corporation's patents?

Tokuyama Corporation's patents average 9.3 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 Tokuyama 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

Tokuyama Corporation

Q: What technology areas does Tokuyama Corporation focus on?

Tokuyama Corporation's top technology area is C01B (Non-metallic ELEMENTS; Compounds THEREOF; ; Metalloids OR Compounds Thereof NOT Covered BY Subclass C01c) with 74 patents. Grants appear in 93 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 202 granted patents across 93 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: C01B (Non-metallic ELEMENTS; Compounds THEREOF; ; Metalloids OR Compounds Thereof NOT Covered BY Subclass C01c).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Tokuyama ranks #1,988 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 202 patents across 93 technology areas.

#1,988
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 3%
by Innovation Score (61.9/100): 9.3
avg claims per patent: +31%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1988 · Foreign Corporation #1,988 · 202 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 202 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,988/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Indian Oil
CPC-WIDE C01B · 93 areas
INNOV-STRONG 61.9/100
CLAIMS-PAR 9.3 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-UP +31% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Indian Oil Corporation Limited (±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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Ampere S · near

62
Berry Global · near

62
The Chamberlain Group · near

62
Tokuyama · this assignee

62
Valeo Siemens… · near

62
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Tokuyama's Innovation Score is 61.9/100 (top 3% 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.

How Tokuyama's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Tokuyama Corporation received 98 grants versus 75 in 2015–2019 (+31% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2024 at 29 grants and bottomed in 2020 at 7. Lead class C01B accounts for 36.6% of the portfolio across 93 subclasses. Volume neighbours: InVue Security Products Inc. (#1,984) and Nippon Kayaku Kabushiki Kaisha (#1,992).

Tokuyama's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Tokuyama Corporation moved from 36 to 70 grants (1.94x 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 #225. See the growth leaderboard.

Invue Security Pr…

202
Indian Oil

202
Kawasaki Motors

202
Optum

202
Tokuyama ◀

202
Department OF Vet…

201
Enseo

201
Intervet

201
Nippon Kayaku

201

What this shows Tokuyama holds 202 patents at rank #1,988, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Tokuyama

By rank, the assignees closest to #1,988 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C01B (Non-metallic Elements)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

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

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (62 here).

Valeo Siemens eAutomotive Germany GmbH 62 The Chamberlain Group LLC 62 Berry Global, Inc. 62 Ampere S.A.S. 62

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (9.3 here).

China University OF Petroleum (EAST CHINA) 9.3 avg Murata Machinery, Ltd. 9.3 avg Pioneer Corporation 9.3 avg National University Corporation Gunma University 9.3 avg

Tokuyama's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

62 Top 3% higher than 97% 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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Tokuyama Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	24	11.9%
2016	21	10.4%
2017	14	6.9%
2018	8	4.0%
2019	8	4.0%
2020	7	3.5%
2021	21	10.4%
2022	25	12.4%
2023	16	7.9%
2024	29	14.4%
2025partial year	29	14.4%

Which technologies does Tokuyama Corporation patent most?

C01B - Non-metallic ELEMENTS; Compounds THEREOF; ; Metalloids OR Compounds Thereof NOT Covered BY Subclass C01c 74

C01P - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Structural AND Physical Aspects OF Solid Inorganic Compounds 42

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 37

C09K - Materials FOR Miscellaneous Applications, NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere 36

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 35

C30B - Single-crystal Growth ; Unidirectional Solidification OF Eutectic Material OR Unidirectional Demixing OF Eutectoid MATERIAL; Refining BY Zone-melting OF Material ; Production OF A Homogeneous Polycrystalline Material With Defined Structure ; Single Crystals OR Homogeneous Polycrystalline Material WI 33

C08G - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than BY Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds 29

C08K - Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances as compounding ingredients 29

C08L - Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds 26

G02C - SPECTACLES; Sunglasses OR Goggles Insofar AS They Have THE Same Features AS SPECTACLES; Contact Lenses 24

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 19

C04B - Lime, MAGNESIA; SLAG; CEMENTS; Compositions Thereof, e.g. Mortars, Concrete OR Like Building MATERIALS; Artificial Stone ; Ceramics ; REFRACTORIES; Treatment OF Natural Stone 17

C09D - Coating Compositions, e.g. Paints, Varnishes OR LACQUERS; Filling PASTES; Chemical Paint OR INK REMOVERS; INKS; Correcting FLUIDS; WOODSTAINS; Pastes OR Solids FOR Colouring OR PRINTING; USE OF Materials Therefor 15

C07C - Acyclic OR Carbocyclic Compounds 14

C08F - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained BY Reactions Only Involving Carbon-to-carbon Unsaturated Bonds 14

Top 15 of 93 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#1,988

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

61.9 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

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

Tokuyama Corporation's lead technology class is C01B (Non-metallic ELEMENTS; Compounds THEREOF; ; Metalloids OR Compounds Thereof NOT Covered BY Subclass C01c), 36.6% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C01B
Ranked #1,988 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Tokuyama Corporation against InVue Security Products Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 61.9/100 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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