Where does Tomy Company, Ltd. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Tomy Company, Ltd. ranks #1,437 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 Tomy Company, Ltd. hold?

Tomy Company, Ltd. holds 291 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 12 technology areas.

What is Tomy Company, Ltd.'s Innovation Score?

Tomy Company, Ltd. has an Innovation Score of 35.4 out of 100 (top 49% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Tomy Company, Ltd. focus on?

Tomy Company, Ltd.'s top technology area is A63H (Toys, e.g. Tops, Dolls, Hoops OR Building Blocks) with 41 patents, ranking #7 of 312 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 12 CPC subclasses total.

Is Tomy Company, Ltd.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Tomy Company, Ltd.'s recent grant velocity is -15% 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 Tomy Company, Ltd.'s patents?

Tomy Company, Ltd.'s patents average 2.7 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 Tomy Company, 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

Tomy Company, Ltd.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 291 granted patents across 12 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: A63H (Toys, e.g. Tops, Dolls, Hoops OR Building Blocks).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Tomy ranks #1,437 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 291 patents across 12 technology areas.

#1,437
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 49%
by Innovation Score (35.4/100): 2.7
avg claims per patent: -15%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1437 · Foreign Corporation #1,437 · 291 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-SPARSE · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 291 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,437/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Intermolecular
CPC-FOCUS A63H · 12 areas
INNOV-THIN 35.4/100
CLAIMS-SPARSE 2.7 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -15% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Intermolecular, Inc. (±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 Tomy’s 35.4 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 19.6 pts (55%) Velocity 2.0 pts (6%) Breadth 12.2 pts (34%) Claim depth 1.6 pts (5%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
CUB Elecparts · near

35
Magswitch Technology… · near

35
Tekelec · near

35
Tomy · this assignee

35
Tianjin Wanda Tyre · near

35
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Tomy's Innovation Score is 35.4/100 (top 49% 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 Tomy?

Each dot is one of Tomy’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). Tomy’s own 2.7 claims/patent is at or below the 16.5 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Tomy's grants concentrate

Tomy Company, Ltd. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 12 CPC subclasses with 14.1% of grants classified under A63H (Toys, e.g. Tops, Dolls, Hoops OR Building Blocks). Peak complete grant year is 2019 (86 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2015. By volume, Tomy sits between Group14 Technologies, Inc. and Verb Surgical Inc..

Tomy's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Tomy Company, Ltd. moved from 157 to 46 grants (0.29x 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 #3,005. See the growth leaderboard.

Group14

292
Intermolecular

291
National Research…

291
Poulsen Roser A/S

291
Tomy ◀

291
Dialog Semiconduc…

290
Leica Microsystem…

290
Square Enix

290
Verb Surgical

290

What this shows Tomy holds 291 patents at rank #1,437, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Tomy

By rank, the assignees closest to #1,437 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A63H (Toys)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Tomy, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A63H (Toys), Tomy ranks #7 of 312 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (35 here).

Tekelec, Inc. 35 CUB Elecparts Inc. 35 Magswitch Technology Worldwide PTY Ltd. 35 Tianjin Wanda Tyre Co., Ltd. 35

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (2.7 here).

Direct Pack, Inc. 2.7 avg Mr. Bar-B-Q Products LLC 2.7 avg Ball Horticultural Company 2.7 avg Arktura LLC 2.7 avg

Tomy's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

35 Top 49% higher than 51% 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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Tomy Company, Ltd. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	2	0.7%
2016	3	1.0%
2017	14	4.8%
2018	32	11.0%
2019	86	29.6%
2020	53	18.2%
2021	18	6.2%
2022	25	8.6%
2023	8	2.7%
2024	13	4.5%
2025partial year	37	12.7%

Which technologies does Tomy Company, Ltd. patent most?

A63H - Toys, e.g. Tops, Dolls, Hoops OR Building Blocks 41

A63F - Card, Board, OR Roulette GAMES; Indoor Games Using Small Moving Playing BODIES; Video GAMES; Games NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 16

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 2

A61C - DENTISTRY; Apparatus OR Methods FOR Oral OR Dental Hygiene 2

A47D - Furniture Specially Adapted FOR Children 1

G01P - Measuring Linear OR Angular Speed, Acceleration, Deceleration, OR SHOCK; Indicating Presence, Absence, OR Direction, OF Movement 1

A63B - Apparatus FOR Physical Training, Gymnastics, Swimming, Climbing, OR FENCING; Ball GAMES; Training Equipment 1

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 1

G10K - Sound-producing DEVICES; Methods OR Devices FOR Protecting Against, OR FOR Damping, Noise OR Other Acoustic Waves IN GENERAL; Acoustics NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1

H04R - Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups OR Like Acoustic Electromechanical TRANSDUCERS; Deaf-aid SETS; Public Address Systems 1

G03B - Apparatus OR Arrangements FOR Taking Photographs OR FOR Projecting OR Viewing THEM; Apparatus OR Arrangements Employing Analogous Techniques Using Waves Other Than Optical WAVES; Accessories Therefor 1

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 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

Tomy Company, Ltd.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Tomy Company, Ltd.'s lead technology class is A63H (Toys, e.g. Tops, Dolls, Hoops OR Building Blocks), 14.1% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A63H
Ranked #1,437 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Tomy Company, Ltd. against Group14 Technologies, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 35.4/100 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

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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

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

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