Where does Toppan Printing Co., Ltd. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Toppan Printing Co., Ltd. ranks #632 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 Toppan Printing Co., Ltd. hold?

Toppan Printing Co., Ltd. holds 704 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 145 technology areas.

What is Toppan Printing Co., Ltd.'s Innovation Score?

Toppan Printing Co., Ltd. has an Innovation Score of 58.6 out of 100 (top 4% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Toppan Printing Co., Ltd. focus on?

Toppan Printing Co., Ltd.'s top technology area is B32B (Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form) with 176 patents, ranking #18 of 3,088 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 145 CPC subclasses total.

Is Toppan Printing Co., Ltd.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Toppan Printing Co., Ltd.'s recent grant velocity is +33% 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 Toppan Printing Co., Ltd.'s patents?

Toppan Printing Co., Ltd.'s patents average 12.1 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 Toppan Printing Co., 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

Toppan Printing Co., Ltd.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 704 granted patents across 145 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: B32B (Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Toppan ranks #632 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 704 patents across 145 technology areas.

#632
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 4%
by Innovation Score (58.6/100): 12.1
avg claims per patent: +33%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R632 · Foreign Corporation #632 · 704 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 704 grants
TOP-DECILE #632/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH DOW Agrosciences
CPC-WIDE B32B · 145 areas
INNOV-PAR 58.6/100
CLAIMS-RICH 12.1 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-UP +33% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: DOW Agrosciences 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 Toppan’s 58.6 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 22.7 pts (39%) Velocity 3.7 pts (6%) Breadth 25.0 pts (43%) Claim depth 7.3 pts (12%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Ontex Group · near

59
Shanghai Cambricon… · near

59
Toppan Printing · this assignee

59
Saab AB · near

59
Stora Enso OYJ · near

59
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Toppan's Innovation Score is 58.6/100 (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.

Does more volume mean deeper claims for Toppan?

Each dot is one of Toppan’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). Toppan’s own 12.1 claims/patent is at or below the 16.9 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

How Toppan's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Toppan Printing Co., Ltd. received 397 grants versus 298 in 2015–2019 (+33% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2020 at 121 grants and bottomed in 2015 at 30. Lead class B32B accounts for 25% of the portfolio across 145 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Dexcom, Inc. (#628) and Autodesk, Inc. (#636).

Toppan's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Toppan Printing Co., Ltd. moved from 315 to 173 grants (0.55x 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 #2,574. See the growth leaderboard.

Dexcom

708
Krones

708
Arista Networks

706
DOW Agrosciences

704
Toppan Printing ◀

704
Rakuten Group

703
Alarm com Incorpo…

702
Osaka University

702
Autodesk

700

What this shows Toppan holds 704 patents at rank #632, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Toppan

By rank, the assignees closest to #632 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B32B (Layered Products)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Toppan, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B32B (Layered Products), Toppan ranks #18 of 3,088 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (59 here).

Shanghai Cambricon Information Technology Co., Ltd. 59 Ontex Group NV 59 Stora Enso OYJ 59 Saab AB 59

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (12.1 here).

Intercontinental Great Brands LLC 12.1 avg Wago Verwaltungsgesellschaft MBH 12.1 avg ONO Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. 12.1 avg Nanolumens Acquisition, Inc. 12.1 avg

Toppan's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

59 Top 4% higher than 96% 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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Toppan Printing Co., Ltd. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	30	4.3%
2016	59	8.4%
2017	52	7.4%
2018	66	9.4%
2019	91	12.9%
2020	121	17.2%
2021	103	14.6%
2022	81	11.5%
2023	57	8.1%
2024	35	5.0%
2025partial year	9	1.3%

Which technologies does Toppan Printing Co., Ltd. patent most?

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 176

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 173

B42D - BOOKS; Book COVERS; Loose LEAVES; Printed Matter Characterised BY Identification OR Security FEATURES; Printed Matter OF Special Format OR Style NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Devices FOR USE Therewith AND NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Movable-strip Writing OR Reading Apparatus 119

G02F - Optical Devices OR Arrangements FOR THE Control OF Light BY Modification OF THE Optical Properties OF THE Media OF THE Elements Involved THEREIN; Non-linear OPTICS; Frequency-changing OF LIGHT; Optical Logic ELEMENTS; Optical ANALOGUE/DIGITAL Converters 101

B65D - Containers FOR Storage OR Transport OF Articles OR Materials, e.g. Bags, Barrels, Bottles, Boxes, Cans, Cartons, Crates, Drums, Jars, Tanks, Hoppers, Forwarding CONTAINERS; Accessories, Closures, OR Fittings THEREFOR; Packaging ELEMENTS; Packages 80

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 75

H01M - Processes OR Means, e.g. Batteries, FOR THE Direct Conversion OF Chemical Energy Into Electrical Energy 66

G09F - DISPLAYING; ADVERTISING; SIGNS; Labels OR NAME-PLATES; Seals 51

C08J - WORKING-UP; General Processes OF COMPOUNDING; After-treatment NOT Covered BY Subclasses C08b, C08c, C08f, C08g or C08h 50

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 48

C23C - Coating Metallic MATERIAL; Coating Material With Metallic MATERIAL; Surface Treatment OF Metallic Material BY Diffusion Into THE Surface, BY Chemical Conversion OR SUBSTITUTION; Coating BY Vacuum Evaporation, BY Sputtering, BY ION Implantation OR BY Chemical Vapour Deposition, IN General 42

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 41

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

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 39

B41M - Printing, Duplicating, Marking, OR Copying PROCESSES; Colour Printing, 39

Top 15 of 145 technology areas

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USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

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What to do with this data

Toppan Printing Co., Ltd.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Toppan Printing Co., Ltd.'s lead technology class is B32B (Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form), 25% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B32B
Ranked #632 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Toppan Printing Co., Ltd. against Dexcom, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 58.6/100 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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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

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