Where does Toray FINE Chemicals Co., Ltd. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Toray FINE Chemicals Co., Ltd. ranks #20,545 of 50,000 assignees by granted-patent volume, the same sort as the companies listing and top-holders ranking. See /methodology/#corpus-placement.

How many patents does Toray FINE Chemicals Co., Ltd. hold?

Toray FINE Chemicals Co., Ltd. holds 14 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2021, spanning 16 technology areas.

What is Toray FINE Chemicals Co., Ltd.'s Innovation Score?

Toray FINE Chemicals Co., Ltd. has an Innovation Score of 29.2 out of 100 (top 70% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Toray FINE Chemicals Co., Ltd. focus on?

Toray FINE Chemicals Co., Ltd.'s top technology area is C07C (ACYCLIC OR CARBOCYCLIC COMPOUNDS) with 9 patents. Grants appear in 16 CPC subclasses total.

Is Toray FINE Chemicals Co., Ltd.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Toray FINE Chemicals Co., Ltd.'s recent grant velocity is -60% 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 Toray FINE Chemicals Co., Ltd.'s patents?

Toray FINE Chemicals Co., Ltd.'s patents average 9.6 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 Toray FINE Chemicals 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

Toray FINE Chemicals Co., Ltd.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 14 granted patents across 16 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2021. 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: C07C (ACYCLIC OR CARBOCYCLIC COMPOUNDS).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Toray ranks #20,545 of 50,000 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 14 patents across 16 technology areas.

#20,545
of 50,000 US assignees by volume: Top 70%
by Innovation Score (29.2/100): 9.6
avg claims per patent: -60%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R20545 · Foreign Corporation #20,545 · 14 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-PAR · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 14 grants
MID-PACK #20,545/50,000
PHOTO-FINISH TOKYO METROPOLITAN I…
CPC-FOCUS C07C · 16 areas
INNOV-THIN 29.2/100
CLAIMS-PAR 9.6 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -60% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Tokyo Metropolitan Industrial Technology Research Institute (±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
Toray FINE Chemicals · this assignee

29
3D Lighting Innovati… · lowest

7

What this shows Toray's Innovation Score is 29.2/100 (top 70% 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.

Where Toray's grants concentrate

Toray FINE Chemicals Co., Ltd. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 16 CPC subclasses with 64.3% of grants classified under C07C (ACYCLIC OR CARBOCYCLIC COMPOUNDS). Peak complete grant year is 2018 (4 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2016. By volume, Toray sits between Tokyo Metropolitan Industrial Technology Research Institute and Treble Innovations, Llc.

Tokyo Metropolita…

14
Tokyo University…

14
TOM Dixon

14
TON DUC Thang Uni…

14
Toshiba Elevator

14
Toyota Jidosha Ky…

14
Toyox

14
Treble Innovations

14
Toray FINE Chemic… ◀

14

What this shows Toray holds 14 patents at rank #20,512, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Toray

By rank, the assignees closest to #20,512 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C07C (Acyclic OR Carbocyclic Compounds)

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

Toray's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

29 Top 70% higher than 30% of 50,000 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2021

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2016–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Toray FINE Chemicals Co., Ltd. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	1	7.1%
2017	3	21.4%
2018	4	28.6%
2019	2	14.3%
2020	1	7.1%
2021	3	21.4%

Which technologies does Toray FINE Chemicals Co., Ltd. patent most?

C07C - ACYCLIC OR CARBOCYCLIC COMPOUNDS 9

C08G - MACROMOLECULAR COMPOUNDS OBTAINED OTHERWISE THAN BY REACTIONS ONLY INVOLVING UNSATURATED CARBON-TO-CARBON BONDS 5

C08L - COMPOSITIONS OF MACROMOLECULAR COMPOUNDS 5

C09K - MATERIALS FOR MISCELLANEOUS APPLICATIONS, NOT PROVIDED FOR ELSEWHERE 3

C09J - ADHESIVES; NON-MECHANICAL ASPECTS OF ADHESIVE PROCESSES IN GENERAL; ADHESIVE PROCESSES NOT PROVIDED FOR ELSEWHERE; USE OF MATERIALS AS ADHESIVES 3

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 3

C07B - GENERAL METHODS OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY; APPARATUS THEREFOR 2

C07D - HETEROCYCLIC COMPOUNDS 2

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 1

F28D - HEAT-EXCHANGE APPARATUS, NOT PROVIDED FOR IN ANOTHER SUBCLASS, IN WHICH THE HEAT-EXCHANGE MEDIA DO NOT COME INTO DIRECT CONTACT 1

Y02E - REDUCTION OF GREENHOUSE GAS [GHG] EMISSIONS, RELATED TO ENERGY GENERATION, TRANSMISSION OR DISTRIBUTION 1

D04H - MAKING TEXTILE FABRICS, e.g. FROM FIBRES OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL ; FABRICS MADE BY SUCH PROCESSES OR APPARATUS, e.g. FELTS, NON-WOVEN FABRICS; COTTON-WOOL; WADDING ; ; NON-WOVEN FABRICS FROM STAPLE FIBRES, FILAMENTS OR YARNS, BONDED WITH AT LEAST ONE WEB-LIKE MATERIAL DURING THEIR CONSOLIDATION 1

B01J - CHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL PROCESSES, e.g. CATALYSIS OR COLLOID CHEMISTRY; THEIR RELEVANT APPARATUS 1

C07F - ACYCLIC, CARBOCYCLIC OR HETEROCYCLIC COMPOUNDS CONTAINING ELEMENTS OTHER THAN CARBON, HYDROGEN, HALOGEN, OXYGEN, NITROGEN, SULFUR, SELENIUM OR TELLURIUM 1

Y02P - CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION TECHNOLOGIES IN THE PRODUCTION OR PROCESSING OF GOODS 1

Top 15 of 16 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#20,545

of 50,000 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

29.2 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

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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