Where does Toray Industries, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Toray Industries, Inc. ranks #279 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 Toray Industries, Inc. hold?

Toray Industries, Inc. holds 1,543 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 220 technology areas.

What is Toray Industries, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Toray Industries, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 61.7 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 Toray Industries, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Toray Industries, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -2% 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 Industries, Inc.'s patents?

Toray Industries, Inc.'s patents average 11.0 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 Industries, Inc. 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 Industries, Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Toray Industries, Inc. focus on?

Toray Industries, Inc.'s top technology area is C08J (WORKING-UP; General Processes OF COMPOUNDING; After-treatment NOT Covered BY Subclasses C08b, C08c, C08f, C08g or C08h) with 361 patents. Grants appear in 220 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 1,543 granted patents across 220 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: C08J (WORKING-UP; General Processes OF COMPOUNDING; After-treatment NOT Covered BY Subclasses C08b, C08c, C08f, C08g or C08h).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Toray ranks #279 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 1,543 patents across 220 technology areas.

#279
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 3%
by Innovation Score (61.7/100): 11.0
avg claims per patent: -2%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R279 · Foreign Corporation #279 · 1,543 grants

GRANTS-LARGE · TOP-DECILE · NEAR-PEER · CPC-BROAD · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-PAR · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-FLAT · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-LARGE 1.5K grants
TOP-DECILE #279/49,997
NEAR-PEER Palantir
CPC-BROAD C08J · 220 areas
INNOV-STRONG 61.7/100
CLAIMS-PAR 11.0 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-FLAT -2% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Palantir Technologies Inc. (±9 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
PGS Geophysical AS · near

62
Tektronix · near

62
STMicroelectronics… · near

62
Toray Industries · this assignee

62
University of Iowa… · near

62
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Toray's Innovation Score is 61.7/100 (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 Toray's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Toray Industries, Inc. received 720 grants versus 735 in 2015–2019 (-2% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2020 at 182 grants and bottomed in 2023 at 99. Lead class C08J accounts for 23.4% of the portfolio across 220 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Colgate-Palmolive Company (#275) and Accenture Global Solutions Limited (#283).

Toray's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Toray Industries, Inc. moved from 510 to 363 grants (0.71x 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 #2,112. See the growth leaderboard.

Colgate-palmolive

1,565
Goodrich

1,557
Motorola Solutions

1,555
Bose

1,553
Toray Industries ◀

1,543
Palantir

1,534
The General Hospi…

1,529
Aktiebolaget SKF

1,526
Accenture Global…

1,520

What this shows Toray holds 1,543 patents at rank #279, 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 #279 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C08J (Working-up)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

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

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (62 here).

University of Iowa Research Foundation 62 STMicroelectronics Asia Pacific Pte Ltd 62 PGS Geophysical AS 62 Tektronix, Inc. 62

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (11.0 here).

Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co., Ltd. 11.0 avg Amosense Co., Ltd. 11.0 avg DDP Specialty Electronic Materials US, LLC. 11.0 avg SK Siltron Co., Ltd. 11.0 avg

Toray'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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Toray Industries, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	137	8.9%
2016	133	8.6%
2017	147	9.5%
2018	165	10.7%
2019	153	9.9%
2020	182	11.8%
2021	175	11.3%
2022	147	9.5%
2023	99	6.4%
2024	117	7.6%
2025partial year	88	5.7%

Which technologies does Toray Industries, Inc. patent most?

C08J - WORKING-UP; General Processes OF COMPOUNDING; After-treatment NOT Covered BY Subclasses C08b, C08c, C08f, C08g or C08h 361

C08L - Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds 280

C08G - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than BY Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds 271

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 232

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 228

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 228

C08K - Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances as compounding ingredients 187

B01D - Separation 185

H01M - Processes OR Means, e.g. Batteries, FOR THE Direct Conversion OF Chemical Energy Into Electrical Energy 158

B29K - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses B29b, B29c OR B29d, Relating TO Moulding Materials OR TO Materials FOR ; Moulds, ; Reinforcements, Fillers OR Preformed Parts, e.g. Inserts 148

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 144

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 110

C12N - Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media 104

D01F - Chemical Features IN THE Manufacture OF Artificial Filaments, Threads, Fibres, Bristles OR RIBBONS; Apparatus Specially Adapted FOR THE Manufacture OF Carbon Filaments 102

A61P - Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations 100

Top 15 of 220 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#279

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

61.7 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

Toray Industries, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Toray Industries, Inc.'s lead technology class is C08J (WORKING-UP; General Processes OF COMPOUNDING; After-treatment NOT Covered BY Subclasses C08b, C08c, C08f, C08g or C08h), 23.4% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C08J
Ranked #279 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Toray Industries, Inc. against Colgate-Palmolive Company, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 61.7/100 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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