Where does Toray Plastics (America), Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Toray Plastics (America), Inc. ranks #4,102 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 Plastics (America), Inc. hold?

Toray Plastics (America), Inc. holds 88 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 36 technology areas.

What is Toray Plastics (America), Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Toray Plastics (America), Inc. has an Innovation Score of 52.6 out of 100 (top 10% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Toray Plastics (America), Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Toray Plastics (America), Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -50% 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 Plastics (America), Inc.'s patents?

Toray Plastics (America), Inc.'s patents average 17.5 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 Plastics (America), 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 US Corporation

Toray Plastics (America), Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Toray Plastics (America), Inc. focus on?

Toray Plastics (America), Inc.'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 79 patents. Grants appear in 36 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 88 granted patents across 36 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, Toray ranks #4,102 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 88 patents across 36 technology areas.

#4,102
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 10%
by Innovation Score (52.6/100): 17.5
avg claims per patent: -50%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R4102 · US Corporation #4,102 · 88 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 88 grants
TOP-DECILE #4,102/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Qatar Foundation…
CPC-FOCUS B32B · 36 areas
INNOV-PAR 52.6/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.5 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -50% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Qatar Foundation FOR Education, Science AND Community Development (±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
Accuray Incorporated · near

53
Ecosense Lighting · near

53
Agama-X · near

53
LMS · near

53
Toray Plastics… · this assignee

53
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Toray's Innovation Score is 52.6/100 (top 10% 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 Plastics (America), Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 36 CPC subclasses with 89.8% of grants classified under B32B (Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form). Peak complete grant year is 2017 (18 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2024. By volume, Toray sits between Qatar Foundation FOR Education, Science AND Community Development and BIC Violex Single Member S.A..

Toray's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Toray Plastics (America), Inc. moved from 20 to 16 grants (0.80x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Qatar Foundation…

88
Ricoh Imaging

88
Sunovion Pharmace…

88
Tactotek OY

88
WIN Semiconductors

88
Toray Plastics (A… ◀

88
Basf Agricultural…

87
Belimo Holding

87
BIC Violex Single…

87

What this shows Toray holds 88 patents at rank #4,102, 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 #4,102 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B32B (Layered Products)

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 (53 here).

LMS Co., Ltd. 53 Agama-X Co., Ltd. 53 Ecosense Lighting Inc. 53 Accuray Incorporated 53

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (17.5 here).

VÄLINGE Innovation AB 17.5 avg Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago 17.5 avg Verint Americas Inc. 17.5 avg Meta Platforms, Inc. 17.5 avg

Toray's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

53 Top 10% higher than 90% 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 Plastics (America), Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	13	14.8%
2016	8	9.1%
2017	18	20.5%
2018	12	13.6%
2019	7	8.0%
2020	8	9.1%
2021	5	5.7%
2022	9	10.2%
2023	5	5.7%
2024	2	2.3%
2025partial year	1	1.1%

Which technologies does Toray Plastics (America), Inc. patent most?

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 79

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 53

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 53

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 49

C08J - WORKING-UP; General Processes OF COMPOUNDING; After-treatment NOT Covered BY Subclasses C08b, C08c, C08f, C08g or C08h 36

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 32

C08L - Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds 26

C08K - Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances as compounding ingredients 24

B05D - Processes FOR Applying Fluent Materials TO Surfaces, IN General 13

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 13

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 11

C09J - ADHESIVES; Non-mechanical Aspects OF Adhesive Processes IN GENERAL; Adhesive Processes NOT Provided FOR ELSEWHERE; USE OF Materials AS Adhesives 11

C08G - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than BY Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds 7

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 6

E04F - Finishing Work ON Buildings, e.g. Stairs, Floors 5

Top 15 of 36 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#4,102

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

52.6 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 Plastics (America), Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Toray Plastics (America), Inc.'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), 89.8% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B32B
Ranked #4,102 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Toray Plastics (America), Inc. against Qatar Foundation FOR Education, Science AND Community Development, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 52.6/100 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

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.

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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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