Where does Toshiba Digital Solutions Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Toshiba Digital Solutions Corporation ranks #3,416 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 Toshiba Digital Solutions Corporation hold?

Toshiba Digital Solutions Corporation holds 109 US utility patents granted between 2018 and 2025, spanning 38 technology areas.

What is Toshiba Digital Solutions Corporation's Innovation Score?

Toshiba Digital Solutions Corporation has an Innovation Score of 52.9 out of 100 (top 9% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Toshiba Digital Solutions Corporation focus on?

Toshiba Digital Solutions Corporation's top technology area is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing) with 75 patents. Grants appear in 38 CPC subclasses total.

Is Toshiba Digital Solutions Corporation's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Toshiba Digital Solutions Corporation's recent grant velocity is +400% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Toshiba Digital Solutions Corporation's patents?

Toshiba Digital Solutions Corporation's patents average 10.8 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 Toshiba Digital Solutions Corporation 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

Toshiba Digital Solutions Corporation

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 109 granted patents across 38 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2018–2025. 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: G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Toshiba ranks #3,416 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 109 patents across 38 technology areas.

#3,416
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 9%
by Innovation Score (52.9/100): 10.8
avg claims per patent: +400%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R3416 · Foreign Corporation #3,416 · 109 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-PAR · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 109 grants
TOP-DECILE #3,416/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Salk Institute for…
CPC-FOCUS G06F · 38 areas
INNOV-PAR 52.9/100
CLAIMS-PAR 10.8 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +400% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Salk Institute for Biological Studies (±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
Applied Biosystems · near

53
Nippon Steel… · near

53
Rochester Institute… · near

53
Toshiba Digital… · this assignee

53
United Therapeutics · near

53
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Toshiba's Innovation Score is 52.9/100 (top 9% 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 Toshiba's grants concentrate

Toshiba Digital Solutions Corporation is a focused PatentsView assignee: 38 CPC subclasses with 68.8% of grants classified under G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing). Peak complete grant year is 2022 (24 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2018. By volume, Toshiba sits between Salk Institute for Biological Studies and ABB Oy.

Toshiba's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Toshiba Digital Solutions Corporation moved from 42 to 53 grants (1.26x 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 #694. See the growth leaderboard.

Salk Institute fo…

109
Storedot

109
TEL Hashomer Medi…

109
The Stanley Works…

109
Toshiba Kikai

109
Unilin BV

109
Vixs Systems

109
Toshiba Digital S… ◀

109
ABB Oy

108

What this shows Toshiba holds 109 patents at rank #3,416, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Toshiba

By rank, the assignees closest to #3,416 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

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

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (53 here).

Nippon Steel Chemical & Material Co., Ltd. 53 United Therapeutics Corporation 53 Applied Biosystems, LLC 53 Rochester Institute of Technology 53

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (10.8 here).

Takasago International Corporation 10.8 avg Samsung Life Public Welfare Foundation 10.8 avg National University Corporation Kobe University 10.8 avg Nikola Corporation 10.8 avg

Toshiba's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

53 Top 9% higher than 91% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2018–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2018–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Toshiba Digital Solutions Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2018	1	0.9%
2019	15	13.8%
2020	7	6.4%
2021	20	18.3%
2022	24	22.0%
2023	12	11.0%
2024	17	15.6%
2025partial year	13	11.9%

Which technologies does Toshiba Digital Solutions Corporation patent most?

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 75

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 28

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 26

G06Q - Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory Purposes, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 19

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 17

G10L - Speech Analysis Techniques OR Speech SYNTHESIS; Speech RECOGNITION; Speech OR Voice Processing TECHNIQUES; Speech OR Audio Coding OR Decoding 16

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 16

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 8

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 7

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 5

G08B - Signalling OR Calling SYSTEMS; Order TELEGRAPHS; Alarm Systems 3

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 3

G08G - Traffic Control Systems 3

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 2

G09B - Educational OR Demonstration APPLIANCES; Appliances FOR Teaching, OR Communicating With, THE Blind, Deaf OR MUTE; MODELS; PLANETARIA; GLOBES; MAPS; Diagrams 2

Top 15 of 38 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#3,416

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

52.9 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

Toshiba Digital Solutions Corporation's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Toshiba Digital Solutions Corporation's lead technology class is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), 68.8% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06F
Ranked #3,416 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Toshiba Digital Solutions Corporation against Salk Institute for Biological Studies, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 52.9/100 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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