USPTO 2015–2025 USPTO PatentsView Foreign Corporation

Toshiba Electron Tubes & Devices Co., Ltd.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 51 granted patents across 17 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2019. 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: H01J (ELECTRIC DISCHARGE TUBES OR DISCHARGE LAMPS).

The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Toshiba ranks #6,601 of 50,000 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 51 patents across 17 technology areas.

#6,601
of 50,000 US assignees by volume
Top 60%
by Innovation Score (32.1/100)
6.5
avg claims per patent
-100%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R6601 · Foreign Corporation #6,601 · 51 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-SPARSE · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

  • GRANTS-SMALL 51 grants
  • UPPER-Q #6,601/50,000
  • PHOTO-FINISH Tellabs Operations
  • CPC-FOCUS H01J · 17 areas
  • INNOV-THIN 32.1/100
  • CLAIMS-SPARSE 6.5 claims/avg
  • TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
  • VEL-DROP -100% vel
  • BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Tellabs Operations, Inc. (±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.

Innovation-score neighbourhood around Toshiba

Lowest and highest poles plus nearest Innovation Score peers, not a full corpus board reprint.

score

What this shows Toshiba Electron Tubes & Devices Co., Ltd. stamps GRANTS-SMALL, UPPER-Q, PHOTO-FINISH, CPC-FOCUS, INNOV-THIN, CLAIMS-SPARSE, TYPE-FRNCORP, VEL-DROP, BOOK-FULL. Volume places it #6,601 of 50,000; Innovation Score 32.1/100 sits in the top 60% of the PatentsView-derived corpus. Closest grant-volume peer on this plate is Tellabs Operations, Inc. (±0 grants).

Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score As of 2015–2025

Portfolio overview

Toshiba Electron Tubes & Devices Co., Ltd. has been granted 51 US utility patents between 2015 and 2019, placing Toshiba Electron Tubes & Devices Co., Ltd. at #6,601 of 50,000 across all assignees tracked by PlainPatent. This portfolio spans 17 distinct Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC) subclasses, averaging 6.5 claims per patent with primary concentration in H01J (ELECTRIC DISCHARGE TUBES OR DISCHARGE LAMPS). As a Foreign Corporation, Toshiba Electron Tubes & Devices Co., Ltd. is one of the more focused assignees in the PatentsView dataset. By volume, Toshiba sits between Tokuyama Dental Corporation (51 patents, rank #6,597) and Vestel Elektronik Sanayi Ve Ticaret A. S. (51 patents, rank #6,605) - the closest US assignees by grant volume. The composite Innovation Score of 32.1/100 blends portfolio volume, grant velocity, technology breadth, and claim depth into a single comparable measure drawn directly from USPTO PatentsView records.

Grant cadence records the difference between two grant-year windows. Between 2020 and 2024 the company received 0 grants, compared with 51 in the 2015–2019 window, a -100% shift in five-year grant velocity. Both windows cover five complete grant years; the latest PatentsView year is a partial release and is excluded from this comparison, though it still appears in the yearly table and chart below. Grant timing can lag the related application by years, so this comparison does not establish current R&D spending, strategic intent, or a company’s application activity. The Foreign Corporation classification provides context for the assignee record, not a conclusion about its business strategy.

Claim depth and technology breadth describe this aggregate record. Toshiba Electron Tubes & Devices Co., Ltd.'s 6.5 average claims per patent is an average count, not a measure of claim scope, legal strength, enforceability, or design-around risk. The record spans 17 CPC subclasses. Combined with portfolio volume, these figures let readers compare the documented grant records of assignees in similar technology classes.

Who files at Toshiba's volume?

Granted US patents 2015–2025 versus its nearest-ranked assignees by volume, this company marked ◀

patents

What this shows Toshiba holds 51 patents at rank #6,601, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Source USPTO PatentsView, granted utility patents As of 2015–2025

Companies ranked near Toshiba

By rank, the assignees closest to #6,601 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H01J (Electric Discharge Tubes OR Discharge Lamps)

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 (32 here).

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (6.5 here).

Toshiba's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

32 Top 60% higher than 40% of 50,000 US assignees

0–10: 687 US assignees (1%). Below this entry. 10–20: 2,527 US assignees (5%). Below this entry. 20–30: 13,162 US assignees (26%). Below this entry. 30–40: 15,294 US assignees (31%). This entry sits in this band. 40–50: 11,491 US assignees (23%). Above this entry. 50–60: 5,058 US assignees (10%). Above this entry. 60–70: 1,537 US assignees (3%). Above this entry. 70–80: 234 US assignees (0%). Above this entry. 80–90: 10 US assignees (0%). Above this entry. 90–100: 0 US assignees (0%). Above this entry. This assignee 0 100 every tracked assignee, bucketed by value

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

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USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2019

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2015–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Toshiba Electron Tubes & Devices Co., Ltd. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year Patents Granted Share of Period
2015 9 17.6%
2016 19 37.3%
2017 14 27.5%
2018 8 15.7%
2019 1 2.0%

Which technologies does Toshiba Electron Tubes & Devices Co., Ltd. patent most?

Top 15 of 17 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#6,601

of 50,000 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

32.1 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

Every figure on PlainPatent is rendered directly from USPTO source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on USPTO source data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 2026.