Where does Toshiba TEC Kabushiki Kaisha rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Toshiba TEC Kabushiki Kaisha ranks #112 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 TEC Kabushiki Kaisha hold?

Toshiba TEC Kabushiki Kaisha holds 3,280 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 146 technology areas.

What is Toshiba TEC Kabushiki Kaisha's Innovation Score?

Toshiba TEC Kabushiki Kaisha has an Innovation Score of 67.2 out of 100 (top 1% 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 TEC Kabushiki Kaisha focus on?

Toshiba TEC Kabushiki Kaisha's top technology area is G03G (ELECTROGRAPHY; ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHY; Magnetography) with 1,253 patents, ranking #7 of 196 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 146 CPC subclasses total.

Is Toshiba TEC Kabushiki Kaisha's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Toshiba TEC Kabushiki Kaisha's recent grant velocity is -3% 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 Toshiba TEC Kabushiki Kaisha's patents?

Toshiba TEC Kabushiki Kaisha's patents average 14.8 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 TEC Kabushiki Kaisha 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 TEC Kabushiki Kaisha

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 3,280 granted patents across 146 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: G03G (ELECTROGRAPHY; ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHY; Magnetography).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Toshiba ranks #112 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 3,280 patents across 146 technology areas.

#112
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 1%
by Innovation Score (67.2/100): 14.8
avg claims per patent: -3%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R112 · Foreign Corporation #112 · 3,280 grants

GRANTS-LARGE · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-FLAT · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-LARGE 3.3K grants
TOP-DECILE #112/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Nippon Telegraph…
CPC-WIDE G03G · 146 areas
INNOV-STRONG 67.2/100
CLAIMS-RICH 14.8 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-FLAT -3% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Nippon Telegraph AND Telephone Corporation (±1 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.

How Toshiba’s 67.2 Innovation Score adds up

The same four weighted components behind every Innovation Score on PlainPatent: portfolio volume, grant velocity, technology breadth, and claim depth.

Volume 28.0 pts (42%) Velocity 5.4 pts (8%) Breadth 25.0 pts (37%) Claim depth 8.9 pts (13%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Industrial Technolog… · near

67
Toshiba TEC · this assignee

67
NXP B V · near

67
Semiconductor… · near

67
Walmart Apollo · near

67
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Toshiba's Innovation Score is 67.2/100 (top 1% 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.

Does more volume mean deeper claims for Toshiba?

Each dot is one of Toshiba’s 8 nearest volume peers (same corpus rank neighbourhood as the chart above), placed by total granted patents (horizontal) against average claims per patent (vertical). Toshiba’s own 14.8 claims/patent is ABOVE the 13.0 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

Toshiba vs its 8 nearest volume peers: granted patents vs average claims per patent. Source: USPTO PatentsView.

How Toshiba's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Toshiba TEC Kabushiki Kaisha received 1,539 grants versus 1,593 in 2015–2019 (-3% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2018 at 408 grants and bottomed in 2024 at 267. Lead class G03G accounts for 38.2% of the portfolio across 146 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc. (#108) and Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd. (#116).

Toshiba's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Toshiba TEC Kabushiki Kaisha moved from 1,048 to 850 grants (0.81x 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 #1,806. See the growth leaderboard.

Boston Scientific…

3,361
Snap

3,345
United States of…

3,298
Illinois Tool Wor…

3,292
Toshiba TEC ◀

3,280
Nippon Telegraph…

3,279
Yazaki

3,264
Toyota Motor Engi…

3,200
Sumitomo Wiring S…

3,190

What this shows Toshiba holds 3,280 patents at rank #112, 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 #112 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G03G (Electrography)

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). In G03G (Electrography), Toshiba ranks #7 of 196 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (67 here).

Industrial Technology Research Institute 67 NXP B.V. 67 Semiconductor Components Industries, LLC 67 Walmart Apollo, LLC 67

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (14.8 here).

CNH Industrial America LLC 14.8 avg Kuka Roboter GmbH 14.8 avg Globalfoundries U.S. 2 LLC 14.8 avg Cimpress Schweiz GMBH 14.8 avg

Toshiba's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

67 Top 1% higher than 99% 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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Toshiba TEC Kabushiki Kaisha patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	272	8.3%
2016	280	8.5%
2017	274	8.4%
2018	408	12.4%
2019	359	10.9%
2020	382	11.6%
2021	307	9.4%
2022	298	9.1%
2023	285	8.7%
2024	267	8.1%
2025partial year	148	4.5%

Which technologies does Toshiba TEC Kabushiki Kaisha patent most?

G03G - ELECTROGRAPHY; ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHY; Magnetography 1,253

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 708

B41J - TYPEWRITERS; Selective Printing Mechanisms, i.e. Mechanisms Printing Otherwise Than From A FORME; Correction OF Typographical Errors 615

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 527

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 419

G06K - Graphical Data Reading ; Presentation OF DATA; Record CARRIERS; Handling Record Carriers 403

B65H - Handling Thin OR Filamentary Material, e.g. Sheets, Webs, Cables 316

G07G - Registering THE Receipt OF Cash, Valuables, OR Tokens 284

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 187

B41M - Printing, Duplicating, Marking, OR Copying PROCESSES; Colour Printing, 171

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 85

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 73

Y02D - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN Information AND Communication Technologies [ICT], I.E. Information AND Communication Technologies Aiming AT THE Reduction OF Their OWN Energy USE 68

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 67

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 51

Top 15 of 146 technology areas

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

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What to do with this data

Toshiba TEC Kabushiki Kaisha's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Toshiba TEC Kabushiki Kaisha's lead technology class is G03G (ELECTROGRAPHY; ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHY; Magnetography), 38.2% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G03G
Ranked #112 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Toshiba TEC Kabushiki Kaisha against Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 67.2/100 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

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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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