Where does UBE Industries, Ltd. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), UBE Industries, Ltd. ranks #1,838 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 UBE Industries, Ltd. hold?

UBE Industries, Ltd. holds 220 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 80 technology areas.

What is UBE Industries, Ltd.'s Innovation Score?

UBE Industries, Ltd. has an Innovation Score of 52.2 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%).

What technology areas does UBE Industries, Ltd. focus on?

UBE Industries, Ltd.'s top technology area is Y02E (Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution) with 59 patents, ranking #250 of 5,963 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 80 CPC subclasses total.

Is UBE Industries, Ltd.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

UBE Industries, Ltd.'s recent grant velocity is -76% 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 UBE Industries, Ltd.'s patents?

UBE Industries, Ltd.'s patents average 12.0 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 UBE Industries, Ltd. 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

UBE Industries, Ltd.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 220 granted patents across 80 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: Y02E (Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, UBE ranks #1,838 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 220 patents across 80 technology areas.

#1,838
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 10%
by Innovation Score (52.2/100): 12.0
avg claims per patent: -76%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1838 · Foreign Corporation #1,838 · 220 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 220 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,838/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Hosiden
CPC-WIDE Y02E · 80 areas
INNOV-PAR 52.2/100
CLAIMS-RICH 12.0 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -76% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Hosiden Corporation (±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.

How UBE’s 52.2 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 18.6 pts (36%) Velocity 1.4 pts (3%) Breadth 25.0 pts (48%) Claim depth 7.2 pts (14%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Essential Products · near

52
Leedarson Lighting · near

52
Movidius · near

52
UBE Industries · this assignee

52
Universitat Zurich · near

52
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows UBE's Innovation Score is 52.2/100 (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.

Does more volume mean deeper claims for UBE?

Each dot is one of UBE’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). UBE’s own 12.0 claims/patent is at or below the 12.6 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

How UBE's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, UBE Industries, Ltd. received 42 grants versus 177 in 2015–2019 (-76% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2016 at 43 grants and bottomed in 2023 at 1. Lead class Y02E accounts for 26.8% of the portfolio across 80 subclasses. Volume neighbours: WHG Properties, LLC (#1,834) and The Regents of the University of Colorado (#1,842).

UBE's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, UBE Industries, Ltd. moved from 59 to 12 grants (0.20x 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 #3,089. See the growth leaderboard.

WHG Properties

221
ebm-papst Mulfing…

221
Hosiden

220
Nidek

220
UBE Industries ◀

220
Electrolux Home P…

219
Intelligent Energy

219
Solar Turbines In…

219
The Regents of th…

219

What this shows UBE holds 220 patents at rank #1,838, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near UBE

By rank, the assignees closest to #1,838 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in Y02E (Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for UBE, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In Y02E (Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions), UBE ranks #250 of 5,963 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (52 here).

Essential Products, Inc. 52 Universitat Zurich 52 Leedarson Lighting Co., Ltd. 52 Movidius Limited 52

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (12.0 here).

Kyushu University, National University Corporation 12.0 avg Hella GmbH & Co. KGaA 12.0 avg Mitsubishi Aircraft Corporation 12.0 avg Stanley Electric Co., Ltd. 12.0 avg

UBE's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

52 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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UBE Industries, Ltd. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	40	18.2%
2016	43	19.5%
2017	41	18.6%
2018	24	10.9%
2019	29	13.2%
2020	19	8.6%
2021	11	5.0%
2022	11	5.0%
2023	1	0.5%
2025partial year	1	0.5%

Which technologies does UBE Industries, Ltd. patent most?

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 59

H01M - Processes OR Means, e.g. Batteries, FOR THE Direct Conversion OF Chemical Energy Into Electrical Energy 47

C07C - Acyclic OR Carbocyclic Compounds 41

C07D - Heterocyclic Compounds 36

C08L - Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds 32

C08G - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than BY Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds 28

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 28

C08J - WORKING-UP; General Processes OF COMPOUNDING; After-treatment NOT Covered BY Subclasses C08b, C08c, C08f, C08g or C08h 25

H01G - CAPACITORS; Capacitors, Rectifiers, Detectors, Switching Devices, Light-sensitive OR Temperature-sensitive Devices OF THE Electrolytic Type 25

A61P - Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations 22

C09K - Materials FOR Miscellaneous Applications, NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere 22

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 20

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 20

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 19

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 17

Top 15 of 80 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

UBE Industries, Ltd.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

UBE Industries, Ltd.'s lead technology class is Y02E (Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution), 26.8% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore Y02E
Ranked #1,838 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare UBE Industries, Ltd. against WHG Properties, LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 52.2/100 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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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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