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

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), UBE Machinery Corporation, Ltd. ranks #11,496 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 Machinery Corporation, Ltd. hold?

UBE Machinery Corporation, Ltd. holds 27 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2024, spanning 12 technology areas.

What is UBE Machinery Corporation, Ltd.'s Innovation Score?

UBE Machinery Corporation, Ltd. has an Innovation Score of 30.0 out of 100 (33rd percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

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

UBE Machinery Corporation, Ltd.'s recent grant velocity is -71% 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 Machinery Corporation, Ltd.'s patents?

UBE Machinery Corporation, Ltd.'s patents average 6.3 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 Machinery Corporation, 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 Machinery Corporation, Ltd.

Q: What technology areas does UBE Machinery Corporation, Ltd. focus on?

UBE Machinery Corporation, Ltd.'s top technology area is B21C (Manufacture OF Metal Sheets, Wire, Rods, Tubes, Profiles OR Like Semi-manufactured Products Otherwise Than BY ROLLING; Auxiliary Operations Used IN Connection With Metal-working Without Essentially Removing Material) with 18 patents, ranking #7 of 268 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 12 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 27 granted patents across 12 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2024. 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: B21C (Manufacture OF Metal Sheets, Wire, Rods, Tubes, Profiles OR Like Semi-manufactured Products Otherwise Than BY ROLLING; Auxiliary Operations Used IN Connection With Metal-working Without Essentially RE).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, UBE ranks #11,496 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 27 patents across 12 technology areas.

#11,496
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 33rd percentile
by Innovation Score (30.0/100): 6.3
avg claims per patent: -71%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R11496 · Foreign Corporation #11,496 · 27 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 27 grants
UPPER-Q #11,496/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Top Knobs USA
CPC-FOCUS B21C · 12 areas
INNOV-THIN 30.0/100
CLAIMS-SPARSE 6.3 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -71% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Top Knobs USA, 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.

How UBE’s 30.0 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 11.5 pts (38%) Velocity 2.5 pts (8%) Breadth 12.2 pts (41%) Claim depth 3.8 pts (13%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Abbyy InfoPoisk · near

30
Aurobindo Pharma · near

30
Epigenomics · near

30
UBE Machinery · this assignee

30
Skyhigh Networks · near

30
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows UBE's Innovation Score is 30.0/100 (33rd percentile 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 6.3 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.

Where UBE's grants concentrate

UBE Machinery Corporation, Ltd. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 12 CPC subclasses with 66.7% of grants classified under B21C (Manufacture OF Metal Sheets, Wire, Rods, Tubes, Profiles OR Like Semi-manufactured Products Otherwise Than BY ROLLING; Auxiliary Operations Used IN Connection With Metal-working Without Essentially RE). Peak complete grant year is 2017 (5 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2022. By volume, UBE sits between Top Knobs USA, Inc. and Urgo Recherche Innovation ET Developpement.

UBE's three-year grant acceleration

UBE Machinery Corporation, Ltd. shows 3 grants in 2022–2024 against only 8 in 2019–2021. That prior window is too thin for a growth multiple (rename and spin-out assignees look artificially high when the baseline is near zero), so PlainPatent withholds a ranked acceleration claim here.

Top Knobs USA

27
Trelleborg Sealin…

27
Tung Hing Plastic…

27
Two Six Labs

27
Umicore Shokubai…

27
Unitract Syringe…

27
University OF Sha…

27
Urgo Recherche In…

27
UBE Machinery ◀

27

What this shows UBE holds 27 patents at rank #11,492, 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 #11,492 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B21C (Manufacture OF Metal Sheets)

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 B21C (Manufacture OF Metal Sheets), UBE ranks #7 of 268 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (30 here).

Aurobindo Pharma Ltd 30 Epigenomics AG 30 Skyhigh Networks, LLC 30 Abbyy InfoPoisk LLC 30

UBE's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

30 33rd percentile higher than 33% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2024

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 Machinery Corporation, Ltd. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	2	7.4%
2016	4	14.8%
2017	5	18.5%
2018	5	18.5%
2019	5	18.5%
2021	3	11.1%
2022	1	3.7%
2024	2	7.4%

Which technologies does UBE Machinery Corporation, Ltd. patent most?

B21C - Manufacture OF Metal Sheets, Wire, Rods, Tubes, Profiles OR Like Semi-manufactured Products Otherwise Than BY ROLLING; Auxiliary Operations Used IN Connection With Metal-working Without Essentially Removing Material 18

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 10

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 5

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 4

B23D - PLANING; SLOTTING; SHEARING; BROACHING; SAWING; FILING; SCRAPING; Like Operations FOR Working Metal BY Removing Material, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 2

C08L - Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds 1

F15B - Systems Acting BY Means OF Fluids IN GENERAL; Fluid-pressure Actuators, e.g. SERVOMOTORS; Details OF Fluid-pressure Systems, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1

H02P - Control OR Regulation OF Electric Motors, Electric Generators OR Dynamo-electric CONVERTERS; Controlling Transformers, Reactors OR Choke Coils 1

B29B - Preparation OR Pretreatment OF THE Material TO BE SHAPED; Making Granules OR PREFORMS; Recovery OF Plastics OR Other Constituents OF Waste Material Containing Plastics 1

B22D - Casting OF METALS; Casting OF Other Substances BY THE Same Processes OR Devices 1

B30B - Presses IN General 1

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 1

Top 12 of 12 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 Machinery Corporation, Ltd.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

UBE Machinery Corporation, Ltd.'s lead technology class is B21C (Manufacture OF Metal Sheets, Wire, Rods, Tubes, Profiles OR Like Semi-manufactured Products Otherwise Than BY ROLLING; Auxiliary Operations Used IN Connection With Metal-working Without Essentially RE), 66.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B21C
Ranked #11,496 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare UBE Machinery Corporation, Ltd. against Top Knobs USA, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 30.0/100 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

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