Where does Umicore Shokubai Japan Co., Ltd. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Umicore Shokubai Japan Co., Ltd. ranks #11,498 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 Umicore Shokubai Japan Co., Ltd. hold?

Umicore Shokubai Japan Co., Ltd. holds 27 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 12 technology areas.

What is Umicore Shokubai Japan Co., Ltd.'s Innovation Score?

Umicore Shokubai Japan Co., Ltd. has an Innovation Score of 34.2 out of 100 (47th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Umicore Shokubai Japan Co., Ltd. focus on?

Umicore Shokubai Japan Co., Ltd.'s top technology area is B01D (Separation) with 27 patents, ranking #177 of 3,536 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 12 CPC subclasses total.

Is Umicore Shokubai Japan Co., Ltd.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Umicore Shokubai Japan Co., Ltd.'s recent grant velocity is +8% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). The company is maintaining or growing its granted-patent output.

What does claim depth mean for Umicore Shokubai Japan Co., Ltd.'s patents?

Umicore Shokubai Japan Co., Ltd.'s patents average 11.8 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 Umicore Shokubai Japan Co., 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

Umicore Shokubai Japan Co., Ltd.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 27 granted patents across 12 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: B01D (Separation).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Umicore ranks #11,498 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 27 patents across 12 technology areas.

#11,498
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 47th percentile
by Innovation Score (34.2/100): 11.8
avg claims per patent: +8%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R11498 · Foreign Corporation #11,498 · 27 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 27 grants
UPPER-Q #11,498/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Trelleborg Sealing…
CPC-FOCUS B01D · 12 areas
INNOV-THIN 34.2/100
CLAIMS-PAR 11.8 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-FLAT +8% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Trelleborg Sealing Solutions Germany GmbH (±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 Umicore’s 34.2 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 11.5 pts (34%) Velocity 3.3 pts (10%) Breadth 12.2 pts (36%) Claim depth 7.1 pts (21%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Toray Battery… · near

34
Jabil Optics Germany · near

34
Tyco Subsea… · near

34
Umicore Shokubai Japan · this assignee

34
RGB Systems · near

34
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Umicore's Innovation Score is 34.2/100 (47th 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 Umicore?

Each dot is one of Umicore’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). Umicore’s own 11.8 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.

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

Where Umicore's grants concentrate

Umicore Shokubai Japan Co., Ltd. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 12 CPC subclasses with 100% of grants classified under B01D (Separation). Peak complete grant year is 2021 (6 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2015. By volume, Umicore sits between Trelleborg Sealing Solutions Germany GmbH and Usui Co., Ltd..

Umicore's three-year grant acceleration

Umicore Shokubai Japan Co., Ltd. shows 5 grants in 2022–2024 against only 10 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.

Trelleborg Sealin…

27
Tung Hing Plastic…

27
Two Six Labs

27
UBE Machinery

27
Unitract Syringe…

27
University OF Sha…

27
Urgo Recherche In…

27
Usui

27
Umicore Shokubai… ◀

27

What this shows Umicore holds 27 patents at rank #11,493, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Umicore

By rank, the assignees closest to #11,493 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B01D (Separation)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Umicore, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B01D (Separation), Umicore ranks #177 of 3,536 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (34 here).

Jabil Optics Germany GmbH 34 Tyco Electronics Subsea Communications LLC 34 RGB Systems, Inc. 34 Toray Battery Separator Film Co., Ltd. 34

Umicore's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

34 47th percentile higher than 47% 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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Umicore Shokubai Japan Co., Ltd. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1	3.7%
2016	5	18.5%
2017	2	7.4%
2018	2	7.4%
2019	2	7.4%
2020	2	7.4%
2021	6	22.2%
2022	3	11.1%
2023	2	7.4%
2025partial year	2	7.4%

Which technologies does Umicore Shokubai Japan Co., Ltd. patent most?

B01D - Separation 27

B01J - Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus 26

F01N - Gas-flow Silencers OR Exhaust Apparatus FOR Machines OR Engines IN GENERAL; Gas-flow Silencers OR Exhaust Apparatus FOR Internal-combustion Engines 23

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 13

Y02A - Technologies FOR Adaptation TO Climate Change 4

Y02C - Capture, Storage, Sequestration OR Disposal OF Greenhouse Gases [GHG] 2

C01B - Non-metallic ELEMENTS; Compounds THEREOF; ; Metalloids OR Compounds Thereof NOT Covered BY Subclass C01c 2

C01G - Compounds Containing Metals NOT Covered BY Subclasses C01d OR C01f 2

F02M - Supplying Combustion Engines IN General With Combustible Mixtures OR Constituents Thereof 1

F02D - Controlling Combustion Engines 1

F02B - Internal-combustion Piston ENGINES; Combustion Engines IN General 1

C01P - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Structural AND Physical Aspects OF Solid Inorganic Compounds 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

Umicore Shokubai Japan Co., Ltd.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Umicore Shokubai Japan Co., Ltd.'s lead technology class is B01D (Separation), 100% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B01D
Ranked #11,498 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Umicore Shokubai Japan Co., Ltd. against Trelleborg Sealing Solutions Germany GmbH, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 34.2/100 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

Compiled by PlainPatent, US Patent Intelligence Editorial Process · May 15, 2026

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