Where does Yokogawa Electric Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Yokogawa Electric Corporation ranks #572 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 Yokogawa Electric Corporation hold?

Yokogawa Electric Corporation holds 788 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 126 technology areas.

What is Yokogawa Electric Corporation's Innovation Score?

Yokogawa Electric Corporation has an Innovation Score of 62.3 out of 100 (top 2% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Yokogawa Electric Corporation's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Yokogawa Electric Corporation's recent grant velocity is +14% 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 Yokogawa Electric Corporation's patents?

Yokogawa Electric Corporation's patents average 12.4 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 Yokogawa Electric Corporation 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

Yokogawa Electric Corporation

Q: What technology areas does Yokogawa Electric Corporation focus on?

Yokogawa Electric Corporation's top technology area is G05B (Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements) with 258 patents, ranking #16 of 3,455 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 126 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 788 granted patents across 126 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: G05B (Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Yokogawa ranks #572 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 788 patents across 126 technology areas.

#572
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 2%
by Innovation Score (62.3/100): 12.4
avg claims per patent: +14%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R572 · Foreign Corporation #572 · 788 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 788 grants
TOP-DECILE #572/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Abbott Diabetes Care
CPC-WIDE G05B · 126 areas
INNOV-STRONG 62.3/100
CLAIMS-RICH 12.4 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-UP +14% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Abbott Diabetes Care 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 Yokogawa’s 62.3 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 23.0 pts (37%) Velocity 6.8 pts (11%) Breadth 25.0 pts (40%) Claim depth 7.4 pts (12%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
A Raymond ET CIE · near

62
Brose Fahrzeugteile… · near

62
Flowserve Pte · near

62
Trane International · near

62
Yokogawa Electric · this assignee

62
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Yokogawa's Innovation Score is 62.3/100 (top 2% 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 Yokogawa?

Each dot is one of Yokogawa’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). Yokogawa’s own 12.4 claims/patent is at or below the 14.2 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

How Yokogawa's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Yokogawa Electric Corporation received 389 grants versus 340 in 2015–2019 (+14% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2022 at 86 grants and bottomed in 2016 at 67. Lead class G05B accounts for 32.7% of the portfolio across 126 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Bally Gaming, Inc. (#568) and Osram Oled GMBH (#576).

Yokogawa's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Yokogawa Electric Corporation moved from 225 to 231 grants (1.03x 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 #1,112. See the growth leaderboard.

Bally Gaming

792
Gentex

790
Yeti Coolers

789
Abbott Diabetes C…

788
Yokogawa Electric ◀

788
Stmicroelectronic…

787
National Tsing HU…

783
Snecma

783
Osram Oled

781

What this shows Yokogawa holds 788 patents at rank #572, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Yokogawa

By rank, the assignees closest to #572 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G05B (Control OR Regulating Systems IN General)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Yokogawa, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G05B (Control OR Regulating Systems IN General), Yokogawa ranks #16 of 3,455 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (62 here).

Trane International Inc. 62 A. Raymond ET CIE 62 Brose Fahrzeugteile SE & Co. Kommanditgesellschaft, Coburg 62 Flowserve Pte. Ltd. 62

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (12.4 here).

Technische Universiteit Eindhoven 12.4 avg Danfoss Power Electronics A/S 12.4 avg Renesas Electronics Corporation 12.4 avg Memjet Technology Limited 12.4 avg

Yokogawa's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

62 Top 2% higher than 98% 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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Yokogawa Electric Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	69	8.8%
2016	67	8.5%
2017	67	8.5%
2018	70	8.9%
2019	67	8.5%
2020	80	10.2%
2021	78	9.9%
2022	86	10.9%
2023	76	9.6%
2024	69	8.8%
2025partial year	59	7.5%

Which technologies does Yokogawa Electric Corporation patent most?

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 258

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 197

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 127

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 88

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 73

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 64

G01R - Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables 50

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 48

G01D - Measuring NOT Specially Adapted FOR A Specific VARIABLE; Arrangements FOR Measuring TWO OR More Variables NOT Covered IN A Single Other SUBCLASS; Tariff Metering APPARATUS; Measuring OR Testing NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 43

G01F - Measuring Volume, Volume Flow, Mass Flow OR Liquid LEVEL; Metering BY Volume 34

H04B - Transmission 32

G01J - Measurement OF Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase OR Pulse Characteristics OF Infrared, Visible OR Ultraviolet LIGHT; COLORIMETRY; Radiation Pyrometry 30

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 29

G08B - Signalling OR Calling SYSTEMS; Order TELEGRAPHS; Alarm Systems 29

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 28

Top 15 of 126 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

Yokogawa Electric Corporation's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Yokogawa Electric Corporation's lead technology class is G05B (Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements), 32.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G05B
Ranked #572 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Yokogawa Electric Corporation against Bally Gaming, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 62.3/100 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

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

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