Where does Hand Held Products, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Hand Held Products, Inc. ranks #468 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 Hand Held Products, Inc. hold?

Hand Held Products, Inc. holds 946 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 110 technology areas.

What is Hand Held Products, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Hand Held Products, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 64.1 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%).

What technology areas does Hand Held Products, Inc. focus on?

Hand Held Products, Inc.'s top technology area is G06K (Graphical Data Reading ; Presentation OF DATA; Record CARRIERS; Handling Record Carriers) with 459 patents, ranking #3 of 1,953 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 110 CPC subclasses total.

Is Hand Held Products, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Hand Held Products, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -43% 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 Hand Held Products, Inc.'s patents?

Hand Held Products, Inc.'s patents average 17.7 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 Hand Held Products, Inc. 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 US Corporation

Hand Held Products, Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 946 granted patents across 110 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: G06K (Graphical Data Reading ; Presentation OF DATA; Record CARRIERS; Handling Record Carriers).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Hand ranks #468 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 946 patents across 110 technology areas.

#468
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 2%
by Innovation Score (64.1/100): 17.7
avg claims per patent: -43%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R468 · US Corporation #468 · 946 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 946 grants
TOP-DECILE #468/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH AAC Pte
CPC-WIDE G06K · 110 areas
INNOV-STRONG 64.1/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.7 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -43% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: AAC Technologies Pte. Ltd. (±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 Hand’s 64.1 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 23.7 pts (37%) Velocity 4.8 pts (7%) Breadth 25.0 pts (39%) Claim depth 10.6 pts (17%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Juul Labs · near

64
Wuhan University OF… · near

64
Hand Held Products · this assignee

64
Asustek Computer · near

64
Kla-tencor · near

64
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Hand's Innovation Score is 64.1/100 (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 Hand?

Each dot is one of Hand’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). Hand’s own 17.7 claims/patent is ABOVE the 14.0 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How Hand's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Hand Held Products, Inc. received 325 grants versus 566 in 2015–2019 (-43% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2018 at 137 grants and bottomed in 2022 at 47. Lead class G06K accounts for 48.5% of the portfolio across 110 subclasses. Volume neighbours: KAO Corporation (#464) and Agency FOR Science, Technology AND Research (#472).

Hand's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Hand Held Products, Inc. moved from 260 to 187 grants (0.72x 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 #2,091. See the growth leaderboard.

KAO

957
Lenovo Enterprise…

957
Korea University…

947
AAC Pte

946
Hand Held Products ◀

946
NCR

942
Midea Group

941
Uber

941
Agency FOR Scienc…

939

What this shows Hand holds 946 patents at rank #468, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Hand

By rank, the assignees closest to #468 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G06K (Graphical Data Reading)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Hand, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G06K (Graphical Data Reading), Hand ranks #3 of 1,953 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (64 here).

Juul Labs, Inc. 64 Wuhan University OF Technology 64 Asustek Computer Inc. 64 Kla-tencor Corporation 64

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (17.7 here).

BBY Solutions, Inc. 17.7 avg Driv Automotive Inc. 17.7 avg Autonomous Solutions, Inc. 17.7 avg Ascend Performance Materials Operations LLC 17.7 avg

Hand's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

64 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.

View data table

Hand Held Products, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	78	8.2%
2016	100	10.6%
2017	129	13.6%
2018	137	14.5%
2019	122	12.9%
2020	85	9.0%
2021	53	5.6%
2022	47	5.0%
2023	65	6.9%
2024	75	7.9%
2025partial year	55	5.8%

Which technologies does Hand Held Products, Inc. patent most?

G06K - Graphical Data Reading ; Presentation OF DATA; Record CARRIERS; Handling Record Carriers 459

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 204

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 159

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 117

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 97

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 75

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 75

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 59

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 55

G01B - Measuring Length, Thickness OR Similar Linear DIMENSIONS; Measuring ANGLES; Measuring AREAS; Measuring Irregularities OF Surfaces OR Contours 50

H04M - Telephonic Communication 46

H04B - Transmission 28

H02J - Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy 25

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 25

G01S - Radio DIRECTION-FINDING; Radio NAVIGATION; Determining Distance OR Velocity BY USE OF Radio WAVES; Locating OR Presence-detecting BY USE OF THE Reflection OR Reradiation OF Radio WAVES; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves 25

Top 15 of 110 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

Hand Held Products, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Hand Held Products, Inc.'s lead technology class is G06K (Graphical Data Reading ; Presentation OF DATA; Record CARRIERS; Handling Record Carriers), 48.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06K
Ranked #468 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Hand Held Products, Inc. against KAO Corporation, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 64.1/100 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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