Where does HCT Group Holdings Limited rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), HCT Group Holdings Limited ranks #3,497 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 HCT Group Holdings Limited hold?

HCT Group Holdings Limited holds 105 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 11 technology areas.

What is HCT Group Holdings Limited's Innovation Score?

HCT Group Holdings Limited has an Innovation Score of 33.8 out of 100 (46th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is HCT Group Holdings Limited's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

HCT Group Holdings Limited's recent grant velocity is -66% 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 HCT Group Holdings Limited's patents?

HCT Group Holdings Limited's patents average 7.7 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 HCT Group Holdings Limited 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

HCT Group Holdings Limited

Q: What technology areas does HCT Group Holdings Limited focus on?

HCT Group Holdings Limited's top technology area is A45D (Hairdressing OR Shaving Equipment ; Equipment FOR Cosmetics OR Cosmetic Treatments, e.g. FOR Manicuring OR Pedicuring) with 41 patents, ranking #15 of 429 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 11 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 105 granted patents across 11 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: A45D (Hairdressing OR Shaving Equipment ; Equipment FOR Cosmetics OR Cosmetic Treatments, e.g. FOR Manicuring OR Pedicuring).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, HCT ranks #3,497 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 105 patents across 11 technology areas.

#3,497
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 46th percentile
by Innovation Score (33.8/100): 7.7
avg claims per patent: -66%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R3497 · Foreign Corporation #3,497 · 105 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-SPARSE · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 105 grants
TOP-DECILE #3,497/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Fiskars Brands
CPC-FOCUS A45D · 11 areas
INNOV-THIN 33.8/100
CLAIMS-SPARSE 7.7 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -66% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Fiskars Brands, 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 HCT’s 33.8 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 16.1 pts (48%) Velocity 1.4 pts (4%) Breadth 11.7 pts (35%) Claim depth 4.6 pts (14%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Baylis Medical · near

34
RH US · near

34
HCT Group Holdings · this assignee

34
Institut Pasteur DE… · near

34
Kingsway Enterprises… · near

34
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows HCT's Innovation Score is 33.8/100 (46th 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 HCT?

Each dot is one of HCT’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). HCT’s own 7.7 claims/patent is at or below the 13.0 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where HCT's grants concentrate

HCT Group Holdings Limited is a focused PatentsView assignee: 11 CPC subclasses with 39% of grants classified under A45D (Hairdressing OR Shaving Equipment ; Equipment FOR Cosmetics OR Cosmetic Treatments, e.g. FOR Manicuring OR Pedicuring). Peak complete grant year is 2019 (26 grants) versus a trough of 3 in 2022. By volume, HCT sits between Fiskars Brands, Inc. and LM WP Patent Holding A/S.

HCT's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, HCT Group Holdings Limited moved from 43 to 9 grants (0.21x 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 #3,082. See the growth leaderboard.

Fiskars Brands

105
Genband US

105
Great Wall Motor

105
Guangzhou Automob…

105
Hewlett-packard I…

105
Hyundai Kefico

105
Imperva

105
LM WP Patent Hold…

105
HCT Group Holdings ◀

105

What this shows HCT holds 105 patents at rank #3,497, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near HCT

By rank, the assignees closest to #3,497 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A45D (Hairdressing OR Shaving Equipment)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for HCT, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A45D (Hairdressing OR Shaving Equipment), HCT ranks #15 of 429 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (34 here).

RH US, LLC 34 Baylis Medical Company Inc. 34 Institut Pasteur DE Lille 34 Kingsway Enterprises (UK) Limited 34

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (7.7 here).

Southwest Petroleum University 7.7 avg Nishikawa Rubber Co., Ltd. 7.7 avg ELC Management LLC 7.7 avg Sumitomo Electric Printed Circuits, Inc. 7.6 avg

HCT's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

34 46th percentile higher than 46% 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

HCT Group Holdings Limited patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	7	6.7%
2016	12	11.4%
2017	14	13.3%
2018	18	17.1%
2019	26	24.8%
2020	12	11.4%
2021	5	4.8%
2022	3	2.9%
2023	3	2.9%
2024	3	2.9%
2025partial year	2	1.9%

Which technologies does HCT Group Holdings Limited patent most?

A45D - Hairdressing OR Shaving Equipment ; Equipment FOR Cosmetics OR Cosmetic Treatments, e.g. FOR Manicuring OR Pedicuring 41

B65D - Containers FOR Storage OR Transport OF Articles OR Materials, e.g. Bags, Barrels, Bottles, Boxes, Cans, Cartons, Crates, Drums, Jars, Tanks, Hoppers, Forwarding CONTAINERS; Accessories, Closures, OR Fittings THEREFOR; Packaging ELEMENTS; Packages 11

A46B - Brushes 10

B05B - Spraying APPARATUS; Atomising APPARATUS; Nozzles 8

B05C - Apparatus FOR Applying Fluent Materials TO Surfaces, IN General 4

F16K - VALVES; TAPS; COCKS; ACTUATING-FLOATS; Devices FOR Venting OR Aerating 4

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 1

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 1

B29D - Producing Particular Articles From Plastics OR From Substances IN A Plastic State 1

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 1

A46D - Manufacture OF Brushes 1

Top 11 of 11 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

HCT Group Holdings Limited's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

HCT Group Holdings Limited's lead technology class is A45D (Hairdressing OR Shaving Equipment ; Equipment FOR Cosmetics OR Cosmetic Treatments, e.g. FOR Manicuring OR Pedicuring), 39% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A45D
Ranked #3,497 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare HCT Group Holdings Limited against Fiskars Brands, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 33.8/100 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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