Where does Headway Technologies, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Headway Technologies, Inc. ranks #1,198 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 Headway Technologies, Inc. hold?

Headway Technologies, Inc. holds 354 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 30 technology areas.

What is Headway Technologies, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Headway Technologies, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 51.6 out of 100 (top 11% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Headway Technologies, Inc. focus on?

Headway Technologies, Inc.'s top technology area is G11B (Information Storage Based ON Relative Movement Between Record Carrier AND Transducer) with 277 patents, ranking #9 of 933 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 30 CPC subclasses total.

Is Headway Technologies, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Headway Technologies, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -50% 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 Headway Technologies, Inc.'s patents?

Headway Technologies, Inc.'s patents average 15.0 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 Headway Technologies, 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

Headway Technologies, Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 354 granted patents across 30 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: G11B (Information Storage Based ON Relative Movement Between Record Carrier AND Transducer).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Headway ranks #1,198 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 354 patents across 30 technology areas.

#1,198
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 11%
by Innovation Score (51.6/100): 15.0
avg claims per patent: -50%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1198 · US Corporation #1,198 · 354 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 354 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,198/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH ABB Technology
CPC-FOCUS G11B · 30 areas
INNOV-PAR 51.6/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.0 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -50% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: ABB Technology AG (±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 Headway’s 51.6 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 20.3 pts (39%) Velocity 2.9 pts (6%) Breadth 19.4 pts (38%) Claim depth 9.0 pts (17%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Headway · this assignee

52
Kyoraku · near

52
Prophesee · near

52
Valeo Comfort AND… · near

52
AirWatch · near

52
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Headway's Innovation Score is 51.6/100 (top 11% 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 Headway?

Each dot is one of Headway’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). Headway’s own 15.0 claims/patent is at or below the 15.1 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Headway's grants concentrate

Headway Technologies, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 30 CPC subclasses with 78.2% of grants classified under G11B (Information Storage Based ON Relative Movement Between Record Carrier AND Transducer). Peak complete grant year is 2016 (62 grants) versus a trough of 11 in 2024. By volume, Headway sits between Volvo Construction Equipment AB and Alstom Technology Ltd.

Headway's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Headway Technologies, Inc. moved from 102 to 45 grants (0.44x 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 #2,809. See the growth leaderboard.

Volvo Constructio…

355
ABB Technology

354
Audio-technica

354
Doosan Heavy Indu…

354
Hunter Douglas

354
Headway ◀

354
AIR Products AND…

353
Applied Materials…

353
Alstom Technology

352

What this shows Headway holds 354 patents at rank #1,198, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Headway

By rank, the assignees closest to #1,198 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G11B (Information Storage Based ON Relative Movement Between Re…)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Headway, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G11B (Information Storage Based ON Relative Movement Between Re…), Headway ranks #9 of 933 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (52 here).

Kyoraku Co., Ltd. 52 Valeo Comfort AND Driving Assistance 52 Prophesee 52 AirWatch LLC 52

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (15.0 here).

Aesculap AG 15.0 avg Tianma Microelectronics Co., Ltd. 15.0 avg Alcon Inc. 15.0 avg Heraeus Deutschland GMBH & Co. KG 15.0 avg

Headway's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

52 Top 11% higher than 89% 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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Headway Technologies, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	59	16.7%
2016	62	17.5%
2017	42	11.9%
2018	33	9.3%
2019	33	9.3%
2020	36	10.2%
2021	33	9.3%
2022	19	5.4%
2023	15	4.2%
2024	11	3.1%
2025partial year	11	3.1%

Which technologies does Headway Technologies, Inc. patent most?

G11B - Information Storage Based ON Relative Movement Between Record Carrier AND Transducer 277

H10N - Electric Solid-state Devices NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 85

G11C - Static Stores 58

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 50

H01F - MAGNETS; INDUCTANCES; TRANSFORMERS; Selection OF Materials FOR Their Magnetic Properties 45

G01R - Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables 44

B82Y - Specific Uses OR Applications OF NANOSTRUCTURES; Measurement OR Analysis OF NANOSTRUCTURES; Manufacture OR Treatment OF Nanostructures 32

H10B - Electronic Memory Devices 25

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 11

C23C - Coating Metallic MATERIAL; Coating Material With Metallic MATERIAL; Surface Treatment OF Metallic Material BY Diffusion Into THE Surface, BY Chemical Conversion OR SUBSTITUTION; Coating BY Vacuum Evaporation, BY Sputtering, BY ION Implantation OR BY Chemical Vapour Deposition, IN General 11

H10D - Inorganic Electric Semiconductor Devices 10

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 7

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 5

C23F - Non-mechanical Removal OF Metallic Material From Surface ; Inhibiting Corrosion OF Metallic Material OR Incrustation IN GENERAL; Multi-step Processes FOR Surface Treatment OF Metallic Material Involving AT Least ONE Process Provided FOR IN Class C23 AND AT Least ONE Process Covered BY Subclass C21d 4

H03B - Generation OF Oscillations, Directly OR BY Frequency-changing, BY Circuits Employing Active Elements Which Operate IN A Non-switching MANNER; Generation OF Noise BY Such Circuits 4

Top 15 of 30 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

Headway Technologies, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Headway Technologies, Inc.'s lead technology class is G11B (Information Storage Based ON Relative Movement Between Record Carrier AND Transducer), 78.2% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G11B
Ranked #1,198 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Headway Technologies, Inc. against Volvo Construction Equipment AB, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 51.6/100 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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