Where does Hisense USA Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Hisense USA Corporation ranks #1,346 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 Hisense USA Corporation hold?

Hisense USA Corporation holds 313 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2022, spanning 51 technology areas.

What is Hisense USA Corporation's Innovation Score?

Hisense USA Corporation has an Innovation Score of 53.9 out of 100 (top 8% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Hisense USA Corporation focus on?

Hisense USA Corporation's top technology area is H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television) with 96 patents. Grants appear in 51 CPC subclasses total.

Is Hisense USA Corporation's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Hisense USA Corporation's recent grant velocity is -90% 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 Hisense USA Corporation's patents?

Hisense USA Corporation's patents average 14.9 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 Hisense USA 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 US Corporation

Hisense USA Corporation

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 313 granted patents across 51 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2022. 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: H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television).

Compiled by PlainPatent · May 15, 2026

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Hisense ranks #1,346 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 313 patents across 51 technology areas.

#1,346
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 8%
by Innovation Score (53.9/100): 14.9
avg claims per patent: -90%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1346 · US Corporation #1,346 · 313 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 313 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,346/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Celgene
CPC-WIDE H04N · 51 areas
INNOV-PAR 53.9/100
CLAIMS-RICH 14.9 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -90% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Celgene Corporation (±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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
CalAmp · near

54
Creo Medical · near

54
Hisense USA · this assignee

54
Pentair Water Pool… · near

54
Mitsubishi Pencil · near

54
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Hisense's Innovation Score is 53.9/100 (top 8% 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.

How Hisense's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Hisense USA Corporation received 28 grants versus 285 in 2015–2019 (-90% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2018 at 95 grants and bottomed in 2022 at 1. Lead class H04N accounts for 30.7% of the portfolio across 51 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Masonite Corporation (#1,342) and Motional AD LLC (#1,350).

Hisense's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Hisense USA Corporation moved from 115 to 1 grants (0.01x 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 #3,289. See the growth leaderboard.

Masonite

315
Furuno Electric

314
Sensor Technology

314
Celgene

313
Hong Kong Applied…

313
Sumitomo Osaka Ce…

313
Hisense USA ◀

313
Global Tel*Link

312
Motional AD

312

What this shows Hisense holds 313 patents at rank #1,346, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Hisense

By rank, the assignees closest to #1,346 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04N (Pictorial Communication)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Hisense, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above).

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (54 here).

Pentair Water Pool and Spa, Inc. 54 Creo Medical Limited 54 CalAmp Corp 54 Mitsubishi Pencil Company, Limited 54

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (14.9 here).

Tracto-technik GmbH & Co., KG 14.9 avg Cornelius, Inc. 14.9 avg Ampleon Netherlands B.V. 14.9 avg Technology Partners LLC 14.9 avg

Hisense's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

54 Top 8% higher than 92% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2022

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2015–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Hisense USA Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	9	2.9%
2016	38	12.1%
2017	55	17.6%
2018	95	30.4%
2019	88	28.1%
2020	23	7.3%
2021	4	1.3%
2022	1	0.3%

Which technologies does Hisense USA Corporation patent most?

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 96

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 63

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 58

G09G - Arrangements OR Circuits FOR Control OF Indicating Devices Using Static Means TO Present Variable Information 52

G03B - Apparatus OR Arrangements FOR Taking Photographs OR FOR Projecting OR Viewing THEM; Apparatus OR Arrangements Employing Analogous Techniques Using Waves Other Than Optical WAVES; Accessories Therefor 37

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 27

H01S - Devices Using THE Process OF Light Amplification BY Stimulated Emission OF Radiation [LASER] TO Amplify OR Generate LIGHT; Devices Using Stimulated Emission OF Electromagnetic Radiation IN Wave Ranges Other Than Optical 20

G02F - Optical Devices OR Arrangements FOR THE Control OF Light BY Modification OF THE Optical Properties OF THE Media OF THE Elements Involved THEREIN; Non-linear OPTICS; Frequency-changing OF LIGHT; Optical Logic ELEMENTS; Optical ANALOGUE/DIGITAL Converters 19

H04B - Transmission 18

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 16

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 14

F21V - Functional Features OR Details OF Lighting Devices OR Systems THEREOF; Structural Combinations OF Lighting Devices With Other Articles, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 11

H02J - Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy 10

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 8

H04M - Telephonic Communication 8

Top 15 of 51 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#1,346

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

53.9 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

Hisense USA Corporation's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Hisense USA Corporation's lead technology class is H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television), 30.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04N
Ranked #1,346 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Hisense USA Corporation against Masonite Corporation, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 53.9/100 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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