Where does Hitachi Consumer Electronics Co., Ltd. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Hitachi Consumer Electronics Co., Ltd. ranks #7,015 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 Hitachi Consumer Electronics Co., Ltd. hold?

Hitachi Consumer Electronics Co., Ltd. holds 47 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2018, spanning 9 technology areas.

What is Hitachi Consumer Electronics Co., Ltd.'s Innovation Score?

Hitachi Consumer Electronics Co., Ltd. has an Innovation Score of 30.3 out of 100 (34th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Hitachi Consumer Electronics Co., Ltd.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Hitachi Consumer Electronics Co., Ltd.'s recent grant velocity is -100% 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 Hitachi Consumer Electronics Co., Ltd.'s patents?

Hitachi Consumer Electronics Co., Ltd.'s patents average 10.5 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 Hitachi Consumer Electronics Co., Ltd. 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

Hitachi Consumer Electronics Co., Ltd.

Q: What technology areas does Hitachi Consumer Electronics Co., Ltd. focus on?

Hitachi Consumer Electronics Co., Ltd.'s top technology area is G11B (Information Storage Based ON Relative Movement Between Record Carrier AND Transducer) with 43 patents. Grants appear in 9 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 47 granted patents across 9 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2018. 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, Hitachi ranks #7,015 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 47 patents across 9 technology areas.

#7,015
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 34th percentile
by Innovation Score (30.3/100): 10.5
avg claims per patent: -100%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R7015 · Foreign Corporation #7,015 · 47 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-PAR · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 47 grants
UPPER-Q #7,015/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Hangzhou Chic…
CPC-NARROW G11B · 9 areas
INNOV-THIN 30.3/100
CLAIMS-PAR 10.5 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -100% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Hangzhou Chic Intelligent Technology Co., 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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Dubrosky & Tracy… · near

30
Hublot Genève · near

30
General Dynamics C4… · near

30
Hitachi Consumer · this assignee

30
Kranos IP · near

30
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Hitachi's Innovation Score is 30.3/100 (34th 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.

Where Hitachi's grants concentrate

Hitachi Consumer Electronics Co., Ltd. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 9 CPC subclasses with 91.5% of grants classified under G11B (Information Storage Based ON Relative Movement Between Record Carrier AND Transducer). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (23 grants) versus a trough of 4 in 2018. By volume, Hitachi sits between Homy Casa Limited and Inside Secure.

Homy Casa

47
Hangzhou Chic Int…

47
Hefei Institutes…

47
Hill-rom Services…

47
Hyundai Wia

47
Inari Agriculture…

47
Indiana Mills & M…

47
Inside Secure

47
Hitachi Consumer ◀

47

What this shows Hitachi holds 47 patents at rank #7,017, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Hitachi

By rank, the assignees closest to #7,017 in granted patent volume.

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

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

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

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (30 here).

Kranos IP Corporation 30 General Dynamics C4 Systems, Inc. 30 Hublot SA, Genève 30 Dubrosky & Tracy Patent Service Corp. 30

Hitachi's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

30 34th percentile higher than 34% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2018

Grants by year

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

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Hitachi Consumer Electronics Co., Ltd. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	23	48.9%
2016	12	25.5%
2017	8	17.0%
2018	4	8.5%

Which technologies does Hitachi Consumer Electronics Co., Ltd. patent most?

G11B - Information Storage Based ON Relative Movement Between Record Carrier AND Transducer 43

G03H - Holographic Processes OR Apparatus 19

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 6

H03M - CODING; DECODING; Code Conversion IN General 2

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 2

G01T - Measurement OF Nuclear OR X-radiation 1

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 1

G11C - Static Stores 1

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 1

Top 9 of 9 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#7,015

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

30.3 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

Hitachi Consumer Electronics Co., Ltd.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Hitachi Consumer Electronics Co., Ltd.'s lead technology class is G11B (Information Storage Based ON Relative Movement Between Record Carrier AND Transducer), 91.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G11B
Ranked #7,015 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Hitachi Consumer Electronics Co., Ltd. against Homy Casa Limited, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 30.3/100 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

Every figure on PlainPatent is rendered directly from USPTO source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on USPTO source data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 2026.