Where does HOK Product Design, Llc rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), HOK Product Design, Llc ranks #26,482 of 50,000 assignees by granted-patent volume, the same sort as the companies listing and top-holders ranking. See /methodology/#corpus-placement.

How many patents does HOK Product Design, Llc hold?

HOK Product Design, Llc holds 10 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2018, spanning 4 technology areas.

What is HOK Product Design, Llc's Innovation Score?

HOK Product Design, Llc has an Innovation Score of 16.6 out of 100 (top 96% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is HOK Product Design, Llc's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

HOK Product Design, Llc'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 HOK Product Design, Llc's patents?

HOK Product Design, Llc's patents average 2.1 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 HOK Product Design, Llc 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

HOK Product Design, Llc

Q: What technology areas does HOK Product Design, Llc focus on?

HOK Product Design, Llc's top technology area is E06B (FIXED OR MOVABLE CLOSURES FOR OPENINGS IN BUILDINGS, VEHICLES, FENCES OR LIKE ENCLOSURES IN GENERAL, e.g. DOORS, WINDOWS, BLINDS, GATES) with 1 patents. Grants appear in 4 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 10 granted patents across 4 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2018. 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: E06B (FIXED OR MOVABLE CLOSURES FOR OPENINGS IN BUILDINGS, VEHICLES, FENCES OR LIKE ENCLOSURES IN GENERAL, e.g. DOORS, WINDOWS, BLINDS, GATES).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, HOK ranks #26,482 of 50,000 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 10 patents across 4 technology areas.

#26,482
of 50,000 US assignees by volume: Top 96%
by Innovation Score (16.6/100): 2.1
avg claims per patent: -100%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R26482 · US Corporation #26,482 · 10 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-LOW · CLAIMS-SPARSE · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 10 grants
MID-PACK #26,482/50,000
PHOTO-FINISH HITACHI APPLIANCES
CPC-NARROW E06B · 4 areas
INNOV-LOW 16.6/100
CLAIMS-SPARSE 2.1 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -100% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Hitachi Appliances, 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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
HOK Product Design · this assignee

17
3D Lighting Innovati… · lowest

7

What this shows HOK's Innovation Score is 16.6/100 (top 96% 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 HOK's grants concentrate

HOK Product Design, Llc is a focused PatentsView assignee: 4 CPC subclasses with 10% of grants classified under E06B (FIXED OR MOVABLE CLOSURES FOR OPENINGS IN BUILDINGS, VEHICLES, FENCES OR LIKE ENCLOSURES IN GENERAL, e.g. DOORS, WINDOWS, BLINDS, GATES). Peak complete grant year is 2017 (6 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2016. By volume, HOK sits between Hitachi Appliances, Inc and Hotspur Technologies, Inc..

Hitachi Appliances

10
Hitachi High-tech…

10
Hitec

10
Hocor Cardiovascu…

10
Hokko Chemical In…

10
Hokuriku Electric…

10
Hologram Industri…

10
Hotspur

10
HOK Product Design ◀

10

What this shows HOK holds 10 patents at rank #26,448, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near HOK

By rank, the assignees closest to #26,448 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in E06B (Fixed OR Movable Closures FOR Openings IN Buildings)

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

HOK's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

17 Top 96% higher than 4% of 50,000 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2018

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2016–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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HOK Product Design, Llc patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	2	20.0%
2017	6	60.0%
2018	2	20.0%

Which technologies does HOK Product Design, Llc patent most?

E06B - FIXED OR MOVABLE CLOSURES FOR OPENINGS IN BUILDINGS, VEHICLES, FENCES OR LIKE ENCLOSURES IN GENERAL, e.g. DOORS, WINDOWS, BLINDS, GATES 1

Y02B - CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION TECHNOLOGIES RELATED TO BUILDINGS, e.g. HOUSING, HOUSE APPLIANCES OR RELATED END-USER APPLICATIONS 1

Y02A - TECHNOLOGIES FOR ADAPTATION TO CLIMATE CHANGE 1

E04B - GENERAL BUILDING CONSTRUCTIONS; WALLS, e.g. PARTITIONS; ROOFS; FLOORS; CEILINGS; INSULATION OR OTHER PROTECTION OF BUILDINGS 1

Top 4 of 4 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#26,482

of 50,000 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

16.6 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

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

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