Where does Hokuriku Electric Industry Co., Ltd. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Hokuriku Electric Industry Co., Ltd. ranks #26,484 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 Hokuriku Electric Industry Co., Ltd. hold?

Hokuriku Electric Industry Co., Ltd. holds 10 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2022, spanning 8 technology areas.

What is Hokuriku Electric Industry Co., Ltd.'s Innovation Score?

Hokuriku Electric Industry Co., Ltd. has an Innovation Score of 27.4 out of 100 (24th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Hokuriku Electric Industry Co., Ltd.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Hokuriku Electric Industry Co., Ltd.'s recent grant velocity is -57% 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 Hokuriku Electric Industry Co., Ltd.'s patents?

Hokuriku Electric Industry Co., Ltd.'s patents average 9.7 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 Hokuriku Electric Industry 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

Hokuriku Electric Industry Co., Ltd.

Q: What technology areas does Hokuriku Electric Industry Co., Ltd. focus on?

Hokuriku Electric Industry Co., Ltd.'s top technology area is G01L (Measuring Force, Stress, Torque, Work, Mechanical Power, Mechanical Efficiency, OR Fluid Pressure) with 3 patents, ranking #319 of 1,293 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 8 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 10 granted patents across 8 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: G01L (Measuring Force, Stress, Torque, Work, Mechanical Power, Mechanical Efficiency, OR Fluid Pressure).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Hokuriku ranks #26,484 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 10 patents across 8 technology areas.

#26,484
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 24th percentile
by Innovation Score (27.4/100): 9.7
avg claims per patent: -57%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R26484 · Foreign Corporation #26,484 · 10 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-PAR · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 10 grants
MID-PACK #26,484/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Hitec
CPC-NARROW G01L · 8 areas
INNOV-THIN 27.4/100
CLAIMS-PAR 9.7 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -57% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Hitec 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.

How Hokuriku’s 27.4 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 8.3 pts (30%) Velocity 3.3 pts (12%) Breadth 10.0 pts (36%) Claim depth 5.8 pts (21%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Hokuriku Electric… · this assignee

27
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Hokuriku's Innovation Score is 27.4/100 (24th 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 Hokuriku?

Each dot is one of Hokuriku’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). Hokuriku’s own 9.7 claims/patent is at or below the 11.1 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Hokuriku's grants concentrate

Hokuriku Electric Industry Co., Ltd. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 8 CPC subclasses with 30% of grants classified under G01L (Measuring Force, Stress, Torque, Work, Mechanical Power, Mechanical Efficiency, OR Fluid Pressure). Peak complete grant year is 2018 (3 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2016. By volume, Hokuriku sits between Hitec Co., Ltd. and Huaiyin Institute OF Technology.

Hokuriku's three-year grant acceleration

Hokuriku Electric Industry Co., Ltd. shows 1 grants in 2022–2024 against only 2 in 2019–2021. That prior window is too thin for a growth multiple (rename and spin-out assignees look artificially high when the baseline is near zero), so PlainPatent withholds a ranked acceleration claim here.

Hitec

10
Hocor Cardiovascu…

10
HOK Product Design

10
Hokko Chemical In…

10
Hologram Industri…

10
Hotspur

10
HSP Hochspannungs…

10
Huaiyin Institute…

10
Hokuriku Electric… ◀

10

What this shows Hokuriku holds 10 patents at rank #26,450, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Hokuriku

By rank, the assignees closest to #26,450 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G01L (Measuring Force)

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

Hokuriku's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

27 24th percentile higher than 24% 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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Hokuriku Electric Industry Co., Ltd. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	2	20.0%
2016	1	10.0%
2017	1	10.0%
2018	3	30.0%
2020	2	20.0%
2022	1	10.0%

Which technologies does Hokuriku Electric Industry Co., Ltd. patent most?

G01L - Measuring Force, Stress, Torque, Work, Mechanical Power, Mechanical Efficiency, OR Fluid Pressure 3

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 2

G10K - Sound-producing DEVICES; Methods OR Devices FOR Protecting Against, OR FOR Damping, Noise OR Other Acoustic Waves IN GENERAL; Acoustics NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 2

H04R - Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups OR Like Acoustic Electromechanical TRANSDUCERS; Deaf-aid SETS; Public Address Systems 2

H10N - Electric Solid-state Devices NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1

G01C - Measuring Distances, Levels OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; Gyroscopic INSTRUMENTS; Photogrammetry OR Videogrammetry 1

G01P - Measuring Linear OR Angular Speed, Acceleration, Deceleration, OR SHOCK; Indicating Presence, Absence, OR Direction, OF Movement 1

B81B - Microstructural Devices OR Systems, e.g. Micromechanical Devices 1

Top 8 of 8 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

Hokuriku Electric Industry Co., Ltd.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Hokuriku Electric Industry Co., Ltd.'s lead technology class is G01L (Measuring Force, Stress, Torque, Work, Mechanical Power, Mechanical Efficiency, OR Fluid Pressure), 30% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G01L
Ranked #26,484 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Hokuriku Electric Industry Co., Ltd. against Hitec Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 27.4/100 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

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