Where does Hokuto Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Hokuto Corporation ranks #24,478 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 Hokuto Corporation hold?

Hokuto Corporation holds 11 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2023, spanning 9 technology areas.

What is Hokuto Corporation's Innovation Score?

Hokuto Corporation has an Innovation Score of 25.9 out of 100 (top 81% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Hokuto Corporation's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Hokuto Corporation's recent grant velocity is -17% 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 Hokuto Corporation's patents?

Hokuto Corporation's patents average 2.9 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 Hokuto 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 Foreign Corporation

Hokuto Corporation

Q: What technology areas does Hokuto Corporation focus on?

Hokuto Corporation's top technology area is A01G (HORTICULTURE; CULTIVATION OF VEGETABLES, FLOWERS, RICE, FRUIT, VINES, HOPS OR SEAWEED; FORESTRY; WATERING) with 1 patents. Grants appear in 9 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 11 granted patents across 9 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2023. 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: A01G (HORTICULTURE; CULTIVATION OF VEGETABLES, FLOWERS, RICE, FRUIT, VINES, HOPS OR SEAWEED; FORESTRY; WATERING).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Hokuto ranks #24,478 of 50,000 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 11 patents across 9 technology areas.

#24,478
of 50,000 US assignees by volume: Top 81%
by Innovation Score (25.9/100): 2.9
avg claims per patent: -17%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R24478 · Foreign Corporation #24,478 · 11 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 11 grants
MID-PACK #24,478/50,000
PHOTO-FINISH HIMOLLA POLSTERMÖBEL
CPC-NARROW A01G · 9 areas
INNOV-THIN 25.9/100
CLAIMS-SPARSE 2.9 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -17% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Himolla Polstermöbel Gmbh (±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
Hokuto · this assignee

26
3D Lighting Innovati… · lowest

7

What this shows Hokuto's Innovation Score is 25.9/100 (top 81% 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 Hokuto's grants concentrate

Hokuto Corporation is a focused PatentsView assignee: 9 CPC subclasses with 9.1% of grants classified under A01G (HORTICULTURE; CULTIVATION OF VEGETABLES, FLOWERS, RICE, FRUIT, VINES, HOPS OR SEAWEED; FORESTRY; WATERING). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (2 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2023. By volume, Hokuto sits between Himolla Polstermöbel Gmbh and HP3 Real Gmbh.

Hokuto's three-year grant acceleration

Hokuto Corporation shows 3 grants in 2022–2024 against only 4 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.

Himolla PolstermÖ…

11
Hinova Pharmaceut…

11
Hispano Suiza

11
Hithium TECH HK

11
Hollymatic

11
Hoteck

11
Houghton Technical

11
HP3 Real

11
Hokuto ◀

11

What this shows Hokuto holds 11 patents at rank #24,447, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Hokuto

By rank, the assignees closest to #24,447 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A01G (Horticulture)

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

Hokuto's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

26 Top 81% higher than 19% of 50,000 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2023

Grants by year

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

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Hokuto Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	2	18.2%
2018	2	18.2%
2019	2	18.2%
2021	2	18.2%
2022	2	18.2%
2023	1	9.1%

Which technologies does Hokuto Corporation patent most?

A01G - HORTICULTURE; CULTIVATION OF VEGETABLES, FLOWERS, RICE, FRUIT, VINES, HOPS OR SEAWEED; FORESTRY; WATERING 1

B23Q - DETAILS, COMPONENTS, OR ACCESSORIES FOR MACHINE TOOLS, e.g. ARRANGEMENTS FOR COPYING OR CONTROLLING ; MACHINE TOOLS IN GENERAL CHARACTERISED BY THE CONSTRUCTION OF PARTICULAR DETAILS OR COMPONENTS; COMBINATIONS OR ASSOCIATIONS OF METAL-WORKING MACHINES, NOT DIRECTED TO A PARTICULAR RESULT 1

B64F - GROUND OR AIRCRAFT-CARRIER-DECK INSTALLATIONS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR USE IN CONNECTION WITH AIRCRAFT; DESIGNING, MANUFACTURING, ASSEMBLING, CLEANING, MAINTAINING OR REPAIRING AIRCRAFT, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; HANDLING, TRANSPORTING, TESTING OR INSPECTING AIRCRAFT COMPONENTS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDE 1

B25J - MANIPULATORS; CHAMBERS PROVIDED WITH MANIPULATION DEVICES 1

A61P - SPECIFIC THERAPEUTIC ACTIVITY OF CHEMICAL COMPOUNDS OR MEDICINAL PREPARATIONS 1

A61Q - SPECIFIC USE OF COSMETICS OR SIMILAR TOILETRY PREPARATIONS 1

A61K - PREPARATIONS FOR MEDICAL, DENTAL OR TOILETRY PURPOSES 1

C12N - MICROORGANISMS OR ENZYMES; COMPOSITIONS THEREOF; PROPAGATING, PRESERVING, OR MAINTAINING MICROORGANISMS; MUTATION OR GENETIC ENGINEERING; CULTURE MEDIA 1

A01H - NEW PLANTS OR ; NON-TRANSGENIC; PROCESSES FOR OBTAINING THEM; PLANT REPRODUCTION BY TISSUE CULTURE TECHNIQUES 1

Top 9 of 9 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#24,478

of 50,000 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

25.9 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

Compiled by PlainPatent, US Patent Intelligence Editorial Process · May 15, 2026

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