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Hokwang Industries Co., Ltd.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 24 granted patents across 12 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2025. 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: A47K (Sanitary Equipment NOT Otherwise Provided FOR ; Toilet Accessories).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Hokwang ranks #12,473 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 24 patents across 12 technology areas.

#12,473
of 49,997 US assignees by volume
39th percentile
by Innovation Score (31.8/100)
5.8
avg claims per patent
-17%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R12473 · Foreign Corporation #12,473 · 24 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-SPARSE · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

  • GRANTS-SMALL 24 grants
  • UPPER-Q #12,473/49,997
  • PHOTO-FINISH Hawkes Design AND…
  • CPC-FOCUS A47K · 12 areas
  • INNOV-THIN 31.8/100
  • CLAIMS-SPARSE 5.8 claims/avg
  • TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
  • VEL-DOWN -17% vel
  • BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Hawkes Design AND Consulting, LLC. (±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 Hokwang’s 31.8 Innovation Score adds up

The same four weighted components behind every Innovation Score on PlainPatent: portfolio volume, grant velocity, technology breadth, and claim depth.

Innovation-score neighbourhood around Hokwang

Lowest and highest poles plus nearest Innovation Score peers, not a full corpus board reprint.

score

What this shows Hokwang's Innovation Score is 31.8/100 (39th 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.

Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score As of 2015–2025

Does more volume mean deeper claims for Hokwang?

Each dot is one of Hokwang’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). Hokwang’s own 5.8 claims/patent is at or below the 7.3 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

Hokwang vs its 8 nearest volume peers: granted patents vs average claims per patent. Source: USPTO PatentsView. 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 9 entities by Granted patents (volume) (X) and Avg claims / patent (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. Volume + depthSelective & thoroughVolume over depthLean filer 23.923.92424.1 0102030 Granted patents (volume) Avg claims / patent Hawkes Design AND Consulting, LLC. - 24, 4Hawkes Design AND…Hidaka Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha - 24, 7.29Hidaka SeikiHitachi Data Systems Corporation - 24, 19.62Hitachi Data Syst…Hittite Microwave LLC - 24, 25.5Hittite MicrowaveHonda Electronics Co., Ltd. - 24, 8.71HondaHortival Diffusion SAS - 24, 1Hortival Diffusio…Hoya Optical Labs Of America, Inc. - 24, 15.92Hoya Optical Labs…Hsien Chang Optical Industrial Co., Ltd. - 24, 1.79Hsien Chang Optic…Hokwang Industries Co., Ltd. - 24, 5.75Hokwang Industries
Hokwang vs its 8 nearest volume peers: granted patents vs average claims per patent. Source: USPTO PatentsView.

Where Hokwang's grants concentrate

Hokwang Industries Co., Ltd. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 12 CPC subclasses with 41.7% of grants classified under A47K (Sanitary Equipment NOT Otherwise Provided FOR ; Toilet Accessories). Peak complete grant year is 2018 (5 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2017. By volume, Hokwang sits between Hawkes Design AND Consulting, LLC. and Hsien Chang Optical Industrial Co., Ltd..

Hokwang's three-year grant acceleration

Hokwang Industries Co., Ltd. shows 6 grants in 2022–2024 against only 8 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.

Who files at Hokwang's volume?

Granted US patents 2015–2025 versus its nearest-ranked assignees by volume, this company marked ◀

patents

What this shows Hokwang holds 24 patents at rank #12,473, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Source USPTO PatentsView, granted utility patents As of 2015–2025

Companies ranked near Hokwang

By rank, the assignees closest to #12,473 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A47K (Sanitary Equipment)

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

Hokwang's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

32 39th percentile higher than 39% of 49,997 US assignees

This assignee 0 100 every tracked assignee, bucketed by value

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

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USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2025

Grants by year

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

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Hokwang Industries Co., Ltd. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year Patents Granted Share of Period
2015 2 8.3%
2017 1 4.2%
2018 5 20.8%
2019 4 16.7%
2020 2 8.3%
2021 2 8.3%
2022 4 16.7%
2024 2 8.3%
2025partial year 2 8.3%

Which technologies does Hokwang Industries Co., Ltd. patent most?

Top 12 of 12 technology areas

More on this record

Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

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What to do with this data

Hokwang Industries Co., Ltd.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

  • Hokwang Industries Co., Ltd.'s lead technology class is A47K (Sanitary Equipment NOT Otherwise Provided FOR ; Toilet Accessories), 41.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A47K
  • Ranked #12,473 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
  • Compare Hokwang Industries Co., Ltd. against Hawkes Design AND Consulting, LLC., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
  • Innovation Score of 31.8/100 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

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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

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.