Where does HON HAI Precision Industry Co., Ltd. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), HON HAI Precision Industry Co., Ltd. ranks #88 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 HON HAI Precision Industry Co., Ltd. hold?

HON HAI Precision Industry Co., Ltd. holds 4,005 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 313 technology areas.

What is HON HAI Precision Industry Co., Ltd.'s Innovation Score?

HON HAI Precision Industry Co., Ltd. has an Innovation Score of 64.8 out of 100 (top 1% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does HON HAI Precision Industry Co., Ltd. focus on?

HON HAI Precision Industry Co., Ltd.'s top technology area is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing) with 736 patents. Grants appear in 313 CPC subclasses total.

Is HON HAI Precision Industry Co., Ltd.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

HON HAI Precision Industry Co., Ltd.'s recent grant velocity is -79% 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 HON HAI Precision Industry Co., Ltd.'s patents?

HON HAI Precision Industry Co., Ltd.'s patents average 13.4 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 HON HAI Precision 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

HON HAI Precision Industry Co., Ltd.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 4,005 granted patents across 313 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: G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, HON ranks #88 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 4,005 patents across 313 technology areas.

#88
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 1%
by Innovation Score (64.8/100): 13.4
avg claims per patent: -79%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R88 · Foreign Corporation #88 · 4,005 grants

GRANTS-LARGE · TOP-DECILE · NEAR-PEER · CPC-BROAD · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-LARGE 4.0K grants
TOP-DECILE #88/49,997
NEAR-PEER Western Digital
CPC-BROAD G06F · 313 areas
INNOV-STRONG 64.8/100
CLAIMS-RICH 13.4 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -79% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Western Digital Technologies, Inc. (±19 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
Xtpl · near

65
Canon Medical Systems · near

65
HON HAI Precision… · this assignee

65
Silicon Laboratories · near

65
Konica Minolta · near

65
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows HON's Innovation Score is 64.8/100 (top 1% 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.

How HON's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, HON HAI Precision Industry Co., Ltd. received 682 grants versus 3,213 in 2015–2019 (-79% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2015 at 1,113 grants and bottomed in 2023 at 77. Lead class G06F accounts for 18.4% of the portfolio across 313 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Konica Minolta, Inc. (#84) and BlackBerry Limited (#92).

HON's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, HON HAI Precision Industry Co., Ltd. moved from 674 to 314 grants (0.47x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). Among 3,296 tracked assignees with ≥100 grants and ≥20 prior-period grants, that multiple ranks #2,771. See the growth leaderboard.

Konica Minolta

4,158
Kyocera

4,151
United

4,091
United Microelect…

4,034
HON HAI Precision… ◀

4,005
Western Digital

3,986
LG Innotek

3,977
Monsanto Technolo…

3,956
Blackberry

3,953

What this shows HON holds 4,005 patents at rank #88, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near HON

By rank, the assignees closest to #88 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

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

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (65 here).

Canon Medical Systems Corporation 65 Silicon Laboratories Inc. 65 Xtpl S.A. 65 Konica Minolta, Inc. 65

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (13.4 here).

Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 13.4 avg Sartorius Stedim Biotech GmbH 13.4 avg Firestone Building Products Company, LLC 13.4 avg KIA Corporation 13.4 avg

HON's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

65 Top 1% higher than 99% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

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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HON HAI Precision Industry Co., Ltd. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1,113	27.8%
2016	836	20.9%
2017	660	16.5%
2018	298	7.4%
2019	306	7.6%
2020	229	5.7%
2021	139	3.5%
2022	121	3.0%
2023	77	1.9%
2024	116	2.9%
2025partial year	110	2.7%

Which technologies does HON HAI Precision Industry Co., Ltd. patent most?

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 736

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 509

H05K - Printed CIRCUITS; Casings OR Constructional Details OF Electric APPARATUS; Manufacture OF Assemblages OF Electrical Components 320

H01R - Electrically-conductive CONNECTIONS; Structural Associations OF A Plurality OF Mutually-insulated Electrical Connecting ELEMENTS; Coupling DEVICES; Current Collectors 268

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 239

B82Y - Specific Uses OR Applications OF NANOSTRUCTURES; Measurement OR Analysis OF NANOSTRUCTURES; Manufacture OR Treatment OF Nanostructures 237

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 227

H10K - Organic Electric Solid-state Devices 208

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 193

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 179

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 161

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 149

H01M - Processes OR Means, e.g. Batteries, FOR THE Direct Conversion OF Chemical Energy Into Electrical Energy 142

Y10S - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former Uspc Cross-reference ART Collections [XRACs] AND Digests 138

C01B - Non-metallic ELEMENTS; Compounds THEREOF; ; Metalloids OR Compounds Thereof NOT Covered BY Subclass C01c 135

Top 15 of 313 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#88

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

64.8 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

HON HAI Precision Industry Co., Ltd.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

HON HAI Precision Industry Co., Ltd.'s lead technology class is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), 18.4% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06F
Ranked #88 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare HON HAI Precision Industry Co., Ltd. against Konica Minolta, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 64.8/100 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

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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