Where does Honda Electronics Co., Ltd. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Honda Electronics Co., Ltd. ranks #12,474 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 Honda Electronics Co., Ltd. hold?

Honda Electronics Co., Ltd. holds 24 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 21 technology areas.

What is Honda Electronics Co., Ltd.'s Innovation Score?

Honda Electronics Co., Ltd. has an Innovation Score of 44.5 out of 100 (top 25% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Honda Electronics Co., Ltd.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Honda Electronics Co., Ltd.'s recent grant velocity is +44% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). The company is maintaining or growing its granted-patent output.

What does claim depth mean for Honda Electronics Co., Ltd.'s patents?

Honda Electronics Co., Ltd.'s patents average 8.7 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 Honda Electronics 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

Honda Electronics Co., Ltd.

Q: What technology areas does Honda Electronics Co., Ltd. focus on?

Honda Electronics Co., Ltd.'s top technology area is G01S (Radio DIRECTION-FINDING; Radio NAVIGATION; Determining Distance OR Velocity BY USE OF Radio WAVES; Locating OR Presence-detecting BY USE OF THE Reflection OR Reradiation OF Radio WAVES; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves) with 12 patents, ranking #463 of 3,153 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 21 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 24 granted patents across 21 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: G01S (Radio DIRECTION-FINDING; Radio NAVIGATION; Determining Distance OR Velocity BY USE OF Radio WAVES; Locating OR Presence-detecting BY USE OF THE Reflection OR Reradiation OF Radio WAVES; Analogous Arra).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Honda ranks #12,474 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 24 patents across 21 technology areas.

#12,474
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 25%
by Innovation Score (44.5/100): 8.7
avg claims per patent: +44%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R12474 · Foreign Corporation #12,474 · 24 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-PAR · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-UP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 24 grants
UPPER-Q #12,474/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Hidaka Seiki
CPC-FOCUS G01S · 21 areas
INNOV-PAR 44.5/100
CLAIMS-PAR 8.7 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-UP +44% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Hidaka Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha (±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 Honda’s 44.5 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 11.1 pts (25%) Velocity 12.0 pts (27%) Breadth 16.2 pts (36%) Claim depth 5.2 pts (12%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Honda · this assignee

45
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Honda's Innovation Score is 44.5/100 (top 25% 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 Honda?

Each dot is one of Honda’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). Honda’s own 8.7 claims/patent is ABOVE the 7.3 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Honda's grants concentrate

Honda Electronics Co., Ltd. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 21 CPC subclasses with 50% of grants classified under G01S (Radio DIRECTION-FINDING; Radio NAVIGATION; Determining Distance OR Velocity BY USE OF Radio WAVES; Locating OR Presence-detecting BY USE OF THE Reflection OR Reradiation OF Radio WAVES; Analogous Arra). Peak complete grant year is 2023 (4 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2019. By volume, Honda sits between Hidaka Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha and Hubtex Maschinenbau GMBH & Co. KG.

Honda's three-year grant acceleration

Honda Electronics Co., Ltd. shows 9 grants in 2022–2024 against only 5 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.

Hidaka Seiki

24
Hitachi Data Syst…

24
Hittite Microwave

24
Hokwang Industries

24
Hortival Diffusio…

24
Hoya Optical Labs…

24
Hsien Chang Optic…

24
Hubtex Maschinenb…

24
Honda ◀

24

What this shows Honda holds 24 patents at rank #12,474, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Honda

By rank, the assignees closest to #12,474 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G01S (Radio Direction-finding)

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

Honda's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

45 Top 25% higher than 75% 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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Honda Electronics Co., Ltd. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	2	8.3%
2016	2	8.3%
2017	2	8.3%
2018	2	8.3%
2019	1	4.2%
2020	1	4.2%
2021	3	12.5%
2022	3	12.5%
2023	4	16.7%
2024	2	8.3%
2025partial year	2	8.3%

Which technologies does Honda Electronics Co., Ltd. patent most?

G01S - Radio DIRECTION-FINDING; Radio NAVIGATION; Determining Distance OR Velocity BY USE OF Radio WAVES; Locating OR Presence-detecting BY USE OF THE Reflection OR Reradiation OF Radio WAVES; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves 12

B06B - Methods OR Apparatus FOR Generating OR Transmitting Mechanical Vibrations OF Infrasonic, Sonic, OR Ultrasonic Frequency, ; e.g.; FOR Performing Mechanical Work IN General 6

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 5

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 4

G01H - Measurement OF Mechanical Vibrations OR Ultrasonic, Sonic OR Infrasonic Waves 3

H10N - Electric Solid-state Devices NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 3

G01F - Measuring Volume, Volume Flow, Mass Flow OR Liquid LEVEL; Metering BY Volume 3

A61C - DENTISTRY; Apparatus OR Methods FOR Oral OR Dental Hygiene 2

B08B - Cleaning IN GENERAL; Prevention OF Fouling IN General 2

C04B - Lime, MAGNESIA; SLAG; CEMENTS; Compositions Thereof, e.g. Mortars, Concrete OR Like Building MATERIALS; Artificial Stone ; Ceramics ; REFRACTORIES; Treatment OF Natural Stone 2

G01B - Measuring Length, Thickness OR Similar Linear DIMENSIONS; Measuring ANGLES; Measuring AREAS; Measuring Irregularities OF Surfaces OR Contours 2

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 2

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

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 1

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 1

Top 15 of 21 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

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

Honda Electronics Co., Ltd.'s lead technology class is G01S (Radio DIRECTION-FINDING; Radio NAVIGATION; Determining Distance OR Velocity BY USE OF Radio WAVES; Locating OR Presence-detecting BY USE OF THE Reflection OR Reradiation OF Radio WAVES; Analogous Arra), 50% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G01S
Ranked #12,474 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Honda Electronics Co., Ltd. against Hidaka Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 44.5/100 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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