Overall rank by patents
#12,474
of 50,000 tracked assignees
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).
The verdict
According to USPTO PatentsView, Honda ranks #12,474 of 50,000 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 24 patents across 21 technology areas.
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
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.
Lowest and highest poles plus nearest Innovation Score peers, not a full corpus board reprint.
Qualcomm Incorporated · highest
85 score
Honda · this assignee
45 score
3D Lighting Innovati… · lowest
7 score
What this shows Honda Electronics Co., Ltd. stamps GRANTS-SMALL, UPPER-Q, PHOTO-FINISH, CPC-FOCUS, INNOV-PAR, CLAIMS-PAR, TYPE-FRNCORP, VEL-UP, BOOK-FULL. Volume places it #12,474 of 50,000; Innovation Score 44.5/100 sits in the top 25% of the PatentsView-derived corpus. Closest grant-volume peer on this plate is Hidaka Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha (±0 grants).
Honda Electronics Co., Ltd. has been granted 24 US utility patents between 2015 and 2025, placing Honda Electronics Co., Ltd. at #12,474 of 50,000 across all assignees tracked by PlainPatent. This portfolio spans 21 distinct Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC) subclasses, averaging 8.7 claims per patent with primary concentration in 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). As a Foreign Corporation, Honda Electronics Co., Ltd. is one of the more focused assignees in the PatentsView dataset. By volume, Honda sits between Hidaka Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha (24 patents, rank #12,470) and Hubtex Maschinenbau Gmbh & Co. KG (24 patents, rank #12,478) - the closest US assignees by grant volume. The composite Innovation Score of 44.5/100 blends portfolio volume, grant velocity, technology breadth, and claim depth into a single comparable measure drawn directly from USPTO PatentsView records.
Grant cadence records the difference between two grant-year windows. Between 2020 and 2024 the company received 13 grants, compared with 9 in the 2015–2019 window, a +44% shift in five-year grant velocity. Both windows cover five complete grant years; the latest PatentsView year is a partial release and is excluded from this comparison, though it still appears in the yearly table and chart below. Grant timing can lag the related application by years, so this comparison does not establish current R&D spending, strategic intent, or a company’s application activity. The Foreign Corporation classification provides context for the assignee record, not a conclusion about its business strategy.
Claim depth and technology breadth describe this aggregate record. Honda Electronics Co., Ltd.'s 8.7 average claims per patent is an average count, not a measure of claim scope, legal strength, enforceability, or design-around risk. The record spans 21 CPC subclasses. Combined with portfolio volume, these figures let readers compare the documented grant records of assignees in similar technology classes.
Granted US patents 2015–2025 versus its nearest-ranked assignees by volume, this company marked ◀
HIDAKA SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
24 patents
HITACHI DATA SYSTEMS CORPORATION
24 patents
HITTITE MICROWAVE LLC
24 patents
HOKWANG INDUSTRIES CO., LTD.
24 patents
HORTIVAL DIFFUSION SAS
24 patents
HOYA Optical Labs Of America, Inc.
24 patents
HSIEN CHANG OPTICAL INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
24 patents
HUBTEX MASCHINENBAU GMBH & CO. KG
24 patents
HONDA ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
24 patents
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.
By rank, the assignees closest to #12,474 in granted patent volume.
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 50,000 US assignees
Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more US assignees. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.
Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025
Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2015–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.
| 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% |
Top 15 of 21 technology areas
Overall rank by patents
#12,474
of 50,000 tracked assignees
44.5 out of 100
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