Where does Hong Kong Baptist University rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Hong Kong Baptist University ranks #3,281 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 Hong Kong Baptist University hold?

Hong Kong Baptist University holds 114 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 65 technology areas.

What is Hong Kong Baptist University's Innovation Score?

Hong Kong Baptist University has an Innovation Score of 52.5 out of 100 (top 10% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Hong Kong Baptist University's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Hong Kong Baptist University's recent grant velocity is -69% 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 Hong Kong Baptist University's patents?

Hong Kong Baptist University's patents average 12.2 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 Hong Kong Baptist University 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

Hong Kong Baptist University

Q: What technology areas does Hong Kong Baptist University focus on?

Hong Kong Baptist University's top technology area is A61K (Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes) with 52 patents. Grants appear in 65 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 114 granted patents across 65 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: A61K (Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Hong ranks #3,281 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 114 patents across 65 technology areas.

#3,281
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 10%
by Innovation Score (52.5/100): 12.2
avg claims per patent: -69%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R3281 · Foreign Corporation #3,281 · 114 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 114 grants
TOP-DECILE #3,281/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Equinor Energy AS
CPC-WIDE A61K · 65 areas
INNOV-PAR 52.5/100
CLAIMS-RICH 12.2 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -69% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Equinor Energy AS (±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
Shin-Etsu Polymer · near

53
Thermwood · near

53
Hong Kong Baptist… · this assignee

53
The University of… · near

53
THK · near

53
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Hong's Innovation Score is 52.5/100 (top 10% 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 Hong's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Hong Kong Baptist University received 26 grants versus 85 in 2015–2019 (-69% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2017 at 24 grants and bottomed in 2024 at 4. Lead class A61K accounts for 45.6% of the portfolio across 65 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Equinor Energy AS (#3,277) and Miele & CIE. KG (#3,285).

Hong's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Hong Kong Baptist University moved from 28 to 16 grants (0.57x 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 #2,522. See the growth leaderboard.

Equinor Energy AS

114
Exfo

114
Hiroshima Univers…

114
Hankook Tire

114
Janssen Vaccines…

114
F C C

114
Kymeta

114
Miele & CIE KG

114
Hong Kong Baptist… ◀

114

What this shows Hong holds 114 patents at rank #3,281, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Hong

By rank, the assignees closest to #3,281 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A61K (Preparations FOR Medical)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

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

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (53 here).

THK Co., Ltd. 53 The University of Memphis Research Foundation 53 Thermwood Corporation 53 Shin-Etsu Polymer Co., Ltd. 53

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (12.2 here).

Fronius International GmbH 12.2 avg Agco International GmbH 12.2 avg Institute OF Process Engineering, Chinese Academy OF Sciences 12.2 avg Hangzhou Hikvision Digital Technology Co., Ltd. 12.2 avg

Hong's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

53 Top 10% higher than 90% 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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Hong Kong Baptist University patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	8	7.0%
2016	17	14.9%
2017	24	21.1%
2018	18	15.8%
2019	18	15.8%
2020	5	4.4%
2021	5	4.4%
2022	7	6.1%
2023	5	4.4%
2024	4	3.5%
2025partial year	3	2.6%

Which technologies does Hong Kong Baptist University patent most?

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 52

A61P - Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations 31

C07D - Heterocyclic Compounds 17

C07C - Acyclic OR Carbocyclic Compounds 12

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 11

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 8

C07F - Acyclic, Carbocyclic OR Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium OR Tellurium 7

H10K - Organic Electric Solid-state Devices 7

C03C - Chemical Composition OF Glasses, Glazes OR Vitreous ENAMELS; Surface Treatment OF GLASS; Surface Treatment OF Fibres OR Filaments Made From Glass, Minerals OR SLAGS; Joining Glass TO Glass OR Other Materials 6

C23C - Coating Metallic MATERIAL; Coating Material With Metallic MATERIAL; Surface Treatment OF Metallic Material BY Diffusion Into THE Surface, BY Chemical Conversion OR SUBSTITUTION; Coating BY Vacuum Evaporation, BY Sputtering, BY ION Implantation OR BY Chemical Vapour Deposition, IN General 6

A61Q - Specific USE OF Cosmetics OR Similar Toiletry Preparations 6

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 5

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 5

B82Y - Specific Uses OR Applications OF NANOSTRUCTURES; Measurement OR Analysis OF NANOSTRUCTURES; Manufacture OR Treatment OF Nanostructures 5

C12N - Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media 5

Top 15 of 65 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#3,281

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

52.5 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

Hong Kong Baptist University's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Hong Kong Baptist University's lead technology class is A61K (Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes), 45.6% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A61K
Ranked #3,281 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Hong Kong Baptist University against Equinor Energy AS, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 52.5/100 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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