Where does Honor Metro Limited rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Honor Metro Limited ranks #11,277 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 Honor Metro Limited hold?

Honor Metro Limited holds 27 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2024, spanning 1 technology areas.

What is Honor Metro Limited's Innovation Score?

Honor Metro Limited has an Innovation Score of 24.4 out of 100 (15th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Honor Metro Limited focus on?

Honor Metro Limited's top technology area is A63H (Toys, e.g. Tops, Dolls, Hoops OR Building Blocks) with 14 patents, ranking #21 of 312 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 1 CPC subclasses total.

Is Honor Metro Limited's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Honor Metro Limited's recent grant velocity is +100% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Honor Metro Limited's patents?

Honor Metro Limited's patents average 10.1 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 Honor Metro Limited 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

Honor Metro Limited

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 27 granted patents across 1 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2024. 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: A63H (Toys, e.g. Tops, Dolls, Hoops OR Building Blocks).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Honor ranks #11,277 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 27 patents across 1 technology areas.

#11,277
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 15th percentile
by Innovation Score (24.4/100): 10.1
avg claims per patent: +100%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R11277 · Foreign Corporation #11,277 · 27 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-PAR · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 27 grants
UPPER-Q #11,277/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Hadal
CPC-NARROW A63H · 1 areas
INNOV-THIN 24.4/100
CLAIMS-PAR 10.1 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +100% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Hadal, Inc. (±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 Honor’s 24.4 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 11.5 pts (47%) Velocity 3.3 pts (14%) Breadth 3.5 pts (14%) Claim depth 6.0 pts (25%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Kverneland Group… · near

24
Eclipse Aerospace · near

24
Eetrex · near

24
Honor Metro · this assignee

24
Brandywine Product… · near

24
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Honor's Innovation Score is 24.4/100 (15th 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.

Does more volume mean deeper claims for Honor?

Each dot is one of Honor’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). Honor’s own 10.1 claims/patent is at or below the 13.8 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Honor's grants concentrate

Honor Metro Limited is a focused PatentsView assignee: 1 CPC subclasses with 51.9% of grants classified under A63H (Toys, e.g. Tops, Dolls, Hoops OR Building Blocks). Peak complete grant year is 2020 (8 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2016. By volume, Honor sits between Hydac Process Technology GMBH and Iljin Global Co., Ltd..

Honor's three-year grant acceleration

Honor Metro Limited shows 6 grants in 2022–2024 against only 12 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.

Hydac Process Tec…

27
Hadal

27
Hangzhou Normal U…

27
Helmholtz-zentrum…

27
Hound Labs

27
I R C A S P A Ind…

27
Ideahub

27
Iljin Global

27
Honor Metro ◀

27

What this shows Honor holds 27 patents at rank #11,276, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Honor

By rank, the assignees closest to #11,276 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A63H (Toys)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Honor, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A63H (Toys), Honor ranks #21 of 312 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (24 here).

Eclipse Aerospace, Inc. 24 Eetrex, Inc. 24 Kverneland Group Operations Norway AS 24 Brandywine Product Group International Inc. 24

Honor's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

24 15th percentile higher than 15% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2024

Grants by year

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

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Honor Metro Limited patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	3	11.1%
2016	1	3.7%
2017	2	7.4%
2018	3	11.1%
2020	8	29.6%
2021	4	14.8%
2022	3	11.1%
2023	2	7.4%
2024	1	3.7%

Which technologies does Honor Metro Limited patent most?

A63H - Toys, e.g. Tops, Dolls, Hoops OR Building Blocks 14

Top 1 of 1 technology areas

More on this record

Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

View all rankings → How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

Honor Metro Limited's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Honor Metro Limited's lead technology class is A63H (Toys, e.g. Tops, Dolls, Hoops OR Building Blocks), 51.9% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A63H
Ranked #11,277 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Honor Metro Limited against Hydac Process Technology GMBH, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 24.4/100 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

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.