Where does Hoshino Gakki Co., Ltd. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Hoshino Gakki Co., Ltd. ranks #9,518 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 Hoshino Gakki Co., Ltd. hold?

Hoshino Gakki Co., Ltd. holds 33 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 8 technology areas.

What is Hoshino Gakki Co., Ltd.'s Innovation Score?

Hoshino Gakki Co., Ltd. has an Innovation Score of 33.1 out of 100 (43rd percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Hoshino Gakki Co., Ltd.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Hoshino Gakki Co., Ltd.'s recent grant velocity is -6% 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 Hoshino Gakki Co., Ltd.'s patents?

Hoshino Gakki Co., Ltd.'s patents average 7.1 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 Hoshino Gakki 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

Hoshino Gakki Co., Ltd.

Q: What technology areas does Hoshino Gakki Co., Ltd. focus on?

Hoshino Gakki Co., Ltd.'s top technology area is G10D (Stringed Musical INSTRUMENTS; Wind Musical INSTRUMENTS; Accordions OR CONCERTINAS; Percussion Musical INSTRUMENTS; Aeolian HARPS; Singing-flame Musical INSTRUMENTS; Musical Instruments NOT Otherwise Provided FOR) with 20 patents, ranking #4 of 62 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 8 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 33 granted patents across 8 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: G10D (Stringed Musical INSTRUMENTS; Wind Musical INSTRUMENTS; Accordions OR CONCERTINAS; Percussion Musical INSTRUMENTS; Aeolian HARPS; Singing-flame Musical INSTRUMENTS; Musical Instruments NOT Otherwise P).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Hoshino ranks #9,518 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 33 patents across 8 technology areas.

#9,518
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 43rd percentile
by Innovation Score (33.1/100): 7.1
avg claims per patent: -6%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R9518 · Foreign Corporation #9,518 · 33 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 33 grants
UPPER-Q #9,518/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH HashiCorp
CPC-NARROW G10D · 8 areas
INNOV-THIN 33.1/100
CLAIMS-SPARSE 7.1 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-FLAT -6% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: HashiCorp (±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 Hoshino’s 33.1 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 12.2 pts (37%) Velocity 6.7 pts (20%) Breadth 10.0 pts (30%) Claim depth 4.3 pts (13%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Delphix · near

33
Frontiir PTE · near

33
Hoshino Gakki · this assignee

33
Snapchat · near

33
Vista Clara · near

33
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Hoshino's Innovation Score is 33.1/100 (43rd 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 Hoshino?

Each dot is one of Hoshino’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). Hoshino’s own 7.1 claims/patent is at or below the 13.2 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Hoshino's grants concentrate

Hoshino Gakki Co., Ltd. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 8 CPC subclasses with 60.6% of grants classified under G10D (Stringed Musical INSTRUMENTS; Wind Musical INSTRUMENTS; Accordions OR CONCERTINAS; Percussion Musical INSTRUMENTS; Aeolian HARPS; Singing-flame Musical INSTRUMENTS; Musical Instruments NOT Otherwise P). Peak complete grant year is 2019 (5 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2017. By volume, Hoshino sits between HD Hyundai Infracore Co., Ltd. and HotaluX, Ltd..

Hoshino's three-year grant acceleration

Hoshino Gakki Co., Ltd. shows 10 grants in 2022–2024 against only 10 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.

HD Hyundai Infrac…

33
Hetero Research F…

33
High SEC Labs

33
Homag

33
Hyundai America T…

33
Hashicorp

33
Hefei Core Storage

33
Hotalux

33
Hoshino Gakki ◀

33

What this shows Hoshino holds 33 patents at rank #9,516, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Hoshino

By rank, the assignees closest to #9,516 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G10D (Stringed Musical Instruments)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Hoshino, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G10D (Stringed Musical Instruments), Hoshino ranks #4 of 62 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (33 here).

Delphix Corp. 33 Snapchat, Inc. 33 Vista Clara Inc. 33 Frontiir PTE Ltd. 33

Hoshino's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

33 43rd percentile higher than 43% 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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Hoshino Gakki Co., Ltd. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	4	12.1%
2016	3	9.1%
2017	2	6.1%
2018	2	6.1%
2019	5	15.2%
2020	2	6.1%
2021	3	9.1%
2022	4	12.1%
2023	4	12.1%
2024	2	6.1%
2025partial year	2	6.1%

Which technologies does Hoshino Gakki Co., Ltd. patent most?

G10D - Stringed Musical INSTRUMENTS; Wind Musical INSTRUMENTS; Accordions OR CONCERTINAS; Percussion Musical INSTRUMENTS; Aeolian HARPS; Singing-flame Musical INSTRUMENTS; Musical Instruments NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 20

G10G - Representation OF MUSIC; Recording Music IN Notation FORM; Accessories FOR Music OR Musical Instruments NOT Otherwise Provided FOR, e.g. Supports 2

F16M - Frames, Casings OR Beds OF Engines, Machines OR Apparatus, NOT Specific TO Engines, Machines OR Apparatus Provided FOR ELSEWHERE; STANDS; Supports 2

F16D - Couplings FOR Transmitting ROTATION; CLUTCHES; Brakes 1

G10H - Electrophonic Musical INSTRUMENTS; Instruments IN Which THE Tones ARE Generated BY Electromechanical Means OR Electronic Generators, OR IN Which THE Tones ARE Synthesised From A Data Store 1

F16B - Devices FOR Fastening OR Securing Constructional Elements OR Machine Parts Together, e.g. Nails, Bolts, Circlips, Clamps, Clips OR WEDGES; Joints OR Jointing 1

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 1

H04R - Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups OR Like Acoustic Electromechanical TRANSDUCERS; Deaf-aid SETS; Public Address Systems 1

Top 8 of 8 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

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

Hoshino Gakki Co., Ltd.'s lead technology class is G10D (Stringed Musical INSTRUMENTS; Wind Musical INSTRUMENTS; Accordions OR CONCERTINAS; Percussion Musical INSTRUMENTS; Aeolian HARPS; Singing-flame Musical INSTRUMENTS; Musical Instruments NOT Otherwise P), 60.6% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G10D
Ranked #9,518 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Hoshino Gakki Co., Ltd. against HD Hyundai Infracore Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 33.1/100 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

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