Where does Howe & Howe Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Howe & Howe Inc. ranks #14,042 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 Howe & Howe Inc. hold?

Howe & Howe Inc. holds 21 US utility patents granted between 2020 and 2025, spanning 19 technology areas.

What is Howe & Howe Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Howe & Howe Inc. has an Innovation Score of 53.5 out of 100 (top 9% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Howe & Howe Inc. focus on?

Howe & Howe Inc.'s top technology area is B62D (Motor VEHICLES; Trailers) with 11 patents, ranking #224 of 1,368 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 19 CPC subclasses total.

Is Howe & Howe Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Insufficient historical data is available to calculate a velocity trend for Howe & Howe Inc..

What does claim depth mean for Howe & Howe Inc.'s patents?

Howe & Howe Inc.'s patents average 12.4 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 Howe & Howe Inc. 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 US Corporation

Howe & Howe Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 21 granted patents across 19 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2020–2025. 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: B62D (Motor VEHICLES; Trailers).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Howe ranks #14,042 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 21 patents across 19 technology areas.

#14,042
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 9%
by Innovation Score (53.5/100): 12.4
avg claims per patent

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R14042 · US Corporation #14,042 · 21 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · SPAN-YRS · BOOK-RICH

GRANTS-SMALL 21 grants
MID-PACK #14,042/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Hi-Max Innovation
CPC-FOCUS B62D · 19 areas
INNOV-PAR 53.5/100
CLAIMS-RICH 12.4 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
SPAN-YRS 2020–2025 · 6y
BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Hi-Max Innovation Co., Ltd. (±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 Howe’s 53.5 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 10.7 pts (20%) Velocity 20.0 pts (37%) Breadth 15.4 pts (29%) Claim depth 7.4 pts (14%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Howe & Howe · this assignee

54
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Howe's Innovation Score is 53.5/100 (top 9% 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 Howe?

Each dot is one of Howe’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). Howe’s own 12.4 claims/patent is ABOVE the 12.1 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Howe's grants concentrate

Howe & Howe Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 19 CPC subclasses with 52.4% of grants classified under B62D (Motor VEHICLES; Trailers). Peak complete grant year is 2023 (5 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2020. By volume, Howe sits between Hi-Max Innovation Co., Ltd. and Icon Technology, Inc..

Howe's three-year grant acceleration

Howe & Howe Inc. shows 13 grants in 2022–2024 against only 4 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.

Hi-max Innovation

21
Hiab AB

21
Hoerbiger Kompres…

21
Honeywell Safety…

21
Human Incorporated

21
Husky Oil Operati…

21
Hydrow

21
Icon Technology

21
Howe & Howe ◀

21

What this shows Howe holds 21 patents at rank #14,042, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Howe

By rank, the assignees closest to #14,042 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B62D (Motor Vehicles)

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

Howe's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

54 Top 9% higher than 91% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2020–2025

Grants by year

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

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Howe & Howe Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2020	1	4.8%
2021	3	14.3%
2022	3	14.3%
2023	5	23.8%
2024	5	23.8%
2025partial year	4	19.0%

Which technologies does Howe & Howe Inc. patent most?

B62D - Motor VEHICLES; Trailers 11

B25J - MANIPULATORS; Chambers Provided With Manipulation Devices 5

F02M - Supplying Combustion Engines IN General With Combustible Mixtures OR Constituents Thereof 4

B60T - Vehicle Brake Control Systems OR Parts THEREOF; Brake Control Systems OR Parts Thereof, IN General ; Arrangement OF Braking Elements ON Vehicles IN GENERAL; Portable Devices FOR Preventing Unwanted Movement OF VEHICLES; Vehicle Modifications TO Facilitate Cooling OF Brakes 4

F16D - Couplings FOR Transmitting ROTATION; CLUTCHES; Brakes 4

B60K - Arrangement OR Mounting OF Propulsion Units OR OF Transmissions IN VEHICLES; Arrangement OR Mounting OF Plural Diverse Prime-movers IN VEHICLES; Auxiliary Drives FOR VEHICLES; Instrumentation OR Dashboards FOR VEHICLES; Arrangements IN Connection With Cooling, AIR Intake, GAS Exhaust OR Fuel Supply 4

A62C - Fire-fighting 4

B60P - Vehicles Adapted FOR Load Transportation OR TO Transport, TO Carry, OR TO Comprise Special Loads OR Objects 4

B60D - Vehicle Connections 3

B60G - Vehicle Suspension Arrangements 3

F41H - ARMOUR; Armoured TURRETS; Armoured OR Armed VEHICLES; Means OF Attack OR Defence, e.g. Camouflage, IN General 2

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

A44B - Buttons, Pins, Buckles, Slide Fasteners, OR THE Like 1

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 1

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 1

Top 15 of 19 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

Howe & Howe Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Howe & Howe Inc.'s lead technology class is B62D (Motor VEHICLES; Trailers), 52.4% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B62D
Ranked #14,042 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Howe & Howe Inc. against Hi-Max Innovation Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 53.5/100 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

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.