Where does Howe Industries LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Howe Industries LLC ranks #40,757 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 Industries LLC hold?

Howe Industries LLC holds 6 US utility patents granted between 2021 and 2024, spanning 6 technology areas.

What is Howe Industries LLC's Innovation Score?

Howe Industries LLC has an Innovation Score of 41.1 out of 100 (top 34% 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 Industries LLC focus on?

Howe Industries LLC's top technology area is B64G (COSMONAUTICS; Vehicles OR Equipment Therefor) with 6 patents, ranking #58 of 230 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 6 CPC subclasses total.

Is Howe Industries LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Insufficient historical data is available to calculate a velocity trend for Howe Industries LLC.

What does claim depth mean for Howe Industries LLC's patents?

Howe Industries LLC's patents average 9.5 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 Industries LLC 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 Industries LLC

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 6 granted patents across 6 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2021–2024. 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: B64G (COSMONAUTICS; Vehicles OR Equipment Therefor).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Howe ranks #40,757 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 6 patents across 6 technology areas.

#40,757
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 34%
by Innovation Score (41.1/100): 9.5
avg claims per patent

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R40757 · US Corporation #40,757 · 6 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · LOWER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-PAR · TYPE-USCORP · SPAN-YRS · BOOK-RICH

GRANTS-MICRO 6 grants
LOWER-Q #40,757/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Horen Cortp
CPC-NARROW B64G · 6 areas
INNOV-PAR 41.1/100
CLAIMS-PAR 9.5 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
SPAN-YRS 2021–2024 · 4y
BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Horen Cortp 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 41.1 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 6.7 pts (16%) Velocity 20.0 pts (49%) Breadth 8.7 pts (21%) Claim depth 5.7 pts (14%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Howe Industries · this assignee

41
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Howe's Innovation Score is 41.1/100 (top 34% 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 9.5 claims/patent is ABOVE the 2.8 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 Industries LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 6 CPC subclasses with 100% of grants classified under B64G (COSMONAUTICS; Vehicles OR Equipment Therefor). Peak complete grant year is 2024 (4 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2021. By volume, Howe sits between Horen Cortp Co., Ltd. and HTL International Holdings Ltd..

Howe's three-year grant acceleration

Howe Industries LLC shows 5 grants in 2022–2024 against only 1 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.

Horen Cortp

6
Hormos Medical

6
Horst Engineering…

6
Houdinix

6
HPF SPA

6
HS Products Engin…

6
Hsue SAM Enterpri…

6
HTL International…

6
Howe Industries ◀

6

What this shows Howe holds 6 patents at rank #40,665, 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 #40,665 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B64G (Cosmonautics)

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)

41 Top 34% higher than 66% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2021–2024

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2021–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Howe Industries LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2021	1	16.7%
2023	1	16.7%
2024	4	66.7%

Which technologies does Howe Industries LLC patent most?

B64G - COSMONAUTICS; Vehicles OR Equipment Therefor 6

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 4

G21C - Nuclear Reactors 4

H10N - Electric Solid-state Devices NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 4

G21D - Nuclear Power Plant 4

G21H - Obtaining Energy From Radioactive SOURCES; Applications OF Radiation From Radioactive Sources, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Utilising Cosmic Radiation 4

Top 6 of 6 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 Industries LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Howe Industries LLC's lead technology class is B64G (COSMONAUTICS; Vehicles OR Equipment Therefor), 100% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B64G
Ranked #40,757 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Howe Industries LLC against Horen Cortp Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 41.1/100 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

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.