Where does Howso Incorporated rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Howso Incorporated ranks #29,000 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 Howso Incorporated hold?

Howso Incorporated holds 9 US utility patents granted between 2024 and 2025, spanning 4 technology areas.

What is Howso Incorporated's Innovation Score?

Howso Incorporated has an Innovation Score of 46.3 out of 100 (top 21% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Howso Incorporated focus on?

Howso Incorporated's top technology area is G06N (Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models) with 9 patents, ranking #864 of 4,479 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 4 CPC subclasses total.

Is Howso Incorporated's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Insufficient historical data is available to calculate a velocity trend for Howso Incorporated.

What does claim depth mean for Howso Incorporated's patents?

Howso Incorporated's patents average 18.8 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 Howso Incorporated 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

Howso Incorporated

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 9 granted patents across 4 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2024–2025. 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: G06N (Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models).

Compiled by PlainPatent · May 15, 2026

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Howso ranks #29,000 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 9 patents across 4 technology areas.

#29,000
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 21%
by Innovation Score (46.3/100): 18.8
avg claims per patent

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R29000 · US Corporation #29,000 · 9 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 9 grants
MID-PACK #29,000/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Hormel Foods
CPC-NARROW G06N · 4 areas
INNOV-PAR 46.3/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.8 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
SPAN-YRS 2024–2025 · 2y
BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Hormel Foods Corporation (±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 Howso’s 46.3 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 8.0 pts (17%) Velocity 20.0 pts (43%) Breadth 7.1 pts (15%) Claim depth 11.3 pts (24%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

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Howso Incorporated · this assignee

46
3D Lighting… · lowest

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What this shows Howso's Innovation Score is 46.3/100 (top 21% 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 Howso?

Each dot is one of Howso’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). Howso’s own 18.8 claims/patent is ABOVE the 13.9 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Howso's grants concentrate

Howso Incorporated is a focused PatentsView assignee: 4 CPC subclasses with 100% of grants classified under G06N (Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models). By volume, Howso sits between Hormel Foods Corporation and Hudson Technologies, Inc..

Howso's three-year grant acceleration

Howso Incorporated shows 6 grants in 2022–2024 against only 0 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.

Hormel Foods

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9
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What this shows Howso holds 9 patents at rank #29,001, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Howso

By rank, the assignees closest to #29,001 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G06N (Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Mo…)

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

Howso's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

46 Top 21% higher than 79% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2024–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2024–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Howso Incorporated patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2024	6	66.7%
2025partial year	3	33.3%

Which technologies does Howso Incorporated patent most?

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 9

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 6

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 1

G05D - Systems FOR Controlling OR Regulating Non-electric Variables 1

Top 4 of 4 technology areas

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

View all rankings → How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

Howso Incorporated's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Howso Incorporated's lead technology class is G06N (Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models), 100% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06N
Ranked #29,000 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Howso Incorporated against Hormel Foods Corporation, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 46.3/100 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.