Where does Hoya Candeo Optronics Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Hoya Candeo Optronics Corporation ranks #12,973 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 Hoya Candeo Optronics Corporation hold?

Hoya Candeo Optronics Corporation holds 23 US utility patents granted between 2017 and 2020, spanning 27 technology areas.

What is Hoya Candeo Optronics Corporation's Innovation Score?

Hoya Candeo Optronics Corporation has an Innovation Score of 39.4 out of 100 (top 38% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Hoya Candeo Optronics Corporation's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Hoya Candeo Optronics Corporation's recent grant velocity is -56% 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 Hoya Candeo Optronics Corporation's patents?

Hoya Candeo Optronics Corporation's patents average 16.8 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 Hoya Candeo Optronics Corporation 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

Hoya Candeo Optronics Corporation

Q: What technology areas does Hoya Candeo Optronics Corporation focus on?

Hoya Candeo Optronics Corporation's top technology area is F21V (Functional Features OR Details OF Lighting Devices OR Systems THEREOF; Structural Combinations OF Lighting Devices With Other Articles, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR) with 9 patents, ranking #299 of 1,842 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 27 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 23 granted patents across 27 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2017–2020. 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: F21V (Functional Features OR Details OF Lighting Devices OR Systems THEREOF; Structural Combinations OF Lighting Devices With Other Articles, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Hoya ranks #12,973 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 23 patents across 27 technology areas.

#12,973
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 38%
by Innovation Score (39.4/100): 16.8
avg claims per patent: -56%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R12973 · Foreign Corporation #12,973 · 23 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 23 grants
MID-PACK #12,973/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Haimer
CPC-FOCUS F21V · 27 areas
INNOV-THIN 39.4/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.8 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -56% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Haimer GmbH (±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 Hoya’s 39.4 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 11.0 pts (28%) Velocity 0.0 pts (0%) Breadth 18.4 pts (47%) Claim depth 10.1 pts (26%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Hoya Candeo Optronics · this assignee

39
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Hoya's Innovation Score is 39.4/100 (top 38% 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 Hoya?

Each dot is one of Hoya’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). Hoya’s own 16.8 claims/patent is at or below the 17.3 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Hoya's grants concentrate

Hoya Candeo Optronics Corporation is a focused PatentsView assignee: 27 CPC subclasses with 39.1% of grants classified under F21V (Functional Features OR Details OF Lighting Devices OR Systems THEREOF; Structural Combinations OF Lighting Devices With Other Articles, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR). Peak complete grant year is 2020 (7 grants) versus a trough of 5 in 2017. By volume, Hoya sits between HFA, Inc. and Harpoon Therapeutics, Inc..

HFA

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Hgst Santa Ana

23
Hheli

23
HIP Innovations

23
Hypr

23
Haimer

23
Haoxiang Electric…

23
Harpoon Therapeut…

23
Hoya Candeo Optro… ◀

23

What this shows Hoya holds 23 patents at rank #12,963, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Hoya

By rank, the assignees closest to #12,963 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F21V (Functional Features OR Details OF Lighting Devices OR Sys…)

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

Hoya's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

39 Top 38% higher than 62% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2017–2020

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2017–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Hoya Candeo Optronics Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2017	5	21.7%
2018	5	21.7%
2019	6	26.1%
2020	7	30.4%

Which technologies does Hoya Candeo Optronics Corporation patent most?

F21V - Functional Features OR Details OF Lighting Devices OR Systems THEREOF; Structural Combinations OF Lighting Devices With Other Articles, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 9

B41F - Printing Machines OR Presses 8

F21Y - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses F21k, F21l, F21s and F21v, Relating TO THE Form OR THE Kind OF THE Light Sources OR OF THE Colour OF THE Light Emitted 8

B41J - TYPEWRITERS; Selective Printing Mechanisms, i.e. Mechanisms Printing Otherwise Than From A FORME; Correction OF Typographical Errors 8

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 7

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 7

H10H - Inorganic Light-emitting Semiconductor Devices Having Potential Barriers 7

H05B - Electric HEATING; Electric Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Circuit Arrangements FOR Electric Light Sources, IN General 4

B41M - Printing, Duplicating, Marking, OR Copying PROCESSES; Colour Printing, 3

C03C - Chemical Composition OF Glasses, Glazes OR Vitreous ENAMELS; Surface Treatment OF GLASS; Surface Treatment OF Fibres OR Filaments Made From Glass, Minerals OR SLAGS; Joining Glass TO Glass OR Other Materials 3

B05D - Processes FOR Applying Fluent Materials TO Surfaces, IN General 3

F21S - Non-portable Lighting DEVICES; Systems THEREOF; Vehicle Lighting Devices Specially Adapted FOR Vehicle Exteriors 2

F26B - Drying Solid Materials OR Objects BY Removing Liquid Therefrom 2

A61L - Methods OR Apparatus FOR Sterilising Materials OR Objects IN GENERAL; Disinfection, Sterilisation OR Deodorisation OF AIR; Chemical Aspects OF Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads OR Surgical ARTICLES; Materials FOR Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads OR Surgical Articles 2

H05K - Printed CIRCUITS; Casings OR Constructional Details OF Electric APPARATUS; Manufacture OF Assemblages OF Electrical Components 2

Top 15 of 27 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

Hoya Candeo Optronics Corporation's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Hoya Candeo Optronics Corporation's lead technology class is F21V (Functional Features OR Details OF Lighting Devices OR Systems THEREOF; Structural Combinations OF Lighting Devices With Other Articles, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR), 39.1% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F21V
Ranked #12,973 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Hoya Candeo Optronics Corporation against HFA, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 39.4/100 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

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