Where does Hoya Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Hoya Corporation ranks #614 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 Corporation hold?

Hoya Corporation holds 718 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 82 technology areas.

What is Hoya Corporation's Innovation Score?

Hoya Corporation has an Innovation Score of 63.0 out of 100 (top 2% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Hoya Corporation focus on?

Hoya Corporation's top technology area is A61B (DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification) with 197 patents. Grants appear in 82 CPC subclasses total.

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

Hoya Corporation's recent grant velocity is -22% 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 Corporation's patents?

Hoya Corporation's patents average 13.4 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 Hoya 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 Corporation

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 718 granted patents across 82 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: A61B (DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification).

Compiled by PlainPatent · May 15, 2026

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Hoya ranks #614 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 718 patents across 82 technology areas.

#614
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 2%
by Innovation Score (63.0/100): 13.4
avg claims per patent: -22%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R614 · Foreign Corporation #614 · 718 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 718 grants
TOP-DECILE #614/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Roku
CPC-WIDE A61B · 82 areas
INNOV-STRONG 63.0/100
CLAIMS-RICH 13.4 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -22% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Roku, Inc. (±1 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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Exxonmobil Upstream… · near

63
Hoya · this assignee

63
Tsmc Nanjing · near

63
Hill Phoenix · near

63
The Mitre · near

63
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Hoya's Innovation Score is 63.0/100 (top 2% 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.

How Hoya's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Hoya Corporation received 292 grants versus 374 in 2015–2019 (-22% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2015 at 87 grants and bottomed in 2018 at 53. Lead class A61B accounts for 27.4% of the portfolio across 82 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Exxonmobil Research AND Engineering Company (#610) and FG Innovation Company Limited (#618).

Hoya's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Hoya Corporation moved from 170 to 184 grants (1.08x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). Among 3,296 tracked assignees with ≥100 grants and ≥20 prior-period grants, that multiple ranks #995. See the growth leaderboard.

Exxonmobil Resear…

724
Seoul Viosys

723
Sanofi

721
Council OF Scient…

720
Hoya ◀

718
Roku

717
Dana-farber Cance…

716
T-mobile Innovati…

715
FG Innovation

714

What this shows Hoya holds 718 patents at rank #614, 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 #614 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A61B (Diagnosis)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Hoya, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above).

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (63 here).

Exxonmobil Upstream Research Company 63 Tsmc Nanjing Company, Limited 63 The Mitre Corporation 63 Hill Phoenix, Inc. 63

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (13.4 here).

Rakuten Group, Inc. 13.4 avg Beijing Lenovo Software Ltd. 13.4 avg Becton Dickinson France 13.4 avg Tungaloy Corporation 13.4 avg

Hoya's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

63 Top 2% higher than 98% 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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Hoya Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	87	12.1%
2016	85	11.8%
2017	87	12.1%
2018	53	7.4%
2019	62	8.6%
2020	53	7.4%
2021	55	7.7%
2022	54	7.5%
2023	57	7.9%
2024	73	10.2%
2025partial year	52	7.2%

Which technologies does Hoya Corporation patent most?

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 197

G03F - Photomechanical Production OF Textured OR Patterned Surfaces, e.g. FOR Printing, FOR Processing OF Semiconductor DEVICES; Materials THEREFOR; Originals THEREFOR; Apparatus Specially Adapted THEREFOR; 178

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 158

G11B - Information Storage Based ON Relative Movement Between Record Carrier AND Transducer 110

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 93

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 67

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 61

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 50

C23C - Coating Metallic MATERIAL; Coating Material With Metallic MATERIAL; Surface Treatment OF Metallic Material BY Diffusion Into THE Surface, BY Chemical Conversion OR SUBSTITUTION; Coating BY Vacuum Evaporation, BY Sputtering, BY ION Implantation OR BY Chemical Vapour Deposition, IN General 46

B24B - Machines, Devices, OR Processes FOR Grinding OR Polishing ; Dressing OR Conditioning OF Abrading SURFACES; Feeding OF Grinding, Polishing, OR Lapping Agents 44

A61F - Filters Implantable Into Blood VESSELS; PROSTHESES; Devices Providing Patency TO, OR Preventing Collapsing OF, Tubular Structures OF THE Body, e.g. STENTS; Orthopaedic, Nursing OR Contraceptive DEVICES; FOMENTATION; Treatment OR Protection OF Eyes OR EARS; Bandages, Dressings OR Absorbent PADS; Firs 41

G02C - SPECTACLES; Sunglasses OR Goggles Insofar AS They Have THE Same Features AS SPECTACLES; Contact Lenses 37

C03B - Manufacture, Shaping, OR Supplementary Processes 34

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 33

B29D - Producing Particular Articles From Plastics OR From Substances IN A Plastic State 15

Top 15 of 82 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#614

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

63.0 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

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

Hoya Corporation's lead technology class is A61B (DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification), 27.4% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A61B
Ranked #614 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Hoya Corporation against Exxonmobil Research AND Engineering Company, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 63.0/100 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.