Where does Hoya Glass Disk (Thailand) Ltd. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Hoya Glass Disk (Thailand) Ltd. ranks #47,494 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 Glass Disk (Thailand) Ltd. hold?

Hoya Glass Disk (Thailand) Ltd. holds 5 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2017, spanning 2 technology areas.

What is Hoya Glass Disk (Thailand) Ltd.'s Innovation Score?

Hoya Glass Disk (Thailand) Ltd. has an Innovation Score of 15.3 out of 100 (3rd percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Hoya Glass Disk (Thailand) Ltd.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Hoya Glass Disk (Thailand) Ltd.'s recent grant velocity is -100% 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 Glass Disk (Thailand) Ltd.'s patents?

Hoya Glass Disk (Thailand) Ltd.'s patents average 6.8 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 Glass Disk (Thailand) Ltd. 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 Glass Disk (Thailand) Ltd.

Q: What technology areas does Hoya Glass Disk (Thailand) Ltd. focus on?

Hoya Glass Disk (Thailand) Ltd.'s top technology area is G11B (Information Storage Based ON Relative Movement Between Record Carrier AND Transducer) with 5 patents. Grants appear in 2 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 5 granted patents across 2 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2017. 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: G11B (Information Storage Based ON Relative Movement Between Record Carrier AND Transducer).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Hoya ranks #47,494 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 5 patents across 2 technology areas.

#47,494
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 3rd percentile
by Innovation Score (15.3/100): 6.8
avg claims per patent: -100%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R47494 · Foreign Corporation #47,494 · 5 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · BOTTOM-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-LOW · CLAIMS-SPARSE · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 5 grants
BOTTOM-DECILE #47,494/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Horsepower
CPC-NARROW G11B · 2 areas
INNOV-LOW 15.3/100
CLAIMS-SPARSE 6.8 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -100% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Horsepower Technologies, Inc. (±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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Hoya Glass Disk… · this assignee

15
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Hoya's Innovation Score is 15.3/100 (3rd percentile 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.

Where Hoya's grants concentrate

Hoya Glass Disk (Thailand) Ltd. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 2 CPC subclasses with 100% of grants classified under G11B (Information Storage Based ON Relative Movement Between Record Carrier AND Transducer). Peak complete grant year is 2017 (3 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2015. By volume, Hoya sits between Horsepower Technologies, Inc. and HT Materials Corporation.

Horsepower

5
Hoshizaki Denki

5
Hotpack Packaging…

5
House Wellness Fo…

5
HS Foils OY

5
HS Products

5
Hsiner

5
HT Materials

5
Hoya Glass Disk (… ◀

5

What this shows Hoya holds 5 patents at rank #47,400, 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 #47,400 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G11B (Information Storage Based ON Relative Movement Between Re…)

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)

15 3rd percentile higher than 3% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2017

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 Glass Disk (Thailand) Ltd. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	2	40.0%
2017	3	60.0%

Which technologies does Hoya Glass Disk (Thailand) Ltd. patent most?

G11B - Information Storage Based ON Relative Movement Between Record Carrier AND Transducer 5

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 2

Top 2 of 2 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#47,494

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

15.3 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 Glass Disk (Thailand) Ltd.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Hoya Glass Disk (Thailand) Ltd.'s lead technology class is G11B (Information Storage Based ON Relative Movement Between Record Carrier AND Transducer), 100% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G11B
Ranked #47,494 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Hoya Glass Disk (Thailand) Ltd. against Horsepower Technologies, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 15.3/100 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.