Where does Hoya Optical Labs Of America, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Hoya Optical Labs Of America, Inc. ranks #12,476 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 Optical Labs Of America, Inc. hold?

Hoya Optical Labs Of America, Inc. holds 24 US utility patents granted between 2020 and 2025, spanning 16 technology areas.

What is Hoya Optical Labs Of America, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Hoya Optical Labs Of America, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 54.8 out of 100 (top 7% 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 Optical Labs Of America, Inc. focus on?

Hoya Optical Labs Of America, Inc.'s top technology area is G02B (Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus) with 21 patents, ranking #638 of 4,891 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 16 CPC subclasses total.

Is Hoya Optical Labs Of America, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Insufficient historical data is available to calculate a velocity trend for Hoya Optical Labs Of America, Inc..

What does claim depth mean for Hoya Optical Labs Of America, Inc.'s patents?

Hoya Optical Labs Of America, Inc.'s patents average 15.9 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 Optical Labs Of America, Inc. 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

Hoya Optical Labs Of America, Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 24 granted patents across 16 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2020–2025. 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: G02B (Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Hoya ranks #12,476 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 24 patents across 16 technology areas.

#12,476
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 7%
by Innovation Score (54.8/100): 15.9
avg claims per patent

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R12476 · US Corporation #12,476 · 24 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · SPAN-YRS · BOOK-RICH

GRANTS-SMALL 24 grants
UPPER-Q #12,476/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Hart InterCivic
CPC-FOCUS G02B · 16 areas
INNOV-PAR 54.8/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.9 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
SPAN-YRS 2020–2025 · 6y
BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Hart InterCivic, 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.

How Hoya’s 54.8 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 11.1 pts (20%) Velocity 20.0 pts (36%) Breadth 14.1 pts (26%) Claim depth 9.6 pts (18%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Pregis Innovative… · near

55
Dublin City University · near

55
Hoya Optical Labs… · this assignee

55
NxStage Medical · near

55
Curiouser Products · near

55
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Hoya's Innovation Score is 54.8/100 (top 7% 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 15.9 claims/patent is ABOVE the 8.7 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Hoya's grants concentrate

Hoya Optical Labs Of America, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 16 CPC subclasses with 87.5% of grants classified under G02B (Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus). Peak complete grant year is 2023 (6 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2020. By volume, Hoya sits between Hittite Microwave LLC and Huntington Ingalls Incorporated.

Hoya's three-year grant acceleration

Hoya Optical Labs Of America, Inc. shows 16 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.

Hittite Microwave

24
Hokwang Industries

24
Honda

24
Hortival Diffusio…

24
Hsien Chang Optic…

24
Hubtex Maschinenb…

24
Hart Intercivic

24
Huntington Ingall…

24
Hoya Optical Labs… ◀

24

What this shows Hoya holds 24 patents at rank #12,476, 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 #12,476 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G02B (Optical Elements)

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). In G02B (Optical Elements), Hoya ranks #638 of 4,891 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (55 here).

Dublin City University 55 NxStage Medical, Inc. 55 Pregis Innovative Packaging LLC 55 Curiouser Products Inc. 55

Hoya's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

55 Top 7% higher than 93% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2020–2025

Grants by year

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

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Hoya Optical Labs Of America, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2020	1	4.2%
2022	5	20.8%
2023	6	25.0%
2024	5	20.8%
2025partial year	7	29.2%

Which technologies does Hoya Optical Labs Of America, Inc. patent most?

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 21

G02C - SPECTACLES; Sunglasses OR Goggles Insofar AS They Have THE Same Features AS SPECTACLES; Contact Lenses 19

B29D - Producing Particular Articles From Plastics OR From Substances IN A Plastic State 14

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 8

B29K - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses B29b, B29c OR B29d, Relating TO Moulding Materials OR TO Materials FOR ; Moulds, ; Reinforcements, Fillers OR Preformed Parts, e.g. Inserts 7

B29C - Shaping OR Joining OF PLASTICS; Shaping OF Material IN A Plastic State, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; After-treatment OF THE Shaped Products, e.g. Repairing 6

C08G - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than BY Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds 5

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 4

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 4

C09K - Materials FOR Miscellaneous Applications, NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere 3

C08K - Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances as compounding ingredients 3

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 2

C08J - WORKING-UP; General Processes OF COMPOUNDING; After-treatment NOT Covered BY Subclasses C08b, C08c, C08f, C08g or C08h 1

C08L - Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds 1

C09J - ADHESIVES; Non-mechanical Aspects OF Adhesive Processes IN GENERAL; Adhesive Processes NOT Provided FOR ELSEWHERE; USE OF Materials AS Adhesives 1

Top 15 of 16 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 Optical Labs Of America, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Hoya Optical Labs Of America, Inc.'s lead technology class is G02B (Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus), 87.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G02B
Ranked #12,476 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Hoya Optical Labs Of America, Inc. against Hittite Microwave LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 54.8/100 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.