Where does HTC Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), HTC Corporation ranks #248 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 HTC Corporation hold?

HTC Corporation holds 1,709 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 122 technology areas.

What is HTC Corporation's Innovation Score?

HTC Corporation has an Innovation Score of 61.8 out of 100 (top 3% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does HTC Corporation focus on?

HTC Corporation's top technology area is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing) with 535 patents, ranking #144 of 13,878 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 122 CPC subclasses total.

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

HTC Corporation's recent grant velocity is -50% 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 HTC Corporation's patents?

HTC Corporation's patents average 13.2 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 HTC 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

HTC Corporation

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 1,709 granted patents across 122 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: G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing).

Compiled by PlainPatent · May 15, 2026

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, HTC ranks #248 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 1,709 patents across 122 technology areas.

#248
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 3%
by Innovation Score (61.8/100): 13.2
avg claims per patent: -50%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R248 · Foreign Corporation #248 · 1,709 grants

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

GRANTS-LARGE 1.7K grants
TOP-DECILE #248/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Kawasaki Jukogyo
CPC-WIDE G06F · 122 areas
INNOV-STRONG 61.8/100
CLAIMS-RICH 13.2 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -50% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha (±4 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 HTC’s 61.8 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 25.7 pts (42%) Velocity 3.2 pts (5%) Breadth 25.0 pts (40%) Claim depth 7.9 pts (13%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Fronius International · near

62
Applied Research… · near

62
HTC · this assignee

62
Colgate-Palmolive · near

62
Sony Mobile… · near

62
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows HTC's Innovation Score is 61.8/100 (top 3% 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 HTC?

Each dot is one of HTC’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). HTC’s own 13.2 claims/patent is at or below the 14.9 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

How HTC's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, HTC Corporation received 538 grants versus 1,080 in 2015–2019 (-50% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2015 at 289 grants and bottomed in 2023 at 67. Lead class G06F accounts for 31.3% of the portfolio across 122 subclasses. Volume neighbours: THE Johns Hopkins University (#244) and Intuit Inc. (#252).

HTC's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, HTC Corporation moved from 480 to 229 grants (0.48x 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 #2,747. See the growth leaderboard.

THE Johns Hopkins…

1,727
Hitachi Automotiv…

1,718
Xilinx

1,718
Wuhan China Star…

1,717
HTC ◀

1,709
Kawasaki Jukogyo

1,705
Gopro

1,698
Purdue Research F…

1,690
Intuit

1,684

What this shows HTC holds 1,709 patents at rank #248, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near HTC

By rank, the assignees closest to #248 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for HTC, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), HTC ranks #144 of 13,878 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (62 here).

Applied Research Associates, Inc. 62 Fronius International GmbH 62 Colgate-Palmolive Company 62 Sony Mobile Communications Inc. 62

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (13.2 here).

Kuraray Co., Ltd. 13.2 avg Nicoventures Trading Limited 13.2 avg Lifetime Products, Inc. 13.2 avg Integrated DNA Technologies, Inc. 13.2 avg

HTC's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

62 Top 3% higher than 97% 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.

View data table

HTC Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	289	16.9%
2016	239	14.0%
2017	223	13.0%
2018	158	9.2%
2019	171	10.0%
2020	187	10.9%
2021	122	7.1%
2022	72	4.2%
2023	67	3.9%
2024	90	5.3%
2025partial year	91	5.3%

Which technologies does HTC Corporation patent most?

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 535

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 460

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 218

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 185

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 169

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 166

H04M - Telephonic Communication 160

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 100

H01Q - Antennas, i.e. Radio Aerials 97

H04B - Transmission 95

Y02D - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN Information AND Communication Technologies [ICT], I.E. Information AND Communication Technologies Aiming AT THE Reduction OF Their OWN Energy USE 61

H05K - Printed CIRCUITS; Casings OR Constructional Details OF Electric APPARATUS; Manufacture OF Assemblages OF Electrical Components 61

H04R - Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups OR Like Acoustic Electromechanical TRANSDUCERS; Deaf-aid SETS; Public Address Systems 50

G09G - Arrangements OR Circuits FOR Control OF Indicating Devices Using Static Means TO Present Variable Information 46

G01S - Radio DIRECTION-FINDING; Radio NAVIGATION; Determining Distance OR Velocity BY USE OF Radio WAVES; Locating OR Presence-detecting BY USE OF THE Reflection OR Reradiation OF Radio WAVES; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves 39

Top 15 of 122 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

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

HTC Corporation's lead technology class is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), 31.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06F
Ranked #248 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare HTC Corporation against THE Johns Hopkins University, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 61.8/100 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.