Where does Taiwan Hodaka Industrial Co., Ltd. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Taiwan Hodaka Industrial Co., Ltd. ranks #20,489 of 50,000 assignees by granted-patent volume, the same sort as the companies listing and top-holders ranking. See /methodology/#corpus-placement.

How many patents does Taiwan Hodaka Industrial Co., Ltd. hold?

Taiwan Hodaka Industrial Co., Ltd. holds 14 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2019, spanning 10 technology areas.

What is Taiwan Hodaka Industrial Co., Ltd.'s Innovation Score?

Taiwan Hodaka Industrial Co., Ltd. has an Innovation Score of 24.5 out of 100 (top 85% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Taiwan Hodaka Industrial Co., Ltd.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Taiwan Hodaka Industrial Co., 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 Taiwan Hodaka Industrial Co., Ltd.'s patents?

Taiwan Hodaka Industrial Co., Ltd.'s patents average 6.6 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 Taiwan Hodaka Industrial Co., 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

Taiwan Hodaka Industrial Co., Ltd.

Q: What technology areas does Taiwan Hodaka Industrial Co., Ltd. focus on?

Taiwan Hodaka Industrial Co., Ltd.'s top technology area is B62J (CYCLE SADDLES OR SEATS; AUXILIARY DEVICES OR ACCESSORIES SPECIALLY ADAPTED TO CYCLES AND NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR, e.g. ARTICLE CARRIERS OR CYCLE PROTECTORS) with 10 patents. Grants appear in 10 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 14 granted patents across 10 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2019. 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: B62J (CYCLE SADDLES OR SEATS; AUXILIARY DEVICES OR ACCESSORIES SPECIALLY ADAPTED TO CYCLES AND NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR, e.g. ARTICLE CARRIERS OR CYCLE PROTECTORS).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Taiwan ranks #20,489 of 50,000 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 14 patents across 10 technology areas.

#20,489
of 50,000 US assignees by volume: Top 85%
by Innovation Score (24.5/100): 6.6
avg claims per patent: -100%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R20489 · Foreign Corporation #20,489 · 14 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 14 grants
MID-PACK #20,489/50,000
PHOTO-FINISH Taiwan Hopax Chemica…
CPC-FOCUS B62J · 10 areas
INNOV-THIN 24.5/100
CLAIMS-SPARSE 6.6 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -100% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Taiwan Hopax Chemicals Mfg. Co., Ltd. (±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
Taiwan Hodaka Indust… · this assignee

25
3D Lighting Innovati… · lowest

7

What this shows Taiwan's Innovation Score is 24.5/100 (top 85% 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 Taiwan's grants concentrate

Taiwan Hodaka Industrial Co., Ltd. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 10 CPC subclasses with 71.4% of grants classified under B62J (CYCLE SADDLES OR SEATS; AUXILIARY DEVICES OR ACCESSORIES SPECIALLY ADAPTED TO CYCLES AND NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR, e.g. ARTICLE CARRIERS OR CYCLE PROTECTORS). Peak complete grant year is 2018 (6 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2017. By volume, Taiwan sits between Tristel Plc and Ten Cate Thiolon B.v..

Tristel

14
TSI Manufacturing

14
TT

14
Tyratech

14
Taiwan Hopax Chem…

14
Telit Cinterion D…

14
Tempus AI

14
Ten Cate Thiolon…

14
Taiwan Hodaka Ind… ◀

14

What this shows Taiwan holds 14 patents at rank #20,522, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Taiwan

By rank, the assignees closest to #20,522 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B62J (Cycle Saddles OR Seats)

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

Taiwan's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

25 Top 85% higher than 15% of 50,000 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2019

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2015–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Taiwan Hodaka Industrial Co., Ltd. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	4	28.6%
2016	2	14.3%
2017	1	7.1%
2018	6	42.9%
2019	1	7.1%

Which technologies does Taiwan Hodaka Industrial Co., Ltd. patent most?

B62J - CYCLE SADDLES OR SEATS; AUXILIARY DEVICES OR ACCESSORIES SPECIALLY ADAPTED TO CYCLES AND NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR, e.g. ARTICLE CARRIERS OR CYCLE PROTECTORS 10

B62K - CYCLES; CYCLE FRAMES; CYCLE STEERING DEVICES; RIDER-OPERATED TERMINAL CONTROLS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR CYCLES; CYCLE AXLE SUSPENSIONS; CYCLE SIDE-CARS, FORECARS, OR THE LIKE 8

F16F - SPRINGS; SHOCK-ABSORBERS; MEANS FOR DAMPING VIBRATION 5

Y10T - TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION 2

B62M - RIDER PROPULSION OF WHEELED VEHICLES OR SLEDGES; POWERED PROPULSION OF SLEDGES OR ; SINGLE-TRACK; CYCLES; TRANSMISSIONS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR SUCH VEHICLES 2

B60B - VEHICLE WHEELS ; CASTORS; AXLES FOR WHEELS OR CASTORS; INCREASING WHEEL ADHESION 1

B32B - LAYERED PRODUCTS, i.e. PRODUCTS BUILT-UP OF STRATA OF FLAT OR NON-FLAT, e.g. CELLULAR OR HONEYCOMB, FORM 1

G01L - MEASURING FORCE, STRESS, TORQUE, WORK, MECHANICAL POWER, MECHANICAL EFFICIENCY, OR FLUID PRESSURE 1

G01B - MEASURING LENGTH, THICKNESS OR SIMILAR LINEAR DIMENSIONS; MEASURING ANGLES; MEASURING AREAS; MEASURING IRREGULARITIES OF SURFACES OR CONTOURS 1

F16B - DEVICES FOR FASTENING OR SECURING CONSTRUCTIONAL ELEMENTS OR MACHINE PARTS TOGETHER, e.g. NAILS, BOLTS, CIRCLIPS, CLAMPS, CLIPS OR WEDGES; JOINTS OR JOINTING 1

Top 10 of 10 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#20,489

of 50,000 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

24.5 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

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

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