Where does The Hong Kong Research Institute Of Textiles And Apparel Limited rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), The Hong Kong Research Institute Of Textiles And Apparel Limited ranks #9,901 of 50,000 assignees by granted-patent volume, the same sort as the companies listing and top-holders ranking. See /methodology/#corpus-placement.

Is The Hong Kong Research Institute Of Textiles And Apparel Limited's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

The Hong Kong Research Institute Of Textiles And Apparel Limited's recent grant velocity is +200% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for The Hong Kong Research Institute Of Textiles And Apparel Limited's patents?

The Hong Kong Research Institute Of Textiles And Apparel Limited's patents average 10.4 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.

USPTO 2015–2025 USPTO PatentsView Foreign Corporation

The Hong Kong Research Institute Of Textiles And Apparel Limited

Q: How is the The Hong Kong Research Institute Of Textiles And Apparel Limited 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 PatentsView assignee record - 32 granted patents across 56 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2025. 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: C08J (WORKING-UP; GENERAL PROCESSES OF COMPOUNDING; AFTER-TREATMENT NOT COVERED BY SUBCLASSES C08B, C08C, C08F, C08G or C08H).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, The ranks #9,901 of 50,000 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 32 patents across 56 technology areas.

#9,901
of 50,000 US assignees by volume: Top 14%
by Innovation Score (50.0/100): 10.4
avg claims per patent: +200%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R9901 · Foreign Corporation #9,901 · 32 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-PAR · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 32 grants
UPPER-Q #9,901/50,000
PHOTO-FINISH Teco Image Systems
CPC-WIDE C08J · 56 areas
INNOV-PAR 50.0/100
CLAIMS-PAR 10.4 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +200% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Teco Image Systems 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
Noritz · near

50
Orvance · near

50
The Hong Kong Resear… · this assignee

50
Trelleborg Sealing S… · near

50
Ludwig-maximilians-u… · near

50
3D Lighting Innovati… · lowest

7

What this shows The Hong Kong Research Institute Of Textiles And Apparel Limited stamps GRANTS-SMALL, UPPER-Q, PHOTO-FINISH, CPC-WIDE, INNOV-PAR, CLAIMS-PAR, TYPE-FRNCORP, VEL-SURGE, BOOK-FULL. Volume places it #9,901 of 50,000; Innovation Score 50.0/100 sits in the top 14% of the PatentsView-derived corpus. Closest grant-volume peer on this plate is Teco Image Systems Co., Ltd. (±0 grants).

Portfolio overview

The Hong Kong Research Institute Of Textiles And Apparel Limited has been granted 32 US utility patents between 2016 and 2025, placing The Hong Kong Research Institute Of Textiles And Apparel Limited at #9,901 of 50,000 across all assignees tracked by PlainPatent. This portfolio spans 56 distinct Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC) subclasses, averaging 10.4 claims per patent with primary concentration in C08J (WORKING-UP; GENERAL PROCESSES OF COMPOUNDING; AFTER-TREATMENT NOT COVERED BY SUBCLASSES C08B, C08C, C08F, C08G or C08H). As a Foreign Corporation, The Hong Kong Research Institute Of Textiles And Apparel Limited is one of the broader-portfolio assignees in the PatentsView dataset. By volume, The sits between Teco Image Systems Co., Ltd. (32 patents, rank #9,898) and Toshiba Industrial Products And Systems Corporation (32 patents, rank #9,906) - the closest US assignees by grant volume. The composite Innovation Score of 50.0/100 blends portfolio volume, grant velocity, technology breadth, and claim depth into a single comparable measure drawn directly from USPTO PatentsView records.

Grant cadence records the difference between two grant-year windows. Between 2020 and 2024 the company received 21 grants, compared with 7 in the 2015–2019 window, a +200% shift in five-year grant velocity. Both windows cover five complete grant years; the latest PatentsView year is a partial release and is excluded from this comparison, though it still appears in the yearly table and chart below. Grant timing can lag the related application by years, so this comparison does not establish current R&D spending, strategic intent, or a company’s application activity. The Foreign Corporation classification provides context for the assignee record, not a conclusion about its business strategy.

Claim depth and technology breadth describe this aggregate record. The Hong Kong Research Institute Of Textiles And Apparel Limited's 10.4 average claims per patent is an average count, not a measure of claim scope, legal strength, enforceability, or design-around risk. The record spans 56 CPC subclasses. Combined with portfolio volume, these figures let readers compare the documented grant records of assignees in similar technology classes.

Teco Image Systems

32
Telepathy Labs

32
Terralux

32
Tesseract Ventures

32
The Smead Manufac…

32
The University of…

32
Topsoe A/S

32
Toshiba Industria…

32
The Hong Kong Res… ◀

32

What this shows The holds 32 patents at rank #9,902, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near The

By rank, the assignees closest to #9,902 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C08J (Working-up)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

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

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (50 here).

Trelleborg Sealing Solutions Germany Gmbh 50 Orvance, Llc 50 Noritz Corporation 50 Ludwig-maximilians-universitat Munchen 50

The's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

50 Top 14% higher than 86% of 50,000 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2016–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

View data table

The Hong Kong Research Institute Of Textiles And Apparel Limited patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	3	9.4%
2017	1	3.1%
2019	3	9.4%
2020	7	21.9%
2021	2	6.3%
2022	3	9.4%
2023	4	12.5%
2024	5	15.6%
2025partial year	4	12.5%

Which technologies does The Hong Kong Research Institute Of Textiles And Apparel Limited patent most?

C08J - WORKING-UP; GENERAL PROCESSES OF COMPOUNDING; AFTER-TREATMENT NOT COVERED BY SUBCLASSES C08B, C08C, C08F, C08G or C08H 5

D10B - INDEXING SCHEME ASSOCIATED WITH SUBLASSES OF SECTION D, RELATING TO TEXTILES 5

C08L - COMPOSITIONS OF MACROMOLECULAR COMPOUNDS 4

D06M - TREATMENT, NOT PROVIDED FOR ELSEWHERE IN CLASS D06, OF FIBRES, THREADS, YARNS, FABRICS, FEATHERS OR FIBROUS GOODS MADE FROM SUCH MATERIALS 4

H04N - PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION 3

G01N - INVESTIGATING OR ANALYSING MATERIALS BY DETERMINING THEIR CHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL PROPERTIES 3

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 3

B29B - PREPARATION OR PRETREATMENT OF THE MATERIAL TO BE SHAPED; MAKING GRANULES OR PREFORMS; RECOVERY OF PLASTICS OR OTHER CONSTITUENTS OF WASTE MATERIAL CONTAINING PLASTICS 3

Y02P - CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION TECHNOLOGIES IN THE PRODUCTION OR PROCESSING OF GOODS 3

D04B - KNITTING 3

Y10T - TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION 3

D02G - CRIMPING OR CURLING FIBRES, FILAMENTS, THREADS, OR YARNS; YARNS OR THREADS 3

G01L - MEASURING FORCE, STRESS, TORQUE, WORK, MECHANICAL POWER, MECHANICAL EFFICIENCY, OR FLUID PRESSURE 3

G06T - IMAGE DATA PROCESSING OR GENERATION, IN GENERAL 3

D06P - DYEING OR PRINTING TEXTILES; DYEING LEATHER, FURS OR SOLID MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES IN ANY FORM 3

Top 15 of 56 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#9,901

of 50,000 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

50.0 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

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