Where does Hamilton Beach Brands, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Hamilton Beach Brands, Inc. ranks #2,099 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 Hamilton Beach Brands, Inc. hold?

Hamilton Beach Brands, Inc. holds 188 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 36 technology areas.

What is Hamilton Beach Brands, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Hamilton Beach Brands, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 45.4 out of 100 (top 23% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Hamilton Beach Brands, Inc. focus on?

Hamilton Beach Brands, Inc.'s top technology area is A47J (Kitchen EQUIPMENT; Coffee MILLS; Spice MILLS; Apparatus FOR Making Beverages) with 54 patents, ranking #15 of 793 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 36 CPC subclasses total.

Is Hamilton Beach Brands, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Hamilton Beach Brands, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -23% 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 Hamilton Beach Brands, Inc.'s patents?

Hamilton Beach Brands, Inc.'s patents average 5.3 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 Hamilton Beach Brands, 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

Hamilton Beach Brands, Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 188 granted patents across 36 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: A47J (Kitchen EQUIPMENT; Coffee MILLS; Spice MILLS; Apparatus FOR Making Beverages).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Hamilton ranks #2,099 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 188 patents across 36 technology areas.

#2,099
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 23%
by Innovation Score (45.4/100): 5.3
avg claims per patent: -23%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2099 · US Corporation #2,099 · 188 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-SPARSE · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 188 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,099/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Avision
CPC-FOCUS A47J · 36 areas
INNOV-PAR 45.4/100
CLAIMS-SPARSE 5.3 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DOWN -23% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Avision 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 Hamilton’s 45.4 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 18.1 pts (40%) Velocity 2.9 pts (6%) Breadth 21.2 pts (47%) Claim depth 3.2 pts (7%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Hamilton Beach Brands · this assignee

45
Lumens · near

45
Matterport · near

45
Motive Drilling · near

45
Wolverine Outdoors · near

45
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Hamilton's Innovation Score is 45.4/100 (top 23% 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 Hamilton?

Each dot is one of Hamilton’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). Hamilton’s own 5.3 claims/patent is at or below the 12.9 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Hamilton's grants concentrate

Hamilton Beach Brands, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 36 CPC subclasses with 28.7% of grants classified under A47J (Kitchen EQUIPMENT; Coffee MILLS; Spice MILLS; Apparatus FOR Making Beverages). Peak complete grant year is 2016 (35 grants) versus a trough of 8 in 2023. By volume, Hamilton sits between Avision Inc. and The Royal Institution for the Advancement of Learning/McGill University.

Hamilton's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Hamilton Beach Brands, Inc. moved from 67 to 29 grants (0.43x 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 #2,822. See the growth leaderboard.

Avision

188
B Braun Melsungen

188
Beijing Jingdong…

188
Fujimi Incorporat…

188
Nanning Fugui Pre…

188
Starbucks

188
Symbotic

188
The Royal Institu…

188
Hamilton Beach Br… ◀

188

What this shows Hamilton holds 188 patents at rank #2,099, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Hamilton

By rank, the assignees closest to #2,099 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A47J (Kitchen Equipment)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Hamilton, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A47J (Kitchen Equipment), Hamilton ranks #15 of 793 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (45 here).

Lumens Co., Ltd. 45 Wolverine Outdoors, Inc. 45 Matterport, Inc. 45 Motive Drilling Technologies, Inc. 45

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (5.3 here).

Wenzhou University 5.3 avg Axell Corporation 5.4 avg Outbrain Inc. 5.3 avg Rubbermaid Incorporated 5.3 avg

Hamilton's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

45 Top 23% higher than 77% 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.

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Hamilton Beach Brands, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	16	8.5%
2016	35	18.6%
2017	11	5.9%
2018	19	10.1%
2019	19	10.1%
2020	27	14.4%
2021	21	11.2%
2022	13	6.9%
2023	8	4.3%
2024	8	4.3%
2025partial year	11	5.9%

Which technologies does Hamilton Beach Brands, Inc. patent most?

A47J - Kitchen EQUIPMENT; Coffee MILLS; Spice MILLS; Apparatus FOR Making Beverages 54

B01F - Mixing, e.g. Dissolving, Emulsifying OR Dispersing 14

D06F - Laundering, Drying, Ironing, Pressing OR Folding Textile Articles 8

A23L - Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Preparation OR Treatment Thereof 5

A23F - COFFEE; TEA; Their SUBSTITUTES; Manufacture, Preparation, OR Infusion Thereof 5

A23V - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages AND Lactic OR Propionic Acid Bacteria Used IN Foodstuffs OR Food Preparation 4

B02C - Crushing, Pulverising, OR Disintegrating IN GENERAL; Milling Grain 3

B65D - Containers FOR Storage OR Transport OF Articles OR Materials, e.g. Bags, Barrels, Bottles, Boxes, Cans, Cartons, Crates, Drums, Jars, Tanks, Hoppers, Forwarding CONTAINERS; Accessories, Closures, OR Fittings THEREFOR; Packaging ELEMENTS; Packages 3

B08B - Cleaning IN GENERAL; Prevention OF Fouling IN General 3

A23P - Shaping OR Working OF Foodstuffs, NOT Fully Covered BY A Single Other Subclass 2

F24C - Domestic Stoves OR Ranges ; Details OF Domestic Stoves OR Ranges, OF General Application 2

B67B - Applying Closure Members TO Bottles Jars, OR Similar CONTAINERS; Opening Closed Containers 2

A23B - Preservation OF Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic BEVERAGES; Chemical Ripening OF Fruit OR Vegetables 2

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 2

A22C - Processing Meat, Poultry, OR Fish 2

Top 15 of 36 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

Hamilton Beach Brands, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Hamilton Beach Brands, Inc.'s lead technology class is A47J (Kitchen EQUIPMENT; Coffee MILLS; Spice MILLS; Apparatus FOR Making Beverages), 28.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A47J
Ranked #2,099 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Hamilton Beach Brands, Inc. against Avision Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 45.4/100 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

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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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