Where does Hanes Operations Europe SAS rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Hanes Operations Europe SAS ranks #16,847 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 Hanes Operations Europe SAS hold?

Hanes Operations Europe SAS holds 17 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2022, spanning 11 technology areas.

What is Hanes Operations Europe SAS's Innovation Score?

Hanes Operations Europe SAS has an Innovation Score of 33.9 out of 100 (46th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Hanes Operations Europe SAS focus on?

Hanes Operations Europe SAS's top technology area is A41C (CORSETS; Brassieres) with 13 patents, ranking #6 of 67 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 11 CPC subclasses total.

Is Hanes Operations Europe SAS's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Hanes Operations Europe SAS's recent grant velocity is -58% 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 Hanes Operations Europe SAS's patents?

Hanes Operations Europe SAS's patents average 18.9 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 Hanes Operations Europe SAS 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

Hanes Operations Europe SAS

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 17 granted patents across 11 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2022. 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: A41C (CORSETS; Brassieres).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Hanes ranks #16,847 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 17 patents across 11 technology areas.

#16,847
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 46th percentile
by Innovation Score (33.9/100): 18.9
avg claims per patent: -58%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R16847 · Foreign Corporation #16,847 · 17 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 17 grants
MID-PACK #16,847/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Hangzhou Geo-Chip…
CPC-FOCUS A41C · 11 areas
INNOV-THIN 33.9/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.9 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -58% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Hangzhou Geo-Chip Technology 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.

How Hanes’s 33.9 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 10.0 pts (30%) Velocity 0.8 pts (2%) Breadth 11.7 pts (35%) Claim depth 11.3 pts (33%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Hanes Operations… · this assignee

34
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Hanes's Innovation Score is 33.9/100 (46th percentile 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 Hanes?

Each dot is one of Hanes’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). Hanes’s own 18.9 claims/patent is ABOVE the 10.2 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Hanes's grants concentrate

Hanes Operations Europe SAS is a focused PatentsView assignee: 11 CPC subclasses with 76.5% of grants classified under A41C (CORSETS; Brassieres). Peak complete grant year is 2017 (4 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2016. By volume, Hanes sits between HS Elektronik Systeme GmbH and Horizon IP Tech, LLC.

Hanes's three-year grant acceleration

Hanes Operations Europe SAS shows 1 grants in 2022–2024 against only 8 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.

HS Elektronik Sys…

17
Huaqiao University

17
Hubei Zuanma Inte…

17
Hydac Systems & S…

17
Hangzhou Geo-chip…

17
Henn & KG

17
Homag Holzbearbei…

17
Horizon IP Tech

17
Hanes Operations… ◀

17

What this shows Hanes holds 17 patents at rank #16,863, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Hanes

By rank, the assignees closest to #16,863 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A41C (Corsets)

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

Hanes's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

34 46th percentile higher than 46% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2022

Grants by year

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

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Hanes Operations Europe SAS patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	1	5.9%
2017	4	23.5%
2018	3	17.6%
2019	4	23.5%
2020	3	17.6%
2021	1	5.9%
2022	1	5.9%

Which technologies does Hanes Operations Europe SAS patent most?

A41C - CORSETS; Brassieres 13

A41B - SHIRTS; UNDERWEAR; Baby LINEN; Handkerchiefs 7

D04B - Knitting 3

A41F - Garment FASTENINGS; Suspenders 1

D06F - Laundering, Drying, Ironing, Pressing OR Folding Textile Articles 1

D02G - Crimping OR Curling Fibres, Filaments, Threads, OR YARNS; Yarns OR Threads 1

D06B - Treating Textile Materials Using Liquids, Gases OR Vapours 1

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 1

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 1

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 1

A41D - OUTERWEAR; Protective GARMENTS; Accessories 1

Top 11 of 11 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

Hanes Operations Europe SAS's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Hanes Operations Europe SAS's lead technology class is A41C (CORSETS; Brassieres), 76.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A41C
Ranked #16,847 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Hanes Operations Europe SAS against HS Elektronik Systeme GmbH, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 33.9/100 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

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