Where does Hanwha Azdel, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Hanwha Azdel, Inc. ranks #13,453 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 Hanwha Azdel, Inc. hold?

Hanwha Azdel, Inc. holds 22 US utility patents granted between 2018 and 2025, spanning 25 technology areas.

What is Hanwha Azdel, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Hanwha Azdel, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 50.1 out of 100 (top 13% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Hanwha Azdel, Inc. focus on?

Hanwha Azdel, Inc.'s top technology area is B32B (Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form) with 19 patents, ranking #220 of 3,088 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 25 CPC subclasses total.

Is Hanwha Azdel, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Hanwha Azdel, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +467% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Hanwha Azdel, Inc.'s patents?

Hanwha Azdel, Inc.'s patents average 16.9 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 Hanwha Azdel, 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

Hanwha Azdel, Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 22 granted patents across 25 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2018–2025. 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: B32B (Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Hanwha ranks #13,453 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 22 patents across 25 technology areas.

#13,453
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 13%
by Innovation Score (50.1/100): 16.9
avg claims per patent: +467%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R13453 · US Corporation #13,453 · 22 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 22 grants
MID-PACK #13,453/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Harry's
CPC-FOCUS B32B · 25 areas
INNOV-PAR 50.1/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.9 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +467% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Harry's, 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 Hanwha’s 50.1 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 10.8 pts (22%) Velocity 11.4 pts (23%) Breadth 17.7 pts (35%) Claim depth 10.2 pts (20%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Hanwha Azdel · this assignee

50
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Hanwha's Innovation Score is 50.1/100 (top 13% 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 Hanwha?

Each dot is one of Hanwha’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). Hanwha’s own 16.9 claims/patent is ABOVE the 7.0 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Hanwha's grants concentrate

Hanwha Azdel, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 25 CPC subclasses with 86.4% of grants classified under B32B (Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form). Peak complete grant year is 2023 (6 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2018. By volume, Hanwha sits between Hospital CLÍNIC DE Barcelona and Henge Docks LLC.

Hanwha's three-year grant acceleration

Hanwha Azdel, Inc. shows 12 grants in 2022–2024 against only 7 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.

Hospital CLÍNIC D…

22
Huizhou University

22
Huvitz

22
Hypori

22
Harry's

22
Healthmate Intern…

22
Hed Cycling Produ…

22
Henge Docks

22
Hanwha Azdel ◀

22

What this shows Hanwha holds 22 patents at rank #13,462, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Hanwha

By rank, the assignees closest to #13,462 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B32B (Layered Products)

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

Hanwha's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

50 Top 13% higher than 87% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2018–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2018–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Hanwha Azdel, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2018	1	4.5%
2019	2	9.1%
2020	1	4.5%
2021	4	18.2%
2022	1	4.5%
2023	6	27.3%
2024	5	22.7%
2025partial year	2	9.1%

Which technologies does Hanwha Azdel, Inc. patent most?

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 19

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 8

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 7

C08J - WORKING-UP; General Processes OF COMPOUNDING; After-treatment NOT Covered BY Subclasses C08b, C08c, C08f, C08g or C08h 6

B29D - Producing Particular Articles From Plastics OR From Substances IN A Plastic State 5

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 5

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 4

C08K - Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances as compounding ingredients 4

B60R - Vehicles, Vehicle Fittings, OR Vehicle Parts, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 3

D04H - Making Textile Fabrics, e.g. From Fibres OR Filamentary Material ; Fabrics Made BY Such Processes OR Apparatus, e.g. Felts, Non-woven FABRICS; COTTON-WOOL; Wadding ; ; Non-woven Fabrics From Staple Fibres, Filaments OR Yarns, Bonded With AT Least ONE Web-like Material During Their Consolidation 3

C08L - Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds 3

B62D - Motor VEHICLES; Trailers 3

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 3

E04B - General Building CONSTRUCTIONS; Walls, e.g. PARTITIONS; ROOFS; FLOORS; CEILINGS; Insulation OR Other Protection OF Buildings 2

D01F - Chemical Features IN THE Manufacture OF Artificial Filaments, Threads, Fibres, Bristles OR RIBBONS; Apparatus Specially Adapted FOR THE Manufacture OF Carbon Filaments 2

Top 15 of 25 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

Hanwha Azdel, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Hanwha Azdel, Inc.'s lead technology class is B32B (Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form), 86.4% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B32B
Ranked #13,453 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Hanwha Azdel, Inc. against Hospital CLÍNIC DE Barcelona, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 50.1/100 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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