Where does Hatch Ltd. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Hatch Ltd. ranks #8,600 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 Hatch Ltd. hold?

Hatch Ltd. holds 37 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2024, spanning 55 technology areas.

What is Hatch Ltd.'s Innovation Score?

Hatch Ltd. has an Innovation Score of 52.8 out of 100 (top 10% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Hatch Ltd.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Hatch Ltd.'s recent grant velocity is -46% 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 Hatch Ltd.'s patents?

Hatch Ltd.'s patents average 22.6 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 Hatch 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

Hatch Ltd.

Q: What technology areas does Hatch Ltd. focus on?

Hatch Ltd.'s top technology area is F27D (Details OR Accessories OF Furnaces, Kilns, Ovens OR Retorts, IN SO FAR AS They ARE OF Kinds Occurring IN More Than ONE Kind OF Furnace) with 16 patents, ranking #14 of 350 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 55 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 37 granted patents across 55 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2024. 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: F27D (Details OR Accessories OF Furnaces, Kilns, Ovens OR Retorts, IN SO FAR AS They ARE OF Kinds Occurring IN More Than ONE Kind OF Furnace).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Hatch ranks #8,600 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 37 patents across 55 technology areas.

#8,600
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 10%
by Innovation Score (52.8/100): 22.6
avg claims per patent: -46%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R8600 · Foreign Corporation #8,600 · 37 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 37 grants
UPPER-Q #8,600/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Hartmetall-Werkzeugf…
CPC-WIDE F27D · 55 areas
INNOV-PAR 52.8/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 22.6 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -46% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Hartmetall-Werkzeugfabrik Paul Horn GmbH (±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 Hatch’s 52.8 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 12.6 pts (24%) Velocity 1.7 pts (3%) Breadth 25.0 pts (47%) Claim depth 13.6 pts (26%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Biotronik · near

53
Boehringer Ingelheim… · near

53
GD Energy Products · near

53
Hatch · this assignee

53
HCL America · near

53
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Hatch's Innovation Score is 52.8/100 (top 10% 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 Hatch?

Each dot is one of Hatch’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). Hatch’s own 22.6 claims/patent is ABOVE the 14.4 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How Hatch's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Hatch Ltd. received 13 grants versus 24 in 2015–2019 (-46% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2016 at 7 grants and bottomed in 2022 at 1. Lead class F27D accounts for 43.2% of the portfolio across 55 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Hercules LLC (#8,600) and IBC Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (#8,608).

Hatch's three-year grant acceleration

Hatch Ltd. shows 4 grants in 2022–2024 against only 16 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.

Hercules

37
Hitachi Automotiv…

37
Hsni

37
Hartmetall-werkze…

37
House of Atlas

37
Humabs Biomed

37
Hutzler Manufactu…

37
IBC Pharmaceutica…

37
Hatch ◀

37

What this shows Hatch holds 37 patents at rank #8,604, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Hatch

By rank, the assignees closest to #8,604 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F27D (Details OR Accessories OF Furnaces)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Hatch, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In F27D (Details OR Accessories OF Furnaces), Hatch ranks #14 of 350 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (53 here).

HCL America Inc. 53 GD Energy Products, LLC 53 Boehringer Ingelheim Animal Health USA Inc. 53 Biotronik AG 53

Hatch's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

53 Top 10% higher than 90% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2024

Grants by year

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

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Hatch Ltd. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	2	5.4%
2016	7	18.9%
2017	5	13.5%
2018	3	8.1%
2019	7	18.9%
2020	3	8.1%
2021	6	16.2%
2022	1	2.7%
2024	3	8.1%

Which technologies does Hatch Ltd. patent most?

F27D - Details OR Accessories OF Furnaces, Kilns, Ovens OR Retorts, IN SO FAR AS They ARE OF Kinds Occurring IN More Than ONE Kind OF Furnace 16

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 14

F27B - Furnaces, Kilns, Ovens OR Retorts IN GENERAL; Open Sintering OR Like Apparatus 12

C22B - Production AND Refining OF Metals ; Pretreatment OF RAW Materials 9

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 6

H05B - Electric HEATING; Electric Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Circuit Arrangements FOR Electric Light Sources, IN General 5

C01G - Compounds Containing Metals NOT Covered BY Subclasses C01d OR C01f 5

C21B - Manufacture OF Iron OR Steel 4

G01B - Measuring Length, Thickness OR Similar Linear DIMENSIONS; Measuring ANGLES; Measuring AREAS; Measuring Irregularities OF Surfaces OR Contours 4

B22D - Casting OF METALS; Casting OF Other Substances BY THE Same Processes OR Devices 4

B01J - Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus 4

H02J - Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy 3

G01F - Measuring Volume, Volume Flow, Mass Flow OR Liquid LEVEL; Metering BY Volume 3

G01S - Radio DIRECTION-FINDING; Radio NAVIGATION; Determining Distance OR Velocity BY USE OF Radio WAVES; Locating OR Presence-detecting BY USE OF THE Reflection OR Reradiation OF Radio WAVES; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves 3

C01D - Compounds OF Alkali Metals, i.e. Lithium, Sodium, Potassium, Rubidium, Caesium, OR Francium 3

Top 15 of 55 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

Hatch Ltd.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Hatch Ltd.'s lead technology class is F27D (Details OR Accessories OF Furnaces, Kilns, Ovens OR Retorts, IN SO FAR AS They ARE OF Kinds Occurring IN More Than ONE Kind OF Furnace), 43.2% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F27D
Ranked #8,600 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Hatch Ltd. against Hercules LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 52.8/100 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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