Where does Hatco Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Hatco Corporation ranks #8,403 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 Hatco Corporation hold?

Hatco Corporation holds 38 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 22 technology areas.

What is Hatco Corporation's Innovation Score?

Hatco Corporation has an Innovation Score of 41.9 out of 100 (top 32% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Hatco Corporation focus on?

Hatco Corporation's top technology area is A47J (Kitchen EQUIPMENT; Coffee MILLS; Spice MILLS; Apparatus FOR Making Beverages) with 15 patents, ranking #68 of 793 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 22 CPC subclasses total.

Is Hatco Corporation's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Hatco Corporation's recent grant velocity is -29% 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 Hatco Corporation's patents?

Hatco Corporation's patents average 8.8 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 Hatco Corporation 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

Hatco Corporation

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 38 granted patents across 22 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).

Compiled by PlainPatent · May 15, 2026

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Hatco ranks #8,403 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 38 patents across 22 technology areas.

#8,403
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 32%
by Innovation Score (41.9/100): 8.8
avg claims per patent: -29%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R8403 · US Corporation #8,403 · 38 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-PAR · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 38 grants
UPPER-Q #8,403/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Godinger Silver Art
CPC-FOCUS A47J · 22 areas
INNOV-PAR 41.9/100
CLAIMS-PAR 8.8 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DOWN -29% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Godinger Silver Art 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 Hatco’s 41.9 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 12.7 pts (30%) Velocity 7.3 pts (17%) Breadth 16.6 pts (40%) Claim depth 5.3 pts (13%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Combis Sport… · near

42
Gordon Sales · near

42
Great Dane · near

42
Hatco · this assignee

42
iLumisys · near

42
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Hatco's Innovation Score is 41.9/100 (top 32% 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 Hatco?

Each dot is one of Hatco’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). Hatco’s own 8.8 claims/patent is at or below the 14.7 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Hatco's grants concentrate

Hatco Corporation is a focused PatentsView assignee: 22 CPC subclasses with 39.5% of grants classified under A47J (Kitchen EQUIPMENT; Coffee MILLS; Spice MILLS; Apparatus FOR Making Beverages). Peak complete grant year is 2018 (8 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2015. By volume, Hatco sits between Godinger Silver Art Ltd. and Hinkley Lighting, Inc..

Hatco's three-year grant acceleration

Hatco Corporation shows 11 grants in 2022–2024 against only 10 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.

Godinger Silver A…

38
Goodman Manufactu…

38
Guehring KG

38
Hannstouch Soluti…

38
Heckler & Koch

38
Husco Automotive…

38
Hannibal IP

38
Hinkley Lighting

38
Hatco ◀

38

What this shows Hatco holds 38 patents at rank #8,402, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Hatco

By rank, the assignees closest to #8,402 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A47J (Kitchen Equipment)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Hatco, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A47J (Kitchen Equipment), Hatco ranks #68 of 793 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (42 here).

iLumisys, Inc. 42 Combis Sport Enterprise Co., Ltd. 42 Great Dane LLC 42 Gordon Sales, Inc. 42

Hatco's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

42 Top 32% higher than 68% 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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Hatco Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1	2.6%
2016	4	10.5%
2017	2	5.3%
2018	8	21.1%
2019	6	15.8%
2020	2	5.3%
2021	2	5.3%
2022	4	10.5%
2023	3	7.9%
2024	4	10.5%
2025partial year	2	5.3%

Which technologies does Hatco Corporation patent most?

A47J - Kitchen EQUIPMENT; Coffee MILLS; Spice MILLS; Apparatus FOR Making Beverages 15

H05B - Electric HEATING; Electric Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Circuit Arrangements FOR Electric Light Sources, IN General 9

A47F - Special Furniture, Fittings, OR Accessories FOR Shops, Storehouses, Bars, Restaurants OR THE LIKE; Paying Counters 4

F21V - Functional Features OR Details OF Lighting Devices OR Systems THEREOF; Structural Combinations OF Lighting Devices With Other Articles, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 3

A21B - Bakers' OVENS; Machines OR Equipment FOR Baking 3

F24C - Domestic Stoves OR Ranges ; Details OF Domestic Stoves OR Ranges, OF General Application 3

G07F - Coin-freed OR Like Apparatus 3

G06Q - Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory Purposes, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 3

A47G - Household OR Table Equipment 3

G07C - Time OR Attendance REGISTERS; Registering OR Indicating THE Working OF MACHINES; Generating Random NUMBERS; Voting OR Lottery APPARATUS; Arrangements, Systems OR Apparatus FOR Checking NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere 3

F21Y - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses F21k, F21l, F21s and F21v, Relating TO THE Form OR THE Kind OF THE Light Sources OR OF THE Colour OF THE Light Emitted 2

F27B - Furnaces, Kilns, Ovens OR Retorts IN GENERAL; Open Sintering OR Like Apparatus 2

Y02B - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Buildings, e.g. Housing, House Appliances OR Related End-user Applications 2

F25B - Refrigeration Machines, Plants OR SYSTEMS; Combined Heating AND Refrigeration SYSTEMS; Heat Pump Systems 1

F21S - Non-portable Lighting DEVICES; Systems THEREOF; Vehicle Lighting Devices Specially Adapted FOR Vehicle Exteriors 1

Top 15 of 22 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

Hatco Corporation's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Hatco Corporation's lead technology class is A47J (Kitchen EQUIPMENT; Coffee MILLS; Spice MILLS; Apparatus FOR Making Beverages), 39.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A47J
Ranked #8,403 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Hatco Corporation against Godinger Silver Art Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 41.9/100 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

Every figure on PlainPatent is rendered directly from USPTO source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on USPTO source data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 2026.