Where does HawkEye 360, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), HawkEye 360, Inc. ranks #18,705 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 HawkEye 360, Inc. hold?

HawkEye 360, Inc. holds 15 US utility patents granted between 2017 and 2024, spanning 5 technology areas.

What is HawkEye 360, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

HawkEye 360, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 37.0 out of 100 (top 45% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is HawkEye 360, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

HawkEye 360, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +50% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for HawkEye 360, Inc.'s patents?

HawkEye 360, Inc.'s patents average 23.0 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 HawkEye 360, 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

HawkEye 360, Inc.

Q: What technology areas does HawkEye 360, Inc. focus on?

HawkEye 360, Inc.'s top technology area is 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) with 11 patents, ranking #508 of 3,153 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 5 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 15 granted patents across 5 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2017–2024. 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: 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 Arra).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Hawkeye ranks #18,705 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 15 patents across 5 technology areas.

#18,705
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 45%
by Innovation Score (37.0/100): 23.0
avg claims per patent: +50%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R18705 · US Corporation #18,705 · 15 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 15 grants
MID-PACK #18,705/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Handstands Promo
CPC-NARROW G01S · 5 areas
INNOV-THIN 37.0/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 23.0 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +50% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Handstands Promo, LLC (±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 Hawkeye’s 37.0 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 9.6 pts (26%) Velocity 5.7 pts (15%) Breadth 7.9 pts (21%) Claim depth 13.8 pts (37%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Kawasaki Robotics… · near

37
Nokia Siemens… · near

37
Vision Ease · near

37
HawkEye 360 · this assignee

37
Kadtc Pet Supplies · near

37
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Hawkeye's Innovation Score is 37.0/100 (top 45% 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 Hawkeye?

Each dot is one of Hawkeye’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). Hawkeye’s own 23.0 claims/patent is ABOVE the 14.7 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Hawkeye's grants concentrate

HawkEye 360, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 5 CPC subclasses with 73.3% of grants classified under 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 Arra). Peak complete grant year is 2019 (4 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2017. By volume, Hawkeye sits between Handstands Promo, LLC and Henan Polytechnic University.

Hawkeye's three-year grant acceleration

HawkEye 360, Inc. shows 6 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.

Handstands Promo

15
Handy & Harman

15
Hangzhou Hikvisio…

15
Hans Heidolph

15
Heart Repair

15
Heat Biologics

15
Hecktech

15
Henan Polytechnic…

15
Hawkeye 360 ◀

15

What this shows HawkEye holds 15 patents at rank #18,718, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near HawkEye

By rank, the assignees closest to #18,718 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G01S (Radio Direction-finding)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for HawkEye, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G01S (Radio Direction-finding), HawkEye ranks #508 of 3,153 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (37 here).

Vision Ease, LP 37 Kawasaki Robotics (USA), Inc. 37 Kadtc Pet Supplies Inc 37 Nokia Siemens Networks Oy 37

Hawkeye's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

37 Top 45% higher than 55% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2017–2024

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2017–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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HawkEye 360, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2017	1	6.7%
2018	1	6.7%
2019	4	26.7%
2020	3	20.0%
2022	3	20.0%
2023	1	6.7%
2024	2	13.3%

Which technologies does HawkEye 360, Inc. patent most?

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 11

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 9

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 4

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 4

H04B - Transmission 4

Top 5 of 5 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

HawkEye 360, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

HawkEye 360, Inc.'s lead technology class is 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 Arra), 73.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G01S
Ranked #18,705 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare HawkEye 360, Inc. against Handstands Promo, LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 37.0/100 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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