Where does Hayes Bicycle Group Inc rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Hayes Bicycle Group Inc ranks #16,853 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 Hayes Bicycle Group Inc hold?

Hayes Bicycle Group Inc holds 17 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2024, spanning 8 technology areas.

What is Hayes Bicycle Group Inc's Innovation Score?

Hayes Bicycle Group Inc has an Innovation Score of 43.9 out of 100 (top 27% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Hayes Bicycle Group Inc's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Hayes Bicycle Group Inc's recent grant velocity is +43% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). The company is maintaining or growing its granted-patent output.

What does claim depth mean for Hayes Bicycle Group Inc's patents?

Hayes Bicycle Group Inc's patents average 23.1 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 Hayes Bicycle Group 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

Hayes Bicycle Group Inc

Q: What technology areas does Hayes Bicycle Group Inc focus on?

Hayes Bicycle Group Inc's top technology area is B62K (CYCLES; Cycle FRAMES; Cycle Steering DEVICES; Rider-operated Terminal Controls Specially Adapted FOR CYCLES; Cycle Axle SUSPENSIONS; Cycle Side-cars, Forecars, OR THE Like) with 11 patents, ranking #43 of 302 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 8 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 17 granted patents across 8 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: B62K (CYCLES; Cycle FRAMES; Cycle Steering DEVICES; Rider-operated Terminal Controls Specially Adapted FOR CYCLES; Cycle Axle SUSPENSIONS; Cycle Side-cars, Forecars, OR THE Like).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Hayes ranks #16,853 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 17 patents across 8 technology areas.

#16,853
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 27%
by Innovation Score (43.9/100): 23.1
avg claims per patent: +43%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R16853 · US Corporation #16,853 · 17 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 17 grants
MID-PACK #16,853/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Hangzhou Vango
CPC-NARROW B62K · 8 areas
INNOV-PAR 43.9/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 23.1 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-UP +43% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Hangzhou Vango Technologies, 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 Hayes’s 43.9 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 (23%) Velocity 10.0 pts (23%) Breadth 10.0 pts (23%) Claim depth 13.9 pts (32%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Hayes Bicycle Group · this assignee

44
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Hayes's Innovation Score is 43.9/100 (top 27% 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 Hayes?

Each dot is one of Hayes’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). Hayes’s own 23.1 claims/patent is ABOVE the 10.3 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Hayes's grants concentrate

Hayes Bicycle Group Inc is a focused PatentsView assignee: 8 CPC subclasses with 64.7% of grants classified under B62K (CYCLES; Cycle FRAMES; Cycle Steering DEVICES; Rider-operated Terminal Controls Specially Adapted FOR CYCLES; Cycle Axle SUSPENSIONS; Cycle Side-cars, Forecars, OR THE Like). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (2 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2017. By volume, Hayes sits between Hangzhou Vango Technologies, Inc. and Hexcel Reinforcements.

Hayes's three-year grant acceleration

Hayes Bicycle Group Inc shows 6 grants in 2022–2024 against only 4 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.

Hangzhou Vango

17
Hanwha Total Petr…

17
Harsco

17
Haselmeier

17
Health Management…

17
Heraeus Kulzer

17
Hevo

17
Hexcel Reinforcem…

17
Hayes Bicycle Gro… ◀

17

What this shows Hayes holds 17 patents at rank #16,851, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Hayes

By rank, the assignees closest to #16,851 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B62K (Cycles)

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

Hayes's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

44 Top 27% higher than 73% 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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Hayes Bicycle Group Inc patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	2	11.8%
2016	2	11.8%
2017	1	5.9%
2018	2	11.8%
2020	2	11.8%
2021	2	11.8%
2022	2	11.8%
2023	2	11.8%
2024	2	11.8%

Which technologies does Hayes Bicycle Group Inc patent most?

B62K - CYCLES; Cycle FRAMES; Cycle Steering DEVICES; Rider-operated Terminal Controls Specially Adapted FOR CYCLES; Cycle Axle SUSPENSIONS; Cycle Side-cars, Forecars, OR THE Like 11

F16F - SPRINGS; SHOCK-ABSORBERS; Means FOR Damping Vibration 8

B62L - Brakes Specially Adapted FOR Cycles 5

B60T - Vehicle Brake Control Systems OR Parts THEREOF; Brake Control Systems OR Parts Thereof, IN General ; Arrangement OF Braking Elements ON Vehicles IN GENERAL; Portable Devices FOR Preventing Unwanted Movement OF VEHICLES; Vehicle Modifications TO Facilitate Cooling OF Brakes 5

F16D - Couplings FOR Transmitting ROTATION; CLUTCHES; Brakes 4

B60G - Vehicle Suspension Arrangements 2

B60B - Vehicle Wheels ; CASTORS; Axles FOR Wheels OR CASTORS; Increasing Wheel Adhesion 2

B62D - Motor VEHICLES; Trailers 1

Top 8 of 8 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

Hayes Bicycle Group Inc's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Hayes Bicycle Group Inc's lead technology class is B62K (CYCLES; Cycle FRAMES; Cycle Steering DEVICES; Rider-operated Terminal Controls Specially Adapted FOR CYCLES; Cycle Axle SUSPENSIONS; Cycle Side-cars, Forecars, OR THE Like), 64.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B62K
Ranked #16,853 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Hayes Bicycle Group Inc against Hangzhou Vango Technologies, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 43.9/100 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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