Where does Heckler & Koch GmbH rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Heckler & Koch GmbH ranks #8,404 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 Heckler & Koch GmbH hold?

Heckler & Koch GmbH holds 38 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 7 technology areas.

What is Heckler & Koch GmbH's Innovation Score?

Heckler & Koch GmbH has an Innovation Score of 36.9 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 Heckler & Koch GmbH's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Heckler & Koch GmbH's recent grant velocity is +83% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Heckler & Koch GmbH's patents?

Heckler & Koch GmbH's patents average 14.7 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 Heckler & Koch GmbH 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

Heckler & Koch GmbH

Q: What technology areas does Heckler & Koch GmbH focus on?

Heckler & Koch GmbH's top technology area is F41A (Functional Features OR Details Common TO Both Smallarms AND Ordnance, e.g. CANNONS; Mountings FOR Smallarms OR Ordnance) with 29 patents, ranking #12 of 374 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 7 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 38 granted patents across 7 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: F41A (Functional Features OR Details Common TO Both Smallarms AND Ordnance, e.g. CANNONS; Mountings FOR Smallarms OR Ordnance).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Heckler ranks #8,404 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 38 patents across 7 technology areas.

#8,404
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 45%
by Innovation Score (36.9/100): 14.7
avg claims per patent: +83%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R8404 · Foreign Corporation #8,404 · 38 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 38 grants
UPPER-Q #8,404/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Goodman Manufacturing
CPC-NARROW F41A · 7 areas
INNOV-THIN 36.9/100
CLAIMS-RICH 14.7 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +83% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Goodman Manufacturing Company, L.P. (±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 Heckler’s 36.9 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 (34%) Velocity 6.1 pts (16%) Breadth 9.4 pts (25%) Claim depth 8.8 pts (24%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Broncus Medical · near

37
FinancialForce com · near

37
Heckler & Koch · this assignee

37
TE Connectivity… · near

37
Techinsights · near

37
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Heckler's Innovation Score is 36.9/100 (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 Heckler?

Each dot is one of Heckler’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). Heckler’s own 14.7 claims/patent is at or below the 15.3 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Heckler's grants concentrate

Heckler & Koch GmbH is a focused PatentsView assignee: 7 CPC subclasses with 76.3% of grants classified under F41A (Functional Features OR Details Common TO Both Smallarms AND Ordnance, e.g. CANNONS; Mountings FOR Smallarms OR Ordnance). Peak complete grant year is 2017 (7 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2018. By volume, Heckler sits between Goodman Manufacturing Company, L.P. and Indium Corporation.

Heckler's three-year grant acceleration

Heckler & Koch GmbH shows 11 grants in 2022–2024 against only 12 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.

Goodman Manufactu…

38
Guehring KG

38
Hannstouch Soluti…

38
Hatco

38
Husco Automotive…

38
Hannibal IP

38
Hinkley Lighting

38
Indium

38
Heckler & Koch ◀

38

What this shows Heckler holds 38 patents at rank #8,403, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Heckler

By rank, the assignees closest to #8,403 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F41A (Functional Features OR Details Common TO Both Smallarms A…)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Heckler, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In F41A (Functional Features OR Details Common TO Both Smallarms A…), Heckler ranks #12 of 374 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (37 here).

Broncus Medical Inc. 37 FinancialForce.com, Inc. 37 TE Connectivity Sensors Germany GmbH 37 Techinsights Inc. 37

Heckler'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 · 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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Heckler & Koch GmbH patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	3	7.9%
2017	7	18.4%
2018	1	2.6%
2019	1	2.6%
2020	7	18.4%
2021	4	10.5%
2022	4	10.5%
2023	3	7.9%
2024	4	10.5%
2025partial year	4	10.5%

Which technologies does Heckler & Koch GmbH patent most?

F41A - Functional Features OR Details Common TO Both Smallarms AND Ordnance, e.g. CANNONS; Mountings FOR Smallarms OR Ordnance 29

F41C - Smallarms, e.g. Pistols, Rifles ; Accessories Therefor 8

F41G - Weapon SIGHTS; Aiming 5

F42C - Ammunition Fuzes ; Arming OR Safety Means Therefor 1

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 1

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 1

G01P - Measuring Linear OR Angular Speed, Acceleration, Deceleration, OR SHOCK; Indicating Presence, Absence, OR Direction, OF Movement 1

Top 7 of 7 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

Heckler & Koch GmbH's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Heckler & Koch GmbH's lead technology class is F41A (Functional Features OR Details Common TO Both Smallarms AND Ordnance, e.g. CANNONS; Mountings FOR Smallarms OR Ordnance), 76.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F41A
Ranked #8,404 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Heckler & Koch GmbH against Goodman Manufacturing Company, L.P., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 36.9/100 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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