Where does Henn GmbH & Co KG. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Henn GmbH & Co KG. ranks #16,855 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 Henn GmbH & Co KG. hold?

Henn GmbH & Co KG. holds 17 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2024, spanning 14 technology areas.

What is Henn GmbH & Co KG.'s Innovation Score?

Henn GmbH & Co KG. has an Innovation Score of 34.3 out of 100 (47th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Henn GmbH & Co KG.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Henn GmbH & Co KG.'s recent grant velocity is +13% 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 Henn GmbH & Co KG.'s patents?

Henn GmbH & Co KG.'s patents average 12.3 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 Henn GmbH & Co KG. 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

Henn GmbH & Co KG.

Q: What technology areas does Henn GmbH & Co KG. focus on?

Henn GmbH & Co KG.'s top technology area is F16L (PIPES; Joints OR Fittings FOR PIPES; Supports FOR Pipes, Cables OR Protective TUBING; Means FOR Thermal Insulation IN General) with 16 patents, ranking #108 of 1,907 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 14 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 17 granted patents across 14 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: F16L (PIPES; Joints OR Fittings FOR PIPES; Supports FOR Pipes, Cables OR Protective TUBING; Means FOR Thermal Insulation IN General).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Henn ranks #16,855 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 17 patents across 14 technology areas.

#16,855
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 47th percentile
by Innovation Score (34.3/100): 12.3
avg claims per patent: +13%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R16855 · Foreign Corporation #16,855 · 17 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-UP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 17 grants
MID-PACK #16,855/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Hanes Operations…
CPC-FOCUS F16L · 14 areas
INNOV-THIN 34.3/100
CLAIMS-RICH 12.3 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-UP +13% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Hanes Operations Europe SAS (±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 Henn’s 34.3 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 (29%) Velocity 3.7 pts (11%) Breadth 13.2 pts (38%) Claim depth 7.4 pts (22%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Henn & KG · this assignee

34
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Henn's Innovation Score is 34.3/100 (47th percentile 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 Henn?

Each dot is one of Henn’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). Henn’s own 12.3 claims/patent is ABOVE the 10.5 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Henn's grants concentrate

Henn GmbH & Co KG. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 14 CPC subclasses with 94.1% of grants classified under F16L (PIPES; Joints OR Fittings FOR PIPES; Supports FOR Pipes, Cables OR Protective TUBING; Means FOR Thermal Insulation IN General). Peak complete grant year is 2019 (5 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2015. By volume, Henn sits between Hubei Zuanma Intelligent Control Technology Co., Ltd and HyTrust, Inc..

Henn's three-year grant acceleration

Henn GmbH & Co KG. shows 5 grants in 2022–2024 against only 9 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.

Hubei Zuanma Inte…

17
Hydac Systems & S…

17
Hanes Operations…

17
Hangzhou Geo-chip…

17
Homag Holzbearbei…

17
Horizon IP Tech

17
Huizhou Light Eng…

17
Hytrust

17
Henn & KG ◀

17

What this shows Henn holds 17 patents at rank #16,865, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Henn

By rank, the assignees closest to #16,865 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F16L (Pipes)

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

Henn's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

34 47th percentile higher than 47% 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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Henn GmbH & Co KG. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1	5.9%
2017	1	5.9%
2018	1	5.9%
2019	5	29.4%
2020	2	11.8%
2021	2	11.8%
2022	3	17.6%
2024	2	11.8%

Which technologies does Henn GmbH & Co KG. patent most?

F16L - PIPES; Joints OR Fittings FOR PIPES; Supports FOR Pipes, Cables OR Protective TUBING; Means FOR Thermal Insulation IN General 16

F02M - Supplying Combustion Engines IN General With Combustible Mixtures OR Constituents Thereof 8

B21D - Working OR Processing OF Sheet Metal OR Metal Tubes, Rods OR Profiles Without Essentially Removing MATERIAL; Punching Metal 5

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 4

F02B - Internal-combustion Piston ENGINES; Combustion Engines IN General 3

F16J - Pistons ; CYLINDERS; Sealings 2

G10K - Sound-producing DEVICES; Methods OR Devices FOR Protecting Against, OR FOR Damping, Noise OR Other Acoustic Waves IN GENERAL; Acoustics NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 2

F04D - Non-positive-displacement Pumps 2

F02C - Gas-turbine PLANTS; AIR Intakes FOR Jet-propulsion PLANTS; Controlling Fuel Supply IN Air-breathing Jet-propulsion Plants 1

F05D - Indexing Scheme FOR Aspects Relating TO Non-positive-displacement Machines OR Engines, Gas-turbines OR Jet-propulsion Plants 1

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 1

G01B - Measuring Length, Thickness OR Similar Linear DIMENSIONS; Measuring ANGLES; Measuring AREAS; Measuring Irregularities OF Surfaces OR Contours 1

G01M - Testing Static OR Dynamic Balance OF Machines OR STRUCTURES; Testing OF Structures OR Apparatus, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 1

Top 14 of 14 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

Henn GmbH & Co KG.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Henn GmbH & Co KG.'s lead technology class is F16L (PIPES; Joints OR Fittings FOR PIPES; Supports FOR Pipes, Cables OR Protective TUBING; Means FOR Thermal Insulation IN General), 94.1% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F16L
Ranked #16,855 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Henn GmbH & Co KG. against Hubei Zuanma Intelligent Control Technology Co., Ltd, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 34.3/100 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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