Where does Hennessy Industries, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Hennessy Industries, Inc. ranks #22,707 of 50,000 assignees by granted-patent volume, the same sort as the companies listing and top-holders ranking. See /methodology/#corpus-placement.

How many patents does Hennessy Industries, Inc. hold?

Hennessy Industries, Inc. holds 12 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2024, spanning 11 technology areas.

What is Hennessy Industries, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Hennessy Industries, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 51.1 out of 100 (top 12% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Hennessy Industries, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Hennessy Industries, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -50% 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 Hennessy Industries, Inc.'s patents?

Hennessy Industries, Inc.'s patents average 17.6 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 Hennessy Industries, 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

Hennessy Industries, Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Hennessy Industries, Inc. focus on?

Hennessy Industries, Inc.'s top technology area is B60C (VEHICLE TYRES; TYRE INFLATION; TYRE CHANGING; CONNECTING VALVES TO INFLATABLE ELASTIC BODIES IN GENERAL; DEVICES OR ARRANGEMENTS RELATED TO TYRES) with 8 patents. Grants appear in 11 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 12 granted patents across 11 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: B60C (VEHICLE TYRES; TYRE INFLATION; TYRE CHANGING; CONNECTING VALVES TO INFLATABLE ELASTIC BODIES IN GENERAL; DEVICES OR ARRANGEMENTS RELATED TO TYRES).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Hennessy ranks #22,707 of 50,000 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 12 patents across 11 technology areas.

#22,707
of 50,000 US assignees by volume: Top 12%
by Innovation Score (51.1/100): 17.6
avg claims per patent: -50%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R22707 · US Corporation #22,707 · 12 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 12 grants
MID-PACK #22,707/50,000
PHOTO-FINISH Head's Select
CPC-FOCUS B60C · 11 areas
INNOV-PAR 51.1/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.6 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -50% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Head's Select, 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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Hennessy Industries · this assignee

51
3D Lighting Innovati… · lowest

7

What this shows Hennessy's Innovation Score is 51.1/100 (top 12% 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.

Where Hennessy's grants concentrate

Hennessy Industries, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 11 CPC subclasses with 66.7% of grants classified under B60C (VEHICLE TYRES; TYRE INFLATION; TYRE CHANGING; CONNECTING VALVES TO INFLATABLE ELASTIC BODIES IN GENERAL; DEVICES OR ARRANGEMENTS RELATED TO TYRES). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (4 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2017. By volume, Hennessy sits between Head's Select, Inc. and Hologram Holdings I, Inc..

Head's Select

12
Hebei Fenger Inte…

12
Heizer Defense

12
Heliogen Holdings

12
High Performance…

12
Highradius

12
Hitachi Transport…

12
Hologram Holdings…

12
Hennessy Industri… ◀

12

What this shows Hennessy holds 12 patents at rank #22,722, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Hennessy

By rank, the assignees closest to #22,722 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B60C (Vehicle Tyres)

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

Hennessy's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

51 Top 12% higher than 88% of 50,000 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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Hennessy Industries, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	4	33.3%
2016	2	16.7%
2017	1	8.3%
2018	1	8.3%
2020	1	8.3%
2022	2	16.7%
2024	1	8.3%

Which technologies does Hennessy Industries, Inc. patent most?

B60C - VEHICLE TYRES; TYRE INFLATION; TYRE CHANGING; CONNECTING VALVES TO INFLATABLE ELASTIC BODIES IN GENERAL; DEVICES OR ARRANGEMENTS RELATED TO TYRES 8

Y10T - TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION 4

F16F - SPRINGS; SHOCK-ABSORBERS; MEANS FOR DAMPING VIBRATION 3

B23P - METAL-WORKING NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; COMBINED OPERATIONS; UNIVERSAL MACHINE TOOLS 2

F16C - SHAFTS; FLEXIBLE SHAFTS; ELEMENTS OR CRANKSHAFT MECHANISMS; ROTARY BODIES OTHER THAN GEARING ELEMENTS; BEARINGS 2

B60S - SERVICING, CLEANING, REPAIRING, SUPPORTING, LIFTING, OR MANOEUVRING OF VEHICLES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR 2

F16B - DEVICES FOR FASTENING OR SECURING CONSTRUCTIONAL ELEMENTS OR MACHINE PARTS TOGETHER, e.g. NAILS, BOLTS, CIRCLIPS, CLAMPS, CLIPS OR WEDGES; JOINTS OR JOINTING 1

F04B - POSITIVE-DISPLACEMENT MACHINES FOR LIQUIDS; PUMPS 1

B05B - SPRAYING APPARATUS; ATOMISING APPARATUS; NOZZLES 1

B25G - HANDLES FOR HAND IMPLEMENTS 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

Top 11 of 11 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#22,707

of 50,000 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

51.1 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

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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