Where does Henniges Automotive Sealing Systems North America, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Henniges Automotive Sealing Systems North America, Inc. ranks #17,742 of 49,997 assignees by granted-patent volume, the same sort as the companies listing and top-holders ranking. See /methodology/#corpus-placement.

Is Henniges Automotive Sealing Systems North America, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Henniges Automotive Sealing Systems North America, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -33% 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 Henniges Automotive Sealing Systems North America, Inc.'s patents?

Henniges Automotive Sealing Systems North America, Inc.'s patents average 17.9 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.

USPTO 2015–2025 USPTO PatentsView US Corporation

Henniges Automotive Sealing Systems North America, Inc.

Q: How many patents does Henniges Automotive Sealing Systems North America, Inc. hold?

Henniges Automotive Sealing Systems North America, Inc. holds 16 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 8 technology areas.

Q: What is Henniges Automotive Sealing Systems North America, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Henniges Automotive Sealing Systems North America, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 31.6 out of 100 (38th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Q: What technology areas does Henniges Automotive Sealing Systems North America, Inc. focus on?

Henniges Automotive Sealing Systems North America, Inc.'s top technology area is B60J (Windows, Windscreens, Non-fixed Roofs, Doors, OR Similar Devices FOR VEHICLES; Removable External Protective Coverings Specially Adapted FOR Vehicles) with 16 patents, ranking #48 of 418 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 8 CPC subclasses total.

Q: How is the Henniges Automotive Sealing Systems North America, 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 PatentsView assignee record - 16 granted patents across 8 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: B60J (Windows, Windscreens, Non-fixed Roofs, Doors, OR Similar Devices FOR VEHICLES; Removable External Protective Coverings Specially Adapted FOR Vehicles).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Henniges ranks #17,742 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 16 patents across 8 technology areas.

#17,742
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 38th percentile
by Innovation Score (31.6/100): 17.9
avg claims per patent: -33%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R17742 · US Corporation #17,742 · 16 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 16 grants
MID-PACK #17,742/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Hankookin
CPC-NARROW B60J · 8 areas
INNOV-THIN 31.6/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.9 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DOWN -33% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Hankookin 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 Henniges’s 31.6 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 9.8 pts (31%) Velocity 1.1 pts (3%) Breadth 10.0 pts (32%) Claim depth 10.7 pts (34%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Henniges Automotive… · this assignee

32
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Henniges's Innovation Score is 31.6/100 (38th 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 Henniges?

Each dot is one of Henniges’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). Henniges’s own 17.9 claims/patent is ABOVE the 13.9 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Henniges's grants concentrate

Henniges Automotive Sealing Systems North America, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 8 CPC subclasses with 100% of grants classified under B60J (Windows, Windscreens, Non-fixed Roofs, Doors, OR Similar Devices FOR VEHICLES; Removable External Protective Coverings Specially Adapted FOR Vehicles). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (3 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2017. By volume, Henniges sits between Hankookin Inc and Hirschmann Automotive GmbH.

Henniges's three-year grant acceleration

Henniges Automotive Sealing Systems North America, Inc. shows 1 grants in 2022–2024 against only 6 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.

Hankookin

16
Heartstitch

16
Heidelberg Pharma…

16
Hengst SE & KG

16
Hexal

16
Highland Instrume…

16
Hinge Health

16
Hirschmann Automo…

16
Henniges Automoti… ◀

16

What this shows Henniges holds 16 patents at rank #17,753, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Henniges

By rank, the assignees closest to #17,753 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B60J (Windows)

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

Henniges's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

32 38th percentile higher than 38% 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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Henniges Automotive Sealing Systems North America, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	3	18.8%
2016	2	12.5%
2017	1	6.3%
2018	2	12.5%
2019	1	6.3%
2020	2	12.5%
2021	3	18.8%
2023	1	6.3%
2025partial year	1	6.3%

Which technologies does Henniges Automotive Sealing Systems North America, Inc. patent most?

B60J - Windows, Windscreens, Non-fixed Roofs, Doors, OR Similar Devices FOR VEHICLES; Removable External Protective Coverings Specially Adapted FOR Vehicles 16

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 8

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 8

B29K - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses B29b, B29c OR B29d, Relating TO Moulding Materials OR TO Materials FOR ; Moulds, ; Reinforcements, Fillers OR Preformed Parts, e.g. Inserts 6

B60R - Vehicles, Vehicle Fittings, OR Vehicle Parts, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 6

E06B - Fixed OR Movable Closures FOR Openings IN Buildings, Vehicles, Fences OR Like Enclosures IN General, e.g. Doors, Windows, Blinds, Gates 4

B60Y - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Aspects Cross-cutting Vehicle Technology 3

B29D - Producing Particular Articles From Plastics OR From Substances IN A Plastic State 2

Top 8 of 8 technology areas

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Data Source

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What to do with this data

Henniges Automotive Sealing Systems North America, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Henniges Automotive Sealing Systems North America, Inc.'s lead technology class is B60J (Windows, Windscreens, Non-fixed Roofs, Doors, OR Similar Devices FOR VEHICLES; Removable External Protective Coverings Specially Adapted FOR Vehicles), 100% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B60J
Ranked #17,742 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Henniges Automotive Sealing Systems North America, Inc. against Hankookin Inc, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 31.6/100 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

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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

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