Where does Herakles rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Herakles ranks #4,771 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 Herakles hold?

Herakles holds 73 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2020, spanning 63 technology areas.

What is Herakles's Innovation Score?

Herakles has an Innovation Score of 48.6 out of 100 (top 16% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Herakles's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Herakles's recent grant velocity is -97% 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 Herakles's patents?

Herakles's patents average 14.6 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 Herakles 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

Herakles

Q: What technology areas does Herakles focus on?

Herakles's top technology area is F05D (Indexing Scheme FOR Aspects Relating TO Non-positive-displacement Machines OR Engines, Gas-turbines OR Jet-propulsion Plants) with 31 patents, ranking #74 of 744 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 63 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 73 granted patents across 63 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2020. 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: F05D (Indexing Scheme FOR Aspects Relating TO Non-positive-displacement Machines OR Engines, Gas-turbines OR Jet-propulsion Plants).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Herakles ranks #4,771 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 73 patents across 63 technology areas.

#4,771
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 16%
by Innovation Score (48.6/100): 14.6
avg claims per patent: -97%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R4771 · Foreign Corporation #4,771 · 73 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 73 grants
TOP-DECILE #4,771/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Fermi Research…
CPC-WIDE F05D · 63 areas
INNOV-PAR 48.6/100
CLAIMS-RICH 14.6 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -97% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Fermi Research Alliance, LLC (±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 Herakles’s 48.6 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 14.9 pts (31%) Velocity 0.0 pts (0%) Breadth 25.0 pts (51%) Claim depth 8.8 pts (18%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
H Lundbeck A/S · near

49
Herakles · this assignee

49
John Cockerill · near

49
Kulite Semiconductor… · near

49
Samsung Engineering · near

49
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Herakles's Innovation Score is 48.6/100 (top 16% 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 Herakles?

Each dot is one of Herakles’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). Herakles’s own 14.6 claims/patent is at or below the 16.4 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

How Herakles's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Herakles received 2 grants versus 71 in 2015–2019 (-97% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2016 at 24 grants and bottomed in 2019 at 1. Lead class F05D accounts for 42.5% of the portfolio across 63 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Fingerprint Cards Anacatum IP AB (#4,767) and Ivanti, Inc. (#4,775).

Fingerprint Cards…

73
Fermi Research Al…

73
Guangzhou Ucweb C…

73
Group Dekko

73
ION Geophysical

73
Invensys Systems

73
Invuity

73
Ivanti

73
Herakles ◀

73

What this shows Herakles holds 73 patents at rank #4,771, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Herakles

By rank, the assignees closest to #4,771 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F05D (Indexing Scheme FOR Aspects Relating TO Non-positive-disp…)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Herakles, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In F05D (Indexing Scheme FOR Aspects Relating TO Non-positive-disp…), Herakles ranks #74 of 744 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (49 here).

Kulite Semiconductor Products, Inc. 49 H. Lundbeck A/S 49 Samsung Engineering Co., Ltd. 49 John Cockerill SA 49

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (14.6 here).

Medical Components, Inc. 14.6 avg Sargent Manufacturing Company 14.6 avg Corteva Agriscience LLC 14.6 avg Mitsubishi Engineering-Plastics Corporation 14.6 avg

Herakles's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

49 Top 16% higher than 84% of 49,997 US assignees

Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more US assignees. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.

Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2020

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2015–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Herakles patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	20	27.4%
2016	24	32.9%
2017	23	31.5%
2018	3	4.1%
2019	1	1.4%
2020	2	2.7%

Which technologies does Herakles patent most?

F05D - Indexing Scheme FOR Aspects Relating TO Non-positive-displacement Machines OR Engines, Gas-turbines OR Jet-propulsion Plants 31

F01D - Non-positive Displacement Machines OR Engines, e.g. Steam Turbines 30

C04B - Lime, MAGNESIA; SLAG; CEMENTS; Compositions Thereof, e.g. Mortars, Concrete OR Like Building MATERIALS; Artificial Stone ; Ceramics ; REFRACTORIES; Treatment OF Natural Stone 30

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 24

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 20

D03D - Woven FABRICS; Methods OF WEAVING; Looms 15

B29B - Preparation OR Pretreatment OF THE Material TO BE SHAPED; Making Granules OR PREFORMS; Recovery OF Plastics OR Other Constituents OF Waste Material Containing Plastics 14

F02K - Jet-propulsion Plants 11

C23C - Coating Metallic MATERIAL; Coating Material With Metallic MATERIAL; Surface Treatment OF Metallic Material BY Diffusion Into THE Surface, BY Chemical Conversion OR SUBSTITUTION; Coating BY Vacuum Evaporation, BY Sputtering, BY ION Implantation OR BY Chemical Vapour Deposition, IN General 8

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

B64G - COSMONAUTICS; Vehicles OR Equipment Therefor 5

C01B - Non-metallic ELEMENTS; Compounds THEREOF; ; Metalloids OR Compounds Thereof NOT Covered BY Subclass C01c 4

F42B - Explosive Charges, e.g. FOR Blasting, Fireworks, Ammunition 4

B82Y - Specific Uses OR Applications OF NANOSTRUCTURES; Measurement OR Analysis OF NANOSTRUCTURES; Manufacture OR Treatment OF Nanostructures 4

Top 15 of 63 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

Herakles's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Herakles's lead technology class is F05D (Indexing Scheme FOR Aspects Relating TO Non-positive-displacement Machines OR Engines, Gas-turbines OR Jet-propulsion Plants), 42.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F05D
Ranked #4,771 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Herakles against Fingerprint Cards Anacatum IP AB, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 48.6/100 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

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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