Where does HES IP Holdings, Llc rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), HES IP Holdings, Llc ranks #14,661 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 HES IP Holdings, Llc hold?

HES IP Holdings, Llc holds 20 US utility patents granted between 2023 and 2025, spanning 13 technology areas.

What is HES IP Holdings, Llc's Innovation Score?

HES IP Holdings, Llc has an Innovation Score of 51.4 out of 100 (top 11% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does HES IP Holdings, Llc focus on?

HES IP Holdings, Llc's top technology area is G02B (OPTICAL ELEMENTS, SYSTEMS OR APPARATUS) with 12 patents. Grants appear in 13 CPC subclasses total.

Is HES IP Holdings, Llc's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Insufficient historical data is available to calculate a velocity trend for HES IP Holdings, Llc.

What does claim depth mean for HES IP Holdings, Llc's patents?

HES IP Holdings, Llc's patents average 13.5 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 HES IP Holdings, Llc 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

HES IP Holdings, Llc

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 20 granted patents across 13 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2023–2025. 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: G02B (OPTICAL ELEMENTS, SYSTEMS OR APPARATUS).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, HES ranks #14,661 of 50,000 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 20 patents across 13 technology areas.

#14,661
of 50,000 US assignees by volume: Top 11%
by Innovation Score (51.4/100): 13.5
avg claims per patent

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R14661 · US Corporation #14,661 · 20 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · SPAN-YRS · BOOK-RICH

GRANTS-SMALL 20 grants
MID-PACK #14,661/50,000
PHOTO-FINISH Greif International…
CPC-FOCUS G02B · 13 areas
INNOV-PAR 51.4/100
CLAIMS-RICH 13.5 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
SPAN-YRS 2023–2025 · 3y
BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Greif International Holding B.v. (±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
HES IP Holdings · this assignee

51
3D Lighting Innovati… · lowest

7

What this shows HES IP Holdings, Llc stamps GRANTS-SMALL, MID-PACK, PHOTO-FINISH, CPC-FOCUS, INNOV-PAR, CLAIMS-RICH, TYPE-USCORP, SPAN-YRS, BOOK-RICH. Volume places it #14,661 of 50,000; Innovation Score 51.4/100 sits in the top 11% of the PatentsView-derived corpus. Closest grant-volume peer on this plate is Greif International Holding B.v. (±0 grants).

Portfolio overview

HES IP Holdings, Llc has been granted 20 US utility patents between 2023 and 2025, placing HES IP Holdings, Llc at #14,661 of 50,000 across all assignees tracked by PlainPatent. This portfolio spans 13 distinct Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC) subclasses, averaging 13.5 claims per patent with primary concentration in G02B (OPTICAL ELEMENTS, SYSTEMS OR APPARATUS). As a US Corporation, HES IP Holdings, Llc is one of the more focused assignees in the PatentsView dataset. By volume, HES sits between Greif International Holding B.v. (20 patents, rank #14,651) and HME, Incorporated (20 patents, rank #14,659) - the closest US assignees by grant volume. The composite Innovation Score of 51.4/100 blends portfolio volume, grant velocity, technology breadth, and claim depth into a single comparable measure drawn directly from USPTO PatentsView records.

Grant cadence records the difference between two grant-year windows. Historical data spans 2023 through 2025, with 20 total grants over that period. Grant timing can lag the related application by years, so this comparison does not establish current R&D spending, strategic intent, or a company’s application activity. The US Corporation classification provides context for the assignee record, not a conclusion about its business strategy.

Claim depth and technology breadth describe this aggregate record. HES IP Holdings, Llc's 13.5 average claims per patent is an average count, not a measure of claim scope, legal strength, enforceability, or design-around risk. The record spans 13 CPC subclasses. Combined with portfolio volume, these figures let readers compare the documented grant records of assignees in similar technology classes.

Greif Internation…

20
HAAS FOOD Equipme…

20
Hanon Systems EFP…

20
Hempel A/S

20
Hirschmann Automa…

20
Hitachi-lg DATA S…

20
Hithink Royalflus…

20
HME Incorporated

20
HES IP Holdings ◀

20

What this shows HES holds 20 patents at rank #14,655, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near HES

By rank, the assignees closest to #14,655 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G02B (Optical Elements)

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

HES's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

51 Top 11% higher than 89% of 50,000 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2023–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2023–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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HES IP Holdings, Llc patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2023	6	30.0%
2024	12	60.0%
2025partial year	2	10.0%

Which technologies does HES IP Holdings, Llc patent most?

G02B - OPTICAL ELEMENTS, SYSTEMS OR APPARATUS 12

H04N - PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION 8

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; IDENTIFICATION 6

G06F - ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING 6

G06V - IMAGE OR VIDEO RECOGNITION OR UNDERSTANDING 3

G09G - ARRANGEMENTS OR CIRCUITS FOR CONTROL OF INDICATING DEVICES USING STATIC MEANS TO PRESENT VARIABLE INFORMATION 3

G06T - IMAGE DATA PROCESSING OR GENERATION, IN GENERAL 2

A61H - PHYSICAL THERAPY APPARATUS, e.g. DEVICES FOR LOCATING OR STIMULATING REFLEX POINTS IN THE BODY; ARTIFICIAL RESPIRATION; MASSAGE; BATHING DEVICES FOR SPECIAL THERAPEUTIC OR HYGIENIC PURPOSES OR SPECIFIC PARTS OF THE BODY 2

G03B - APPARATUS OR ARRANGEMENTS FOR TAKING PHOTOGRAPHS OR FOR PROJECTING OR VIEWING THEM; APPARATUS OR ARRANGEMENTS EMPLOYING ANALOGOUS TECHNIQUES USING WAVES OTHER THAN OPTICAL WAVES; ACCESSORIES THEREFOR 1

H10K - ORGANIC ELECTRIC SOLID-STATE DEVICES 1

H01L - SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES NOT COVERED BY CLASS H10 1

G02F - OPTICAL DEVICES OR ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE CONTROL OF LIGHT BY MODIFICATION OF THE OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF THE MEDIA OF THE ELEMENTS INVOLVED THEREIN; NON-LINEAR OPTICS; FREQUENCY-CHANGING OF LIGHT; OPTICAL LOGIC ELEMENTS; OPTICAL ANALOGUE/DIGITAL CONVERTERS 1

H10H - INORGANIC LIGHT-EMITTING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES HAVING POTENTIAL BARRIERS 1

Top 13 of 13 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#14,661

of 50,000 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

51.4 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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