Where does Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.P. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.P. ranks #40 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 Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.P. hold?

Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.P. holds 8,656 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 293 technology areas.

What is Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.P.'s Innovation Score?

Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.P. has an Innovation Score of 71.9 out of 100 (top 1% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.P. focus on?

Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.P.'s top technology area is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing) with 2,906 patents. Grants appear in 293 CPC subclasses total.

Is Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.P.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.P.'s recent grant velocity is +10% 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 Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.P.'s patents?

Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.P.'s patents average 15.4 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 Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.P. 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

Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.P.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 8,656 granted patents across 293 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: G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Hewlett-packard ranks #40 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 8,656 patents across 293 technology areas.

#40
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 1%
by Innovation Score (71.9/100): 15.4
avg claims per patent: +10%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R40 · US Corporation #40 · 8,656 grants

GRANTS-LARGE · TOP-DECILE · CLEAR-GAP · CPC-BROAD · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-UP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-LARGE 8.7K grants
TOP-DECILE #40/49,997
CLEAR-GAP Fujifilm
CPC-BROAD G06F · 293 areas
INNOV-STRONG 71.9/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.4 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-UP +10% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Fujifilm Corporation (±138 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
Hewlett-packard… · this assignee

72
LG Display · near

72
EMC IP Holding · near

72
KT&G · near

72
NuCurrent · near

72
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Hewlett-packard's Innovation Score is 71.9/100 (top 1% 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.

How Hewlett-packard's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.P. received 4,405 grants versus 3,995 in 2015–2019 (+10% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2015 at 1,358 grants and bottomed in 2024 at 550. Lead class G06F accounts for 33.6% of the portfolio across 293 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Fujitsu Limited (#36) and Tencent Technology (SHENZHEN) Company Limited (#44).

Hewlett-packard's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.P. moved from 2,661 to 2,537 grants (0.95x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). Among 3,296 tracked assignees with ≥100 grants and ≥20 prior-period grants, that multiple ranks #1,313. See the growth leaderboard.

Fujitsu

9,654
Koniniklijke Phil…

9,647
AT&T Intellectual…

9,554
Denso

9,480
Hewlett-packard D… ◀

8,656
Fujifilm

8,518
LG Display

8,410
Sharp

8,041
Tencent Technolog…

8,039

What this shows Hewlett-packard holds 8,656 patents at rank #40, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Hewlett-packard

By rank, the assignees closest to #40 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing)

Other assignees with the most granted patents in Hewlett-packard's primary technology class.

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Hewlett-packard, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above).

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (72 here).

LG Display Co., Ltd. 72 EMC IP Holding Company LLC 72 KT&G Corporation 72 NuCurrent, Inc. 72

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (15.4 here).

UOP LLC 15.4 avg Epistar Corporation 15.4 avg Trumpf Werkzeugmaschinen GmbH + Co. KG 15.4 avg Sandoz AG 15.4 avg

Hewlett-packard's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

72 Top 1% higher than 99% 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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Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.P. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1,358	15.7%
2016	629	7.3%
2017	627	7.2%
2018	588	6.8%
2019	793	9.2%
2020	919	10.6%
2021	949	11.0%
2022	1,326	15.3%
2023	661	7.6%
2024	550	6.4%
2025partial year	256	3.0%

Which technologies does Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.P. patent most?

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 2,906

B41J - TYPEWRITERS; Selective Printing Mechanisms, i.e. Mechanisms Printing Otherwise Than From A FORME; Correction OF Typographical Errors 2,289

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 977

B33Y - Additive Manufacturing, i.e. Manufacturing OF Three-dimensional [3-D] Objects BY Additive Deposition, Additive Agglomeration OR Additive Layering, e.g. BY 3-D Printing, Stereolithography OR Selective Laser Sintering 860

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 811

G03G - ELECTROGRAPHY; ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHY; Magnetography 786

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 728

C09D - Coating Compositions, e.g. Paints, Varnishes OR LACQUERS; Filling PASTES; Chemical Paint OR INK REMOVERS; INKS; Correcting FLUIDS; WOODSTAINS; Pastes OR Solids FOR Colouring OR PRINTING; USE OF Materials Therefor 386

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 383

G06K - Graphical Data Reading ; Presentation OF DATA; Record CARRIERS; Handling Record Carriers 381

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 278

B41M - Printing, Duplicating, Marking, OR Copying PROCESSES; Colour Printing, 273

B22F - Working Metallic POWDER; Manufacture OF Articles From Metallic POWDER; Making Metallic Powder ; Apparatus OR Devices Specially Adapted FOR Metallic Powder 272

B65H - Handling Thin OR Filamentary Material, e.g. Sheets, Webs, Cables 262

G06Q - Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory Purposes, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 260

Top 15 of 293 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#40

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

71.9 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.P.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.P.'s lead technology class is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), 33.6% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06F
Ranked #40 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.P. against Fujitsu Limited, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 71.9/100 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

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