Where does Hexagon Technology Center GMBH rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Hexagon Technology Center GMBH ranks #1,516 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 Hexagon Technology Center GMBH hold?

Hexagon Technology Center GMBH holds 274 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 78 technology areas.

What is Hexagon Technology Center GMBH's Innovation Score?

Hexagon Technology Center GMBH has an Innovation Score of 60.8 out of 100 (top 3% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Hexagon Technology Center GMBH's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Hexagon Technology Center GMBH's recent grant velocity is -6% 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 Hexagon Technology Center GMBH's patents?

Hexagon Technology Center GMBH's patents average 18.4 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 Hexagon Technology Center GMBH 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

Hexagon Technology Center GMBH

Q: What technology areas does Hexagon Technology Center GMBH focus on?

Hexagon Technology Center GMBH's top technology area is G01C (Measuring Distances, Levels OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; Gyroscopic INSTRUMENTS; Photogrammetry OR Videogrammetry) with 98 patents, ranking #37 of 1,814 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 78 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 274 granted patents across 78 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: G01C (Measuring Distances, Levels OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; Gyroscopic INSTRUMENTS; Photogrammetry OR Videogrammetry).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Hexagon ranks #1,516 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 274 patents across 78 technology areas.

#1,516
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 3%
by Innovation Score (60.8/100): 18.4
avg claims per patent: -6%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1516 · Foreign Corporation #1,516 · 274 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-FLAT · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 274 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,516/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Acronis International
CPC-WIDE G01C · 78 areas
INNOV-STRONG 60.8/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.4 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-FLAT -6% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Acronis International GmbH (±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 Hexagon’s 60.8 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 19.4 pts (32%) Velocity 5.4 pts (9%) Breadth 25.0 pts (41%) Claim depth 11.0 pts (18%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
ConocoPhillips · near

61
General Electric… · near

61
Hexagon Technology… · this assignee

61
The Government of… · near

61
University of Surrey · near

61
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Hexagon's Innovation Score is 60.8/100 (top 3% 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 Hexagon?

Each dot is one of Hexagon’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). Hexagon’s own 18.4 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.7 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How Hexagon's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Hexagon Technology Center GMBH received 125 grants versus 133 in 2015–2019 (-6% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2017 at 39 grants and bottomed in 2015 at 6. Lead class G01C accounts for 35.8% of the portfolio across 78 subclasses. Volume neighbours: United States Government as represented by the Department of Veterans Affairs (#1,512) and Thermo King LLC (#1,520).

Hexagon's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Hexagon Technology Center GMBH moved from 90 to 73 grants (0.81x 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 #1,803. See the growth leaderboard.

United States Gov…

275
Wolverine Outdoors

275
Acronis Internati…

274
Cambria

274
Hollister Incorpo…

274
National Instrume…

274
Saint-gobain Perf…

274
Thermo King

274
Hexagon Technolog… ◀

274

What this shows Hexagon holds 274 patents at rank #1,516, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Hexagon

By rank, the assignees closest to #1,516 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G01C (Measuring Distances)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Hexagon, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G01C (Measuring Distances), Hexagon ranks #37 of 1,814 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (61 here).

ConocoPhillips Company 61 The Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy 61 General Electric Company Polska SP. Z O.O. 61 University of Surrey 61

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (18.4 here).

Impinj, Inc. 18.4 avg Ivanti, Inc. 18.4 avg British Telecommunications PLC 18.4 avg Oxford University Innovation Limited 18.4 avg

Hexagon's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

61 Top 3% higher than 97% 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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Hexagon Technology Center GMBH patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	6	2.2%
2016	22	8.0%
2017	39	14.2%
2018	28	10.2%
2019	38	13.9%
2020	28	10.2%
2021	24	8.8%
2022	23	8.4%
2023	30	10.9%
2024	20	7.3%
2025partial year	16	5.8%

Which technologies does Hexagon Technology Center GMBH patent most?

G01C - Measuring Distances, Levels OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; Gyroscopic INSTRUMENTS; Photogrammetry OR Videogrammetry 98

G01B - Measuring Length, Thickness OR Similar Linear DIMENSIONS; Measuring ANGLES; Measuring AREAS; Measuring Irregularities OF Surfaces OR Contours 93

G01S - Radio DIRECTION-FINDING; Radio NAVIGATION; Determining Distance OR Velocity BY USE OF Radio WAVES; Locating OR Presence-detecting BY USE OF THE Reflection OR Reradiation OF Radio WAVES; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves 82

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 63

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 54

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 39

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 30

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 23

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 19

G01D - Measuring NOT Specially Adapted FOR A Specific VARIABLE; Arrangements FOR Measuring TWO OR More Variables NOT Covered IN A Single Other SUBCLASS; Tariff Metering APPARATUS; Measuring OR Testing NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 19

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 17

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 17

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 15

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 14

B25J - MANIPULATORS; Chambers Provided With Manipulation Devices 13

Top 15 of 78 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

Hexagon Technology Center GMBH's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Hexagon Technology Center GMBH's lead technology class is G01C (Measuring Distances, Levels OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; Gyroscopic INSTRUMENTS; Photogrammetry OR Videogrammetry), 35.8% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G01C
Ranked #1,516 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Hexagon Technology Center GMBH against United States Government as represented by the Department of Veterans Affairs, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 60.8/100 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.

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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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