Where does Hexcel Composites Limited rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Hexcel Composites Limited ranks #6,153 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 Hexcel Composites Limited hold?

Hexcel Composites Limited holds 55 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 32 technology areas.

What is Hexcel Composites Limited's Innovation Score?

Hexcel Composites Limited has an Innovation Score of 53.6 out of 100 (top 9% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Hexcel Composites Limited's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Hexcel Composites Limited's recent grant velocity is -65% 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 Hexcel Composites Limited's patents?

Hexcel Composites Limited's patents average 12.9 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.

How is the Hexcel Composites Limited 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

Hexcel Composites Limited

Q: What technology areas does Hexcel Composites Limited focus on?

Hexcel Composites Limited's top technology area is C08J (WORKING-UP; General Processes OF COMPOUNDING; After-treatment NOT Covered BY Subclasses C08b, C08c, C08f, C08g or C08h) with 29 patents, ranking #88 of 1,665 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 32 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 55 granted patents across 32 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: C08J (WORKING-UP; General Processes OF COMPOUNDING; After-treatment NOT Covered BY Subclasses C08b, C08c, C08f, C08g or C08h).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Hexcel ranks #6,153 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 55 patents across 32 technology areas.

#6,153
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 9%
by Innovation Score (53.6/100): 12.9
avg claims per patent: -65%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R6153 · Foreign Corporation #6,153 · 55 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 55 grants
UPPER-Q #6,153/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Fujifilm Manufacturi…
CPC-FOCUS C08J · 32 areas
INNOV-PAR 53.6/100
CLAIMS-RICH 12.9 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -65% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Fujifilm Manufacturing Europe 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.

How Hexcel’s 53.6 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 13.9 pts (26%) Velocity 12.0 pts (22%) Breadth 20.0 pts (37%) Claim depth 7.7 pts (14%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Freeport Minerals · near

54
Miba Gleitlager… · near

54
National Applied… · near

54
Personalis · near

54
Hexcel Composites · this assignee

54
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Hexcel's Innovation Score is 53.6/100 (top 9% 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 Hexcel?

Each dot is one of Hexcel’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). Hexcel’s own 12.9 claims/patent is at or below the 17.5 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Hexcel's grants concentrate

Hexcel Composites Limited is a focused PatentsView assignee: 32 CPC subclasses with 52.7% of grants classified under C08J (WORKING-UP; General Processes OF COMPOUNDING; After-treatment NOT Covered BY Subclasses C08b, C08c, C08f, C08g or C08h). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (16 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2021. By volume, Hexcel sits between Fujifilm Manufacturing Europe B.V. and Integrated Silicon Solution, (Cayman) Inc..

Hexcel's three-year grant acceleration

Hexcel Composites Limited shows 9 grants in 2022–2024 against only 5 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.

Fujifilm Manufact…

55
Grail

55
Gearbox

55
George Mason Univ…

55
Ibis Biosciences

55
Inscape Data

55
Ipcom & KG

55
Integrated Silico…

55
Hexcel Composites ◀

55

What this shows Hexcel holds 55 patents at rank #6,153, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Hexcel

By rank, the assignees closest to #6,153 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C08J (Working-up)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Hexcel, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In C08J (Working-up), Hexcel ranks #88 of 1,665 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (54 here).

Freeport Minerals Corporation 54 Miba Gleitlager Austria GmbH 54 Personalis, Inc. 54 National Applied Research Laboratories 54

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (12.9 here).

Stamicarbon B.V. 12.9 avg Vista Outdoor Operations LLC 12.9 avg Fresenius Vial SAS 12.9 avg Misonix, LLC 12.9 avg

Hexcel's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

54 Top 9% higher than 91% 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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Hexcel Composites Limited patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	16	29.1%
2016	6	10.9%
2017	8	14.5%
2018	10	18.2%
2020	4	7.3%
2021	1	1.8%
2022	3	5.5%
2023	3	5.5%
2024	3	5.5%
2025partial year	1	1.8%

Which technologies does Hexcel Composites Limited patent most?

C08J - WORKING-UP; General Processes OF COMPOUNDING; After-treatment NOT Covered BY Subclasses C08b, C08c, C08f, C08g or C08h 29

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 24

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 24

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 22

C08G - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than BY Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds 17

C08L - Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds 11

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 10

C08K - Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances as compounding ingredients 10

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 8

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 6

C09J - ADHESIVES; Non-mechanical Aspects OF Adhesive Processes IN GENERAL; Adhesive Processes NOT Provided FOR ELSEWHERE; USE OF Materials AS Adhesives 5

B65H - Handling Thin OR Filamentary Material, e.g. Sheets, Webs, Cables 4

C07D - Heterocyclic Compounds 3

C07C - Acyclic OR Carbocyclic Compounds 3

B64D - Equipment FOR Fitting IN OR TO AIRCRAFT; Flight SUITS; PARACHUTES; Arrangement OR Mounting OF Power Plants OR Propulsion Transmissions IN Aircraft 3

Top 15 of 32 technology areas

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Data Source

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What to do with this data

Hexcel Composites Limited's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Hexcel Composites Limited's lead technology class is C08J (WORKING-UP; General Processes OF COMPOUNDING; After-treatment NOT Covered BY Subclasses C08b, C08c, C08f, C08g or C08h), 52.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C08J
Ranked #6,153 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Hexcel Composites Limited against Fujifilm Manufacturing Europe B.V., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 53.6/100 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

Compiled by PlainPatent , US Patent Intelligence Editorial Process · May 15, 2026

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