Where does Hexcel Reinforcements rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Hexcel Reinforcements ranks #16,858 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 Reinforcements hold?

Hexcel Reinforcements holds 17 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2020, spanning 17 technology areas.

What is Hexcel Reinforcements's Innovation Score?

Hexcel Reinforcements has an Innovation Score of 34.6 out of 100 (48th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Hexcel Reinforcements's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Hexcel Reinforcements's recent grant velocity is -87% 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 Reinforcements's patents?

Hexcel Reinforcements's patents average 16.7 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 Reinforcements 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 Reinforcements

Q: What technology areas does Hexcel Reinforcements focus on?

Hexcel Reinforcements's top technology area is 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) with 14 patents, ranking #428 of 4,378 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 17 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 17 granted patents across 17 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: 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).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Hexcel ranks #16,858 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 17 patents across 17 technology areas.

#16,858
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 48th percentile
by Innovation Score (34.6/100): 16.7
avg claims per patent: -87%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R16858 · Foreign Corporation #16,858 · 17 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 17 grants
MID-PACK #16,858/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Hayes Bicycle Group
CPC-FOCUS B29C · 17 areas
INNOV-THIN 34.6/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.7 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -87% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Hayes Bicycle Group Inc (±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 34.6 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 10.0 pts (29%) Velocity 0.0 pts (0%) Breadth 14.6 pts (42%) Claim depth 10.0 pts (29%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Centre for Addiction… · near

35
Brugg Rohr Holding · near

35
Hexcel Reinforcements · this assignee

35
Itoh Denki · near

35
Transcend Air · near

35
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Hexcel's Innovation Score is 34.6/100 (48th percentile 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 16.7 claims/patent is ABOVE the 11.2 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Hexcel's grants concentrate

Hexcel Reinforcements is a focused PatentsView assignee: 17 CPC subclasses with 82.4% of grants classified under 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). Peak complete grant year is 2017 (5 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2020. By volume, Hexcel sits between Hayes Bicycle Group Inc and HS Elektronik Systeme GmbH.

Hayes Bicycle Gro…

17
Health Management…

17
Heraeus Kulzer

17
Hevo

17
Hexin Holding

17
HIP Innovation Te…

17
Hoppe Holding

17
HS Elektronik Sys…

17
Hexcel Reinforcem… ◀

17

What this shows Hexcel holds 17 patents at rank #16,855, 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 #16,855 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B29C (Shaping OR Joining OF Plastics)

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 B29C (Shaping OR Joining OF Plastics), Hexcel ranks #428 of 4,378 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (35 here).

Itoh Denki Co., Ltd. 35 Brugg Rohr AG Holding 35 Transcend Air Corporation 35 Centre for Addiction and Mental Health 35

Hexcel's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

35 48th percentile higher than 48% of 49,997 US assignees

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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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Hexcel Reinforcements patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	3	17.6%
2016	3	17.6%
2017	5	29.4%
2018	4	23.5%
2020	2	11.8%

Which technologies does Hexcel Reinforcements patent most?

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 14

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 14

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 12

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 11

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

D10B - Indexing Scheme Associated With Sublasses OF Section D, Relating TO Textiles 3

D03D - Woven FABRICS; Methods OF WEAVING; Looms 2

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 2

D04H - Making Textile Fabrics, e.g. From Fibres OR Filamentary Material ; Fabrics Made BY Such Processes OR Apparatus, e.g. Felts, Non-woven FABRICS; COTTON-WOOL; Wadding ; ; Non-woven Fabrics From Staple Fibres, Filaments OR Yarns, Bonded With AT Least ONE Web-like Material During Their Consolidation 2

H01B - CABLES; CONDUCTORS; INSULATORS; Selection OF Materials FOR Their Conductive, Insulating OR Dielectric Properties 2

D02J - Finishing OR Dressing OF Filaments, Yarns, Threads, Cords, Ropes OR THE Like 2

D04B - Knitting 1

D05B - Sewing 1

C25B - Electrolytic OR Electrophoretic Processes FOR THE Production OF Compounds OR NON-METALS; Apparatus Therefor 1

H01M - Processes OR Means, e.g. Batteries, FOR THE Direct Conversion OF Chemical Energy Into Electrical Energy 1

Top 15 of 17 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

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

Hexcel Reinforcements's lead technology class is 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), 82.4% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B29C
Ranked #16,858 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Hexcel Reinforcements against Hayes Bicycle Group Inc, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 34.6/100 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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