Where does Hey Buddy Hey Pal Investments LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Hey Buddy Hey Pal Investments LLC ranks #47,409 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 Hey Buddy Hey Pal Investments LLC hold?

Hey Buddy Hey Pal Investments LLC holds 5 US utility patents granted between 2022 and 2024, spanning 6 technology areas.

What is Hey Buddy Hey Pal Investments LLC's Innovation Score?

Hey Buddy Hey Pal Investments LLC has an Innovation Score of 38.7 out of 100 (top 40% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Hey Buddy Hey Pal Investments LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Insufficient historical data is available to calculate a velocity trend for Hey Buddy Hey Pal Investments LLC.

What does claim depth mean for Hey Buddy Hey Pal Investments LLC's patents?

Hey Buddy Hey Pal Investments LLC's patents average 6.4 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 Hey Buddy Hey Pal Investments 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

Hey Buddy Hey Pal Investments LLC

Q: What technology areas does Hey Buddy Hey Pal Investments LLC focus on?

Hey Buddy Hey Pal Investments LLC's top technology area is A47F (Special Furniture, Fittings, OR Accessories FOR Shops, Storehouses, Bars, Restaurants OR THE LIKE; Paying Counters) with 1 patents, ranking #272 of 482 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 6 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 5 granted patents across 6 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2022–2024. 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: A47F (Special Furniture, Fittings, OR Accessories FOR Shops, Storehouses, Bars, Restaurants OR THE LIKE; Paying Counters).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Hey ranks #47,409 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 5 patents across 6 technology areas.

#47,409
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 40%
by Innovation Score (38.7/100): 6.4
avg claims per patent

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R47409 · US Corporation #47,409 · 5 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · BOTTOM-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-SPARSE · TYPE-USCORP · SPAN-YRS · BOOK-RICH

GRANTS-MICRO 5 grants
BOTTOM-DECILE #47,409/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Hero Defense System
CPC-NARROW A47F · 6 areas
INNOV-THIN 38.7/100
CLAIMS-SPARSE 6.4 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
SPAN-YRS 2022–2024 · 3y
BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Hero Defense System, LLC (±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 Hey’s 38.7 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 6.2 pts (16%) Velocity 20.0 pts (52%) Breadth 8.7 pts (22%) Claim depth 3.8 pts (10%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

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3D Lighting… · lowest

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What this shows Hey's Innovation Score is 38.7/100 (top 40% 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 Hey?

Each dot is one of Hey’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). Hey’s own 6.4 claims/patent is at or below the 14.4 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Hey's grants concentrate

Hey Buddy Hey Pal Investments LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 6 CPC subclasses with 20% of grants classified under A47F (Special Furniture, Fittings, OR Accessories FOR Shops, Storehouses, Bars, Restaurants OR THE LIKE; Paying Counters). Peak complete grant year is 2022 (2 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2023. By volume, Hey sits between Hero Defense System, LLC and HighLevel Inc..

Hey's three-year grant acceleration

Hey Buddy Hey Pal Investments LLC shows 5 grants in 2022–2024 against only 0 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.

Hero Defense Syst…

5
Heroic Faith Medi…

5
Hewitt Machine &…

5
Hexagon Health

5
Hi-dow Iphc

5
Hi-tech Solutions

5
High-low Heel

5
Highlevel

5
Hey Buddy Hey Pal… ◀

5

What this shows Hey holds 5 patents at rank #47,503, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Hey

By rank, the assignees closest to #47,503 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A47F (Special Furniture)

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

Hey's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

39 Top 40% higher than 60% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2022–2024

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2022–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Hey Buddy Hey Pal Investments LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2022	2	40.0%
2023	1	20.0%
2024	2	40.0%

Which technologies does Hey Buddy Hey Pal Investments LLC patent most?

A47F - Special Furniture, Fittings, OR Accessories FOR Shops, Storehouses, Bars, Restaurants OR THE LIKE; Paying Counters 1

A47G - Household OR Table Equipment 1

B44C - Producing Decorative Effects ; MOSAICS; Tarsia Work ; Paperhanging 1

B05C - Apparatus FOR Applying Fluent Materials TO Surfaces, IN General 1

B44D - Painting OR Artistic Drawing, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Preserving PAINTINGS; Surface Treatment TO Obtain Special Artistic Surface Effects OR Finishes 1

A01K - Animal HUSBANDRY; AVICULTURE; APICULTURE; PISCICULTURE; FISHING; Rearing OR Breeding Animals, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; NEW Breeds OF Animals 1

Top 6 of 6 technology areas

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

View all rankings → How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

Hey Buddy Hey Pal Investments LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Hey Buddy Hey Pal Investments LLC's lead technology class is A47F (Special Furniture, Fittings, OR Accessories FOR Shops, Storehouses, Bars, Restaurants OR THE LIKE; Paying Counters), 20% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A47F
Ranked #47,409 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Hey Buddy Hey Pal Investments LLC against Hero Defense System, LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 38.7/100 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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