Where does Hgci, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Hgci, Inc. ranks #3,038 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 Hgci, Inc. hold?

Hgci, Inc. holds 125 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 20 technology areas.

What is Hgci, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Hgci, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 41.6 out of 100 (top 33% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Hgci, Inc. focus on?

Hgci, Inc.'s top technology area is A01G (HORTICULTURE; Cultivation OF Vegetables, Flowers, Rice, Fruit, Vines, Hops OR SEAWEED; FORESTRY; Watering) with 24 patents, ranking #21 of 635 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 20 CPC subclasses total.

Is Hgci, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Hgci, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +113% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Hgci, Inc.'s patents?

Hgci, Inc.'s patents average 4.8 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 Hgci, Inc. 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

Hgci, Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 125 granted patents across 20 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: A01G (HORTICULTURE; Cultivation OF Vegetables, Flowers, Rice, Fruit, Vines, Hops OR SEAWEED; FORESTRY; Watering).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Hgci ranks #3,038 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 125 patents across 20 technology areas.

#3,038
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 33%
by Innovation Score (41.6/100): 4.8
avg claims per patent: +113%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R3038 · US Corporation #3,038 · 125 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-SPARSE · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 125 grants
TOP-DECILE #3,038/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Cabot
CPC-FOCUS A01G · 20 areas
INNOV-PAR 41.6/100
CLAIMS-SPARSE 4.8 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +113% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Cabot Corporation (±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 Hgci’s 41.6 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 16.7 pts (40%) Velocity 6.2 pts (15%) Breadth 15.8 pts (38%) Claim depth 2.9 pts (7%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Hgci · this assignee

42
Hitachi-Johnson… · near

42
RareCyte · near

42
Riverbed Technology · near

42
Supernus Pharmaceuti… · near

42
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Hgci's Innovation Score is 41.6/100 (top 33% 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 Hgci?

Each dot is one of Hgci’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). Hgci’s own 4.8 claims/patent is at or below the 16.2 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Hgci's grants concentrate

Hgci, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 20 CPC subclasses with 19.2% of grants classified under A01G (HORTICULTURE; Cultivation OF Vegetables, Flowers, Rice, Fruit, Vines, Hops OR SEAWEED; FORESTRY; Watering). Peak complete grant year is 2019 (27 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2015. By volume, Hgci sits between Cabot Corporation and MONDAY.COM Ltd..

Hgci's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Hgci, Inc. moved from 56 to 52 grants (0.93x 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 #1,390. See the growth leaderboard.

Cabot

125
Fingerprint Cards…

125
Fontem Holdings 1…

125
Heraeus Quarzglas…

125
Industry Foundati…

125
Kabo Tool

125
Lifecell

125
Monday COM

125
Hgci ◀

125

What this shows Hgci holds 125 patents at rank #3,038, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Hgci

By rank, the assignees closest to #3,038 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A01G (Horticulture)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Hgci, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A01G (Horticulture), Hgci ranks #21 of 635 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (42 here).

Hitachi-Johnson Controls Air Conditioning, Inc. 42 Riverbed Technology LLC 42 RareCyte, Inc. 42 Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. 42

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (4.8 here).

Zound Industries International AB 4.8 avg Hankook Tire & Technology Co., Ltd. 4.8 avg Skip Hop, Inc. 4.8 avg Innovelis, Inc. 4.8 avg

Hgci's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

42 Top 33% higher than 67% 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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Hgci, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1	0.8%
2016	2	1.6%
2018	8	6.4%
2019	27	21.6%
2020	16	12.8%
2021	13	10.4%
2022	13	10.4%
2023	23	18.4%
2024	16	12.8%
2025partial year	6	4.8%

Which technologies does Hgci, Inc. patent most?

A01G - HORTICULTURE; Cultivation OF Vegetables, Flowers, Rice, Fruit, Vines, Hops OR SEAWEED; FORESTRY; Watering 24

F21V - Functional Features OR Details OF Lighting Devices OR Systems THEREOF; Structural Combinations OF Lighting Devices With Other Articles, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 17

F21S - Non-portable Lighting DEVICES; Systems THEREOF; Vehicle Lighting Devices Specially Adapted FOR Vehicle Exteriors 13

F21Y - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses F21k, F21l, F21s and F21v, Relating TO THE Form OR THE Kind OF THE Light Sources OR OF THE Colour OF THE Light Emitted 13

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 7

H05B - Electric HEATING; Electric Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Circuit Arrangements FOR Electric Light Sources, IN General 6

C05G - Mixtures OF Fertilisers Covered Individually BY Different Subclasses OF Class C05; Mixtures OF ONE OR More Fertilisers With Materials NOT Having A Specific Fertilising Activity, e.g. Pesticides, Soil-conditioners, Wetting Agents ; Fertilisers Characterised BY Their Form 5

C05B - Phosphatic Fertilisers 4

Y02A - Technologies FOR Adaptation TO Climate Change 4

C05D - Inorganic Fertilisers NOT Covered BY Subclasses C05b, C05C; Fertilisers Producing Carbon Dioxide 3

F21W - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses F21k, F21l, F21s and F21v, Relating TO Uses OR Applications OF Lighting Devices OR Systems 3

C05F - Organic Fertilisers NOT Covered BY Subclasses C05b, C05c, e.g. Fertilisers From Waste OR Refuse 2

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 1

C09K - Materials FOR Miscellaneous Applications, NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere 1

Y10S - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former Uspc Cross-reference ART Collections [XRACs] AND Digests 1

Top 15 of 20 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

Hgci, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Hgci, Inc.'s lead technology class is A01G (HORTICULTURE; Cultivation OF Vegetables, Flowers, Rice, Fruit, Vines, Hops OR SEAWEED; FORESTRY; Watering), 19.2% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A01G
Ranked #3,038 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Hgci, Inc. against Cabot Corporation, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 41.6/100 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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