Where does Higgins Research & Development, LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Higgins Research & Development, LLC ranks #24,470 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 Higgins Research & Development, LLC hold?

Higgins Research & Development, LLC holds 11 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2022, spanning 11 technology areas.

What is Higgins Research & Development, LLC's Innovation Score?

Higgins Research & Development, LLC has an Innovation Score of 27.7 out of 100 (25th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Higgins Research & Development, LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Higgins Research & Development, LLC's recent grant velocity is -62% 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 Higgins Research & Development, LLC's patents?

Higgins Research & Development, LLC's patents average 8.6 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 Higgins Research & Development, 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

Higgins Research & Development, LLC

Q: What technology areas does Higgins Research & Development, LLC focus on?

Higgins Research & Development, LLC's top technology area is B32B (Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form) with 11 patents, ranking #353 of 3,088 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 11 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 11 granted patents across 11 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2022. 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: B32B (Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Higgins ranks #24,470 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 11 patents across 11 technology areas.

#24,470
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 25th percentile
by Innovation Score (27.7/100): 8.6
avg claims per patent: -62%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R24470 · US Corporation #24,470 · 11 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 11 grants
MID-PACK #24,470/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Heuron
CPC-FOCUS B32B · 11 areas
INNOV-THIN 27.7/100
CLAIMS-PAR 8.6 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -62% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Heuron Co., Ltd. (±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 Higgins’s 27.7 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 8.6 pts (31%) Velocity 2.2 pts (8%) Breadth 11.7 pts (42%) Claim depth 5.2 pts (19%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

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3D Lighting… · lowest

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What this shows Higgins's Innovation Score is 27.7/100 (25th 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 Higgins?

Each dot is one of Higgins’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). Higgins’s own 8.6 claims/patent is at or below the 12.1 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Higgins's grants concentrate

Higgins Research & Development, LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 11 CPC subclasses with 100% of grants classified under B32B (Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form). Peak complete grant year is 2018 (3 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2019. By volume, Higgins sits between Heuron Co., Ltd. and Horus Pharma.

Higgins's three-year grant acceleration

Higgins Research & Development, LLC shows 1 grants in 2022–2024 against only 3 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.

Heuron

11
Hewett-packard De…

11
Hewy Wine Chillers

11
Hi Rel Connectors

11
Hobie Cat

11
Hohmann & Barnard

11
Home Racer

11
Horus Pharma

11
Higgins Research… ◀

11

What this shows Higgins holds 11 patents at rank #24,486, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Higgins

By rank, the assignees closest to #24,486 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B32B (Layered Products)

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

Higgins's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

28 25th percentile higher than 25% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2022

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2016–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Higgins Research & Development, LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	2	18.2%
2017	2	18.2%
2018	3	27.3%
2019	1	9.1%
2021	2	18.2%
2022	1	9.1%

Which technologies does Higgins Research & Development, LLC patent most?

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 11

D06N - Wall, Floor, OR Like Covering Materials, e.g. Linoleum, Oilcloth, Artificial Leather, Roofing Felt, Consisting OF A Fibrous WEB Coated With A Layer OF Macromolecular MATERIAL; Flexible Sheet Material NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 11

D05C - EMBROIDERING; Tufting 10

A47G - Household OR Table Equipment 10

D10B - Indexing Scheme Associated With Sublasses OF Section D, Relating TO Textiles 10

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 9

B05C - Apparatus FOR Applying Fluent Materials TO Surfaces, IN General 7

B05D - Processes FOR Applying Fluent Materials TO Surfaces, IN General 7

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

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 2

D05D - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses D05b AND D05c, Relating TO Sewing, Embroidering AND Tufting 1

Top 11 of 11 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

Higgins Research & Development, LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Higgins Research & Development, LLC's lead technology class is B32B (Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form), 100% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B32B
Ranked #24,470 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Higgins Research & Development, LLC against Heuron Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 27.7/100 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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