Where does Hillcrest Laboratories, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Hillcrest Laboratories, Inc. ranks #10,953 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 Hillcrest Laboratories, Inc. hold?

Hillcrest Laboratories, Inc. holds 28 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2017, spanning 16 technology areas.

What is Hillcrest Laboratories, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Hillcrest Laboratories, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 36.6 out of 100 (top 46% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Hillcrest Laboratories, Inc. focus on?

Hillcrest Laboratories, Inc.'s top technology area is H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television) with 23 patents, ranking #702 of 5,951 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 16 CPC subclasses total.

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

Hillcrest Laboratories, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -100% 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 Hillcrest Laboratories, Inc.'s patents?

Hillcrest Laboratories, Inc.'s patents average 18.0 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 Hillcrest Laboratories, 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

Hillcrest Laboratories, Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 28 granted patents across 16 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2017. 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: H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Hillcrest ranks #10,953 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 28 patents across 16 technology areas.

#10,953
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 46%
by Innovation Score (36.6/100): 18.0
avg claims per patent: -100%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R10953 · US Corporation #10,953 · 28 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 28 grants
UPPER-Q #10,953/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Hanbat National…
CPC-FOCUS H04N · 16 areas
INNOV-THIN 36.6/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.0 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -100% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Hanbat National University Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation (±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 Hillcrest’s 36.6 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 11.6 pts (32%) Velocity 0.0 pts (0%) Breadth 14.1 pts (39%) Claim depth 10.8 pts (30%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Relx · near

37
Hillcrest Laboratories · this assignee

37
Keurig Green Mountain · near

37
Sealy Technology · near

37
Teledyne e2v… · near

37
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Hillcrest's Innovation Score is 36.6/100 (top 46% 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 Hillcrest?

Each dot is one of Hillcrest’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). Hillcrest’s own 18.0 claims/patent is ABOVE the 12.9 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Hillcrest's grants concentrate

Hillcrest Laboratories, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 16 CPC subclasses with 82.1% of grants classified under H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television). Peak complete grant year is 2016 (16 grants) versus a trough of 3 in 2017. By volume, Hillcrest sits between Haskell Office, LLC and Hanbat National University Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation.

Haskell Office

28
HCL America

28
Heifeng Zhizao (S…

28
Heraeus Precious…

28
Hioki E E

28
Honey BEE Manufac…

28
Hunt Energy Enter…

28
Hanbat National U…

28
Hillcrest Laborat… ◀

28

What this shows Hillcrest holds 28 patents at rank #10,948, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Hillcrest

By rank, the assignees closest to #10,948 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04N (Pictorial Communication)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Hillcrest, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H04N (Pictorial Communication), Hillcrest ranks #702 of 5,951 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (37 here).

Sealy Technology LLC 37 Keurig Green Mountain, Inc. 37 Teledyne e2v Semiconductors SAS 37 Relx Inc. 37

Hillcrest's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

37 Top 46% higher than 54% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2017

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2015–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Hillcrest Laboratories, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	9	32.1%
2016	16	57.1%
2017	3	10.7%

Which technologies does Hillcrest Laboratories, Inc. patent most?

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 23

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 22

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 4

G08C - Transmission Systems FOR Measured Values, Control OR Similar Signals 4

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 3

Y10S - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former Uspc Cross-reference ART Collections [XRACs] AND Digests 3

Y02D - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN Information AND Communication Technologies [ICT], I.E. Information AND Communication Technologies Aiming AT THE Reduction OF Their OWN Energy USE 2

A63F - Card, Board, OR Roulette GAMES; Indoor Games Using Small Moving Playing BODIES; Video GAMES; Games NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 2

G01R - Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables 1

G01D - Measuring NOT Specially Adapted FOR A Specific VARIABLE; Arrangements FOR Measuring TWO OR More Variables NOT Covered IN A Single Other SUBCLASS; Tariff Metering APPARATUS; Measuring OR Testing NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1

G16Z - Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Specific Application Fields, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 1

G11B - Information Storage Based ON Relative Movement Between Record Carrier AND Transducer 1

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 1

G01C - Measuring Distances, Levels OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; Gyroscopic INSTRUMENTS; Photogrammetry OR Videogrammetry 1

Top 15 of 16 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

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

Hillcrest Laboratories, Inc.'s lead technology class is H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television), 82.1% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04N
Ranked #10,953 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Hillcrest Laboratories, Inc. against Haskell Office, LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 36.6/100 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

Every figure on PlainPatent is rendered directly from USPTO source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on USPTO source data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 2026.