Where does Hill's Pet Nutrition, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Hill's Pet Nutrition, Inc. ranks #5,076 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 Hill's Pet Nutrition, Inc. hold?

Hill's Pet Nutrition, Inc. holds 68 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 27 technology areas.

What is Hill's Pet Nutrition, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Hill's Pet Nutrition, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 51.3 out of 100 (top 12% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Hill's Pet Nutrition, Inc. focus on?

Hill's Pet Nutrition, Inc.'s top technology area is A23K (Fodder) with 48 patents, ranking #7 of 396 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 27 CPC subclasses total.

Is Hill's Pet Nutrition, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Hill's Pet Nutrition, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +20% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). The company is maintaining or growing its granted-patent output.

What does claim depth mean for Hill's Pet Nutrition, Inc.'s patents?

Hill's Pet Nutrition, Inc.'s patents average 13.0 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 Hill's Pet Nutrition, 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

Hill's Pet Nutrition, Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 68 granted patents across 27 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: A23K (Fodder).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Hill's ranks #5,076 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 68 patents across 27 technology areas.

#5,076
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 12%
by Innovation Score (51.3/100): 13.0
avg claims per patent: +20%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R5076 · US Corporation #5,076 · 68 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 68 grants
UPPER-Q #5,076/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH First Quality Tissue
CPC-FOCUS A23K · 27 areas
INNOV-PAR 51.3/100
CLAIMS-RICH 13.0 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-UP +20% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: First Quality Tissue, 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 Hill's’s 51.3 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 14.6 pts (28%) Velocity 10.5 pts (20%) Breadth 18.4 pts (36%) Claim depth 7.8 pts (15%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Bard Peripheral… · near

51
Guardian Industries · near

51
Hill's Pet Nutrition · this assignee

51
iLOQ Oy · near

51
Zoll Circulation · near

51
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Hill's's Innovation Score is 51.3/100 (top 12% 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 Hill's?

Each dot is one of Hill's’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). Hill's’s own 13.0 claims/patent is at or below the 15.0 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Hill's's grants concentrate

Hill's Pet Nutrition, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 27 CPC subclasses with 70.6% of grants classified under A23K (Fodder). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (11 grants) versus a trough of 3 in 2018. By volume, Hill's sits between Fluence Bioengineering, Inc. and Indian Motorcycle International, LLC.

Hill's's three-year grant acceleration

Hill's Pet Nutrition, Inc. shows 22 grants in 2022–2024 against only 14 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.

Fluence Bioengine…

68
First Quality Tis…

68
Flagship Pioneeri…

68
Hohai University

68
Himax Imaging

68
Idex Health & Sci…

68
Indian Institute…

68
Indian Motorcycle…

68
Hill's Pet Nutrit… ◀

68

What this shows Hill's holds 68 patents at rank #5,076, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Hill's

By rank, the assignees closest to #5,076 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A23K (Fodder)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Hill's, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A23K (Fodder), Hill's ranks #7 of 396 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (51 here).

Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. 51 Zoll Circulation, Inc. 51 Guardian Industries Corp. 51 iLOQ Oy 51

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (13.0 here).

Contec, LLC 13.0 avg E Ink California, LLC 13.0 avg United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force 13.0 avg LS Cable & System Ltd. 13.0 avg

Hill's's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

51 Top 12% higher than 88% 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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Hill's Pet Nutrition, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	11	16.2%
2016	7	10.3%
2017	9	13.2%
2018	3	4.4%
2020	9	13.2%
2021	5	7.4%
2022	10	14.7%
2023	8	11.8%
2024	4	5.9%
2025partial year	2	2.9%

Which technologies does Hill's Pet Nutrition, Inc. patent most?

A23K - Fodder 48

A61P - Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations 43

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 27

C12Q - Measuring OR Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids OR Microorganisms ; Compositions OR Test Papers THEREFOR; Processes OF Preparing Such COMPOSITIONS; Condition-responsive Control IN Microbiological OR Enzymological Processes 12

A23V - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages AND Lactic OR Propionic Acid Bacteria Used IN Foodstuffs OR Food Preparation 10

A23L - Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Preparation OR Treatment Thereof 10

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 9

A01K - Animal HUSBANDRY; AVICULTURE; APICULTURE; PISCICULTURE; FISHING; Rearing OR Breeding Animals, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; NEW Breeds OF Animals 4

G16H - Healthcare Informatics, i.e. Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR THE Handling OR Processing OF Medical OR Healthcare Data 3

G16B - Bioinformatics, i.e. Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Genetic OR Protein-related Data Processing IN Computational Molecular Biology 3

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 2

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 2

A23J - Protein Compositions FOR FOODSTUFFS; Working-up Proteins FOR FOODSTUFFS; Phosphatide Compositions FOR Foodstuffs 2

Y02A - Technologies FOR Adaptation TO Climate Change 2

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 1

Top 15 of 27 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

Hill's Pet Nutrition, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Hill's Pet Nutrition, Inc.'s lead technology class is A23K (Fodder), 70.6% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A23K
Ranked #5,076 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Hill's Pet Nutrition, Inc. against Fluence Bioengineering, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 51.3/100 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

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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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