Where does Hitchiner Manufacturing Co., Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Hitchiner Manufacturing Co., Inc. ranks #35,711 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 Hitchiner Manufacturing Co., Inc. hold?

Hitchiner Manufacturing Co., Inc. holds 7 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2024, spanning 4 technology areas.

What is Hitchiner Manufacturing Co., Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Hitchiner Manufacturing Co., Inc. has an Innovation Score of 48.5 out of 100 (top 16% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Hitchiner Manufacturing Co., Inc. focus on?

Hitchiner Manufacturing Co., Inc.'s top technology area is B22C (Foundry Moulding) with 4 patents, ranking #30 of 136 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 4 CPC subclasses total.

Is Hitchiner Manufacturing Co., Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Hitchiner Manufacturing Co., Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -25% 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 Hitchiner Manufacturing Co., Inc.'s patents?

Hitchiner Manufacturing Co., Inc.'s patents average 23.7 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 Hitchiner Manufacturing Co., 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

Hitchiner Manufacturing Co., Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 7 granted patents across 4 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2024. 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: B22C (Foundry Moulding).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Hitchiner ranks #35,711 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 7 patents across 4 technology areas.

#35,711
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 16%
by Innovation Score (48.5/100): 23.7
avg claims per patent: -25%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R35711 · US Corporation #35,711 · 7 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 7 grants
MID-PACK #35,711/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Hippo Harvest
CPC-NARROW B22C · 4 areas
INNOV-PAR 48.5/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 23.7 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DOWN -25% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Hippo Harvest Inc. (±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 Hitchiner’s 48.5 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 7.2 pts (15%) Velocity 20.0 pts (41%) Breadth 7.1 pts (15%) Claim depth 14.2 pts (29%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Baltimore Aircoil · near

48
Hitchiner Manufactur… · this assignee

48
NTT Communications · near

48
Schumacher Electric · near

48
Universiteit Leiden · near

48
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Hitchiner's Innovation Score is 48.5/100 (top 16% 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 Hitchiner?

Each dot is one of Hitchiner’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). Hitchiner’s own 23.7 claims/patent is ABOVE the 18.6 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Hitchiner's grants concentrate

Hitchiner Manufacturing Co., Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 4 CPC subclasses with 57.1% of grants classified under B22C (Foundry Moulding). Peak complete grant year is 2016 (3 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2017. By volume, Hitchiner sits between Hippo Harvest Inc. and Hopgrade, Inc..

Hitchiner's three-year grant acceleration

Hitchiner Manufacturing Co., Inc. shows 3 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.

Hippo Harvest

7
Hitachi Chemical…

7
Hitachi Global Li…

7
Hitachi Rail GTS…

7
Hiveio

7
Hobie Cat IP

7
Hola Networks

7
Hopgrade

7
Hitchiner Manufac… ◀

7

What this shows Hitchiner holds 7 patents at rank #35,741, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Hitchiner

By rank, the assignees closest to #35,741 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B22C (Foundry Moulding)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Hitchiner, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B22C (Foundry Moulding), Hitchiner ranks #30 of 136 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (48 here).

Schumacher Electric Corporation 48 Universiteit Leiden 48 NTT Communications Corporation 48 Baltimore Aircoil Company, Inc. 48

Hitchiner's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

48 Top 16% higher than 84% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2024

Grants by year

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

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Hitchiner Manufacturing Co., Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	3	42.9%
2017	1	14.3%
2022	2	28.6%
2024	1	14.3%

Which technologies does Hitchiner Manufacturing Co., Inc. patent most?

B22C - Foundry Moulding 4

B33Y - Additive Manufacturing, i.e. Manufacturing OF Three-dimensional [3-D] Objects BY Additive Deposition, Additive Agglomeration OR Additive Layering, e.g. BY 3-D Printing, Stereolithography OR Selective Laser Sintering 2

G05D - Systems FOR Controlling OR Regulating Non-electric Variables 1

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 1

Top 4 of 4 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

Hitchiner Manufacturing Co., Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Hitchiner Manufacturing Co., Inc.'s lead technology class is B22C (Foundry Moulding), 57.1% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B22C
Ranked #35,711 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Hitchiner Manufacturing Co., Inc. against Hippo Harvest Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 48.5/100 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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