Where does Hobart Brothers LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Hobart Brothers LLC ranks #6,032 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 Hobart Brothers LLC hold?

Hobart Brothers LLC holds 56 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 16 technology areas.

What is Hobart Brothers LLC's Innovation Score?

Hobart Brothers LLC has an Innovation Score of 44.9 out of 100 (top 24% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Hobart Brothers LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Hobart Brothers LLC's recent grant velocity is -4% 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 Hobart Brothers LLC's patents?

Hobart Brothers LLC's patents average 19.0 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 Hobart Brothers 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

Hobart Brothers LLC

Q: What technology areas does Hobart Brothers LLC focus on?

Hobart Brothers LLC's top technology area is B23K (Soldering OR UNSOLDERING; WELDING; Cladding OR Plating BY Soldering OR WELDING; Cutting BY Applying Heat Locally, e.g. Flame CUTTING; Working BY Laser Beam) with 52 patents, ranking #37 of 1,623 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 16 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 56 granted patents across 16 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: B23K (Soldering OR UNSOLDERING; WELDING; Cladding OR Plating BY Soldering OR WELDING; Cutting BY Applying Heat Locally, e.g. Flame CUTTING; Working BY Laser Beam).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Hobart ranks #6,032 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 56 patents across 16 technology areas.

#6,032
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 24%
by Innovation Score (44.9/100): 19.0
avg claims per patent: -4%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R6032 · US Corporation #6,032 · 56 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 56 grants
UPPER-Q #6,032/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Garant GP
CPC-FOCUS B23K · 16 areas
INNOV-PAR 44.9/100
CLAIMS-RICH 19.0 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-FLAT -4% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Garant GP (±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 Hobart’s 44.9 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 14.0 pts (31%) Velocity 5.4 pts (12%) Breadth 14.1 pts (31%) Claim depth 11.4 pts (25%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Central Japan… · near

45
Hobart Brothers · this assignee

45
Reata Pharmaceutical… · near

45
Sophia School · near

45
Vacon OY · near

45
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Hobart's Innovation Score is 44.9/100 (top 24% 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 Hobart?

Each dot is one of Hobart’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). Hobart’s own 19.0 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.9 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Hobart's grants concentrate

Hobart Brothers LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 16 CPC subclasses with 92.9% of grants classified under B23K (Soldering OR UNSOLDERING; WELDING; Cladding OR Plating BY Soldering OR WELDING; Cutting BY Applying Heat Locally, e.g. Flame CUTTING; Working BY Laser Beam). Peak complete grant year is 2017 (8 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2016. By volume, Hobart sits between Garant GP and Invisage Technologies, Inc..

Hobart's three-year grant acceleration

Hobart Brothers LLC shows 13 grants in 2022–2024 against only 16 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.

Garant GP

56
Grip Holdings

56
Guangzhou China S…

56
Global Blood Ther…

56
HP Printing Korea

56
Integrity Implants

56
Intersurgical

56
Invisage

56
Hobart Brothers ◀

56

What this shows Hobart holds 56 patents at rank #6,032, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Hobart

By rank, the assignees closest to #6,032 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B23K (Soldering OR Unsoldering)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Hobart, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B23K (Soldering OR Unsoldering), Hobart ranks #37 of 1,623 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (45 here).

Reata Pharmaceuticals Holdings, LLC 45 Central Japan Railway Comany 45 Vacon OY 45 Sophia School Corporation 45

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (19.0 here).

C/HCA, Inc. 19.0 avg Synergy Blue, LLC 19.0 avg Biomet Biologics, LLC 19.0 avg Proteus Digital Health, Inc. 19.0 avg

Hobart's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

45 Top 24% higher than 76% 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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Hobart Brothers LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	6	10.7%
2016	2	3.6%
2017	8	14.3%
2018	8	14.3%
2019	3	5.4%
2020	8	14.3%
2021	5	8.9%
2022	4	7.1%
2023	4	7.1%
2024	5	8.9%
2025partial year	3	5.4%

Which technologies does Hobart Brothers LLC patent most?

B23K - Soldering OR UNSOLDERING; WELDING; Cladding OR Plating BY Soldering OR WELDING; Cutting BY Applying Heat Locally, e.g. Flame CUTTING; Working BY Laser Beam 52

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 16

C22C - Alloys 14

F24F - AIR-CONDITIONING; AIR-HUMIDIFICATION; VENTILATION; USE OF AIR Currents FOR Screening 4

B64F - Ground OR Aircraft-carrier-deck Installations Specially Adapted FOR USE IN Connection With AIRCRAFT; Designing, Manufacturing, Assembling, Cleaning, Maintaining OR Repairing Aircraft, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Handling, Transporting, Testing OR Inspecting Aircraft Components, NOT Otherwise Provide 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 3

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 3

C23C - Coating Metallic MATERIAL; Coating Material With Metallic MATERIAL; Surface Treatment OF Metallic Material BY Diffusion Into THE Surface, BY Chemical Conversion OR SUBSTITUTION; Coating BY Vacuum Evaporation, BY Sputtering, BY ION Implantation OR BY Chemical Vapour Deposition, IN General 2

F16L - PIPES; Joints OR Fittings FOR PIPES; Supports FOR Pipes, Cables OR Protective TUBING; Means FOR Thermal Insulation IN General 1

B22F - Working Metallic POWDER; Manufacture OF Articles From Metallic POWDER; Making Metallic Powder ; Apparatus OR Devices Specially Adapted FOR Metallic Powder 1

F26B - Drying Solid Materials OR Objects BY Removing Liquid Therefrom 1

F25B - Refrigeration Machines, Plants OR SYSTEMS; Combined Heating AND Refrigeration SYSTEMS; Heat Pump Systems 1

C25D - Processes FOR THE Electrolytic OR Electrophoretic Production OF COATINGS; ELECTROFORMING; Apparatus Therefor 1

H01M - Processes OR Means, e.g. Batteries, FOR THE Direct Conversion OF Chemical Energy Into Electrical Energy 1

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 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

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Hobart Brothers LLC's lead technology class is B23K (Soldering OR UNSOLDERING; WELDING; Cladding OR Plating BY Soldering OR WELDING; Cutting BY Applying Heat Locally, e.g. Flame CUTTING; Working BY Laser Beam), 92.9% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B23K
Ranked #6,032 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Hobart Brothers LLC against Garant GP, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 44.9/100 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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