Where does Hobie Cat Company rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Hobie Cat Company ranks #24,476 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 Hobie Cat Company hold?

Hobie Cat Company holds 11 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2019, spanning 6 technology areas.

What is Hobie Cat Company's Innovation Score?

Hobie Cat Company has an Innovation Score of 23.5 out of 100 (12th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Hobie Cat Company focus on?

Hobie Cat Company's top technology area is B63H (Marine Propulsion OR Steering) with 9 patents, ranking #38 of 250 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 6 CPC subclasses total.

Is Hobie Cat Company's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Hobie Cat Company'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 Hobie Cat Company's patents?

Hobie Cat Company's patents average 10.4 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 Hobie Cat Company 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

Hobie Cat Company

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 11 granted patents across 6 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2019. 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: B63H (Marine Propulsion OR Steering).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Hobie ranks #24,476 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 11 patents across 6 technology areas.

#24,476
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 12th percentile
by Innovation Score (23.5/100): 10.4
avg claims per patent: -100%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R24476 · US Corporation #24,476 · 11 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 11 grants
MID-PACK #24,476/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Hewett-Packard…
CPC-NARROW B63H · 6 areas
INNOV-THIN 23.5/100
CLAIMS-PAR 10.4 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -100% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Hewett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (±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 Hobie’s 23.5 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 8.6 pts (37%) Velocity 0.0 pts (0%) Breadth 8.7 pts (37%) Claim depth 6.2 pts (26%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Sareum · near

23
Arcserve (USA) · near

23
Hobie Cat · this assignee

23
K2 Energy Solutions · near

23
South China… · near

23
3D Lighting… · lowest

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What this shows Hobie's Innovation Score is 23.5/100 (12th 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 Hobie?

Each dot is one of Hobie’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). Hobie’s own 10.4 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.

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

Where Hobie's grants concentrate

Hobie Cat Company is a focused PatentsView assignee: 6 CPC subclasses with 81.8% of grants classified under B63H (Marine Propulsion OR Steering). Peak complete grant year is 2016 (4 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2019. By volume, Hobie sits between Hewett-Packard Development Company, L.P. and Huf Baolong Electronics Bretten GmbH.

Hewett-packard De…

11
Hewy Wine Chillers

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Hi Rel Connectors

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Higgins Research…

11
Hohmann & Barnard

11
Home Racer

11
Horus Pharma

11
Huf Baolong Brett…

11
Hobie Cat ◀

11

What this shows Hobie holds 11 patents at rank #24,487, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Hobie

By rank, the assignees closest to #24,487 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B63H (Marine Propulsion OR Steering)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Hobie, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B63H (Marine Propulsion OR Steering), Hobie ranks #38 of 250 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (23 here).

Arcserve (USA) LLC 23 K2 Energy Solutions, Inc. 23 South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy OF Sciences 23 Sareum Limited 23

Hobie's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

23 12th percentile higher than 12% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2019

Grants by year

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

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Hobie Cat Company patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	4	36.4%
2017	4	36.4%
2018	2	18.2%
2019	1	9.1%

Which technologies does Hobie Cat Company patent most?

B63H - Marine Propulsion OR Steering 9

B63B - Ships OR Other Waterborne VESSELS; Equipment FOR Shipping 7

C07K - Peptides 1

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 1

F16B - Devices FOR Fastening OR Securing Constructional Elements OR Machine Parts Together, e.g. Nails, Bolts, Circlips, Clamps, Clips OR WEDGES; Joints OR Jointing 1

A01K - Animal HUSBANDRY; AVICULTURE; APICULTURE; PISCICULTURE; FISHING; Rearing OR Breeding Animals, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; NEW Breeds OF Animals 1

Top 6 of 6 technology areas

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

View all rankings → How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

Hobie Cat Company's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Hobie Cat Company's lead technology class is B63H (Marine Propulsion OR Steering), 81.8% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B63H
Ranked #24,476 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Hobie Cat Company against Hewett-Packard Development Company, L.P., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 23.5/100 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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