Where does Hodges & Drake Design Ltd rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Hodges & Drake Design Ltd ranks #47,456 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 Hodges & Drake Design Ltd hold?

Hodges & Drake Design Ltd holds 5 US utility patents granted between 2018 and 2024, spanning 7 technology areas.

What is Hodges & Drake Design Ltd's Innovation Score?

Hodges & Drake Design Ltd has an Innovation Score of 32.3 out of 100 (41st 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 Hodges & Drake Design Ltd focus on?

Hodges & Drake Design Ltd's top technology area is F04B (Positive-displacement Machines FOR LIQUIDS; Pumps) with 2 patents, ranking #528 of 1,184 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 7 CPC subclasses total.

Is Hodges & Drake Design Ltd's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Hodges & Drake Design Ltd's recent grant velocity is +300% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Hodges & Drake Design Ltd's patents?

Hodges & Drake Design Ltd's patents average 16.8 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 Hodges & Drake Design Ltd 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 Foreign Corporation

Hodges & Drake Design Ltd

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 5 granted patents across 7 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2018–2024. 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: F04B (Positive-displacement Machines FOR LIQUIDS; Pumps).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Hodges ranks #47,456 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 5 patents across 7 technology areas.

#47,456
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 41st percentile
by Innovation Score (32.3/100): 16.8
avg claims per patent: +300%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R47456 · Foreign Corporation #47,456 · 5 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · BOTTOM-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 5 grants
BOTTOM-DECILE #47,456/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH HMR Solutions
CPC-NARROW F04B · 7 areas
INNOV-THIN 32.3/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.8 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +300% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: HMR Solutions 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 Hodges’s 32.3 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 6.2 pts (19%) Velocity 6.7 pts (21%) Breadth 9.4 pts (29%) Claim depth 10.1 pts (31%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Hodges & Drake Design · this assignee

32
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Hodges's Innovation Score is 32.3/100 (41st 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 Hodges?

Each dot is one of Hodges’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). Hodges’s own 16.8 claims/patent is ABOVE the 10.8 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Hodges's grants concentrate

Hodges & Drake Design Ltd is a focused PatentsView assignee: 7 CPC subclasses with 40% of grants classified under F04B (Positive-displacement Machines FOR LIQUIDS; Pumps). By volume, Hodges sits between HMR Solutions Inc. and Holder SAS.

Hodges's three-year grant acceleration

Hodges & Drake Design Ltd shows 2 grants in 2022–2024 against only 2 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.

HMR Solutions

5
HNP Mikrosysteme

5
HO E Screw & Hard…

5
HOB & KG

5
Hohem Technology

5
Hojin Platech

5
Hola Newco

5
Holder SAS

5
Hodges & Drake De… ◀

5

What this shows Hodges holds 5 patents at rank #47,380, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Hodges

By rank, the assignees closest to #47,380 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F04B (Positive-displacement Machines FOR Liquids)

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

Hodges's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

32 41st percentile higher than 41% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2018–2024

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2018–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Hodges & Drake Design Ltd patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2018	1	20.0%
2020	1	20.0%
2021	1	20.0%
2023	1	20.0%
2024	1	20.0%

Which technologies does Hodges & Drake Design Ltd patent most?

F04B - Positive-displacement Machines FOR LIQUIDS; Pumps 2

A23L - Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Preparation OR Treatment Thereof 1

A47J - Kitchen EQUIPMENT; Coffee MILLS; Spice MILLS; Apparatus FOR Making Beverages 1

B67B - Applying Closure Members TO Bottles Jars, OR Similar CONTAINERS; Opening Closed Containers 1

B67D - Dispensing, Delivering OR Transferring Liquids, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1

B65D - Containers FOR Storage OR Transport OF Articles OR Materials, e.g. Bags, Barrels, Bottles, Boxes, Cans, Cartons, Crates, Drums, Jars, Tanks, Hoppers, Forwarding CONTAINERS; Accessories, Closures, OR Fittings THEREFOR; Packaging ELEMENTS; Packages 1

G01F - Measuring Volume, Volume Flow, Mass Flow OR Liquid LEVEL; Metering BY Volume 1

Top 7 of 7 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

Hodges & Drake Design Ltd's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Hodges & Drake Design Ltd's lead technology class is F04B (Positive-displacement Machines FOR LIQUIDS; Pumps), 40% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F04B
Ranked #47,456 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Hodges & Drake Design Ltd against HMR Solutions Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 32.3/100 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

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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