Where does Hollingsworth & Vose Company rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Hollingsworth & Vose Company ranks #4,084 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 Hollingsworth & Vose Company hold?

Hollingsworth & Vose Company holds 88 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 20 technology areas.

What is Hollingsworth & Vose Company's Innovation Score?

Hollingsworth & Vose Company has an Innovation Score of 50.5 out of 100 (top 13% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Hollingsworth & Vose Company focus on?

Hollingsworth & Vose Company's top technology area is B01D (Separation) with 69 patents, ranking #56 of 3,536 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 20 CPC subclasses total.

Is Hollingsworth & Vose Company's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Hollingsworth & Vose Company's recent grant velocity is -7% 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 Hollingsworth & Vose Company's patents?

Hollingsworth & Vose Company's patents average 23.8 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 Hollingsworth & Vose 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

Hollingsworth & Vose Company

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 88 granted patents across 20 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: B01D (Separation).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Hollingsworth ranks #4,084 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 88 patents across 20 technology areas.

#4,084
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 13%
by Innovation Score (50.5/100): 23.8
avg claims per patent: -7%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R4084 · US Corporation #4,084 · 88 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-FLAT · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 88 grants
TOP-DECILE #4,084/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Derrick
CPC-FOCUS B01D · 20 areas
INNOV-PAR 50.5/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 23.8 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-FLAT -7% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Derrick Corporation (±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 Hollingsworth’s 50.5 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 15.5 pts (31%) Velocity 4.9 pts (10%) Breadth 15.8 pts (31%) Claim depth 14.3 pts (28%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Affirm · near

51
Applied Minds · near

51
Bando Chemical… · near

51
Hollingsworth & Vose · this assignee

51
Wake Forest University · near

51
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Hollingsworth's Innovation Score is 50.5/100 (top 13% 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 Hollingsworth?

Each dot is one of Hollingsworth’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). Hollingsworth’s own 23.8 claims/patent is ABOVE the 14.4 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Hollingsworth's grants concentrate

Hollingsworth & Vose Company is a focused PatentsView assignee: 20 CPC subclasses with 78.4% of grants classified under B01D (Separation). Peak complete grant year is 2019 (14 grants) versus a trough of 4 in 2016. By volume, Hollingsworth sits between Derrick Corporation and Joy Global Surface Mining Inc.

Hollingsworth's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Hollingsworth & Vose Company moved from 31 to 23 grants (0.74x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Derrick

88
Fositek

88
Glycom A/S

88
Georgia-pacific C…

88
Institut National…

88
Ideastream Consum…

88
Johnson Controls

88
Joy Global Surfac…

88
Hollingsworth & V… ◀

88

What this shows Hollingsworth holds 88 patents at rank #4,084, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Hollingsworth

By rank, the assignees closest to #4,084 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B01D (Separation)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Hollingsworth, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B01D (Separation), Hollingsworth ranks #56 of 3,536 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (51 here).

Bando Chemical Industries, Ltd. 51 Applied Minds, LLC 51 Wake Forest University 51 Affirm, Inc. 51

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (23.8 here).

Haemonetics Corporation 23.8 avg Koninklijke Douwe Egberts B.V. 23.8 avg Array BioPharma, Inc. 23.8 avg DE LA RUE International Limited 23.7 avg

Hollingsworth's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

51 Top 13% higher than 87% 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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Hollingsworth & Vose Company patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	10	11.4%
2016	4	4.5%
2017	7	8.0%
2018	8	9.1%
2019	14	15.9%
2020	11	12.5%
2021	6	6.8%
2022	11	12.5%
2023	6	6.8%
2024	6	6.8%
2025partial year	5	5.7%

Which technologies does Hollingsworth & Vose Company patent most?

B01D - Separation 69

H01M - Processes OR Means, e.g. Batteries, FOR THE Direct Conversion OF Chemical Energy Into Electrical Energy 16

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 16

D04H - Making Textile Fabrics, e.g. From Fibres OR Filamentary Material ; Fabrics Made BY Such Processes OR Apparatus, e.g. Felts, Non-woven FABRICS; COTTON-WOOL; Wadding ; ; Non-woven Fabrics From Staple Fibres, Filaments OR Yarns, Bonded With AT Least ONE Web-like Material During Their Consolidation 11

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 11

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 9

A41D - OUTERWEAR; Protective GARMENTS; Accessories 8

A62B - Devices, Apparatus OR Methods FOR Life-saving 7

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 7

B03C - Magnetic OR Electrostatic Separation OF Solid Materials From Solid Materials OR FLUIDS; Separation BY High-voltage Electric Fields 4

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 3

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 2

A41H - Appliances OR Methods FOR Making Clothes, e.g. FOR Dress-making OR FOR Tailoring, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 2

C02F - Treatment OF Water, Waste Water, Sewage, OR Sludge 2

D21H - Pulp COMPOSITIONS; Preparation Thereof NOT Covered BY Subclasses D21c OR D21D; Impregnating OR Coating OF PAPER; Treatment OF Finished Paper NOT Covered BY Class B31 OR Subclass D21G; Paper NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 2

Top 15 of 20 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

Hollingsworth & Vose Company's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Hollingsworth & Vose Company's lead technology class is B01D (Separation), 78.4% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B01D
Ranked #4,084 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Hollingsworth & Vose Company against Derrick Corporation, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 50.5/100 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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