Where does Hood Technology Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Hood Technology Corporation ranks #7,276 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 Hood Technology Corporation hold?

Hood Technology Corporation holds 45 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2025, spanning 20 technology areas.

What is Hood Technology Corporation's Innovation Score?

Hood Technology Corporation has an Innovation Score of 43.3 out of 100 (top 28% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Hood Technology Corporation focus on?

Hood Technology Corporation's top technology area is B64U (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles [UAV]; Equipment Therefor) with 43 patents, ranking #23 of 545 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 20 CPC subclasses total.

Is Hood Technology Corporation's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Hood Technology Corporation's recent grant velocity is +278% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Hood Technology Corporation's patents?

Hood Technology Corporation's patents average 19.2 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 Hood Technology Corporation 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

Hood Technology Corporation

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 45 granted patents across 20 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2025. 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: B64U (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles [UAV]; Equipment Therefor).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Hood ranks #7,276 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 45 patents across 20 technology areas.

#7,276
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 28%
by Innovation Score (43.3/100): 19.2
avg claims per patent: +278%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R7276 · US Corporation #7,276 · 45 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 45 grants
UPPER-Q #7,276/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Haldex Brake…
CPC-FOCUS B64U · 20 areas
INNOV-PAR 43.3/100
CLAIMS-RICH 19.2 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +278% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Haldex Brake Products Aktiebolag (±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 Hood’s 43.3 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 13.2 pts (31%) Velocity 2.7 pts (6%) Breadth 15.8 pts (37%) Claim depth 11.5 pts (27%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Conversant Intellect… · near

43
Draka Comteq B V · near

43
Hong ANN Tool… · near

43
Hood Technology · this assignee

43
Hospices Civils DE… · near

43
3D Lighting… · lowest

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What this shows Hood's Innovation Score is 43.3/100 (top 28% 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 Hood?

Each dot is one of Hood’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). Hood’s own 19.2 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.5 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Hood's grants concentrate

Hood Technology Corporation is a focused PatentsView assignee: 20 CPC subclasses with 95.6% of grants classified under B64U (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles [UAV]; Equipment Therefor). Peak complete grant year is 2020 (19 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2016. By volume, Hood sits between Haldex Brake Products Aktiebolag and Intevac, Inc..

Hood's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Hood Technology Corporation moved from 27 to 11 grants (0.41x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Haldex Brake Prod…

45
Halla Visteon Cli…

45
Hanmi Science

45
Henny Penny

45
Hosokawa Yoko

45
Ii-vi Incorporated

45
Intelligent Fusio…

45
Intevac

45
Hood Technology ◀

45

What this shows Hood holds 45 patents at rank #7,275, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Hood

By rank, the assignees closest to #7,275 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B64U (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles [UAV])

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Hood, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B64U (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles [UAV]), Hood ranks #23 of 545 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (43 here).

Hospices Civils DE Lyon 43 Draka Comteq B.V. 43 Hong ANN Tool Industries Co., Ltd. 43 Conversant Intellectual Property Management Inc. 43

Hood's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

43 Top 28% higher than 72% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2025

Grants by year

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

View data table

Hood Technology Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	1	2.2%
2017	2	4.4%
2018	2	4.4%
2019	4	8.9%
2020	19	42.2%
2021	4	8.9%
2022	6	13.3%
2023	4	8.9%
2024	1	2.2%
2025partial year	2	4.4%

Which technologies does Hood Technology Corporation patent most?

B64U - Unmanned Aerial Vehicles [UAV]; Equipment Therefor 43

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 40

B64D - Equipment FOR Fitting IN OR TO AIRCRAFT; Flight SUITS; PARACHUTES; Arrangement OR Mounting OF Power Plants OR Propulsion Transmissions IN Aircraft 32

B64C - AEROPLANES; Helicopters 28

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 15

B66D - CAPSTANS; WINCHES; Tackles, e.g. Pulley BLOCKS; Hoists 4

B65H - Handling Thin OR Filamentary Material, e.g. Sheets, Webs, Cables 3

F15B - Systems Acting BY Means OF Fluids IN GENERAL; Fluid-pressure Actuators, e.g. SERVOMOTORS; Details OF Fluid-pressure Systems, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 3

D07B - Ropes OR Cables IN General 1

F16G - Belts, Cables, OR Ropes, Predominantly Used FOR Driving PURPOSES; CHAINS; Fittings Predominantly Used Therefor 1

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 1

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

F01D - Non-positive Displacement Machines OR Engines, e.g. Steam Turbines 1

F05D - Indexing Scheme FOR Aspects Relating TO Non-positive-displacement Machines OR Engines, Gas-turbines OR Jet-propulsion Plants 1

G01B - Measuring Length, Thickness OR Similar Linear DIMENSIONS; Measuring ANGLES; Measuring AREAS; Measuring Irregularities OF Surfaces OR Contours 1

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

Hood Technology Corporation's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Hood Technology Corporation's lead technology class is B64U (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles [UAV]; Equipment Therefor), 95.6% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B64U
Ranked #7,276 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Hood Technology Corporation against Haldex Brake Products Aktiebolag, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 43.3/100 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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