Where does Hornady Manufacturing Company rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Hornady Manufacturing Company ranks #10,647 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 Hornady Manufacturing Company hold?

Hornady Manufacturing Company holds 29 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 16 technology areas.

What is Hornady Manufacturing Company's Innovation Score?

Hornady Manufacturing Company has an Innovation Score of 36.7 out of 100 (top 46% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Hornady Manufacturing Company focus on?

Hornady Manufacturing Company's top technology area is F42B (Explosive Charges, e.g. FOR Blasting, Fireworks, Ammunition) with 13 patents, ranking #38 of 331 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 16 CPC subclasses total.

Is Hornady Manufacturing Company's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Hornady Manufacturing Company's recent grant velocity is -13% 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 Hornady Manufacturing Company's patents?

Hornady Manufacturing Company's patents average 11.9 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 Hornady Manufacturing 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

Hornady Manufacturing Company

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 29 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: F42B (Explosive Charges, e.g. FOR Blasting, Fireworks, Ammunition).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Hornady ranks #10,647 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 29 patents across 16 technology areas.

#10,647
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 46%
by Innovation Score (36.7/100): 11.9
avg claims per patent: -13%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R10647 · US Corporation #10,647 · 29 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 29 grants
UPPER-Q #10,647/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Halo Microelectronic…
CPC-FOCUS F42B · 16 areas
INNOV-THIN 36.7/100
CLAIMS-PAR 11.9 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DOWN -13% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Halo Microelectronics International (±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 Hornady’s 36.7 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 11.7 pts (32%) Velocity 3.6 pts (10%) Breadth 14.1 pts (39%) Claim depth 7.2 pts (20%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Centrix · near

37
Distalmotion · near

37
FullStory · near

37
Hornady Manufacturing · this assignee

37
Jingning Meige… · near

37
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Hornady's Innovation Score is 36.7/100 (top 46% 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 Hornady?

Each dot is one of Hornady’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). Hornady’s own 11.9 claims/patent is at or below the 13.3 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Hornady's grants concentrate

Hornady Manufacturing Company is a focused PatentsView assignee: 16 CPC subclasses with 44.8% of grants classified under F42B (Explosive Charges, e.g. FOR Blasting, Fireworks, Ammunition). Peak complete grant year is 2016 (4 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2015. By volume, Hornady sits between H.E.F. and Hamilton Medical AG.

Hornady's three-year grant acceleration

Hornady Manufacturing Company shows 6 grants in 2022–2024 against only 11 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.

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Hangzhou DAC Biot…

29
HCA Holdings

29
Hebe Studio

29
Huntercraft

29
Hyperice IP Subco

29
Halo Microelectro…

29
Hamilton Medical

29
Hornady Manufactu… ◀

29

What this shows Hornady holds 29 patents at rank #10,639, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Hornady

By rank, the assignees closest to #10,639 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F42B (Explosive Charges)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Hornady, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In F42B (Explosive Charges), Hornady ranks #38 of 331 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (37 here).

FullStory, Inc. 37 Distalmotion SA 37 Centrix Inc. 37 Jingning Meige Technology Service Co., Ltd. 37

Hornady's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

37 Top 46% higher than 54% 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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Hornady Manufacturing Company patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1	3.4%
2016	4	13.8%
2017	4	13.8%
2018	2	6.9%
2019	4	13.8%
2020	4	13.8%
2021	3	10.3%
2022	3	10.3%
2023	3	10.3%
2025partial year	1	3.4%

Which technologies does Hornady Manufacturing Company patent most?

F42B - Explosive Charges, e.g. FOR Blasting, Fireworks, Ammunition 13

F41C - Smallarms, e.g. Pistols, Rifles ; Accessories Therefor 11

E05G - Safes OR Strong-rooms FOR VALUABLES; Bank Protection DEVICES; Safety Transaction Partitions 6

E05B - LOCKS; Accessories THEREFOR; Handcuffs 5

G07C - Time OR Attendance REGISTERS; Registering OR Indicating THE Working OF MACHINES; Generating Random NUMBERS; Voting OR Lottery APPARATUS; Arrangements, Systems OR Apparatus FOR Checking NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere 5

G06K - Graphical Data Reading ; Presentation OF DATA; Record CARRIERS; Handling Record Carriers 3

F41A - Functional Features OR Details Common TO Both Smallarms AND Ordnance, e.g. CANNONS; Mountings FOR Smallarms OR Ordnance 2

E05C - Bolts OR Fastening Devices FOR Wings, Specially FOR Doors OR Windows 2

B60R - Vehicles, Vehicle Fittings, OR Vehicle Parts, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 2

B65B - Machines, Apparatus OR Devices FOR, OR Methods OF, Packaging Articles OR MATERIALS; Unpacking 1

B05B - Spraying APPARATUS; Atomising APPARATUS; Nozzles 1

F41J - TARGETS; Target RANGES; Bullet Catchers 1

B07B - Separating Solids From Solids BY Sieving, Screening, Sifting OR BY Using GAS CURRENTS; Separating BY Other DRY Methods Applicable TO Bulk Material, e.g. Loose Articles FIT TO BE Handled Like Bulk Material 1

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 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

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

Hornady Manufacturing Company's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Hornady Manufacturing Company's lead technology class is F42B (Explosive Charges, e.g. FOR Blasting, Fireworks, Ammunition), 44.8% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F42B
Ranked #10,647 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Hornady Manufacturing Company against H.E.F., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 36.7/100 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

Every figure on PlainPatent is rendered directly from USPTO source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on USPTO source data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 2026.