Where does Horst Engineering & Manufacturing Co. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Horst Engineering & Manufacturing Co. ranks #40,752 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 Horst Engineering & Manufacturing Co. hold?

Horst Engineering & Manufacturing Co. holds 6 US utility patents granted between 2017 and 2018, spanning 0 technology areas.

What is Horst Engineering & Manufacturing Co.'s Innovation Score?

Horst Engineering & Manufacturing Co. has an Innovation Score of 7.3 out of 100 (0th 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 Horst Engineering & Manufacturing Co. focus on?

Horst Engineering & Manufacturing Co. holds grants across 0 technology areas classified under the Cooperative Patent Classification system.

Is Horst Engineering & Manufacturing Co.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Horst Engineering & Manufacturing Co.'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 Horst Engineering & Manufacturing Co.'s patents?

Horst Engineering & Manufacturing Co.'s patents average 1.0 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 Horst Engineering & Manufacturing Co. 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

Horst Engineering & Manufacturing Co.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 6 granted patents across 0 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2017–2018. Grant-trend analysis is cross-referenced to USPTO Patent Public Search; it does not measure application filings, current R&D, or legal strength.

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Horst ranks #40,752 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 6 patents across 0 technology areas.

#40,752
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 0th percentile
by Innovation Score (7.3/100): 1.0
avg claims per patent: -100%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R40752 · US Corporation #40,752 · 6 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · LOWER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-UNK · INNOV-LOW · CLAIMS-SPARSE · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-RICH

GRANTS-MICRO 6 grants
LOWER-Q #40,752/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Hongkong Eiwo
CPC-UNK CPC blank
INNOV-LOW 7.3/100
CLAIMS-SPARSE 1.0 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -100% vel
BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Hongkong Eiwo Co., Limited (±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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Horst Engineering &… · this assignee

7
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Horst's Innovation Score is 7.3/100 (0th 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.

Where Horst's grants concentrate

Horst Engineering & Manufacturing Co. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 0 CPC subclasses . Peak complete grant year is 2017 (5 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2018. By volume, Horst sits between Hongkong Eiwo Co., Limited and HS Products Engineering GmbH.

Hongkong Eiwo

6
Hope Biosciences

6
Horen Cortp

6
Hormos Medical

6
Houdinix

6
Howe Industries

6
HPF SPA

6
HS Products Engin…

6
Horst Engineering… ◀

6

What this shows Horst holds 6 patents at rank #40,663, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Horst

By rank, the assignees closest to #40,663 in granted patent volume.

Horst's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

7 0th percentile higher than 0% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2017–2018

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2017–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Horst Engineering & Manufacturing Co. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2017	5	83.3%
2018	1	16.7%

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#40,752

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

7.3 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

Horst Engineering & Manufacturing Co.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Ranked #40,752 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Horst Engineering & Manufacturing Co. against Hongkong Eiwo Co., Limited, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 7.3/100 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

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.