Where does Hothead Games Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Hothead Games Inc. ranks #21,240 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 Hothead Games Inc. hold?

Hothead Games Inc. holds 13 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2024, spanning 3 technology areas.

What is Hothead Games Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Hothead Games Inc. has an Innovation Score of 29.2 out of 100 (30th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Hothead Games Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Hothead Games Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -14% 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 Hothead Games Inc.'s patents?

Hothead Games Inc.'s patents average 17.8 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 Hothead Games Inc. 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

Hothead Games Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Hothead Games Inc. focus on?

Hothead Games Inc.'s top technology area is A63F (Card, Board, OR Roulette GAMES; Indoor Games Using Small Moving Playing BODIES; Video GAMES; Games NOT Otherwise Provided FOR) with 10 patents, ranking #142 of 894 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 3 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 13 granted patents across 3 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2024. 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: A63F (Card, Board, OR Roulette GAMES; Indoor Games Using Small Moving Playing BODIES; Video GAMES; Games NOT Otherwise Provided FOR).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Hothead ranks #21,240 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 13 patents across 3 technology areas.

#21,240
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 30th percentile
by Innovation Score (29.2/100): 17.8
avg claims per patent: -14%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R21240 · Foreign Corporation #21,240 · 13 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 13 grants
MID-PACK #21,240/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH HireVue
CPC-NARROW A63F · 3 areas
INNOV-THIN 29.2/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.8 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -14% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: HireVue, 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 Hothead’s 29.2 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 9.1 pts (31%) Velocity 3.3 pts (11%) Breadth 6.1 pts (21%) Claim depth 10.7 pts (37%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Hothead Games · this assignee

29
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Hothead's Innovation Score is 29.2/100 (30th 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 Hothead?

Each dot is one of Hothead’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). Hothead’s own 17.8 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.2 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Hothead's grants concentrate

Hothead Games Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 3 CPC subclasses with 76.9% of grants classified under A63F (Card, Board, OR Roulette GAMES; Indoor Games Using Small Moving Playing BODIES; Video GAMES; Games NOT Otherwise Provided FOR). Peak complete grant year is 2018 (4 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2015. By volume, Hothead sits between HireVue, Inc. and I-cubed Research Center Inc..

Hothead's three-year grant acceleration

Hothead Games Inc. shows 2 grants in 2022–2024 against only 4 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.

Hirevue

13
Hoerbiger Wien

13
Hole-in-one Media

13
Hosei University

13
Hottinger Baldwin…

13
Hummingbird Diagn…

13
Hydromecanique et…

13
I-cubed Research…

13
Hothead Games ◀

13

What this shows Hothead holds 13 patents at rank #21,240, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Hothead

By rank, the assignees closest to #21,240 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A63F (Card)

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

Hothead's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

29 30th percentile higher than 30% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2024

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2015–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Hothead Games Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1	7.7%
2016	1	7.7%
2017	1	7.7%
2018	4	30.8%
2020	3	23.1%
2021	1	7.7%
2023	1	7.7%
2024	1	7.7%

Which technologies does Hothead Games Inc. patent most?

A63F - Card, Board, OR Roulette GAMES; Indoor Games Using Small Moving Playing BODIES; Video GAMES; Games NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 10

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 4

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 3

Top 3 of 3 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

Hothead Games Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Hothead Games Inc.'s lead technology class is A63F (Card, Board, OR Roulette GAMES; Indoor Games Using Small Moving Playing BODIES; Video GAMES; Games NOT Otherwise Provided FOR), 76.9% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A63F
Ranked #21,240 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Hothead Games Inc. against HireVue, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 29.2/100 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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