Where does Hound Labs, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Hound Labs, Inc. ranks #11,278 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 Hound Labs, Inc. hold?

Hound Labs, Inc. holds 27 US utility patents granted between 2017 and 2025, spanning 10 technology areas.

What is Hound Labs, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Hound Labs, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 47.2 out of 100 (top 19% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Hound Labs, Inc. focus on?

Hound Labs, Inc.'s top technology area is G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties) with 24 patents, ranking #618 of 7,863 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 10 CPC subclasses total.

Is Hound Labs, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Hound Labs, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +89% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Hound Labs, Inc.'s patents?

Hound Labs, Inc.'s patents average 16.7 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 Hound Labs, 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 US Corporation

Hound Labs, Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 27 granted patents across 10 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2017–2025. 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: G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Hound ranks #11,278 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 27 patents across 10 technology areas.

#11,278
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 19%
by Innovation Score (47.2/100): 16.7
avg claims per patent: +89%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R11278 · US Corporation #11,278 · 27 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 27 grants
UPPER-Q #11,278/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Hadal
CPC-FOCUS G01N · 10 areas
INNOV-PAR 47.2/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.7 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +89% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Hadal, 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 Hound’s 47.2 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 11.5 pts (24%) Velocity 14.4 pts (31%) Breadth 11.2 pts (24%) Claim depth 10.0 pts (21%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Bayer MaterialScience · near

47
Hound Labs · this assignee

47
Shanghai Research… · near

47
Toda Kogyo · near

47
Traffix Devices · near

47
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Hound's Innovation Score is 47.2/100 (top 19% 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 Hound?

Each dot is one of Hound’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). Hound’s own 16.7 claims/patent is ABOVE the 13.0 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Hound's grants concentrate

Hound Labs, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 10 CPC subclasses with 88.9% of grants classified under G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties). Peak complete grant year is 2023 (7 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2020. By volume, Hound sits between Hadal, Inc. and ILLYCAFFÈ S.P.A..

Hound's three-year grant acceleration

Hound Labs, Inc. shows 13 grants in 2022–2024 against only 6 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.

Hadal

27
Hangzhou Normal U…

27
Helmholtz-zentrum…

27
Honor Metro

27
I R C A S P A Ind…

27
Ideahub

27
Iljin Global

27
IllycaffÈ S P A

27
Hound Labs ◀

27

What this shows Hound holds 27 patents at rank #11,277, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Hound

By rank, the assignees closest to #11,277 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their…)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Hound, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their…), Hound ranks #618 of 7,863 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (47 here).

Traffix Devices, Inc. 47 Toda Kogyo Corp. 47 Shanghai Research Institute OF Petrochemical Technology, Sinopec 47 Bayer MaterialScience AG 47

Hound's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

47 Top 19% higher than 81% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2017–2025

Grants by year

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

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Hound Labs, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2017	3	11.1%
2018	4	14.8%
2019	2	7.4%
2020	1	3.7%
2021	3	11.1%
2022	2	7.4%
2023	7	25.9%
2024	4	14.8%
2025partial year	1	3.7%

Which technologies does Hound Labs, Inc. patent most?

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 24

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 14

B01L - Chemical OR Physical Laboratory Apparatus FOR General USE 7

C07D - Heterocyclic Compounds 5

F16K - VALVES; TAPS; COCKS; ACTUATING-FLOATS; Devices FOR Venting OR Aerating 2

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 1

F21V - Functional Features OR Details OF Lighting Devices OR Systems THEREOF; Structural Combinations OF Lighting Devices With Other Articles, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1

F21Y - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses F21k, F21l, F21s and F21v, Relating TO THE Form OR THE Kind OF THE Light Sources OR OF THE Colour OF THE Light Emitted 1

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 1

H04M - Telephonic Communication 1

Top 10 of 10 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

Hound Labs, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Hound Labs, Inc.'s lead technology class is G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties), 88.9% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G01N
Ranked #11,278 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Hound Labs, Inc. against Hadal, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 47.2/100 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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