Where does Hourglass Medical Llc rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Hourglass Medical Llc ranks #19,873 of 50,000 assignees by granted-patent volume, the same sort as the companies listing and top-holders ranking. See /methodology/#corpus-placement.

How many patents does Hourglass Medical Llc hold?

Hourglass Medical Llc holds 14 US utility patents granted between 2022 and 2025, spanning 16 technology areas.

What is Hourglass Medical Llc's Innovation Score?

Hourglass Medical Llc has an Innovation Score of 51.4 out of 100 (top 11% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Hourglass Medical Llc focus on?

Hourglass Medical Llc's top technology area is G06F (ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING) with 7 patents. Grants appear in 16 CPC subclasses total.

Is Hourglass Medical Llc's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Insufficient historical data is available to calculate a velocity trend for Hourglass Medical Llc.

What does claim depth mean for Hourglass Medical Llc's patents?

Hourglass Medical Llc's patents average 13.1 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 Hourglass Medical Llc 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

Hourglass Medical Llc

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 14 granted patents across 16 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2022–2025. 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: G06F (ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Hourglass ranks #19,873 of 50,000 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 14 patents across 16 technology areas.

#19,873
of 50,000 US assignees by volume: Top 11%
by Innovation Score (51.4/100): 13.1
avg claims per patent

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R19873 · US Corporation #19,873 · 14 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · SPAN-YRS · BOOK-RICH

GRANTS-MICRO 14 grants
MID-PACK #19,873/50,000
PHOTO-FINISH High Power Opto
CPC-FOCUS G06F · 16 areas
INNOV-PAR 51.4/100
CLAIMS-RICH 13.1 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
SPAN-YRS 2022–2025 · 4y
BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: High Power Opto, 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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Hourglass Medical · this assignee

51
3D Lighting Innovati… · lowest

7

What this shows Hourglass's Innovation Score is 51.4/100 (top 11% 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 Hourglass's grants concentrate

Hourglass Medical Llc is a focused PatentsView assignee: 16 CPC subclasses with 50% of grants classified under G06F (ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING). Peak complete grant year is 2023 (7 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2022. By volume, Hourglass sits between High Power Opto, Inc. and Hyperion Core, Inc..

High Power Opto

14
Holovisions

14
Hong Kong R&D Cen…

14
Horizon

14
Huwais IP Holding

14
Hyalex Orthopaedi…

14
Hyperfine

14
Hyperion Core

14
Hourglass Medical ◀

14

What this shows Hourglass holds 14 patents at rank #19,874, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Hourglass

By rank, the assignees closest to #19,874 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G06F (Electric Digital DATA Processing)

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

Hourglass's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

51 Top 11% higher than 89% of 50,000 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2022–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2022–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Hourglass Medical Llc patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2022	1	7.1%
2023	7	50.0%
2024	3	21.4%
2025partial year	3	21.4%

Which technologies does Hourglass Medical Llc patent most?

G06F - ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING 7

G02B - OPTICAL ELEMENTS, SYSTEMS OR APPARATUS 5

H04W - WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS 4

A42B - HATS; HEAD COVERINGS 3

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; IDENTIFICATION 3

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 3

F21V - FUNCTIONAL FEATURES OR DETAILS OF LIGHTING DEVICES OR SYSTEMS THEREOF; STRUCTURAL COMBINATIONS OF LIGHTING DEVICES WITH OTHER ARTICLES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR 3

H04Q - SELECTING 2

G16H - HEALTHCARE INFORMATICS, i.e. INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY [ICT] SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR THE HANDLING OR PROCESSING OF MEDICAL OR HEALTHCARE DATA 2

G01D - MEASURING NOT SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR A SPECIFIC VARIABLE; ARRANGEMENTS FOR MEASURING TWO OR MORE VARIABLES NOT COVERED IN A SINGLE OTHER SUBCLASS; TARIFF METERING APPARATUS; MEASURING OR TESTING NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR 2

G08B - SIGNALLING OR CALLING SYSTEMS; ORDER TELEGRAPHS; ALARM SYSTEMS 2

G10L - SPEECH ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES OR SPEECH SYNTHESIS; SPEECH RECOGNITION; SPEECH OR VOICE PROCESSING TECHNIQUES; SPEECH OR AUDIO CODING OR DECODING 2

A61F - FILTERS IMPLANTABLE INTO BLOOD VESSELS; PROSTHESES; DEVICES PROVIDING PATENCY TO, OR PREVENTING COLLAPSING OF, TUBULAR STRUCTURES OF THE BODY, e.g. STENTS; ORTHOPAEDIC, NURSING OR CONTRACEPTIVE DEVICES; FOMENTATION; TREATMENT OR PROTECTION OF EYES OR EARS; BANDAGES, DRESSINGS OR ABSORBENT PADS; FIRS 2

G08C - TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS FOR MEASURED VALUES, CONTROL OR SIMILAR SIGNALS 1

H04N - PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION 1

Top 15 of 16 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#19,873

of 50,000 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

51.4 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

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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