Where does Howard Hughes Medical Institute rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Howard Hughes Medical Institute ranks #3,843 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 Howard Hughes Medical Institute hold?

Howard Hughes Medical Institute holds 94 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 31 technology areas.

What is Howard Hughes Medical Institute's Innovation Score?

Howard Hughes Medical Institute has an Innovation Score of 54.7 out of 100 (top 8% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Howard Hughes Medical Institute's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Howard Hughes Medical Institute's recent grant velocity is +10% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). The company is maintaining or growing its granted-patent output.

What does claim depth mean for Howard Hughes Medical Institute's patents?

Howard Hughes Medical Institute's patents average 24.4 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 Howard Hughes Medical Institute 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

Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Q: What technology areas does Howard Hughes Medical Institute focus on?

Howard Hughes Medical Institute's top technology area is G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties) with 56 patents, ranking #256 of 7,863 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 31 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 94 granted patents across 31 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: G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Howard ranks #3,843 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 94 patents across 31 technology areas.

#3,843
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 8%
by Innovation Score (54.7/100): 24.4
avg claims per patent: +10%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R3843 · US Corporation #3,843 · 94 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-UP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 94 grants
TOP-DECILE #3,843/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Endura Products
CPC-FOCUS G01N · 31 areas
INNOV-PAR 54.7/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 24.4 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-UP +10% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Endura Products, LLC (±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 Howard’s 54.7 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 15.7 pts (29%) Velocity 4.6 pts (8%) Breadth 19.7 pts (36%) Claim depth 14.6 pts (27%)

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What this shows Howard's Innovation Score is 54.7/100 (top 8% 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 Howard?

Each dot is one of Howard’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). Howard’s own 24.4 claims/patent is ABOVE the 13.8 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Howard's grants concentrate

Howard Hughes Medical Institute is a focused PatentsView assignee: 31 CPC subclasses with 59.6% of grants classified under G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties). Peak complete grant year is 2018 (14 grants) versus a trough of 3 in 2015. By volume, Howard sits between Endura Products, LLC and Kuraray Noritake Dental Inc..

Howard's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Howard Hughes Medical Institute moved from 33 to 23 grants (0.70x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

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What this shows Howard holds 94 patents at rank #3,843, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Howard

By rank, the assignees closest to #3,843 in granted patent volume.

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

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Howard, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their…), Howard ranks #256 of 7,863 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (55 here).

Astec International Limited 55 BAE Systems Controls Inc. 55 Elo Touch Solutions, Inc. 55 Wincor Nixdorf International GmbH 55

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (24.4 here).

Cognitive Systems Corp. 24.4 avg Gigamon Inc. 24.4 avg Dyne Therapeutics, Inc. 24.4 avg Immunogen, Inc. 24.4 avg

Howard's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

55 Top 8% higher than 92% 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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Howard Hughes Medical Institute patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	3	3.2%
2016	10	10.6%
2017	5	5.3%
2018	14	14.9%
2019	10	10.6%
2020	10	10.6%
2021	13	13.8%
2022	9	9.6%
2023	6	6.4%
2024	8	8.5%
2025partial year	6	6.4%

Which technologies does Howard Hughes Medical Institute patent most?

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 56

C07K - Peptides 33

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 29

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 19

C12N - Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media 16

C07D - Heterocyclic Compounds 12

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 10

C09B - Organic Dyes OR Closely-related Compounds FOR Producing Dyes ; , e.g. PIGMENTS; MORDANTS; Lakes 9

C07F - Acyclic, Carbocyclic OR Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium OR Tellurium 8

C09K - Materials FOR Miscellaneous Applications, NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere 7

H01J - Electric Discharge Tubes OR Discharge Lamps 7

A61P - Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations 6

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 6

C40B - Combinatorial CHEMISTRY; Libraries, e.g. Chemical Libraries 3

C12Q - Measuring OR Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids OR Microorganisms ; Compositions OR Test Papers THEREFOR; Processes OF Preparing Such COMPOSITIONS; Condition-responsive Control IN Microbiological OR Enzymological Processes 3

Top 15 of 31 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

Howard Hughes Medical Institute's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Howard Hughes Medical Institute's lead technology class is G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties), 59.6% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G01N
Ranked #3,843 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Howard Hughes Medical Institute against Endura Products, LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 54.7/100 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

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