Where does Hubbell Incorporated rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Hubbell Incorporated ranks #313 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 Hubbell Incorporated hold?

Hubbell Incorporated holds 1,369 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 147 technology areas.

What is Hubbell Incorporated's Innovation Score?

Hubbell Incorporated has an Innovation Score of 63.7 out of 100 (top 2% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Hubbell Incorporated's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Hubbell Incorporated's recent grant velocity is +12% 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 Hubbell Incorporated's patents?

Hubbell Incorporated's patents average 15.9 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 Hubbell Incorporated 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

Hubbell Incorporated

Q: What technology areas does Hubbell Incorporated focus on?

Hubbell Incorporated's top technology area is H01R (Electrically-conductive CONNECTIONS; Structural Associations OF A Plurality OF Mutually-insulated Electrical Connecting ELEMENTS; Coupling DEVICES; Current Collectors) with 324 patents, ranking #10 of 2,265 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 147 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 1,369 granted patents across 147 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: H01R (Electrically-conductive CONNECTIONS; Structural Associations OF A Plurality OF Mutually-insulated Electrical Connecting ELEMENTS; Coupling DEVICES; Current Collectors).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Hubbell ranks #313 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 1,369 patents across 147 technology areas.

#313
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 2%
by Innovation Score (63.7/100): 15.9
avg claims per patent: +12%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R313 · US Corporation #313 · 1,369 grants

GRANTS-LARGE · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-UP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-LARGE 1.4K grants
TOP-DECILE #313/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Textron Innovations
CPC-WIDE H01R · 147 areas
INNOV-STRONG 63.7/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.9 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-UP +12% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Textron Innovations Inc. (±1 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 Hubbell’s 63.7 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 24.9 pts (39%) Velocity 4.2 pts (7%) Breadth 25.0 pts (39%) Claim depth 9.5 pts (15%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Eastman Chemical · near

64
Posco · near

64
Hubbell Incorporated · this assignee

64
Topgolf Callaway… · near

64
STMicroelectronics… · near

64
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Hubbell's Innovation Score is 63.7/100 (top 2% 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 Hubbell?

Each dot is one of Hubbell’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). Hubbell’s own 15.9 claims/patent is at or below the 16.2 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

How Hubbell's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Hubbell Incorporated received 676 grants versus 604 in 2015–2019 (+12% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2019 at 184 grants and bottomed in 2015 at 64. Lead class H01R accounts for 23.7% of the portfolio across 147 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Cirrus Logic, Inc. (#309) and Acer Incorporated (#317).

Hubbell's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Hubbell Incorporated moved from 526 to 334 grants (0.64x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). Among 3,296 tracked assignees with ≥100 grants and ≥20 prior-period grants, that multiple ranks #2,351. See the growth leaderboard.

Cirrus Logic

1,385
Macronix Internat…

1,381
Semiconductor Man…

1,373
Textron Innovatio…

1,370
Hubbell Incorpora… ◀

1,369
University of Flo…

1,362
Qorvo US

1,359
Delta Faucet

1,351
Acer Incorporated

1,350

What this shows Hubbell holds 1,369 patents at rank #313, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Hubbell

By rank, the assignees closest to #313 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H01R (Electrically-conductive Connections)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Hubbell, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H01R (Electrically-conductive Connections), Hubbell ranks #10 of 2,265 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (64 here).

Topgolf Callaway Brands Corp. 64 Posco Co., Ltd 64 STMicroelectronics (Crolles 2) SAS 64 Eastman Chemical Company 64

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (15.9 here).

Carl Zeiss Meditec AG 15.9 avg Chiesi Farmaceutici S.p.A. 15.9 avg Solvay Specialty Polymers USA, LLC 15.9 avg Qinetiq Limited 15.9 avg

Hubbell's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

64 Top 2% higher than 98% 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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Hubbell Incorporated patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	64	4.7%
2016	90	6.6%
2017	137	10.0%
2018	129	9.4%
2019	184	13.4%
2020	181	13.2%
2021	161	11.8%
2022	112	8.2%
2023	108	7.9%
2024	114	8.3%
2025partial year	89	6.5%

Which technologies does Hubbell Incorporated patent most?

H01R - Electrically-conductive CONNECTIONS; Structural Associations OF A Plurality OF Mutually-insulated Electrical Connecting ELEMENTS; Coupling DEVICES; Current Collectors 324

H02G - Installation OF Electric Cables OR Lines, OR OF Combined Optical AND Electric Cables OR Lines 305

F21V - Functional Features OR Details OF Lighting Devices OR Systems THEREOF; Structural Combinations OF Lighting Devices With Other Articles, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 189

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 152

F21S - Non-portable Lighting DEVICES; Systems THEREOF; Vehicle Lighting Devices Specially Adapted FOR Vehicle Exteriors 134

H05B - Electric HEATING; Electric Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Circuit Arrangements FOR Electric Light Sources, IN General 120

H01H - Electric SWITCHES; RELAYS; SELECTORS; Emergency Protective Devices 113

H02H - Emergency Protective Circuit Arrangements 88

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 81

Y02B - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Buildings, e.g. Housing, House Appliances OR Related End-user Applications 76

G01R - Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables 74

H02J - Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy 66

F16B - Devices FOR Fastening OR Securing Constructional Elements OR Machine Parts Together, e.g. Nails, Bolts, Circlips, Clamps, Clips OR WEDGES; Joints OR Jointing 56

H05K - Printed CIRCUITS; Casings OR Constructional Details OF Electric APPARATUS; Manufacture OF Assemblages OF Electrical Components 47

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 46

Top 15 of 147 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

Hubbell Incorporated's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Hubbell Incorporated's lead technology class is H01R (Electrically-conductive CONNECTIONS; Structural Associations OF A Plurality OF Mutually-insulated Electrical Connecting ELEMENTS; Coupling DEVICES; Current Collectors), 23.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H01R
Ranked #313 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Hubbell Incorporated against Cirrus Logic, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 63.7/100 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.

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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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