Where does Hunter Douglas Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Hunter Douglas Inc. ranks #1,199 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 Hunter Douglas Inc. hold?

Hunter Douglas Inc. holds 354 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 50 technology areas.

What is Hunter Douglas Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Hunter Douglas Inc. has an Innovation Score of 59.6 out of 100 (top 4% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Hunter Douglas Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Hunter Douglas Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +8% 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 Hunter Douglas Inc.'s patents?

Hunter Douglas Inc.'s patents average 18.2 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 Hunter Douglas 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

Hunter Douglas Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Hunter Douglas Inc. focus on?

Hunter Douglas Inc.'s top technology area is E06B (Fixed OR Movable Closures FOR Openings IN Buildings, Vehicles, Fences OR Like Enclosures IN General, e.g. Doors, Windows, Blinds, Gates) with 261 patents, ranking #1 of 637 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 50 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 354 granted patents across 50 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: E06B (Fixed OR Movable Closures FOR Openings IN Buildings, Vehicles, Fences OR Like Enclosures IN General, e.g. Doors, Windows, Blinds, Gates).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Hunter ranks #1,199 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 354 patents across 50 technology areas.

#1,199
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 4%
by Innovation Score (59.6/100): 18.2
avg claims per patent: +8%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1199 · US Corporation #1,199 · 354 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-FLAT · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 354 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,199/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH ABB Technology
CPC-WIDE E06B · 50 areas
INNOV-PAR 59.6/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.2 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-FLAT +8% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: ABB Technology AG (±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 Hunter’s 59.6 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 20.3 pts (34%) Velocity 3.4 pts (6%) Breadth 25.0 pts (42%) Claim depth 10.9 pts (18%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Nivarox-FAR · near

60
Boise State University · near

60
Disco · near

60
Hunter Douglas · this assignee

60
The Charles Machine… · near

60
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Hunter's Innovation Score is 59.6/100 (top 4% 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 Hunter?

Each dot is one of Hunter’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). Hunter’s own 18.2 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.1 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How Hunter's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Hunter Douglas Inc. received 173 grants versus 160 in 2015–2019 (+8% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2021 at 54 grants and bottomed in 2015 at 15. Lead class E06B accounts for 73.7% of the portfolio across 50 subclasses. Volume neighbours: ABB Technology AG (#1,195) and Knowles Electronics, LLC (#1,203).

Hunter's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Hunter Douglas Inc. moved from 140 to 72 grants (0.51x 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 #2,659. See the growth leaderboard.

ABB Technology

354
Audio-technica

354
Doosan Heavy Indu…

354
Headway

354
Hunter Douglas ◀

354
AIR Products AND…

353
Applied Materials…

353
Alstom Technology

352
Knowles

352

What this shows Hunter holds 354 patents at rank #1,199, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Hunter

By rank, the assignees closest to #1,199 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in E06B (Fixed OR Movable Closures FOR Openings IN Buildings)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Hunter, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In E06B (Fixed OR Movable Closures FOR Openings IN Buildings), Hunter ranks #1 of 637 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (60 here).

The Charles Machine Works, Inc. 60 Disco Corporation 60 Boise State University 60 Nivarox-FAR S.A. 60

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (18.2 here).

Cameron International Corporation 18.2 avg Google LLC 18.2 avg WhatsApp LLC 18.2 avg Mattson Technology, Inc. 18.2 avg

Hunter's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

60 Top 4% higher than 96% 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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Hunter Douglas Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	15	4.2%
2016	42	11.9%
2017	30	8.5%
2018	34	9.6%
2019	39	11.0%
2020	47	13.3%
2021	54	15.3%
2022	29	8.2%
2023	19	5.4%
2024	24	6.8%
2025partial year	21	5.9%

Which technologies does Hunter Douglas Inc. patent most?

E06B - Fixed OR Movable Closures FOR Openings IN Buildings, Vehicles, Fences OR Like Enclosures IN General, e.g. Doors, Windows, Blinds, Gates 261

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 25

A47H - Furnishings FOR Windows OR Doors 22

B29C - Shaping OR Joining OF PLASTICS; Shaping OF Material IN A Plastic State, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; After-treatment OF THE Shaped Products, e.g. Repairing 17

F16H - Gearing 10

F16D - Couplings FOR Transmitting ROTATION; CLUTCHES; Brakes 10

E05F - Devices FOR Moving Wings Into Open OR Closed POSITION; Checks FOR WINGS; Wing Fittings NOT Otherwise Provided FOR, Concerned With THE Functioning OF THE Wing 10

E05Y - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses E05d AND E05f, Relating TO Construction Elements, Electric Control, Power Supply, Power Signal OR Transmission, User Interfaces, Mounting OR Coupling, Details, Accessories, Auxiliary Operations NOT Otherwise Provided FOR, Application Thereof 9

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 8

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 8

H02K - Dynamo-electric Machines 7

D03D - Woven FABRICS; Methods OF WEAVING; Looms 7

H01H - Electric SWITCHES; RELAYS; SELECTORS; Emergency Protective Devices 6

E04F - Finishing Work ON Buildings, e.g. Stairs, Floors 6

B65H - Handling Thin OR Filamentary Material, e.g. Sheets, Webs, Cables 6

Top 15 of 50 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

Hunter Douglas Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Hunter Douglas Inc.'s lead technology class is E06B (Fixed OR Movable Closures FOR Openings IN Buildings, Vehicles, Fences OR Like Enclosures IN General, e.g. Doors, Windows, Blinds, Gates), 73.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore E06B
Ranked #1,199 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Hunter Douglas Inc. against ABB Technology AG, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 59.6/100 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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