Where does Hunter Douglas Industries B. V. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Hunter Douglas Industries B. V. ranks #6,248 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 Industries B. V. hold?

Hunter Douglas Industries B. V. holds 54 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 21 technology areas.

What is Hunter Douglas Industries B. V.'s Innovation Score?

Hunter Douglas Industries B. V. has an Innovation Score of 45.4 out of 100 (top 23% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Hunter Douglas Industries B. V.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Hunter Douglas Industries B. V.'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 Industries B. V.'s patents?

Hunter Douglas Industries B. V.'s patents average 18.9 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 Hunter Douglas Industries B. V. 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 Foreign Corporation

Hunter Douglas Industries B. V.

Q: What technology areas does Hunter Douglas Industries B. V. focus on?

Hunter Douglas Industries B. V.'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 37 patents, ranking #20 of 637 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 21 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 54 granted patents across 21 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 #6,248 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 54 patents across 21 technology areas.

#6,248
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 23%
by Innovation Score (45.4/100): 18.9
avg claims per patent: +8%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R6248 · Foreign Corporation #6,248 · 54 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 54 grants
UPPER-Q #6,248/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Hermes Sellier…
CPC-FOCUS E06B · 21 areas
INNOV-PAR 45.4/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.9 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-FLAT +8% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Hermes Sellier (Societe Par Actions Simplifiee) (±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 45.4 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 13.8 pts (30%) Velocity 4.0 pts (9%) Breadth 16.2 pts (36%) Claim depth 11.3 pts (25%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Hunter Douglas… · this assignee

45
Medit · near

45
Nuvera Fuel Cells · near

45
Reno · near

45
Ultratec · near

45
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Hunter's Innovation Score is 45.4/100 (top 23% 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 18.9 claims/patent is ABOVE the 9.6 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.

Where Hunter's grants concentrate

Hunter Douglas Industries B. V. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 21 CPC subclasses with 68.5% of grants classified under E06B (Fixed OR Movable Closures FOR Openings IN Buildings, Vehicles, Fences OR Like Enclosures IN General, e.g. Doors, Windows, Blinds, Gates). Peak complete grant year is 2021 (9 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2015. By volume, Hunter sits between Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited and Location Labs, Inc..

Hunter's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Hunter Douglas Industries B. V. moved from 20 to 12 grants (0.60x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Hindustan Petrole…

54
HLI Solutions

54
Hermes Sellier (S…

54
Humanscale

54
Intrado

54
JGC

54
JS Products

54
Location Labs

54
Hunter Douglas In… ◀

54

What this shows Hunter holds 54 patents at rank #6,247, 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 #6,247 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 #20 of 637 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (45 here).

Ultratec, Inc. 45 Reno Technologies, Inc. 45 Nuvera Fuel Cells, LLC 45 Medit Corp. 45

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (18.9 here).

Tyco Safety Products Canada Ltd. 18.9 avg Zuora, Inc. 18.9 avg Abbyy Production LLC 18.9 avg Lytx, Inc. 18.9 avg

Hunter's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

45 Top 23% higher than 77% 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 Industries B. V. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	2	3.7%
2016	4	7.4%
2017	4	7.4%
2018	8	14.8%
2019	6	11.1%
2020	5	9.3%
2021	9	16.7%
2022	7	13.0%
2023	3	5.6%
2024	2	3.7%
2025partial year	4	7.4%

Which technologies does Hunter Douglas Industries B. V. patent most?

E06B - Fixed OR Movable Closures FOR Openings IN Buildings, Vehicles, Fences OR Like Enclosures IN General, e.g. Doors, Windows, Blinds, Gates 37

E04B - General Building CONSTRUCTIONS; Walls, e.g. PARTITIONS; ROOFS; FLOORS; CEILINGS; Insulation OR Other Protection OF Buildings 11

E04F - Finishing Work ON Buildings, e.g. Stairs, Floors 8

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 5

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 5

F16H - Gearing 4

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 4

E04C - Structural ELEMENTS; Building Materials 4

F16M - Frames, Casings OR Beds OF Engines, Machines OR Apparatus, NOT Specific TO Engines, Machines OR Apparatus Provided FOR ELSEWHERE; STANDS; Supports 3

A47H - Furnishings FOR Windows OR Doors 3

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 3

F16B - Devices FOR Fastening OR Securing Constructional Elements OR Machine Parts Together, e.g. Nails, Bolts, Circlips, Clamps, Clips OR WEDGES; Joints OR Jointing 3

B29K - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses B29b, B29c OR B29d, Relating TO Moulding Materials OR TO Materials FOR ; Moulds, ; Reinforcements, Fillers OR Preformed Parts, e.g. Inserts 3

F16D - Couplings FOR Transmitting ROTATION; CLUTCHES; Brakes 2

B29D - Producing Particular Articles From Plastics OR From Substances IN A Plastic State 2

Top 15 of 21 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 Industries B. V.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Hunter Douglas Industries B. V.'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), 68.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore E06B
Ranked #6,248 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Hunter Douglas Industries B. V. against Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 45.4/100 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

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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

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