Where does Hunter Engineering Company rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Hunter Engineering Company ranks #3,256 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 Engineering Company hold?

Hunter Engineering Company holds 115 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 36 technology areas.

What is Hunter Engineering Company's Innovation Score?

Hunter Engineering Company has an Innovation Score of 50.0 out of 100 (top 14% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Hunter Engineering Company's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Hunter Engineering Company's recent grant velocity is -23% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). Grant activity has slowed relative to earlier years.

What does claim depth mean for Hunter Engineering Company's patents?

Hunter Engineering Company'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 Hunter Engineering Company 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 Engineering Company

Q: What technology areas does Hunter Engineering Company focus on?

Hunter Engineering Company's top technology area is G01B (Measuring Length, Thickness OR Similar Linear DIMENSIONS; Measuring ANGLES; Measuring AREAS; Measuring Irregularities OF Surfaces OR Contours) with 54 patents, ranking #30 of 2,030 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 36 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 115 granted patents across 36 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: G01B (Measuring Length, Thickness OR Similar Linear DIMENSIONS; Measuring ANGLES; Measuring AREAS; Measuring Irregularities OF Surfaces OR Contours).

Compiled by PlainPatent · May 15, 2026

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Hunter ranks #3,256 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 115 patents across 36 technology areas.

#3,256
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 14%
by Innovation Score (50.0/100): 13.1
avg claims per patent: -23%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R3256 · US Corporation #3,256 · 115 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 115 grants
TOP-DECILE #3,256/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Desktop Metal
CPC-FOCUS G01B · 36 areas
INNOV-PAR 50.0/100
CLAIMS-RICH 13.1 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DOWN -23% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Desktop Metal, 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.

How Hunter’s 50.0 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 16.4 pts (33%) Velocity 4.4 pts (9%) Breadth 21.2 pts (42%) Claim depth 7.9 pts (16%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
ST Jude Medical… · near

50
Hunter Engineering · this assignee

50
S V V Technology… · near

50
Harley-Davidson Motor · near

50
Qingdao Haier… · near

50
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Hunter's Innovation Score is 50.0/100 (top 14% 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 13.1 claims/patent is ABOVE the 8.3 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 Engineering Company is a focused PatentsView assignee: 36 CPC subclasses with 47% of grants classified under G01B (Measuring Length, Thickness OR Similar Linear DIMENSIONS; Measuring ANGLES; Measuring AREAS; Measuring Irregularities OF Surfaces OR Contours). Peak complete grant year is 2019 (18 grants) versus a trough of 7 in 2022. By volume, Hunter sits between Desktop Metal, Inc. and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Engineering, Ltd..

Hunter's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Hunter Engineering Company moved from 39 to 26 grants (0.67x 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 #2,262. See the growth leaderboard.

Desktop Metal

115
Deutsches Krebsfo…

115
Dresser

115
Hisamitsu Pharmac…

115
Institut Curie

115
Messier-bugatti-d…

115
Minka Lighting

115
Mitsubishi Heavy…

115
Hunter Engineering ◀

115

What this shows Hunter holds 115 patents at rank #3,256, 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 #3,256 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G01B (Measuring Length)

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 G01B (Measuring Length), Hunter ranks #30 of 2,030 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (50 here).

S.V.V. Technology Innovations, Inc. 50 ST. Jude Medical International Holding S.Á R.L. 50 Harley-Davidson Motor Company, Inc. 50 Qingdao Haier Washing Machine Co., Ltd. 50

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (13.1 here).

Ethertronics, Inc 13.1 avg AS IP Holdco, LLC 13.1 avg Signify Holding B.V. 13.1 avg Veoneer Sweden AB 13.1 avg

Hunter's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

50 Top 14% higher than 86% 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.

View data table

Hunter Engineering Company patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	10	8.7%
2016	8	7.0%
2017	15	13.0%
2018	10	8.7%
2019	18	15.7%
2020	8	7.0%
2021	13	11.3%
2022	7	6.1%
2023	10	8.7%
2024	9	7.8%
2025partial year	7	6.1%

Which technologies does Hunter Engineering Company patent most?

G01B - Measuring Length, Thickness OR Similar Linear DIMENSIONS; Measuring ANGLES; Measuring AREAS; Measuring Irregularities OF Surfaces OR Contours 54

G01M - Testing Static OR Dynamic Balance OF Machines OR STRUCTURES; Testing OF Structures OR Apparatus, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 37

G01S - Radio DIRECTION-FINDING; Radio NAVIGATION; Determining Distance OR Velocity BY USE OF Radio WAVES; Locating OR Presence-detecting BY USE OF THE Reflection OR Reradiation OF Radio WAVES; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves 28

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 18

B60C - Vehicle TYRES; Tyre INFLATION; Tyre CHANGING; Connecting Valves TO Inflatable Elastic Bodies IN GENERAL; Devices OR Arrangements Related TO Tyres 16

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 15

G07C - Time OR Attendance REGISTERS; Registering OR Indicating THE Working OF MACHINES; Generating Random NUMBERS; Voting OR Lottery APPARATUS; Arrangements, Systems OR Apparatus FOR Checking NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere 13

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 9

F16M - Frames, Casings OR Beds OF Engines, Machines OR Apparatus, NOT Specific TO Engines, Machines OR Apparatus Provided FOR ELSEWHERE; STANDS; Supports 6

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 5

G06Q - Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory Purposes, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 5

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 4

B66F - Hoisting, Lifting, Hauling OR Pushing, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR, e.g. Devices Which Apply A Lifting OR Pushing Force Directly TO THE Surface OF A Load 4

G03B - Apparatus OR Arrangements FOR Taking Photographs OR FOR Projecting OR Viewing THEM; Apparatus OR Arrangements Employing Analogous Techniques Using Waves Other Than Optical WAVES; Accessories Therefor 4

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 3

Top 15 of 36 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 Engineering Company's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Hunter Engineering Company's lead technology class is G01B (Measuring Length, Thickness OR Similar Linear DIMENSIONS; Measuring ANGLES; Measuring AREAS; Measuring Irregularities OF Surfaces OR Contours), 47% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G01B
Ranked #3,256 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Hunter Engineering Company against Desktop Metal, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 50.0/100 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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