Where does Hunter's Manufacturing Company, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Hunter's Manufacturing Company, Inc. ranks #4,119 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's Manufacturing Company, Inc. hold?

Hunter's Manufacturing Company, Inc. holds 87 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 12 technology areas.

What is Hunter's Manufacturing Company, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Hunter's Manufacturing Company, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 39.7 out of 100 (top 38% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Hunter's Manufacturing Company, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Hunter's Manufacturing Company, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -30% 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's Manufacturing Company, Inc.'s patents?

Hunter's Manufacturing Company, Inc.'s patents average 16.3 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's Manufacturing Company, 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's Manufacturing Company, Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Hunter's Manufacturing Company, Inc. focus on?

Hunter's Manufacturing Company, Inc.'s top technology area is F41B (Weapons FOR Projecting Missiles Without USE OF Explosive OR Combustible Propellant CHARGE; Weapons NOT Otherwise Provided FOR) with 72 patents. Grants appear in 12 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 87 granted patents across 12 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: F41B (Weapons FOR Projecting Missiles Without USE OF Explosive OR Combustible Propellant CHARGE; Weapons NOT Otherwise Provided FOR).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Hunter's ranks #4,119 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 87 patents across 12 technology areas.

#4,119
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 38%
by Innovation Score (39.7/100): 16.3
avg claims per patent: -30%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R4119 · US Corporation #4,119 · 87 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 87 grants
TOP-DECILE #4,119/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Dummen Group B V
CPC-FOCUS F41B · 12 areas
INNOV-THIN 39.7/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.3 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DOWN -30% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Dummen Group B.V. (±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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Hunter's Manufacturing · this assignee

40
Kantatsu · near

40
Lumosa Therapeutics · near

40
Optis Cellular… · near

40
Smart Denture… · near

40
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Hunter's's Innovation Score is 39.7/100 (top 38% 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.

Where Hunter's's grants concentrate

Hunter's Manufacturing Company, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 12 CPC subclasses with 82.8% of grants classified under F41B (Weapons FOR Projecting Missiles Without USE OF Explosive OR Combustible Propellant CHARGE; Weapons NOT Otherwise Provided FOR). Peak complete grant year is 2019 (22 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2023. By volume, Hunter's sits between Dummen Group B.V. and Loon LLC.

Hunter's's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Hunter's Manufacturing Company, Inc. moved from 43 to 14 grants (0.33x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Dummen Group B V

87
F-secure

87
Fujikoki

87
Glaxosmithkline I…

87
Ishihara Sangyo K…

87
Kwang Yang Motor

87
Luxshare Precisio…

87
Loon

87
Hunter's Manufact… ◀

87

What this shows Hunter's holds 87 patents at rank #4,119, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Hunter's

By rank, the assignees closest to #4,119 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F41B (Weapons FOR Projecting Missiles Without USE OF Explosive…)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Hunter's, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above).

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (40 here).

Optis Cellular Technology, LLC 40 Kantatsu Co., Ltd 40 Lumosa Therapeutics Co., Ltd 40 Smart Denture Conversions, LLC 40

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (16.3 here).

Dupont Nutrition Biosciences APS 16.3 avg Ohio State University 16.3 avg Insulet Corporation 16.3 avg Delta Electronics (Thailand) Public Company Limited 16.3 avg

Hunter's's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

40 Top 38% higher than 62% 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's Manufacturing Company, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	6	6.9%
2016	10	11.5%
2017	4	4.6%
2018	8	9.2%
2019	22	25.3%
2020	11	12.6%
2021	10	11.5%
2022	9	10.3%
2023	2	2.3%
2024	3	3.4%
2025partial year	2	2.3%

Which technologies does Hunter's Manufacturing Company, Inc. patent most?

F41B - Weapons FOR Projecting Missiles Without USE OF Explosive OR Combustible Propellant CHARGE; Weapons NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 72

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 16

F42B - Explosive Charges, e.g. FOR Blasting, Fireworks, Ammunition 14

F41A - Functional Features OR Details Common TO Both Smallarms AND Ordnance, e.g. CANNONS; Mountings FOR Smallarms OR Ordnance 7

F41G - Weapon SIGHTS; Aiming 2

G01V - GEOPHYSICS; Gravitational MEASUREMENTS; Detecting Masses OR OBJECTS; Tags 2

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 2

F41C - Smallarms, e.g. Pistols, Rifles ; Accessories Therefor 1

B25B - Tools OR Bench Devices NOT Otherwise Provided FOR, FOR Fastening, Connecting, Disengaging OR Holding 1

G09F - DISPLAYING; ADVERTISING; SIGNS; Labels OR NAME-PLATES; Seals 1

F16M - Frames, Casings OR Beds OF Engines, Machines OR Apparatus, NOT Specific TO Engines, Machines OR Apparatus Provided FOR ELSEWHERE; STANDS; Supports 1

A63B - Apparatus FOR Physical Training, Gymnastics, Swimming, Climbing, OR FENCING; Ball GAMES; Training Equipment 1

Top 12 of 12 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#4,119

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

39.7 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

Hunter's Manufacturing Company, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Hunter's Manufacturing Company, Inc.'s lead technology class is F41B (Weapons FOR Projecting Missiles Without USE OF Explosive OR Combustible Propellant CHARGE; Weapons NOT Otherwise Provided FOR), 82.8% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F41B
Ranked #4,119 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Hunter's Manufacturing Company, Inc. against Dummen Group B.V., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 39.7/100 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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