Where does Huntington Ingalls Incorporated rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Huntington Ingalls Incorporated ranks #12,479 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 Huntington Ingalls Incorporated hold?

Huntington Ingalls Incorporated holds 24 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2025, spanning 24 technology areas.

What is Huntington Ingalls Incorporated's Innovation Score?

Huntington Ingalls Incorporated has an Innovation Score of 49.8 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%).

What technology areas does Huntington Ingalls Incorporated focus on?

Huntington Ingalls Incorporated's top technology area is G06T (Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General) with 9 patents, ranking #1,365 of 6,389 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 24 CPC subclasses total.

Is Huntington Ingalls Incorporated's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Huntington Ingalls Incorporated's recent grant velocity is -36% 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 Huntington Ingalls Incorporated's patents?

Huntington Ingalls Incorporated's patents average 16.2 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 Huntington Ingalls 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

Huntington Ingalls Incorporated

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 24 granted patents across 24 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2025. 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: G06T (Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Huntington ranks #12,479 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 24 patents across 24 technology areas.

#12,479
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 14%
by Innovation Score (49.8/100): 16.2
avg claims per patent: -36%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R12479 · US Corporation #12,479 · 24 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 24 grants
UPPER-Q #12,479/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Hart InterCivic
CPC-FOCUS G06T · 24 areas
INNOV-PAR 49.8/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.2 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DOWN -36% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Hart InterCivic, 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 Huntington’s 49.8 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 11.1 pts (22%) Velocity 11.7 pts (23%) Breadth 17.3 pts (35%) Claim depth 9.7 pts (19%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Huntington Ingalls… · this assignee

50
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Huntington's Innovation Score is 49.8/100 (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 Huntington?

Each dot is one of Huntington’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). Huntington’s own 16.2 claims/patent is ABOVE the 12.5 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Huntington's grants concentrate

Huntington Ingalls Incorporated is a focused PatentsView assignee: 24 CPC subclasses with 37.5% of grants classified under G06T (Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General). Peak complete grant year is 2018 (7 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2016. By volume, Huntington sits between Hoya Optical Labs Of America, Inc. and Iljin Co., Ltd..

Huntington's three-year grant acceleration

Huntington Ingalls Incorporated shows 7 grants in 2022–2024 against only 4 in 2019–2021. That prior window is too thin for a growth multiple (rename and spin-out assignees look artificially high when the baseline is near zero), so PlainPatent withholds a ranked acceleration claim here.

Hoya Optical Labs…

24
Hsien Chang Optic…

24
Hubtex Maschinenb…

24
Hart Intercivic

24
Hyland Switzerlan…

24
IB Appliances US…

24
ID Quantique

24
Iljin

24
Huntington Ingall… ◀

24

What this shows Huntington holds 24 patents at rank #12,480, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Huntington

By rank, the assignees closest to #12,480 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G06T (Image Data Processing OR Generation)

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

Huntington'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 · 2016–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2016–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Huntington Ingalls Incorporated patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	1	4.2%
2017	4	16.7%
2018	7	29.2%
2019	2	8.3%
2021	2	8.3%
2022	1	4.2%
2023	3	12.5%
2024	3	12.5%
2025partial year	1	4.2%

Which technologies does Huntington Ingalls Incorporated patent most?

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 9

B33Y - Additive Manufacturing, i.e. Manufacturing OF Three-dimensional [3-D] Objects BY Additive Deposition, Additive Agglomeration OR Additive Layering, e.g. BY 3-D Printing, Stereolithography OR Selective Laser Sintering 7

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 6

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 5

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 5

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 4

B23K - Soldering OR UNSOLDERING; WELDING; Cladding OR Plating BY Soldering OR WELDING; Cutting BY Applying Heat Locally, e.g. Flame CUTTING; Working BY Laser Beam 4

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 3

B22F - Working Metallic POWDER; Manufacture OF Articles From Metallic POWDER; Making Metallic Powder ; Apparatus OR Devices Specially Adapted FOR Metallic Powder 3

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 3

G01R - Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables 3

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 3

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

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 2

H01H - Electric SWITCHES; RELAYS; SELECTORS; Emergency Protective Devices 2

Top 15 of 24 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

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

Huntington Ingalls Incorporated's lead technology class is G06T (Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General), 37.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06T
Ranked #12,479 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Huntington Ingalls Incorporated against Hoya Optical Labs Of America, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 49.8/100 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

Every figure on PlainPatent is rendered directly from USPTO source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on USPTO source data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 2026.