Where does Hydro Aluminium Deutschland GmbH rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Hydro Aluminium Deutschland GmbH ranks #24,496 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 Hydro Aluminium Deutschland GmbH hold?

Hydro Aluminium Deutschland GmbH holds 11 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2022, spanning 22 technology areas.

What is Hydro Aluminium Deutschland GmbH's Innovation Score?

Hydro Aluminium Deutschland GmbH has an Innovation Score of 33.3 out of 100 (44th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Hydro Aluminium Deutschland GmbH focus on?

Hydro Aluminium Deutschland GmbH's top technology area is C22C (Alloys) with 7 patents, ranking #216 of 948 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 22 CPC subclasses total.

Is Hydro Aluminium Deutschland GmbH's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Hydro Aluminium Deutschland GmbH's recent grant velocity is -62% 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 Hydro Aluminium Deutschland GmbH's patents?

Hydro Aluminium Deutschland GmbH's patents average 11.3 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 Hydro Aluminium Deutschland GmbH 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

Hydro Aluminium Deutschland GmbH

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 11 granted patents across 22 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2022. 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: C22C (Alloys).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Hydro ranks #24,496 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 11 patents across 22 technology areas.

#24,496
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 44th percentile
by Innovation Score (33.3/100): 11.3
avg claims per patent: -62%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R24496 · Foreign Corporation #24,496 · 11 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-PAR · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 11 grants
MID-PACK #24,496/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Huf Baolong Bretten
CPC-FOCUS C22C · 22 areas
INNOV-THIN 33.3/100
CLAIMS-PAR 11.3 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -62% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Huf Baolong Electronics Bretten GmbH (±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 Hydro’s 33.3 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 8.6 pts (26%) Velocity 1.3 pts (4%) Breadth 16.6 pts (50%) Claim depth 6.8 pts (20%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Hydro Aluminium… · this assignee

33
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Hydro's Innovation Score is 33.3/100 (44th percentile 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 Hydro?

Each dot is one of Hydro’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). Hydro’s own 11.3 claims/patent is at or below the 14.4 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Hydro's grants concentrate

Hydro Aluminium Deutschland GmbH is a focused PatentsView assignee: 22 CPC subclasses with 63.6% of grants classified under C22C (Alloys). Peak complete grant year is 2018 (3 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2015. By volume, Hydro sits between Huf Baolong Electronics Bretten GmbH and I-jack Technologies Incorporated.

Hydro's three-year grant acceleration

Hydro Aluminium Deutschland GmbH shows 1 grants in 2022–2024 against only 5 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.

Huf Baolong Brett…

11
Huffy

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Hurley Internatio…

11
Hybio Pharmaceuti…

11
Hyster-yale Mater…

11
I-blades

11
I-interactive

11
I-jack Incorporat…

11
Hydro Aluminium D… ◀

11

What this shows Hydro holds 11 patents at rank #24,495, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Hydro

By rank, the assignees closest to #24,495 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C22C (Alloys)

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

Hydro's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

33 44th percentile higher than 44% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2022

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2015–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Hydro Aluminium Deutschland GmbH patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1	9.1%
2017	1	9.1%
2018	3	27.3%
2019	3	27.3%
2020	1	9.1%
2021	1	9.1%
2022	1	9.1%

Which technologies does Hydro Aluminium Deutschland GmbH patent most?

C22C - Alloys 7

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 5

C22F - Changing THE Physical Structure OF Non-ferrous Metals AND Non-ferrous Alloys 5

B41N - Printing Plates OR Foils ; Materials FOR Surfaces Used IN Printing Machines FOR Printing, Inking, Damping, OR THE LIKE; Preparing Such Surfaces FOR USE AND Conserving Them 4

B22D - Casting OF METALS; Casting OF Other Substances BY THE Same Processes OR Devices 3

B05D - Processes FOR Applying Fluent Materials TO Surfaces, IN General 2

C23C - Coating Metallic MATERIAL; Coating Material With Metallic MATERIAL; Surface Treatment OF Metallic Material BY Diffusion Into THE Surface, BY Chemical Conversion OR SUBSTITUTION; Coating BY Vacuum Evaporation, BY Sputtering, BY ION Implantation OR BY Chemical Vapour Deposition, IN General 2

C21D - Modifying THE Physical Structure OF Ferrous METALS; General Devices FOR Heat Treatment OF Ferrous OR Non-ferrous Metals OR ALLOYS; Making Metal Malleable, e.g. BY Decarburisation OR Tempering 2

C23G - Cleaning OR De-greasing OF Metallic Material BY Chemical Methods Other Than Electrolysis 2

B21H - Making Particular Metal Objects BY Rolling, e.g. Screws, Wheels, Rings, Barrels, Balls 1

B21B - Rolling OF Metal 1

C08K - Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances as compounding ingredients 1

C09D - Coating Compositions, e.g. Paints, Varnishes OR LACQUERS; Filling PASTES; Chemical Paint OR INK REMOVERS; INKS; Correcting FLUIDS; WOODSTAINS; Pastes OR Solids FOR Colouring OR PRINTING; USE OF Materials Therefor 1

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 1

F28F - Details OF Heat-exchange AND Heat-transfer Apparatus, OF General Application 1

Top 15 of 22 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

Hydro Aluminium Deutschland GmbH's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Hydro Aluminium Deutschland GmbH's lead technology class is C22C (Alloys), 63.6% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C22C
Ranked #24,496 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Hydro Aluminium Deutschland GmbH against Huf Baolong Electronics Bretten GmbH, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 33.3/100 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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