Where does Hyland UK Operations Limited rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Hyland UK Operations Limited ranks #9,282 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 Hyland UK Operations Limited hold?

Hyland UK Operations Limited holds 34 US utility patents granted between 2021 and 2025, spanning 6 technology areas.

What is Hyland UK Operations Limited's Innovation Score?

Hyland UK Operations Limited has an Innovation Score of 52.6 out of 100 (top 10% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Hyland UK Operations Limited focus on?

Hyland UK Operations Limited's top technology area is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing) with 33 patents, ranking #1,367 of 13,878 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 6 CPC subclasses total.

Is Hyland UK Operations Limited's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Insufficient historical data is available to calculate a velocity trend for Hyland UK Operations Limited.

What does claim depth mean for Hyland UK Operations Limited's patents?

Hyland UK Operations Limited's patents average 19.5 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 Hyland UK Operations Limited 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

Hyland UK Operations Limited

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 34 granted patents across 6 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2021–2025. 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: G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Hyland ranks #9,282 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 34 patents across 6 technology areas.

#9,282
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 10%
by Innovation Score (52.6/100): 19.5
avg claims per patent

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R9282 · Foreign Corporation #9,282 · 34 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · SPAN-YRS · BOOK-RICH

GRANTS-SMALL 34 grants
UPPER-Q #9,282/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Henke-Sass Wolf
CPC-NARROW G06F · 6 areas
INNOV-PAR 52.6/100
CLAIMS-RICH 19.5 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
SPAN-YRS 2021–2025 · 5y
BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Henke-Sass, Wolf 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 Hyland’s 52.6 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 12.3 pts (23%) Velocity 20.0 pts (38%) Breadth 8.7 pts (17%) Claim depth 11.7 pts (22%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Expro North SEA · near

53
Hyland UK Operations · this assignee

53
Manitowoc Crane… · near

53
Materialise · near

53
Smarter Microelectro… · near

53
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Hyland's Innovation Score is 52.6/100 (top 10% 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 Hyland?

Each dot is one of Hyland’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). Hyland’s own 19.5 claims/patent is ABOVE the 10.5 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Hyland's grants concentrate

Hyland UK Operations Limited is a focused PatentsView assignee: 6 CPC subclasses with 97.1% of grants classified under G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing). Peak complete grant year is 2023 (9 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2021. By volume, Hyland sits between Henke-Sass, Wolf GmbH and IHP GMBH—INNOVATIONS FOR High Performance Microelectronics / Leibniz-institut FÜR Innovative Mikroelektronik.

Hyland's three-year grant acceleration

Hyland UK Operations Limited shows 25 grants in 2022–2024 against only 1 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.

Henke-sass Wolf

34
Heron Therapeutics

34
Hublot Genève

34
Huf North America…

34
Ibex PT Holdings

34
Idemia Identity &…

34
Iguzzini Illumina…

34
IHP —Innovations…

34
Hyland UK Operati… ◀

34

What this shows Hyland holds 34 patents at rank #9,282, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Hyland

By rank, the assignees closest to #9,282 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Hyland, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), Hyland ranks #1,367 of 13,878 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (53 here).

Smarter Microelectronics (GUANG ZHOU) Co., Ltd. 53 Manitowoc Crane Group France 53 Expro North SEA Limited 53 Materialise N.V. 53

Hyland's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

53 Top 10% higher than 90% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2021–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2021–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Hyland UK Operations Limited patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2021	1	2.9%
2022	8	23.5%
2023	9	26.5%
2024	8	23.5%
2025partial year	8	23.5%

Which technologies does Hyland UK Operations Limited patent most?

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 33

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 20

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 9

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 5

F05D - Indexing Scheme FOR Aspects Relating TO Non-positive-displacement Machines OR Engines, Gas-turbines OR Jet-propulsion Plants 3

F04D - Non-positive-displacement Pumps 3

Top 6 of 6 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

Hyland UK Operations Limited's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Hyland UK Operations Limited's lead technology class is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), 97.1% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06F
Ranked #9,282 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Hyland UK Operations Limited against Henke-Sass, Wolf GmbH, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 52.6/100 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.