Where does Hyundai Heavy Industries Co., Ltd. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Hyundai Heavy Industries Co., Ltd. ranks #4,950 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 Hyundai Heavy Industries Co., Ltd. hold?

Hyundai Heavy Industries Co., Ltd. holds 70 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 60 technology areas.

What is Hyundai Heavy Industries Co., Ltd.'s Innovation Score?

Hyundai Heavy Industries Co., Ltd. has an Innovation Score of 46.7 out of 100 (top 20% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Hyundai Heavy Industries Co., Ltd.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Hyundai Heavy Industries Co., Ltd.'s recent grant velocity is -72% 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 Hyundai Heavy Industries Co., Ltd.'s patents?

Hyundai Heavy Industries Co., Ltd.'s patents average 8.9 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 Hyundai Heavy Industries Co., Ltd. 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

Hyundai Heavy Industries Co., Ltd.

Q: What technology areas does Hyundai Heavy Industries Co., Ltd. focus on?

Hyundai Heavy Industries Co., Ltd.'s top technology area is F02M (Supplying Combustion Engines IN General With Combustible Mixtures OR Constituents Thereof) with 26 patents, ranking #61 of 574 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 60 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 70 granted patents across 60 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: F02M (Supplying Combustion Engines IN General With Combustible Mixtures OR Constituents Thereof).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Hyundai ranks #4,950 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 70 patents across 60 technology areas.

#4,950
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 20%
by Innovation Score (46.7/100): 8.9
avg claims per patent: -72%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R4950 · Foreign Corporation #4,950 · 70 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-PAR · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 70 grants
TOP-DECILE #4,950/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH GD Midea Heating &…
CPC-WIDE F02M · 60 areas
INNOV-PAR 46.7/100
CLAIMS-PAR 8.9 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -72% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: GD Midea Heating & Ventilating Equipment Co., Ltd. (±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 Hyundai’s 46.7 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 14.7 pts (31%) Velocity 1.7 pts (4%) Breadth 25.0 pts (54%) Claim depth 5.3 pts (11%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Hyundai Heavy… · this assignee

47
NanoCav · near

47
Restore Medical · near

47
Sanuwave · near

47
Tela Bio · near

47
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Hyundai's Innovation Score is 46.7/100 (top 20% 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 Hyundai?

Each dot is one of Hyundai’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). Hyundai’s own 8.9 claims/patent is at or below the 12.9 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

How Hyundai's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Hyundai Heavy Industries Co., Ltd. received 15 grants versus 54 in 2015–2019 (-72% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2015 at 20 grants and bottomed in 2022 at 1. Lead class F02M accounts for 37.1% of the portfolio across 60 subclasses. Volume neighbours: GD Midea Heating & Ventilating Equipment Co., Ltd. (#4,946) and Johnson Health Tech Co., Ltd. (#4,954).

Hyundai's three-year grant acceleration

Hyundai Heavy Industries Co., Ltd. shows 3 grants in 2022–2024 against only 12 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.

GD Midea Heating…

70
Gripple

70
Hermes Microvision

70
Hi-lex

70
Industry-academia…

70
Integrated DNA

70
Intellectual Vent…

70
Johnson Health Te…

70
Hyundai Heavy Ind… ◀

70

What this shows Hyundai holds 70 patents at rank #4,950, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Hyundai

By rank, the assignees closest to #4,950 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F02M (Supplying Combustion Engines IN General With Combustible…)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Hyundai, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In F02M (Supplying Combustion Engines IN General With Combustible…), Hyundai ranks #61 of 574 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (47 here).

Sanuwave, Inc. 47 Tela Bio, Inc. 47 NanoCav, LLC 47 Restore Medical Ltd. 47

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (8.9 here).

PureCircle Sdn Bhd 8.9 avg AAC Acoustic Technologies (SHENZHEN) Co., Ltd. 8.9 avg PAX Labs, Inc. 8.9 avg Optim Corporation 8.9 avg

Hyundai's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

47 Top 20% higher than 80% 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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Hyundai Heavy Industries Co., Ltd. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	20	28.6%
2016	19	27.1%
2017	11	15.7%
2018	4	5.7%
2020	5	7.1%
2021	7	10.0%
2022	1	1.4%
2024	2	2.9%
2025partial year	1	1.4%

Which technologies does Hyundai Heavy Industries Co., Ltd. patent most?

F02M - Supplying Combustion Engines IN General With Combustible Mixtures OR Constituents Thereof 26

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 20

F17C - Vessels FOR Containing OR Storing Compressed, Liquefied OR Solidified GASES; Fixed-capacity GAS-HOLDERS; Filling Vessels With, OR Discharging From Vessels, Compressed, Liquefied, OR Solidified Gases 13

H01H - Electric SWITCHES; RELAYS; SELECTORS; Emergency Protective Devices 12

B63B - Ships OR Other Waterborne VESSELS; Equipment FOR Shipping 11

F02D - Controlling Combustion Engines 10

B63J - Auxiliaries ON Vessels 8

B63H - Marine Propulsion OR Steering 7

H02B - Boards, Substations OR Switching Arrangements FOR THE Supply OR Distribution OF Electric Power 7

F02B - Internal-combustion Piston ENGINES; Combustion Engines IN General 4

B01D - Separation 4

G01R - Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables 4

F25J - Liquefaction, Solidification OR Separation OF Gases OR Gaseous ; OR Liquefied GASEOUS; Mixtures BY Pressure AND Cold Treatment ; OR BY Bringing Them Into THE Supercritical State 3

E02F - DREDGING; Soil-shifting 3

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 3

Top 15 of 60 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

Hyundai Heavy Industries Co., Ltd.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Hyundai Heavy Industries Co., Ltd.'s lead technology class is F02M (Supplying Combustion Engines IN General With Combustible Mixtures OR Constituents Thereof), 37.1% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F02M
Ranked #4,950 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Hyundai Heavy Industries Co., Ltd. against GD Midea Heating & Ventilating Equipment Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 46.7/100 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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