Where does HÖGANÄS AB (PUBL) rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), HÖGANÄS AB (PUBL) ranks #8,826 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 HÖGANÄS AB (PUBL) hold?

HÖGANÄS AB (PUBL) holds 36 US utility patents granted between 2017 and 2025, spanning 25 technology areas.

What is HÖGANÄS AB (PUBL)'s Innovation Score?

HÖGANÄS AB (PUBL) has an Innovation Score of 43.2 out of 100 (top 29% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is HÖGANÄS AB (PUBL)'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

HÖGANÄS AB (PUBL)'s recent grant velocity is +75% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for HÖGANÄS AB (PUBL)'s patents?

HÖGANÄS AB (PUBL)'s patents average 14.6 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 HÖGANÄS AB (PUBL) 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

HÖGANÄS AB (PUBL)

Q: What technology areas does HÖGANÄS AB (PUBL) focus on?

HÖGANÄS AB (PUBL)'s top technology area is B22F (Working Metallic POWDER; Manufacture OF Articles From Metallic POWDER; Making Metallic Powder ; Apparatus OR Devices Specially Adapted FOR Metallic Powder) with 26 patents, ranking #54 of 926 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 25 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 36 granted patents across 25 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2017–2025. 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: B22F (Working Metallic POWDER; Manufacture OF Articles From Metallic POWDER; Making Metallic Powder ; Apparatus OR Devices Specially Adapted FOR Metallic Powder).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Höganäs ranks #8,826 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 36 patents across 25 technology areas.

#8,826
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 29%
by Innovation Score (43.2/100): 14.6
avg claims per patent: +75%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R8826 · Foreign Corporation #8,826 · 36 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 36 grants
UPPER-Q #8,826/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Hahn-Schickard-Gesel…
CPC-FOCUS B22F · 25 areas
INNOV-PAR 43.2/100
CLAIMS-RICH 14.6 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +75% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Hahn-Schickard-Gesellschaft für Angewandte Forschung e. 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.

How Höganäs’s 43.2 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 12.5 pts (29%) Velocity 4.3 pts (10%) Breadth 17.7 pts (41%) Claim depth 8.7 pts (20%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Faurecia Emissions… · near

43
HÖGANÄS AB (PUBL) · this assignee

43
Ivani · near

43
TriTeq Lock and… · near

43
Veveo · near

43
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Höganäs's Innovation Score is 43.2/100 (top 29% 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 Höganäs?

Each dot is one of Höganäs’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). Höganäs’s own 14.6 claims/patent is at or below the 16.1 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Höganäs's grants concentrate

HÖGANÄS AB (PUBL) is a focused PatentsView assignee: 25 CPC subclasses with 72.2% of grants classified under B22F (Working Metallic POWDER; Manufacture OF Articles From Metallic POWDER; Making Metallic Powder ; Apparatus OR Devices Specially Adapted FOR Metallic Powder). Peak complete grant year is 2019 (7 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2018. By volume, Höganäs sits between Hahn-Schickard-Gesellschaft für Angewandte Forschung e. V. and Innodisk Corporation.

Höganäs's three-year grant acceleration

HÖGANÄS AB (PUBL) shows 11 grants in 2022–2024 against only 17 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.

Hahn-schickard-ge…

36
Helmerich & Payne

36
Humanetics Innova…

36
Huntleigh Technol…

36
HÜBNER & KG

36
Idemitsu Unitech

36
Indian Institute…

36
Innodisk

36
HÖGANÄS AB (PUBL) ◀

36

What this shows HÖGANÄS holds 36 patents at rank #8,825, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near HÖGANÄS

By rank, the assignees closest to #8,825 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B22F (Working Metallic Powder)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for HÖGANÄS, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B22F (Working Metallic Powder), HÖGANÄS ranks #54 of 926 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (43 here).

TriTeq Lock and Security, LLC 43 Ivani, LLC 43 Faurecia Emissions Control Technologies, Germany GmbH 43 Veveo LLC 43

Höganäs's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

43 Top 29% higher than 71% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2017–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2017–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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HÖGANÄS AB (PUBL) patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2017	3	8.3%
2018	2	5.6%
2019	7	19.4%
2020	6	16.7%
2021	4	11.1%
2022	4	11.1%
2023	4	11.1%
2024	3	8.3%
2025partial year	3	8.3%

Which technologies does HÖGANÄS AB (PUBL) patent most?

B22F - Working Metallic POWDER; Manufacture OF Articles From Metallic POWDER; Making Metallic Powder ; Apparatus OR Devices Specially Adapted FOR Metallic Powder 26

C22C - Alloys 26

C02F - Treatment OF Water, Waste Water, Sewage, OR Sludge 6

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 6

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 5

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 5

H01F - MAGNETS; INDUCTANCES; TRANSFORMERS; Selection OF Materials FOR Their Magnetic Properties 5

B01D - Separation 4

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 4

C01P - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Structural AND Physical Aspects OF Solid Inorganic Compounds 4

B01J - Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus 3

C01B - Non-metallic ELEMENTS; Compounds THEREOF; ; Metalloids OR Compounds Thereof NOT Covered BY Subclass C01c 3

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 3

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 3

B09C - Reclamation OF Contaminated Soil 2

Top 15 of 25 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

HÖGANÄS AB (PUBL)'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

HÖGANÄS AB (PUBL)'s lead technology class is B22F (Working Metallic POWDER; Manufacture OF Articles From Metallic POWDER; Making Metallic Powder ; Apparatus OR Devices Specially Adapted FOR Metallic Powder), 72.2% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B22F
Ranked #8,826 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare HÖGANÄS AB (PUBL) against Hahn-Schickard-Gesellschaft für Angewandte Forschung e. V., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 43.2/100 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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