Where does HÜBNER GmbH & Co. KG rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), HÜBNER GmbH & Co. KG ranks #8,827 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 HÜBNER GmbH & Co. KG hold?

HÜBNER GmbH & Co. KG holds 36 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 32 technology areas.

What is HÜBNER GmbH & Co. KG's Innovation Score?

HÜBNER GmbH & Co. KG has an Innovation Score of 45.6 out of 100 (top 23% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is HÜBNER GmbH & Co. KG's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

HÜBNER GmbH & Co. KG's recent grant velocity is -52% 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 HÜBNER GmbH & Co. KG's patents?

HÜBNER GmbH & Co. KG's patents average 16.3 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 HÜBNER GmbH & Co. KG 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

HÜBNER GmbH & Co. KG

Q: What technology areas does HÜBNER GmbH & Co. KG focus on?

HÜBNER GmbH & Co. KG's top technology area is B64F (Ground OR Aircraft-carrier-deck Installations Specially Adapted FOR USE IN Connection With AIRCRAFT; Designing, Manufacturing, Assembling, Cleaning, Maintaining OR Repairing Aircraft, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Handling, Transporting, Testing OR Inspecting Aircraft Components, NOT Otherwise Provide) with 16 patents. Grants appear in 32 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 36 granted patents across 32 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: B64F (Ground OR Aircraft-carrier-deck Installations Specially Adapted FOR USE IN Connection With AIRCRAFT; Designing, Manufacturing, Assembling, Cleaning, Maintaining OR Repairing Aircraft, NOT Otherwise PR).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Hübner ranks #8,827 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 36 patents across 32 technology areas.

#8,827
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 23%
by Innovation Score (45.6/100): 16.3
avg claims per patent: -52%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R8827 · Foreign Corporation #8,827 · 36 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 36 grants
UPPER-Q #8,827/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Helmerich & Payne
CPC-FOCUS B64F · 32 areas
INNOV-PAR 45.6/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.3 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -52% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Helmerich & Payne Technologies, LLC (±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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Control Components · near

46
Frank's International · near

46
HÜBNER & KG · this assignee

46
Solmetex · near

46
Whelen Engineering · near

46
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Hübner's Innovation Score is 45.6/100 (top 23% 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.

Where Hübner's grants concentrate

HÜBNER GmbH & Co. KG is a focused PatentsView assignee: 32 CPC subclasses with 44.4% of grants classified under B64F (Ground OR Aircraft-carrier-deck Installations Specially Adapted FOR USE IN Connection With AIRCRAFT; Designing, Manufacturing, Assembling, Cleaning, Maintaining OR Repairing Aircraft, NOT Otherwise PR). Peak complete grant year is 2019 (7 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2024. By volume, Hübner sits between Helmerich & Payne Technologies, LLC and INRIA—INSTITUT National DE Recherche EN Informatique ET EN Automatique.

Hübner's three-year grant acceleration

HÜBNER GmbH & Co. KG shows 6 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.

Helmerich & Payne

36
Humanetics Innova…

36
Huntleigh Technol…

36
HÖGANÄS AB (PUBL)

36
Idemitsu Unitech

36
Indian Institute…

36
Innodisk

36
Inria—Institut Na…

36
HÜBNER & KG ◀

36

What this shows HÜBNER holds 36 patents at rank #8,826, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near HÜBNER

By rank, the assignees closest to #8,826 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B64F (Ground OR Aircraft-carrier-deck Installations Specially A…)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for HÜBNER, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above).

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (46 here).

Control Components, Inc. 46 Solmetex, LLC 46 Whelen Engineering Company, Inc. 46 Frank's International, LLC 46

Hübner's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

46 Top 23% higher than 77% 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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HÜBNER GmbH & Co. KG patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	4	11.1%
2016	4	11.1%
2017	4	11.1%
2018	4	11.1%
2019	7	19.4%
2020	2	5.6%
2021	3	8.3%
2022	3	8.3%
2023	2	5.6%
2024	1	2.8%
2025partial year	2	5.6%

Which technologies does HÜBNER GmbH & Co. KG patent most?

B64F - Ground OR Aircraft-carrier-deck Installations Specially Adapted FOR USE IN Connection With AIRCRAFT; Designing, Manufacturing, Assembling, Cleaning, Maintaining OR Repairing Aircraft, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Handling, Transporting, Testing OR Inspecting Aircraft Components, NOT Otherwise Provide 16

B60D - Vehicle Connections 10

B61D - Body Details OR Kinds OF Railway Vehicles 10

B62D - Motor VEHICLES; Trailers 6

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 3

E01D - Construction OF Bridges, ; Elevated ROADWAYS; OR VIADUCTS; Assembly OF Bridges 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

B61G - COUPLINGS; Draught AND Buffing Appliances 2

F16J - Pistons ; CYLINDERS; Sealings 2

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

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 2

E04H - Buildings OR Like Structures FOR Particular PURPOSES; Swimming OR Splash Baths OR POOLS; MASTS; FENCING; Tents OR Canopies, IN General 2

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 2

B61F - Rail Vehicle Suspensions, e.g. Underframes, Bogies OR Arrangements OF Wheel AXLES; Rail Vehicles FOR USE ON Tracks OF Different WIDTH; Preventing Derailing OF Rail VEHICLES; Wheel Guards, Obstruction Removers OR THE Like FOR Rail Vehicles 1

B23Q - Details, Components, OR Accessories FOR Machine Tools, e.g. Arrangements FOR Copying OR Controlling ; Machine Tools IN General Characterised BY THE Construction OF Particular Details OR COMPONENTS; Combinations OR Associations OF Metal-working Machines, NOT Directed TO A Particular Result 1

Top 15 of 32 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#8,827

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

45.6 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

HÜBNER GmbH & Co. KG's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

HÜBNER GmbH & Co. KG's lead technology class is B64F (Ground OR Aircraft-carrier-deck Installations Specially Adapted FOR USE IN Connection With AIRCRAFT; Designing, Manufacturing, Assembling, Cleaning, Maintaining OR Repairing Aircraft, NOT Otherwise PR), 44.4% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B64F
Ranked #8,827 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare HÜBNER GmbH & Co. KG against Helmerich & Payne Technologies, LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 45.6/100 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

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