Where does L&O Hunting Group Gmbh rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), L&O Hunting Group Gmbh ranks #24,720 of 50,000 assignees by granted-patent volume, the same sort as the companies listing and top-holders ranking. See /methodology/#corpus-placement.

How many patents does L&O Hunting Group Gmbh hold?

L&O Hunting Group Gmbh holds 11 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2020, spanning 3 technology areas.

What is L&O Hunting Group Gmbh's Innovation Score?

L&O Hunting Group Gmbh has an Innovation Score of 23.7 out of 100 (top 87% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is L&O Hunting Group Gmbh's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

L&O Hunting Group Gmbh's recent grant velocity is -90% 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 L&O Hunting Group Gmbh's patents?

L&O Hunting Group Gmbh's patents average 15.0 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 L&O Hunting Group 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

L&O Hunting Group Gmbh

Q: What technology areas does L&O Hunting Group Gmbh focus on?

L&O Hunting Group Gmbh's top technology area is F41A (FUNCTIONAL FEATURES OR DETAILS COMMON TO BOTH SMALLARMS AND ORDNANCE, e.g. CANNONS; MOUNTINGS FOR SMALLARMS OR ORDNANCE) with 9 patents. Grants appear in 3 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 11 granted patents across 3 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2020. 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: F41A (FUNCTIONAL FEATURES OR DETAILS COMMON TO BOTH SMALLARMS AND ORDNANCE, e.g. CANNONS; MOUNTINGS FOR SMALLARMS OR ORDNANCE).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, L&o ranks #24,720 of 50,000 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 11 patents across 3 technology areas.

#24,720
of 50,000 US assignees by volume: Top 87%
by Innovation Score (23.7/100): 15.0
avg claims per patent: -90%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R24720 · Foreign Corporation #24,720 · 11 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 11 grants
MID-PACK #24,720/50,000
PHOTO-FINISH Kryterion
CPC-NARROW F41A · 3 areas
INNOV-THIN 23.7/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.0 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -90% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Kryterion, Inc. (±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
L&O Hunting Group · this assignee

24
3D Lighting Innovati… · lowest

7

What this shows L&o's Innovation Score is 23.7/100 (top 87% 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 L&o's grants concentrate

L&O Hunting Group Gmbh is a focused PatentsView assignee: 3 CPC subclasses with 81.8% of grants classified under F41A (FUNCTIONAL FEATURES OR DETAILS COMMON TO BOTH SMALLARMS AND ORDNANCE, e.g. CANNONS; MOUNTINGS FOR SMALLARMS OR ORDNANCE). Peak complete grant year is 2018 (5 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2015. By volume, L&o sits between Kryterion, Inc. and Laboratories Vivacy.

Kryterion

11
Kusch + & KG

11
Kwivo

11
Küster Holding

11
L-3 Communication…

11
L O F

11
Laboratoires THEA

11
Laboratories Viva…

11
L&O Hunting Group ◀

11

What this shows L&O holds 11 patents at rank #24,669, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near L&O

By rank, the assignees closest to #24,669 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F41A (Functional Features OR Details Common TO BOTH Smallarms A…)

Other assignees with the most granted patents in L&O's primary technology class.

L&o's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

24 Top 87% higher than 13% of 50,000 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2020

Grants by year

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

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L&O Hunting Group Gmbh patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1	9.1%
2017	3	27.3%
2018	5	45.5%
2019	1	9.1%
2020	1	9.1%

Which technologies does L&O Hunting Group Gmbh patent most?

F41A - FUNCTIONAL FEATURES OR DETAILS COMMON TO BOTH SMALLARMS AND ORDNANCE, e.g. CANNONS; MOUNTINGS FOR SMALLARMS OR ORDNANCE 9

F41C - SMALLARMS, e.g. PISTOLS, RIFLES ; ACCESSORIES THEREFOR 4

F41G - WEAPON SIGHTS; AIMING 2

Top 3 of 3 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#24,720

of 50,000 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

23.7 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

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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