Where does Altria Client Services LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Altria Client Services LLC ranks #288 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 Altria Client Services LLC hold?

Altria Client Services LLC holds 1,483 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 132 technology areas.

What is Altria Client Services LLC's Innovation Score?

Altria Client Services LLC has an Innovation Score of 68.0 out of 100 (top 1% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Altria Client Services LLC focus on?

Altria Client Services LLC's top technology area is A24F (Smokers' REQUISITES; Match BOXES; Simulated Smoking Devices) with 839 patents, ranking #1 of 214 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 132 CPC subclasses total.

Is Altria Client Services LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Altria Client Services LLC's recent grant velocity is +119% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Altria Client Services LLC's patents?

Altria Client Services LLC's patents average 16.1 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 Altria Client Services LLC 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 US Corporation

Altria Client Services LLC

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 1,483 granted patents across 132 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: A24F (Smokers' REQUISITES; Match BOXES; Simulated Smoking Devices).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Altria ranks #288 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 1,483 patents across 132 technology areas.

#288
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 1%
by Innovation Score (68.0/100): 16.1
avg claims per patent: +119%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R288 · US Corporation #288 · 1,483 grants

GRANTS-LARGE · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-LARGE 1.5K grants
TOP-DECILE #288/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Jpmorgan Chase Bank…
CPC-WIDE A24F · 132 areas
INNOV-STRONG 68.0/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.1 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +119% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Jpmorgan Chase Bank, N.A. (±5 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 Altria’s 68.0 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 25.2 pts (37%) Velocity 8.1 pts (12%) Breadth 25.0 pts (37%) Claim depth 9.7 pts (14%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Basf SE · near

68
Arm · near

68
Universal Display · near

68
Altria Client Services · this assignee

68
Rohm · near

68
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Altria's Innovation Score is 68.0/100 (top 1% 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 Altria?

Each dot is one of Altria’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). Altria’s own 16.1 claims/patent is at or below the 16.9 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

How Altria's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Altria Client Services LLC received 891 grants versus 406 in 2015–2019 (+119% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2024 at 230 grants and bottomed in 2015 at 31. Lead class A24F accounts for 56.6% of the portfolio across 132 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Panasonic Holdings Corporation (#284) and EMC Corporation (#292).

Altria's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Altria Client Services LLC moved from 478 to 580 grants (1.21x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). Among 3,296 tracked assignees with ≥100 grants and ≥20 prior-period grants, that multiple ranks #767. See the growth leaderboard.

Panasonic Holdings

1,518
Sun Patent Trust

1,507
Shimano

1,496
Marvell Internati…

1,491
Altria Client Ser… ◀

1,483
Jpmorgan Chase Ba…

1,478
Lockheed Martin

1,464
Nanya Technology

1,461
EMC

1,455

What this shows Altria holds 1,483 patents at rank #288, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Altria

By rank, the assignees closest to #288 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A24F (Smokers' Requisites)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Altria, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A24F (Smokers' Requisites), Altria ranks #1 of 214 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (68 here).

Rohm Co., Ltd. 68 Universal Display Corporation 68 Arm Limited 68 Basf SE 68

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (16.1 here).

Philip Morris USA Inc. 16.1 avg Shanghai Avic Optoelectronics Co., Ltd. 16.1 avg Fina Technology, Inc. 16.1 avg Trinity Bay Equipment Holdings, LLC 16.1 avg

Altria's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

68 Top 1% higher than 99% 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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Altria Client Services LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	31	2.1%
2016	45	3.0%
2017	46	3.1%
2018	117	7.9%
2019	167	11.3%
2020	172	11.6%
2021	139	9.4%
2022	153	10.3%
2023	197	13.3%
2024	230	15.5%
2025partial year	186	12.5%

Which technologies does Altria Client Services LLC patent most?

A24F - Smokers' REQUISITES; Match BOXES; Simulated Smoking Devices 839

H05B - Electric HEATING; Electric Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Circuit Arrangements FOR Electric Light Sources, IN General 380

A61M - Devices FOR Introducing Media Into, OR Onto, THE Body ; Devices FOR Transducing Body Media OR FOR Taking Media From THE Body ; Devices FOR Producing OR Ending Sleep OR Stupor 301

A24B - Manufacture OR Preparation OF Tobacco FOR Smoking OR CHEWING; TOBACCO; Snuff 294

B65D - Containers FOR Storage OR Transport OF Articles OR Materials, e.g. Bags, Barrels, Bottles, Boxes, Cans, Cartons, Crates, Drums, Jars, Tanks, Hoppers, Forwarding CONTAINERS; Accessories, Closures, OR Fittings THEREFOR; Packaging ELEMENTS; Packages 165

A24D - CIGARS; CIGARETTES; Tobacco Smoke FILTERS; Mouthpieces FOR Cigars OR CIGARETTES; Manufacture OF Tobacco Smoke Filters OR Mouthpieces 107

B65B - Machines, Apparatus OR Devices FOR, OR Methods OF, Packaging Articles OR MATERIALS; Unpacking 96

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 62

C12N - Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media 62

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 58

A24C - Machines FOR Making Cigars OR Cigarettes 57

B65G - Transport OR Storage Devices, e.g. Conveyors FOR Loading OR Tipping, Shop Conveyor Systems OR Pneumatic Tube Conveyors 47

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 47

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 43

A01H - NEW Plants OR ; NON-TRANSGENIC; Processes FOR Obtaining THEM; Plant Reproduction BY Tissue Culture Techniques 42

Top 15 of 132 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

Altria Client Services LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Altria Client Services LLC's lead technology class is A24F (Smokers' REQUISITES; Match BOXES; Simulated Smoking Devices), 56.6% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A24F
Ranked #288 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Altria Client Services LLC against Panasonic Holdings Corporation, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 68.0/100 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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