Where does Brown LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Brown LLC ranks #20,871 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 Brown LLC hold?

Brown LLC holds 13 US utility patents granted between 2019 and 2025, spanning 10 technology areas.

What is Brown LLC's Innovation Score?

Brown LLC has an Innovation Score of 49.5 out of 100 (top 15% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Brown LLC focus on?

Brown LLC's top technology area is B31B (Making Containers OF Paper, Cardboard OR Material Worked IN A Manner Analogous TO Paper) with 5 patents, ranking #67 of 282 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 10 CPC subclasses total.

Is Brown LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Brown LLC's recent grant velocity is +500% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Brown LLC's patents?

Brown LLC's patents average 15.4 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 Brown 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

Brown LLC

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 13 granted patents across 10 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2019–2025. 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: B31B (Making Containers OF Paper, Cardboard OR Material Worked IN A Manner Analogous TO Paper).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Brown ranks #20,871 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 13 patents across 10 technology areas.

#20,871
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 15%
by Innovation Score (49.5/100): 15.4
avg claims per patent: +500%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R20871 · US Corporation #20,871 · 13 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 13 grants
MID-PACK #20,871/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Brainsonix
CPC-FOCUS B31B · 10 areas
INNOV-PAR 49.5/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.4 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +500% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Brainsonix Corporation (±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 Brown’s 49.5 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 9.1 pts (18%) Velocity 20.0 pts (40%) Breadth 11.2 pts (23%) Claim depth 9.2 pts (19%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Brown · this assignee

50
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Brown's Innovation Score is 49.5/100 (top 15% 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 Brown?

Each dot is one of Brown’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). Brown’s own 15.4 claims/patent is ABOVE the 14.3 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Brown's grants concentrate

Brown LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 10 CPC subclasses with 38.5% of grants classified under B31B (Making Containers OF Paper, Cardboard OR Material Worked IN A Manner Analogous TO Paper). Peak complete grant year is 2024 (5 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2019. By volume, Brown sits between Brainsonix Corporation and Bulgari Horlogerie SA.

Brown's three-year grant acceleration

Brown LLC shows 6 grants in 2022–2024 against only 1 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.

Brainsonix

13
Breton S P A

13
Brillnics Japan

13
Brillnics

13
Brunel University…

13
BS&B Innovations

13
BTL Holdings

13
Bulgari Horlogerie

13
Brown ◀

13

What this shows Brown holds 13 patents at rank #20,834, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Brown

By rank, the assignees closest to #20,834 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B31B (Making Containers OF Paper)

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

Brown's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

50 Top 15% higher than 85% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2019–2025

Grants by year

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

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Brown LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2019	1	7.7%
2023	1	7.7%
2024	5	38.5%
2025partial year	6	46.2%

Which technologies does Brown LLC patent most?

B31B - Making Containers OF Paper, Cardboard OR Material Worked IN A Manner Analogous TO Paper 5

B31F - Mechanical Working OR Deformation OF Paper, Cardboard OR Material Worked IN A Manner Analogous TO Paper 3

B65H - Handling Thin OR Filamentary Material, e.g. Sheets, Webs, Cables 3

B30B - Presses IN General 2

B26F - PERFORATING; PUNCHING; CUTTING-OUT; STAMPING-OUT; Severing BY Means Other Than Cutting 2

B29C - Shaping OR Joining OF PLASTICS; Shaping OF Material IN A Plastic State, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; After-treatment OF THE Shaped Products, e.g. Repairing 2

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 1

B31D - Making Articles OF Paper, Cardboard OR Material Worked IN A Manner Analogous TO Paper, NOT Provided FOR IN Subclasses B31b OR B31c 1

B26D - CUTTING; Details Common TO Machines FOR Perforating, Punching, Cutting-out, Stamping-out OR Severing 1

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 1

Top 10 of 10 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

Brown LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Brown LLC's lead technology class is B31B (Making Containers OF Paper, Cardboard OR Material Worked IN A Manner Analogous TO Paper), 38.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B31B
Ranked #20,871 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Brown LLC against Brainsonix Corporation, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 49.5/100 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

Every figure on PlainPatent is rendered directly from USPTO source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on USPTO source data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 2026.