Where does Classic Brands, LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Classic Brands, LLC ranks #6,227 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 Classic Brands, LLC hold?

Classic Brands, LLC holds 54 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 5 technology areas.

What is Classic Brands, LLC's Innovation Score?

Classic Brands, LLC has an Innovation Score of 27.4 out of 100 (24th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Classic Brands, LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Classic Brands, LLC's recent grant velocity is -57% 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 Classic Brands, LLC's patents?

Classic Brands, LLC's patents average 6.3 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 Classic Brands, 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

Classic Brands, LLC

Q: What technology areas does Classic Brands, LLC focus on?

Classic Brands, LLC's top technology area is A01K (Animal HUSBANDRY; AVICULTURE; APICULTURE; PISCICULTURE; FISHING; Rearing OR Breeding Animals, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; NEW Breeds OF Animals) with 18 patents, ranking #44 of 1,035 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 5 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 54 granted patents across 5 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: A01K (Animal HUSBANDRY; AVICULTURE; APICULTURE; PISCICULTURE; FISHING; Rearing OR Breeding Animals, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; NEW Breeds OF Animals).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Classic ranks #6,227 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 54 patents across 5 technology areas.

#6,227
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 24th percentile
by Innovation Score (27.4/100): 6.3
avg claims per patent: -57%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R6227 · US Corporation #6,227 · 54 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-SPARSE · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 54 grants
UPPER-Q #6,227/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Causam Enterprises
CPC-NARROW A01K · 5 areas
INNOV-THIN 27.4/100
CLAIMS-SPARSE 6.3 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -57% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Causam Enterprises, 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.

How Classic’s 27.4 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 13.8 pts (50%) Velocity 1.9 pts (7%) Breadth 7.9 pts (29%) Claim depth 3.8 pts (14%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
FAM · near

27
Nanjing Medical… · near

27
Classic Brands · this assignee

27
Bright Acceleration · near

27
Ignite USA · near

27
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Classic's Innovation Score is 27.4/100 (24th percentile 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 Classic?

Each dot is one of Classic’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). Classic’s own 6.3 claims/patent is at or below the 12.4 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Classic's grants concentrate

Classic Brands, LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 5 CPC subclasses with 33.3% of grants classified under A01K (Animal HUSBANDRY; AVICULTURE; APICULTURE; PISCICULTURE; FISHING; Rearing OR Breeding Animals, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; NEW Breeds OF Animals). Peak complete grant year is 2017 (11 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2023. By volume, Classic sits between Cmpd Licensing, LLC and DAS Co., Ltd..

Classic's three-year grant acceleration

Classic Brands, LLC shows 5 grants in 2022–2024 against only 18 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.

Cmpd Licensing

54
Causam Enterprises

54
Cenovus Energy

54
Clarkson Universi…

54
Comau S p A

54
Constellation Pha…

54
Dai-ichi Kogyo Se…

54
DAS

54
Classic Brands ◀

54

What this shows Classic holds 54 patents at rank #6,228, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Classic

By rank, the assignees closest to #6,228 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A01K (Animal Husbandry)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Classic, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A01K (Animal Husbandry), Classic ranks #44 of 1,035 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (27 here).

FAM 27 Nanjing Medical University 27 Ignite USA, LLC 27 Bright Acceleration Technologies LLC 27

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (6.3 here).

NUC Electronics Co., Ltd. 6.3 avg Kabushiki Kaisha Honda Lock 6.3 avg Citizen Machinery Co., Ltd. 6.3 avg Tatsuno Corporation 6.3 avg

Classic's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

27 24th percentile higher than 24% 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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Classic Brands, LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	9	16.7%
2016	4	7.4%
2017	11	20.4%
2018	6	11.1%
2019	7	13.0%
2020	9	16.7%
2021	2	3.7%
2022	2	3.7%
2023	1	1.9%
2024	2	3.7%
2025partial year	1	1.9%

Which technologies does Classic Brands, LLC patent most?

A01K - Animal HUSBANDRY; AVICULTURE; APICULTURE; PISCICULTURE; FISHING; Rearing OR Breeding Animals, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; NEW Breeds OF Animals 18

F16M - Frames, Casings OR Beds OF Engines, Machines OR Apparatus, NOT Specific TO Engines, Machines OR Apparatus Provided FOR ELSEWHERE; STANDS; Supports 2

B65B - Machines, Apparatus OR Devices FOR, OR Methods OF, Packaging Articles OR MATERIALS; Unpacking 1

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

F16C - SHAFTS; Flexible SHAFTS; Elements OR Crankshaft MECHANISMS; Rotary Bodies Other Than Gearing ELEMENTS; Bearings 1

Top 5 of 5 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

Classic Brands, LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Classic Brands, LLC's lead technology class is A01K (Animal HUSBANDRY; AVICULTURE; APICULTURE; PISCICULTURE; FISHING; Rearing OR Breeding Animals, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; NEW Breeds OF Animals), 33.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A01K
Ranked #6,227 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Classic Brands, LLC against Cmpd Licensing, LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 27.4/100 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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