Where does First Quality Tissue, LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), First Quality Tissue, LLC ranks #5,073 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 First Quality Tissue, LLC hold?

First Quality Tissue, LLC holds 68 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 16 technology areas.

What is First Quality Tissue, LLC's Innovation Score?

First Quality Tissue, LLC has an Innovation Score of 51.8 out of 100 (top 11% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is First Quality Tissue, LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

First Quality Tissue, LLC's recent grant velocity is +46% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). The company is maintaining or growing its granted-patent output.

What does claim depth mean for First Quality Tissue, LLC's patents?

First Quality Tissue, LLC's patents average 17.0 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 First Quality Tissue, 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

First Quality Tissue, LLC

Q: What technology areas does First Quality Tissue, LLC focus on?

First Quality Tissue, LLC's top technology area is D21H (Pulp COMPOSITIONS; Preparation Thereof NOT Covered BY Subclasses D21c OR D21D; Impregnating OR Coating OF PAPER; Treatment OF Finished Paper NOT Covered BY Class B31 OR Subclass D21G; Paper NOT Otherwise Provided FOR) with 44 patents, ranking #13 of 361 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 16 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 68 granted patents across 16 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: D21H (Pulp COMPOSITIONS; Preparation Thereof NOT Covered BY Subclasses D21c OR D21D; Impregnating OR Coating OF PAPER; Treatment OF Finished Paper NOT Covered BY Class B31 OR Subclass D21G; Paper NOT Otherw).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, First ranks #5,073 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 68 patents across 16 technology areas.

#5,073
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 11%
by Innovation Score (51.8/100): 17.0
avg claims per patent: +46%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R5073 · US Corporation #5,073 · 68 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 68 grants
UPPER-Q #5,073/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Electro Scientific…
CPC-FOCUS D21H · 16 areas
INNOV-PAR 51.8/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.0 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-UP +46% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Electro Scientific Industries, 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 First’s 51.8 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 14.6 pts (28%) Velocity 12.9 pts (25%) Breadth 14.1 pts (27%) Claim depth 10.2 pts (20%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Akzo Nobel Chemicals… · near

52
First Quality Tissue · this assignee

52
Georgia-Pacific… · near

52
FLSmidth A/S · near

52
Simpson Strong-Tie · near

52
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows First's Innovation Score is 51.8/100 (top 11% 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 First?

Each dot is one of First’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). First’s own 17.0 claims/patent is ABOVE the 13.0 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where First's grants concentrate

First Quality Tissue, LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 16 CPC subclasses with 64.7% of grants classified under D21H (Pulp COMPOSITIONS; Preparation Thereof NOT Covered BY Subclasses D21c OR D21D; Impregnating OR Coating OF PAPER; Treatment OF Finished Paper NOT Covered BY Class B31 OR Subclass D21G; Paper NOT Otherw). Peak complete grant year is 2023 (13 grants) versus a trough of 3 in 2016. By volume, First sits between Electro Scientific Industries, Inc. and Himax Imaging Limited.

First's three-year grant acceleration

First Quality Tissue, LLC shows 27 grants in 2022–2024 against only 14 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.

Electro Scientifi…

68
Extrahop Networks

68
F Hoffmann-la Roc…

68
Fluence Bioengine…

68
Flagship Pioneeri…

68
Hohai University

68
Hill's Pet Nutrit…

68
Himax Imaging

68
First Quality Tis… ◀

68

What this shows First holds 68 patents at rank #5,073, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near First

By rank, the assignees closest to #5,073 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in D21H (Pulp Compositions)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for First, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In D21H (Pulp Compositions), First ranks #13 of 361 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (52 here).

Georgia-Pacific Chemicals LLC 52 Akzo Nobel Chemicals International B.V 52 FLSmidth A/S 52 Simpson Strong-Tie Company, Inc. 52

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (17.0 here).

Rochester Institute of Technology 17.0 avg Liko Research & Development AB 17.0 avg Axon Enterprise, Inc. 17.0 avg ZKW Group GmbH 17.0 avg

First's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

52 Top 11% higher than 89% 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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First Quality Tissue, LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	11	16.2%
2016	3	4.4%
2017	6	8.8%
2018	3	4.4%
2019	3	4.4%
2020	6	8.8%
2021	5	7.4%
2022	5	7.4%
2023	13	19.1%
2024	9	13.2%
2025partial year	4	5.9%

Which technologies does First Quality Tissue, LLC patent most?

D21H - Pulp COMPOSITIONS; Preparation Thereof NOT Covered BY Subclasses D21c OR D21D; Impregnating OR Coating OF PAPER; Treatment OF Finished Paper NOT Covered BY Class B31 OR Subclass D21G; Paper NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 44

D21F - Paper-making MACHINES; Methods OF Producing Paper Thereon 32

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 21

A47K - Sanitary Equipment NOT Otherwise Provided FOR ; Toilet Accessories 6

D21C - Production OF Cellulose BY Removing Non-cellulose Substances From Cellulose-containing MATERIALS; Regeneration OF Pulping LIQUORS; Apparatus Therefor 6

B65B - Machines, Apparatus OR Devices FOR, OR Methods OF, Packaging Articles OR MATERIALS; Unpacking 5

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 5

D04H - Making Textile Fabrics, e.g. From Fibres OR Filamentary Material ; Fabrics Made BY Such Processes OR Apparatus, e.g. Felts, Non-woven FABRICS; COTTON-WOOL; Wadding ; ; Non-woven Fabrics From Staple Fibres, Filaments OR Yarns, Bonded With AT Least ONE Web-like Material During Their Consolidation 5

D10B - Indexing Scheme Associated With Sublasses OF Section D, Relating TO Textiles 5

A47L - Domestic Washing OR Cleaning ; Suction Cleaners IN General 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

Y02W - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Wastewater Treatment OR Waste Management 2

B33Y - Additive Manufacturing, i.e. Manufacturing OF Three-dimensional [3-D] Objects BY Additive Deposition, Additive Agglomeration OR Additive Layering, e.g. BY 3-D Printing, Stereolithography OR Selective Laser Sintering 1

A61Q - Specific USE OF Cosmetics OR Similar Toiletry Preparations 1

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 1

Top 15 of 16 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

First Quality Tissue, LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

First Quality Tissue, LLC's lead technology class is D21H (Pulp COMPOSITIONS; Preparation Thereof NOT Covered BY Subclasses D21c OR D21D; Impregnating OR Coating OF PAPER; Treatment OF Finished Paper NOT Covered BY Class B31 OR Subclass D21G; Paper NOT Otherw), 64.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore D21H
Ranked #5,073 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare First Quality Tissue, LLC against Electro Scientific Industries, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 51.8/100 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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