Where does Heartland Consumer Products, LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Heartland Consumer Products, LLC ranks #28,950 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 Heartland Consumer Products, LLC hold?

Heartland Consumer Products, LLC holds 9 US utility patents granted between 2017 and 2025, spanning 12 technology areas.

What is Heartland Consumer Products, LLC's Innovation Score?

Heartland Consumer Products, LLC has an Innovation Score of 46.8 out of 100 (top 20% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Heartland Consumer Products, LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Heartland Consumer Products, LLC's recent grant velocity is +67% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Heartland Consumer Products, LLC's patents?

Heartland Consumer Products, LLC's patents average 11.0 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 Heartland Consumer Products, 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

Heartland Consumer Products, LLC

Q: What technology areas does Heartland Consumer Products, LLC focus on?

Heartland Consumer Products, LLC's top technology area is A23L (Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Preparation OR Treatment Thereof) with 6 patents, ranking #278 of 1,325 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 12 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 9 granted patents across 12 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2017–2025. 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: A23L (Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Preparation OR Treatment Thereof).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Heartland ranks #28,950 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 9 patents across 12 technology areas.

#28,950
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 20%
by Innovation Score (46.8/100): 11.0
avg claims per patent: +67%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R28950 · US Corporation #28,950 · 9 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 9 grants
MID-PACK #28,950/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Haws
CPC-FOCUS A23L · 12 areas
INNOV-PAR 46.8/100
CLAIMS-PAR 11.0 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +67% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Haws 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 Heartland’s 46.8 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 8.0 pts (17%) Velocity 20.0 pts (43%) Breadth 12.2 pts (26%) Claim depth 6.6 pts (14%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Heartland Consumer… · this assignee

47
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Heartland's Innovation Score is 46.8/100 (top 20% 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 Heartland?

Each dot is one of Heartland’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). Heartland’s own 11.0 claims/patent is at or below the 14.3 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Heartland's grants concentrate

Heartland Consumer Products, LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 12 CPC subclasses with 66.7% of grants classified under A23L (Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Preparation OR Treatment Thereof). Peak complete grant year is 2022 (4 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2017. By volume, Heartland sits between Haws Corporation and Helius Medical, Inc.

Heartland's three-year grant acceleration

Heartland Consumer Products, LLC shows 4 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.

Haws

9
Health Care Syste…

9
Healthpartners Re…

9
Healthy Foods

9
Hefei BOE Ruishen…

9
Heila

9
Heimann Sensor

9
Helius Medical

9
Heartland Consume… ◀

9

What this shows Heartland holds 9 patents at rank #28,979, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Heartland

By rank, the assignees closest to #28,979 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A23L (Foods)

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

Heartland's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

47 Top 20% higher than 80% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2017–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2017–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Heartland Consumer Products, LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2017	1	11.1%
2018	2	22.2%
2021	1	11.1%
2022	4	44.4%
2025partial year	1	11.1%

Which technologies does Heartland Consumer Products, LLC patent most?

A23L - Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Preparation OR Treatment Thereof 6

A23V - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages AND Lactic OR Propionic Acid Bacteria Used IN Foodstuffs OR Food Preparation 4

C07H - SUGARS; Derivatives THEREOF; NUCLEOSIDES; NUCLEOTIDES; Nucleic Acids 3

A47J - Kitchen EQUIPMENT; Coffee MILLS; Spice MILLS; Apparatus FOR Making Beverages 2

A23F - COFFEE; TEA; Their SUBSTITUTES; Manufacture, Preparation, OR Infusion Thereof 2

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

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 1

B29K - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses B29b, B29c OR B29d, Relating TO Moulding Materials OR TO Materials FOR ; Moulds, ; Reinforcements, Fillers OR Preformed Parts, e.g. Inserts 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

A23P - Shaping OR Working OF Foodstuffs, NOT Fully Covered BY A Single Other Subclass 1

A61Q - Specific USE OF Cosmetics OR Similar Toiletry Preparations 1

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 1

Top 12 of 12 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

Heartland Consumer Products, LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Heartland Consumer Products, LLC's lead technology class is A23L (Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Preparation OR Treatment Thereof), 66.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A23L
Ranked #28,950 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Heartland Consumer Products, LLC against Haws Corporation, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 46.8/100 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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