Where does Milacron LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Milacron LLC ranks #8,075 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 Milacron LLC hold?

Milacron LLC holds 40 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2024, spanning 7 technology areas.

What is Milacron LLC's Innovation Score?

Milacron LLC has an Innovation Score of 28.4 out of 100 (27th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

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

Milacron LLC's recent grant velocity is -18% 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 Milacron LLC's patents?

Milacron LLC's patents average 9.3 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 Milacron 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

Milacron LLC

Q: What technology areas does Milacron LLC focus on?

Milacron LLC's top technology area is 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) with 18 patents, ranking #340 of 4,378 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 7 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 40 granted patents across 7 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2024. 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: 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).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Milacron ranks #8,075 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 40 patents across 7 technology areas.

#8,075
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 27th percentile
by Innovation Score (28.4/100): 9.3
avg claims per patent: -18%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R8075 · US Corporation #8,075 · 40 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 40 grants
UPPER-Q #8,075/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Machine Zone
CPC-NARROW B29C · 7 areas
INNOV-THIN 28.4/100
CLAIMS-PAR 9.3 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DOWN -18% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Machine Zone 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 Milacron’s 28.4 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 12.8 pts (45%) Velocity 0.7 pts (2%) Breadth 9.4 pts (33%) Claim depth 5.6 pts (20%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Nlightning Technology · near

28
Dtcc Digital (US) · near

28
Milacron · this assignee

28
True Velocity · near

28
Apex Tactical… · near

28
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Milacron's Innovation Score is 28.4/100 (27th 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 Milacron?

Each dot is one of Milacron’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). Milacron’s own 9.3 claims/patent is at or below the 18.3 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Milacron's grants concentrate

Milacron LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 7 CPC subclasses with 45% of grants classified under 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). Peak complete grant year is 2020 (16 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2024. By volume, Milacron sits between MacKay Memorial Hospital and NeoPhotonics Corporation.

Milacron's three-year grant acceleration

Milacron LLC shows 2 grants in 2022–2024 against only 19 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.

Mackay Memorial H…

40
Machine Zone

40
Marelli

40
Markem-imaje

40
NEC (China)

40
Norwegian Univers…

40
National Oilwell…

40
Neophotonics

40
Milacron ◀

40

What this shows Milacron holds 40 patents at rank #8,078, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Milacron

By rank, the assignees closest to #8,078 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B29C (Shaping OR Joining OF Plastics)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Milacron, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B29C (Shaping OR Joining OF Plastics), Milacron ranks #340 of 4,378 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (28 here).

True Velocity, Inc. 28 Dtcc Digital (US) Inc. 28 Apex Tactical Specialties, Inc. 28 Nlightning Technology Ltd. 28

Milacron's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

28 27th percentile higher than 27% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2024

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2015–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Milacron LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	3	7.5%
2016	5	12.5%
2017	4	10.0%
2018	7	17.5%
2019	3	7.5%
2020	16	40.0%
2024	2	5.0%

Which technologies does Milacron LLC patent most?

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 18

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 11

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 9

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 7

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 7

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 5

B29B - Preparation OR Pretreatment OF THE Material TO BE SHAPED; Making Granules OR PREFORMS; Recovery OF Plastics OR Other Constituents OF Waste Material Containing Plastics 1

Top 7 of 7 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

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

Milacron LLC's lead technology class is 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), 45% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B29C
Ranked #8,075 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Milacron LLC against MacKay Memorial Hospital, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 28.4/100 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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