Where does National Beef Packing Company, LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), National Beef Packing Company, LLC ranks #18,926 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 National Beef Packing Company, LLC hold?

National Beef Packing Company, LLC holds 15 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2025, spanning 11 technology areas.

What is National Beef Packing Company, LLC's Innovation Score?

National Beef Packing Company, LLC has an Innovation Score of 38.0 out of 100 (top 42% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is National Beef Packing Company, LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

National Beef Packing Company, LLC's recent grant velocity is +0% 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 National Beef Packing Company, LLC's patents?

National Beef Packing Company, LLC's patents average 18.9 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 National Beef Packing Company, 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

National Beef Packing Company, LLC

Q: What technology areas does National Beef Packing Company, LLC focus on?

National Beef Packing Company, LLC's top technology area is C14C (Chemical Treatment OF Hides, Skins OR Leather, e.g. Tanning, Impregnating, FINISHING; Apparatus THEREFOR; Compositions FOR Tanning) with 10 patents, ranking #2 of 16 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 11 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 15 granted patents across 11 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2025. 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: C14C (Chemical Treatment OF Hides, Skins OR Leather, e.g. Tanning, Impregnating, FINISHING; Apparatus THEREFOR; Compositions FOR Tanning).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, National ranks #18,926 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 15 patents across 11 technology areas.

#18,926
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 42%
by Innovation Score (38.0/100): 18.9
avg claims per patent: +0%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R18926 · US Corporation #18,926 · 15 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 15 grants
MID-PACK #18,926/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Nano Precision Medical
CPC-FOCUS C14C · 11 areas
INNOV-THIN 38.0/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.9 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-FLAT +0% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Nano Precision Medical, 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 National’s 38.0 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 9.6 pts (25%) Velocity 5.3 pts (14%) Breadth 11.7 pts (31%) Claim depth 11.4 pts (30%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
National Beef Packing · this assignee

38
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows National's Innovation Score is 38.0/100 (top 42% 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 National?

Each dot is one of National’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). National’s own 18.9 claims/patent is ABOVE the 14.9 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where National's grants concentrate

National Beef Packing Company, LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 11 CPC subclasses with 66.7% of grants classified under C14C (Chemical Treatment OF Hides, Skins OR Leather, e.g. Tanning, Impregnating, FINISHING; Apparatus THEREFOR; Compositions FOR Tanning). Peak complete grant year is 2016 (3 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2020. By volume, National sits between Nzxt, Inc. and Neatframe Limited.

National's three-year grant acceleration

National Beef Packing Company, LLC shows 4 grants in 2022–2024 against only 5 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.

Nzxt

15
Nano Precision Me…

15
Nanoxplore

15
Napatech A/S

15
Naturex

15
Navitar

15
Neal

15
Neatframe

15
National Beef Pac… ◀

15

What this shows National holds 15 patents at rank #18,939, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near National

By rank, the assignees closest to #18,939 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C14C (Chemical Treatment OF Hides)

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

National's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

38 Top 42% higher than 58% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2016–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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National Beef Packing Company, LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	3	20.0%
2018	2	13.3%
2019	2	13.3%
2020	1	6.7%
2021	2	13.3%
2022	1	6.7%
2023	2	13.3%
2024	1	6.7%
2025partial year	1	6.7%

Which technologies does National Beef Packing Company, LLC patent most?

C14C - Chemical Treatment OF Hides, Skins OR Leather, e.g. Tanning, Impregnating, FINISHING; Apparatus THEREFOR; Compositions FOR Tanning 10

C14B - Mechanical Treatment OR Processing OF Skins, Hides OR Leather IN GENERAL; Pelt-shearing MACHINES; Intestine-splitting Machines 9

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 9

G06Q - Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory Purposes, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 9

B65G - Transport OR Storage Devices, e.g. Conveyors FOR Loading OR Tipping, Shop Conveyor Systems OR Pneumatic Tube Conveyors 9

B07C - Postal SORTING; Sorting Individual Articles, OR Bulk Material FIT TO BE Sorted Piece-meal, e.g. BY Picking 9

B65B - Machines, Apparatus OR Devices FOR, OR Methods OF, Packaging Articles OR MATERIALS; Unpacking 3

A23V - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages AND Lactic OR Propionic Acid Bacteria Used IN Foodstuffs OR Food Preparation 3

A23B - Preservation OF Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic BEVERAGES; Chemical Ripening OF Fruit OR Vegetables 3

C02F - Treatment OF Water, Waste Water, Sewage, OR Sludge 2

B01D - Separation 2

Top 11 of 11 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

National Beef Packing Company, LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

National Beef Packing Company, LLC's lead technology class is C14C (Chemical Treatment OF Hides, Skins OR Leather, e.g. Tanning, Impregnating, FINISHING; Apparatus THEREFOR; Compositions FOR Tanning), 66.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C14C
Ranked #18,926 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare National Beef Packing Company, LLC against Nzxt, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 38.0/100 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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