Where does Natural Fiber Welding, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Natural Fiber Welding, Inc. ranks #13,069 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 Natural Fiber Welding, Inc. hold?

Natural Fiber Welding, Inc. holds 23 US utility patents granted between 2018 and 2025, spanning 18 technology areas.

What is Natural Fiber Welding, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Natural Fiber Welding, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 56.5 out of 100 (top 6% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Natural Fiber Welding, Inc. focus on?

Natural Fiber Welding, Inc.'s top technology area is Y02P (Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods) with 16 patents, ranking #453 of 4,985 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 18 CPC subclasses total.

Is Natural Fiber Welding, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Natural Fiber Welding, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +800% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Natural Fiber Welding, Inc.'s patents?

Natural Fiber Welding, Inc.'s patents average 19.8 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 Natural Fiber Welding, Inc. 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

Natural Fiber Welding, Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 23 granted patents across 18 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2018–2025. 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: Y02P (Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Natural ranks #13,069 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 23 patents across 18 technology areas.

#13,069
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 6%
by Innovation Score (56.5/100): 19.8
avg claims per patent: +800%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R13069 · US Corporation #13,069 · 23 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 23 grants
MID-PACK #13,069/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH NanoString
CPC-FOCUS Y02P · 18 areas
INNOV-PAR 56.5/100
CLAIMS-RICH 19.8 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +800% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: NanoString Technologies, 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 Natural’s 56.5 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 11.0 pts (19%) Velocity 18.7 pts (33%) Breadth 15.0 pts (27%) Claim depth 11.9 pts (21%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Natural Fiber Welding · this assignee

57
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Natural's Innovation Score is 56.5/100 (top 6% 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 Natural?

Each dot is one of Natural’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). Natural’s own 19.8 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.4 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Natural's grants concentrate

Natural Fiber Welding, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 18 CPC subclasses with 69.6% of grants classified under Y02P (Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods). Peak complete grant year is 2023 (6 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2018. By volume, Natural sits between Nixon, Inc. and Network Integrity Systems, Inc..

Natural's three-year grant acceleration

Natural Fiber Welding, Inc. shows 14 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.

Nixon

23
Nokian Renkaat OYJ

23
Nanostring

23
National Formosa…

23
Nautibuoy Marine

23
Neodrón

23
Neptune Medical

23
Network Integrity…

23
Natural Fiber Wel… ◀

23

What this shows Natural holds 23 patents at rank #13,074, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Natural

By rank, the assignees closest to #13,074 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in Y02P (Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production…)

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

Natural's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

57 Top 6% higher than 94% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2018–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2018–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Natural Fiber Welding, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2018	1	4.3%
2019	1	4.3%
2021	4	17.4%
2022	3	13.0%
2023	6	26.1%
2024	5	21.7%
2025partial year	3	13.0%

Which technologies does Natural Fiber Welding, Inc. patent most?

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 16

C08C - Treatment OR Chemical Modification OF Rubbers 14

C08J - WORKING-UP; General Processes OF COMPOUNDING; After-treatment NOT Covered BY Subclasses C08b, C08c, C08f, C08g or C08h 14

C08G - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than BY Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds 14

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 14

C08L - Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds 14

D06M - Treatment, NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere IN Class D06, OF Fibres, Threads, Yarns, Fabrics, Feathers OR Fibrous Goods Made From Such Materials 8

D06P - Dyeing OR Printing TEXTILES; Dyeing Leather, Furs OR Solid Macromolecular Substances IN ANY Form 8

D02J - Finishing OR Dressing OF Filaments, Yarns, Threads, Cords, Ropes OR THE Like 6

C09D - Coating Compositions, e.g. Paints, Varnishes OR LACQUERS; Filling PASTES; Chemical Paint OR INK REMOVERS; INKS; Correcting FLUIDS; WOODSTAINS; Pastes OR Solids FOR Colouring OR PRINTING; USE OF Materials Therefor 5

D06N - Wall, Floor, OR Like Covering Materials, e.g. Linoleum, Oilcloth, Artificial Leather, Roofing Felt, Consisting OF A Fibrous WEB Coated With A Layer OF Macromolecular MATERIAL; Flexible Sheet Material NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 5

D02G - Crimping OR Curling Fibres, Filaments, Threads, OR YARNS; Yarns OR Threads 5

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 3

D06B - Treating Textile Materials Using Liquids, Gases OR Vapours 3

D01F - Chemical Features IN THE Manufacture OF Artificial Filaments, Threads, Fibres, Bristles OR RIBBONS; Apparatus Specially Adapted FOR THE Manufacture OF Carbon Filaments 2

Top 15 of 18 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

Natural Fiber Welding, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Natural Fiber Welding, Inc.'s lead technology class is Y02P (Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods), 69.6% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore Y02P
Ranked #13,069 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Natural Fiber Welding, Inc. against Nixon, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 56.5/100 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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