Where does Natural Gas Solutions North America, LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Natural Gas Solutions North America, LLC ranks #10,701 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 Gas Solutions North America, LLC hold?

Natural Gas Solutions North America, LLC holds 29 US utility patents granted between 2019 and 2024, spanning 30 technology areas.

What is Natural Gas Solutions North America, LLC's Innovation Score?

Natural Gas Solutions North America, LLC has an Innovation Score of 41.1 out of 100 (top 34% 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 Gas Solutions North America, LLC focus on?

Natural Gas Solutions North America, LLC's top technology area is G01F (Measuring Volume, Volume Flow, Mass Flow OR Liquid LEVEL; Metering BY Volume) with 20 patents, ranking #39 of 1,205 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 30 CPC subclasses total.

Is Natural Gas Solutions North America, LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Natural Gas Solutions North America, LLC's recent grant velocity is +64% 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 Gas Solutions North America, LLC's patents?

Natural Gas Solutions North America, LLC's patents average 14.4 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 Gas Solutions North America, 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

Natural Gas Solutions North America, LLC

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 29 granted patents across 30 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2019–2024. 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: G01F (Measuring Volume, Volume Flow, Mass Flow OR Liquid LEVEL; Metering BY Volume).

Compiled by PlainPatent · May 15, 2026

RSS updates for this company

Explore the portfolio See the ranking

The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Natural ranks #10,701 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 29 patents across 30 technology areas.

#10,701
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 34%
by Innovation Score (41.1/100): 14.4
avg claims per patent: +64%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R10701 · US Corporation #10,701 · 29 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 29 grants
UPPER-Q #10,701/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH National Yunlin…
CPC-FOCUS G01F · 30 areas
INNOV-PAR 41.1/100
CLAIMS-RICH 14.4 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +64% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: National Yunlin University of Science and Technology (±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 41.1 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 11.7 pts (28%) Velocity 1.4 pts (3%) Breadth 19.4 pts (47%) Claim depth 8.6 pts (21%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Grst International · near

41
Hitachi Power… · near

41
Musashi Seimitsu… · near

41
Natural Gas… · this assignee

41
H & M Innovations · near

41
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Natural's Innovation Score is 41.1/100 (top 34% 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 14.4 claims/patent is ABOVE the 9.7 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 Gas Solutions North America, LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 30 CPC subclasses with 69% of grants classified under G01F (Measuring Volume, Volume Flow, Mass Flow OR Liquid LEVEL; Metering BY Volume). Peak complete grant year is 2019 (11 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2023. By volume, Natural sits between Noodoe Group Inc. and Ningbo Fotile Kitchen Ware Co., Ltd..

Natural's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Natural Gas Solutions North America, LLC moved from 24 to 5 grants (0.21x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Noodoe Group

29
Nsk-warner K K

29
National Yunlin U…

29
Natural Extractio…

29
Neurohabilitation

29
Nextinput

29
Nihon Parkerizing

29
Ningbo Fotile Kit…

29
Natural Gas Solut… ◀

29

What this shows Natural holds 29 patents at rank #10,704, 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 #10,704 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G01F (Measuring Volume)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Natural, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G01F (Measuring Volume), Natural ranks #39 of 1,205 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (41 here).

Grst International Limited 41 Hitachi Power Solutions Co., Ltd. 41 Musashi Seimitsu Industry Co., Ltd. 41 H & M Innovations, LLC 41

Natural's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

41 Top 34% higher than 66% of 49,997 US assignees

Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more US assignees. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.

Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2019–2024

Grants by year

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

View data table

Natural Gas Solutions North America, LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2019	11	37.9%
2020	6	20.7%
2021	7	24.1%
2022	3	10.3%
2023	1	3.4%
2024	1	3.4%

Which technologies does Natural Gas Solutions North America, LLC patent most?

G01F - Measuring Volume, Volume Flow, Mass Flow OR Liquid LEVEL; Metering BY Volume 20

G01D - Measuring NOT Specially Adapted FOR A Specific VARIABLE; Arrangements FOR Measuring TWO OR More Variables NOT Covered IN A Single Other SUBCLASS; Tariff Metering APPARATUS; Measuring OR Testing NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 8

Y04S - Systems Integrating Technologies Related TO Power Network Operation, Communication OR Information Technologies FOR Improving THE Electrical Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution, Management OR Usage, i.e. Smart Grids 7

Y02B - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Buildings, e.g. Housing, House Appliances OR Related End-user Applications 6

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 3

H04Q - Selecting 3

G05D - Systems FOR Controlling OR Regulating Non-electric Variables 3

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 3

F04B - Positive-displacement Machines FOR LIQUIDS; Pumps 3

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 3

H02K - Dynamo-electric Machines 3

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 3

H10N - Electric Solid-state Devices NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 2

F16J - Pistons ; CYLINDERS; Sealings 2

H02J - Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy 2

Top 15 of 30 technology areas

More on this record

Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

View all rankings → How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

Natural Gas Solutions North America, LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Natural Gas Solutions North America, LLC's lead technology class is G01F (Measuring Volume, Volume Flow, Mass Flow OR Liquid LEVEL; Metering BY Volume), 69% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G01F
Ranked #10,701 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Natural Gas Solutions North America, LLC against Noodoe Group Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 41.1/100 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

Every figure on PlainPatent is rendered directly from USPTO source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on USPTO source data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 2026.