Where does Nature's Sunshine Products, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Nature's Sunshine Products, Inc. ranks #41,875 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 Nature's Sunshine Products, Inc. hold?

Nature's Sunshine Products, Inc. holds 6 US utility patents granted between 2019 and 2025, spanning 5 technology areas.

What is Nature's Sunshine Products, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Nature's Sunshine Products, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 33.2 out of 100 (44th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Nature's Sunshine Products, Inc. focus on?

Nature's Sunshine Products, Inc.'s top technology area is A61K (Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes) with 5 patents, ranking #4,009 of 7,163 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 5 CPC subclasses total.

Is Nature's Sunshine Products, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Nature's Sunshine Products, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +50% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Nature's Sunshine Products, Inc.'s patents?

Nature's Sunshine Products, Inc.'s patents average 23.5 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 Nature's Sunshine Products, 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

Nature's Sunshine Products, Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 6 granted patents across 5 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2019–2025. 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: A61K (Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Nature's ranks #41,875 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 6 patents across 5 technology areas.

#41,875
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 44th percentile
by Innovation Score (33.2/100): 23.5
avg claims per patent: +50%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R41875 · US Corporation #41,875 · 6 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · LOWER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 6 grants
LOWER-Q #41,875/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH National Institute…
CPC-NARROW A61K · 5 areas
INNOV-THIN 33.2/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 23.5 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +50% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: National Institute of Aerospace Associates (±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 Nature's’s 33.2 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 6.7 pts (20%) Velocity 4.4 pts (13%) Breadth 7.9 pts (24%) Claim depth 14.1 pts (43%)

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What this shows Nature's's Innovation Score is 33.2/100 (44th 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 Nature's?

Each dot is one of Nature's’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). Nature's’s own 23.5 claims/patent is ABOVE the 13.0 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Nature's's grants concentrate

Nature's Sunshine Products, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 5 CPC subclasses with 83.3% of grants classified under A61K (Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes). Peak complete grant year is 2019 (2 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2021. By volume, Nature's sits between National Institute of Aerospace Associates and NeRRe Therapeutics Limited.

Nature's's three-year grant acceleration

Nature's Sunshine Products, Inc. shows 2 grants in 2022–2024 against only 3 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.

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What this shows Nature's holds 6 patents at rank #41,954, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Nature's

By rank, the assignees closest to #41,954 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A61K (Preparations FOR Medical)

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

Nature's's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

33 44th percentile higher than 44% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2019–2025

Grants by year

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

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Nature's Sunshine Products, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2019	2	33.3%
2021	1	16.7%
2022	2	33.3%
2025partial year	1	16.7%

Which technologies does Nature's Sunshine Products, Inc. patent most?

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 5

A61P - Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations 5

A23L - Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Preparation OR Treatment Thereof 4

A23V - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages AND Lactic OR Propionic Acid Bacteria Used IN Foodstuffs OR Food Preparation 2

A23C - Dairy Products, e.g. Milk, Butter OR CHEESE; Milk OR Cheese SUBSTITUTES; Making OR Treatment Thereof 1

Top 5 of 5 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

Nature's Sunshine Products, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Nature's Sunshine Products, Inc.'s lead technology class is A61K (Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes), 83.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A61K
Ranked #41,875 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Nature's Sunshine Products, Inc. against National Institute of Aerospace Associates, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 33.2/100 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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