Where does NatureWorks LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), NatureWorks LLC ranks #21,495 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 NatureWorks LLC hold?

NatureWorks LLC holds 13 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 16 technology areas.

What is NatureWorks LLC's Innovation Score?

NatureWorks LLC has an Innovation Score of 32.8 out of 100 (42nd 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 NatureWorks LLC focus on?

NatureWorks LLC's top technology area is C08L (Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds) with 6 patents, ranking #553 of 2,352 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 16 CPC subclasses total.

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

NatureWorks LLC's recent grant velocity is -50% 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 NatureWorks LLC's patents?

NatureWorks LLC's patents average 9.2 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 NatureWorks 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

NatureWorks LLC

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 13 granted patents across 16 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2025. 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: C08L (Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Natureworks ranks #21,495 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 13 patents across 16 technology areas.

#21,495
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 42nd percentile
by Innovation Score (32.8/100): 9.2
avg claims per patent: -50%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R21495 · US Corporation #21,495 · 13 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 13 grants
MID-PACK #21,495/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Nashville Wire…
CPC-FOCUS C08L · 16 areas
INNOV-THIN 32.8/100
CLAIMS-PAR 9.2 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -50% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Nashville Wire Products Manufacturing Company, LLC (±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 Natureworks’s 32.8 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 9.1 pts (28%) Velocity 4.0 pts (12%) Breadth 14.1 pts (43%) Claim depth 5.5 pts (17%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
NatureWorks · this assignee

33
3D Lighting… · lowest

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What this shows Natureworks's Innovation Score is 32.8/100 (42nd 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 Natureworks?

Each dot is one of Natureworks’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). Natureworks’s own 9.2 claims/patent is at or below the 13.7 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Natureworks's grants concentrate

NatureWorks LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 16 CPC subclasses with 46.2% of grants classified under C08L (Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds). Peak complete grant year is 2019 (4 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2020. By volume, Natureworks sits between Nashville Wire Products Manufacturing Company, LLC and Netmarble Corporation.

Natureworks's three-year grant acceleration

NatureWorks LLC shows 3 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.

Nashville Wire Pr…

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Natural Ocean Well

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Nature Blinds

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Navigate Surgical

13
Neptune Benson

13
Nerdbugs

13
Netmarble

13
Natureworks ◀

13

What this shows NatureWorks holds 13 patents at rank #21,522, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near NatureWorks

By rank, the assignees closest to #21,522 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C08L (Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds)

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

Natureworks's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

33 42nd percentile higher than 42% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2025

Grants by year

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

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NatureWorks LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	2	15.4%
2016	2	15.4%
2019	4	30.8%
2020	1	7.7%
2023	3	23.1%
2025partial year	1	7.7%

Which technologies does NatureWorks LLC patent most?

C08L - Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds 6

C08G - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than BY Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds 4

D01F - Chemical Features IN THE Manufacture OF Artificial Filaments, Threads, Fibres, Bristles OR RIBBONS; Apparatus Specially Adapted FOR THE Manufacture OF Carbon Filaments 3

C09K - Materials FOR Miscellaneous Applications, NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere 3

C07C - Acyclic OR Carbocyclic Compounds 3

E21B - Earth OR Rock DRILLING; Obtaining OIL, GAS, Water, Soluble OR Meltable Materials OR A Slurry OF Minerals From Wells 2

A01G - HORTICULTURE; Cultivation OF Vegetables, Flowers, Rice, Fruit, Vines, Hops OR SEAWEED; FORESTRY; Watering 2

D10B - Indexing Scheme Associated With Sublasses OF Section D, Relating TO Textiles 2

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 2

C08J - WORKING-UP; General Processes OF COMPOUNDING; After-treatment NOT Covered BY Subclasses C08b, C08c, C08f, C08g or C08h 2

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 2

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 2

B05D - Processes FOR Applying Fluent Materials TO Surfaces, IN General 1

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 1

C07D - Heterocyclic Compounds 1

Top 15 of 16 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

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

NatureWorks LLC's lead technology class is C08L (Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds), 46.2% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C08L
Ranked #21,495 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare NatureWorks LLC against Nashville Wire Products Manufacturing Company, LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 32.8/100 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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