Where does Pfnonwovens Llc rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Pfnonwovens Llc ranks #23,186 of 50,000 assignees by granted-patent volume, the same sort as the companies listing and top-holders ranking. See /methodology/#corpus-placement.

How many patents does Pfnonwovens Llc hold?

Pfnonwovens Llc holds 12 US utility patents granted between 2018 and 2025, spanning 16 technology areas.

What is Pfnonwovens Llc's Innovation Score?

Pfnonwovens Llc has an Innovation Score of 38.4 out of 100 (top 41% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Pfnonwovens Llc's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Pfnonwovens Llc's recent grant velocity is +20% 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 Pfnonwovens Llc's patents?

Pfnonwovens Llc's patents average 22.0 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 Pfnonwovens 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

Pfnonwovens Llc

Q: What technology areas does Pfnonwovens Llc focus on?

Pfnonwovens Llc's top technology area is D04H (MAKING TEXTILE FABRICS, e.g. FROM FIBRES OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL ; FABRICS MADE BY SUCH PROCESSES OR APPARATUS, e.g. FELTS, NON-WOVEN FABRICS; COTTON-WOOL; WADDING ; ; NON-WOVEN FABRICS FROM STAPLE FIBRES, FILAMENTS OR YARNS, BONDED WITH AT LEAST ONE WEB-LIKE MATERIAL DURING THEIR CONSOLIDATION) with 9 patents. Grants appear in 16 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 12 granted patents across 16 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: D04H (MAKING TEXTILE FABRICS, e.g. FROM FIBRES OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL ; FABRICS MADE BY SUCH PROCESSES OR APPARATUS, e.g. FELTS, NON-WOVEN FABRICS; COTTON-WOOL; WADDING ; ; NON-WOVEN FABRICS FROM STAPLE FI).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Pfnonwovens ranks #23,186 of 50,000 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 12 patents across 16 technology areas.

#23,186
of 50,000 US assignees by volume: Top 41%
by Innovation Score (38.4/100): 22.0
avg claims per patent: +20%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R23186 · US Corporation #23,186 · 12 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 12 grants
MID-PACK #23,186/50,000
PHOTO-FINISH PENINSULA PACKAGING
CPC-FOCUS D04H · 16 areas
INNOV-THIN 38.4/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 22.0 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-UP +20% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Peninsula Packaging, 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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Pfnonwovens · this assignee

38
3D Lighting Innovati… · lowest

7

What this shows Pfnonwovens's Innovation Score is 38.4/100 (top 41% 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.

Where Pfnonwovens's grants concentrate

Pfnonwovens Llc is a focused PatentsView assignee: 16 CPC subclasses with 75% of grants classified under D04H (MAKING TEXTILE FABRICS, e.g. FROM FIBRES OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL ; FABRICS MADE BY SUCH PROCESSES OR APPARATUS, e.g. FELTS, NON-WOVEN FABRICS; COTTON-WOOL; WADDING ; ; NON-WOVEN FABRICS FROM STAPLE FI). Peak complete grant year is 2018 (3 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2021. By volume, Pfnonwovens sits between Peninsula Packaging, Llc and Photonis France.

Peninsula Packagi…

12
Pentair FLOW Serv…

12
Perfetti VAN Mell…

12
Petroliam Nasiona…

12
Pharmazell

12
Phase Scientific…

12
Phinia Delphi Lux…

12
Photonis France

12
Pfnonwovens ◀

12

What this shows Pfnonwovens holds 12 patents at rank #23,163, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Pfnonwovens

By rank, the assignees closest to #23,163 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in D04H (Making Textile Fabrics)

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

Pfnonwovens's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

38 Top 41% higher than 59% of 50,000 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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Pfnonwovens Llc patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2018	3	25.0%
2019	2	16.7%
2020	3	25.0%
2021	1	8.3%
2023	1	8.3%
2024	1	8.3%
2025partial year	1	8.3%

Which technologies does Pfnonwovens Llc patent most?

D04H - MAKING TEXTILE FABRICS, e.g. FROM FIBRES OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL ; FABRICS MADE BY SUCH PROCESSES OR APPARATUS, e.g. FELTS, NON-WOVEN FABRICS; COTTON-WOOL; WADDING ; ; NON-WOVEN FABRICS FROM STAPLE FIBRES, FILAMENTS OR YARNS, BONDED WITH AT LEAST ONE WEB-LIKE MATERIAL DURING THEIR CONSOLIDATION 9

B32B - LAYERED PRODUCTS, i.e. PRODUCTS BUILT-UP OF STRATA OF FLAT OR NON-FLAT, e.g. CELLULAR OR HONEYCOMB, FORM 7

A61F - FILTERS IMPLANTABLE INTO BLOOD VESSELS; PROSTHESES; DEVICES PROVIDING PATENCY TO, OR PREVENTING COLLAPSING OF, TUBULAR STRUCTURES OF THE BODY, e.g. STENTS; ORTHOPAEDIC, NURSING OR CONTRACEPTIVE DEVICES; FOMENTATION; TREATMENT OR PROTECTION OF EYES OR EARS; BANDAGES, DRESSINGS OR ABSORBENT PADS; FIRS 4

D10B - INDEXING SCHEME ASSOCIATED WITH SUBLASSES OF SECTION D, RELATING TO TEXTILES 4

Y10T - TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION 4

D06C - FINISHING, DRESSING, TENTERING OR STRETCHING TEXTILE FABRICS 2

D06B - TREATING TEXTILE MATERIALS USING LIQUIDS, GASES OR VAPOURS 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

A47L - DOMESTIC WASHING OR CLEANING ; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL 2

B29L - INDEXING SCHEME ASSOCIATED WITH SUBCLASS B29C, RELATING TO PARTICULAR ARTICLES 1

A61L - METHODS OR APPARATUS FOR STERILISING MATERIALS OR OBJECTS IN GENERAL; DISINFECTION, STERILISATION OR DEODORISATION OF AIR; CHEMICAL ASPECTS OF BANDAGES, DRESSINGS, ABSORBENT PADS OR SURGICAL ARTICLES; MATERIALS FOR BANDAGES, DRESSINGS, ABSORBENT PADS OR SURGICAL ARTICLES 1

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 1

B29B - PREPARATION OR PRETREATMENT OF THE MATERIAL TO BE SHAPED; MAKING GRANULES OR PREFORMS; RECOVERY OF PLASTICS OR OTHER CONSTITUENTS OF WASTE MATERIAL CONTAINING PLASTICS 1

D01F - CHEMICAL FEATURES IN THE MANUFACTURE OF ARTIFICIAL FILAMENTS, THREADS, FIBRES, BRISTLES OR RIBBONS; APPARATUS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF CARBON FILAMENTS 1

D01D - MECHANICAL METHODS OR APPARATUS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF ARTIFICIAL FILAMENTS, THREADS, FIBRES, BRISTLES OR RIBBONS 1

Top 15 of 16 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#23,186

of 50,000 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

38.4 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

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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