Where does Productive Research LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Productive Research LLC ranks #17,098 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 Productive Research LLC hold?

Productive Research LLC holds 17 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2022, spanning 11 technology areas.

What is Productive Research LLC's Innovation Score?

Productive Research LLC has an Innovation Score of 37.3 out of 100 (top 44% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Productive Research LLC focus on?

Productive Research LLC's top technology area is B32B (Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form) with 17 patents, ranking #239 of 3,088 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 11 CPC subclasses total.

Is Productive Research LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Productive Research LLC's recent grant velocity is -58% 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 Productive Research LLC's patents?

Productive Research LLC's patents average 20.5 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 Productive Research 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

Productive Research LLC

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 17 granted patents across 11 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2022. 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: B32B (Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Productive ranks #17,098 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 17 patents across 11 technology areas.

#17,098
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 44%
by Innovation Score (37.3/100): 20.5
avg claims per patent: -58%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R17098 · US Corporation #17,098 · 17 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 17 grants
MID-PACK #17,098/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Praxis Works
CPC-FOCUS B32B · 11 areas
INNOV-THIN 37.3/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 20.5 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -58% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Praxis Works 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 Productive’s 37.3 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 10.0 pts (27%) Velocity 3.3 pts (9%) Breadth 11.7 pts (31%) Claim depth 12.3 pts (33%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Productive Research · this assignee

37
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Productive's Innovation Score is 37.3/100 (top 44% 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 Productive?

Each dot is one of Productive’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). Productive’s own 20.5 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.7 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Productive's grants concentrate

Productive Research LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 11 CPC subclasses with 100% of grants classified under B32B (Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form). Peak complete grant year is 2016 (5 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2017. By volume, Productive sits between Praxis Works LLC and PSI Systems, Inc..

Productive's three-year grant acceleration

Productive Research LLC shows 2 grants in 2022–2024 against only 4 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.

Praxis Works

17
Precision Valve &…

17
Print-rite ⋅ Unic…

17
Prodrive Innovati…

17
Proprietect

17
Prose (Suzhou)

17
PSG Germany

17
PSI Systems

17
Productive Resear… ◀

17

What this shows Productive holds 17 patents at rank #17,080, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Productive

By rank, the assignees closest to #17,080 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B32B (Layered Products)

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

Productive's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

37 Top 44% higher than 56% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2022

Grants by year

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

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Productive Research LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	2	11.8%
2016	5	29.4%
2017	1	5.9%
2018	3	17.6%
2019	1	5.9%
2020	1	5.9%
2021	2	11.8%
2022	2	11.8%

Which technologies does Productive Research LLC patent most?

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 17

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 14

C08K - Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances as compounding ingredients 8

C08J - WORKING-UP; General Processes OF COMPOUNDING; After-treatment NOT Covered BY Subclasses C08b, C08c, C08f, C08g or C08h 8

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 4

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 4

B23K - Soldering OR UNSOLDERING; WELDING; Cladding OR Plating BY Soldering OR WELDING; Cutting BY Applying Heat Locally, e.g. Flame CUTTING; Working BY Laser Beam 4

C25D - Processes FOR THE Electrolytic OR Electrophoretic Production OF COATINGS; ELECTROFORMING; Apparatus Therefor 1

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

C23C - Coating Metallic MATERIAL; Coating Material With Metallic MATERIAL; Surface Treatment OF Metallic Material BY Diffusion Into THE Surface, BY Chemical Conversion OR SUBSTITUTION; Coating BY Vacuum Evaporation, BY Sputtering, BY ION Implantation OR BY Chemical Vapour Deposition, IN General 1

F16B - Devices FOR Fastening OR Securing Constructional Elements OR Machine Parts Together, e.g. Nails, Bolts, Circlips, Clamps, Clips OR WEDGES; Joints OR Jointing 1

Top 11 of 11 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

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

Productive Research LLC's lead technology class is B32B (Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form), 100% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B32B
Ranked #17,098 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Productive Research LLC against Praxis Works LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 37.3/100 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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