Where does Puff Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Puff Corporation ranks #10,147 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 Puff Corporation hold?

Puff Corporation holds 31 US utility patents granted between 2017 and 2025, spanning 8 technology areas.

What is Puff Corporation's Innovation Score?

Puff Corporation has an Innovation Score of 38.0 out of 100 (top 42% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Puff Corporation focus on?

Puff Corporation's top technology area is A24F (Smokers' REQUISITES; Match BOXES; Simulated Smoking Devices) with 15 patents, ranking #39 of 214 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 8 CPC subclasses total.

Is Puff Corporation's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Puff Corporation's recent grant velocity is +475% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Puff Corporation's patents?

Puff Corporation's patents average 13.7 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 Puff Corporation 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

Puff Corporation

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 31 granted patents across 8 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2017–2025. 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: A24F (Smokers' REQUISITES; Match BOXES; Simulated Smoking Devices).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Puff ranks #10,147 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 31 patents across 8 technology areas.

#10,147
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 42%
by Innovation Score (38.0/100): 13.7
avg claims per patent: +475%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R10147 · US Corporation #10,147 · 31 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 31 grants
UPPER-Q #10,147/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Prestone Products
CPC-NARROW A24F · 8 areas
INNOV-THIN 38.0/100
CLAIMS-RICH 13.7 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +475% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Prestone Products 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 Puff’s 38.0 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 12.0 pts (32%) Velocity 7.8 pts (21%) Breadth 10.0 pts (26%) Claim depth 8.2 pts (22%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Corner Star · near

38
Puff · this assignee

38
Sango · near

38
Tokyo Parts Industrial · near

38
Travel Caddy · near

38
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Puff's Innovation Score is 38.0/100 (top 42% 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 Puff?

Each dot is one of Puff’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). Puff’s own 13.7 claims/patent is at or below the 21.5 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Puff's grants concentrate

Puff Corporation is a focused PatentsView assignee: 8 CPC subclasses with 48.4% of grants classified under A24F (Smokers' REQUISITES; Match BOXES; Simulated Smoking Devices). Peak complete grant year is 2024 (6 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2017. By volume, Puff sits between Prestone Products LLC and Reeves Wireline Technologies Limited.

Puff's three-year grant acceleration

Puff Corporation shows 14 grants in 2022–2024 against only 12 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.

Prestone Products

31
Prime World Inter…

31
Project Phoenix

31
Proteinsimple

31
Qingdao Hisense

31
Qingdao University

31
Quantum Metric

31
Reeves Wireline

31
Puff ◀

31

What this shows Puff holds 31 patents at rank #10,147, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Puff

By rank, the assignees closest to #10,147 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A24F (Smokers' Requisites)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Puff, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A24F (Smokers' Requisites), Puff ranks #39 of 214 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (38 here).

Corner Star Limited 38 Tokyo Parts Industrial Co., Ltd. 38 Travel Caddy, Inc. 38 Sango Co., Ltd. 38

Puff's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

38 Top 42% higher than 58% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2017–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2017–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Puff Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2017	1	3.2%
2019	3	9.7%
2020	5	16.1%
2021	4	12.9%
2022	3	9.7%
2023	5	16.1%
2024	6	19.4%
2025partial year	4	12.9%

Which technologies does Puff Corporation patent most?

A24F - Smokers' REQUISITES; Match BOXES; Simulated Smoking Devices 15

A61M - Devices FOR Introducing Media Into, OR Onto, THE Body ; Devices FOR Transducing Body Media OR FOR Taking Media From THE Body ; Devices FOR Producing OR Ending Sleep OR Stupor 9

H02J - Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy 3

F16K - VALVES; TAPS; COCKS; ACTUATING-FLOATS; Devices FOR Venting OR Aerating 1

B65B - Machines, Apparatus OR Devices FOR, OR Methods OF, Packaging Articles OR MATERIALS; Unpacking 1

A24B - Manufacture OR Preparation OF Tobacco FOR Smoking OR CHEWING; TOBACCO; Snuff 1

A24D - CIGARS; CIGARETTES; Tobacco Smoke FILTERS; Mouthpieces FOR Cigars OR CIGARETTES; Manufacture OF Tobacco Smoke Filters OR Mouthpieces 1

H05B - Electric HEATING; Electric Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Circuit Arrangements FOR Electric Light Sources, IN General 1

Top 8 of 8 technology areas

More on this record

Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

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What to do with this data

Puff Corporation's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Puff Corporation's lead technology class is A24F (Smokers' REQUISITES; Match BOXES; Simulated Smoking Devices), 48.4% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A24F
Ranked #10,147 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Puff Corporation against Prestone Products LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 38.0/100 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.