Where does R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company ranks #1,330 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 R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company hold?

R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company holds 319 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 113 technology areas.

What is R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company's Innovation Score?

R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company has an Innovation Score of 61.6 out of 100 (top 3% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company's recent grant velocity is -25% 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 R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company's patents?

R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company's patents average 18.6 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 R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company 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

R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company

Q: What technology areas does R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company focus on?

R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company's top technology area is A24B (Manufacture OR Preparation OF Tobacco FOR Smoking OR CHEWING; TOBACCO; Snuff) with 153 patents. Grants appear in 113 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 319 granted patents across 113 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: A24B (Manufacture OR Preparation OF Tobacco FOR Smoking OR CHEWING; TOBACCO; Snuff).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, R.j. ranks #1,330 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 319 patents across 113 technology areas.

#1,330
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 3%
by Innovation Score (61.6/100): 18.6
avg claims per patent: -25%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1330 · US Corporation #1,330 · 319 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 319 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,330/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Amkor Technology
CPC-WIDE A24B · 113 areas
INNOV-STRONG 61.6/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.6 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DOWN -25% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Amkor Technology, Inc. (±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
Volvo Construction… · near

62
Dupont · near

62
Icahn School OF… · near

62
R J Reynolds Tobacco · this assignee

62
Sick · near

62
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows R.j.'s Innovation Score is 61.6/100 (top 3% 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.

How R.j.'s grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company received 130 grants versus 173 in 2015–2019 (-25% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2015 at 43 grants and bottomed in 2022 at 24. Lead class A24B accounts for 48% of the portfolio across 113 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Sandia Corporation (#1,326) and Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company (#1,334).

R.j.'s three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company moved from 90 to 74 grants (0.82x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). Among 3,296 tracked assignees with ≥100 grants and ≥20 prior-period grants, that multiple ranks #1,758. See the growth leaderboard.

Sandia

320
Amkor Technology

319
Itron

319
Kiekert

319
THE Chemours FC

319
R J Reynolds Toba… ◀

319
Genzyme

317
Harman Becker Aut…

317
Massachusetts Mut…

317

What this shows R.J. holds 319 patents at rank #1,330, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near RJ

By rank, the assignees closest to #1,330 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A24B (Manufacture OR Preparation OF Tobacco FOR Smoking OR Chewing)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for RJ, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above).

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (62 here).

Sick AG 62 Icahn School OF Medicine AT Mount Sinai 62 Dupont Electronics, Inc. 62 Volvo Construction Equipment AB 62

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (18.6 here).

Nabors Drilling Technologies USA, Inc. 18.6 avg Shanghai United Imaging Intelligence Co., Ltd. 18.6 avg Biosense Webster, Inc. 18.6 avg Kba-notasys SA 18.6 avg

R.j.'s Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

62 Top 3% higher than 97% 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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R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	43	13.5%
2016	37	11.6%
2017	25	7.8%
2018	34	10.7%
2019	34	10.7%
2020	29	9.1%
2021	27	8.5%
2022	24	7.5%
2023	25	7.8%
2024	25	7.8%
2025partial year	16	5.0%

Which technologies does R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company patent most?

A24B - Manufacture OR Preparation OF Tobacco FOR Smoking OR CHEWING; TOBACCO; Snuff 153

A24D - CIGARS; CIGARETTES; Tobacco Smoke FILTERS; Mouthpieces FOR Cigars OR CIGARETTES; Manufacture OF Tobacco Smoke Filters OR Mouthpieces 99

A24F - Smokers' REQUISITES; Match BOXES; Simulated Smoking Devices 78

A24C - Machines FOR Making Cigars OR Cigarettes 42

B65D - Containers FOR Storage OR Transport OF Articles OR Materials, e.g. Bags, Barrels, Bottles, Boxes, Cans, Cartons, Crates, Drums, Jars, Tanks, Hoppers, Forwarding CONTAINERS; Accessories, Closures, OR Fittings THEREFOR; Packaging ELEMENTS; Packages 39

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 28

A23G - COCOA; Cocoa Products, e.g. CHOCOLATE; Substitutes FOR Cocoa OR Cocoa PRODUCTS; CONFECTIONERY; Chewing GUM; ICE-CREAM; Preparation Thereof 25

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 24

B65B - Machines, Apparatus OR Devices FOR, OR Methods OF, Packaging Articles OR MATERIALS; Unpacking 19

C07C - Acyclic OR Carbocyclic Compounds 14

C07D - Heterocyclic Compounds 13

C07K - Peptides 13

A23L - Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Preparation OR Treatment Thereof 13

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 11

C12Y - Enzymes 11

Top 15 of 113 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#1,330

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

61.6 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company's lead technology class is A24B (Manufacture OR Preparation OF Tobacco FOR Smoking OR CHEWING; TOBACCO; Snuff), 48% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A24B
Ranked #1,330 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company against Sandia Corporation, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 61.6/100 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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