Where does TC Heartland LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), TC Heartland LLC ranks #30,328 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 TC Heartland LLC hold?

TC Heartland LLC holds 9 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2022, spanning 1 technology areas.

What is TC Heartland LLC's Innovation Score?

TC Heartland LLC has an Innovation Score of 15.6 out of 100 (3rd percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is TC Heartland LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

TC Heartland LLC's recent grant velocity is -71% 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 TC Heartland LLC's patents?

TC Heartland LLC's patents average 3.1 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 TC Heartland 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

TC Heartland LLC

Q: What technology areas does TC Heartland LLC focus on?

TC Heartland LLC's top technology area is 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) with 1 patents, ranking #2,090 of 3,365 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 1 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 9 granted patents across 1 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: 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 F).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, TC ranks #30,328 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 9 patents across 1 technology areas.

#30,328
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 3rd percentile
by Innovation Score (15.6/100): 3.1
avg claims per patent: -71%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R30328 · US Corporation #30,328 · 9 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-LOW · CLAIMS-SPARSE · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 9 grants
MID-PACK #30,328/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Tapjoy
CPC-NARROW B65D · 1 areas
INNOV-LOW 15.6/100
CLAIMS-SPARSE 3.1 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -71% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Tapjoy, 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.

How TC’s 15.6 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 8.0 pts (51%) Velocity 2.2 pts (14%) Breadth 3.5 pts (22%) Claim depth 1.9 pts (12%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
TC Heartland · this assignee

16
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows TC's Innovation Score is 15.6/100 (3rd 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 TC?

Each dot is one of TC’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). TC’s own 3.1 claims/patent is at or below the 11.8 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where TC's grants concentrate

TC Heartland LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 1 CPC subclasses with 11.1% of grants classified under 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 F). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (3 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2017. By volume, TC sits between Tapjoy, Inc. and TDW Gesellschaft für Verteidigungstechnische Wirksysteme mbH.

TC's three-year grant acceleration

TC Heartland LLC shows 1 grants in 2022–2024 against only 3 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.

Tapjoy

9
Tasmit

9
Tate Technology

9
Tateho Chemical I…

9
Tchibo

9
TD Tools

9
Tdk-lambda UK

9
TDW Gesellschaft…

9
TC Heartland ◀

9

What this shows TC holds 9 patents at rank #30,292, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near TC

By rank, the assignees closest to #30,292 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B65D (Containers FOR Storage OR Transport OF Articles OR Materials)

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

TC's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

16 3rd percentile higher than 3% 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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TC Heartland LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	3	33.3%
2017	1	11.1%
2018	1	11.1%
2019	2	22.2%
2021	1	11.1%
2022	1	11.1%

Which technologies does TC Heartland LLC patent most?

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 1

Top 1 of 1 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

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

TC Heartland LLC's lead technology class is 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 F), 11.1% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B65D
Ranked #30,328 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare TC Heartland LLC against Tapjoy, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 15.6/100 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

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