Where does The Willamette Valley Company LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), The Willamette Valley Company LLC ranks #37,930 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 The Willamette Valley Company LLC hold?

The Willamette Valley Company LLC holds 7 US utility patents granted between 2017 and 2025, spanning 9 technology areas.

What is The Willamette Valley Company LLC's Innovation Score?

The Willamette Valley Company LLC has an Innovation Score of 33.4 out of 100 (44th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does The Willamette Valley Company LLC focus on?

The Willamette Valley Company LLC's top technology area is C08L (Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds) with 6 patents. Grants appear in 9 CPC subclasses total.

Is The Willamette Valley Company LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

The Willamette Valley Company LLC's recent grant velocity is -33% 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 The Willamette Valley Company LLC's patents?

The Willamette Valley Company LLC's patents average 14.9 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 The Willamette Valley Company 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

The Willamette Valley Company LLC

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 7 granted patents across 9 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: C08L (Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, The ranks #37,930 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 7 patents across 9 technology areas.

#37,930
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 44th percentile
by Innovation Score (33.4/100): 14.9
avg claims per patent: -33%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R37930 · US Corporation #37,930 · 7 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · LOWER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 7 grants
LOWER-Q #37,930/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH The Travel Hammock
CPC-NARROW C08L · 9 areas
INNOV-THIN 33.4/100
CLAIMS-RICH 14.9 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DOWN -33% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: The Travel Hammock 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
The Willamette Valley · this assignee

33
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows The's Innovation Score is 33.4/100 (44th 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.

Where The's grants concentrate

The Willamette Valley Company LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 9 CPC subclasses with 85.7% of grants classified under C08L (Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds). Peak complete grant year is 2017 (2 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2018. By volume, The sits between The Travel Hammock Inc. and Thermal Storage Systems.

The's three-year grant acceleration

The Willamette Valley Company LLC shows 1 grants in 2022–2024 against only 1 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.

The Travel Hammock

7
The Trustees of P…

7
The United States…

7
The United States…

7
Therefore

7
Thermavant

7
Thermacor Process

7
Thermal Storage S…

7
The Willamette Va… ◀

7

What this shows The holds 7 patents at rank #37,977, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near The

By rank, the assignees closest to #37,977 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C08L (Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds)

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

The's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

33 44th percentile higher than 44% 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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The Willamette Valley Company LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2017	2	28.6%
2018	1	14.3%
2021	1	14.3%
2024	1	14.3%
2025partial year	2	28.6%

Which technologies does The Willamette Valley Company LLC patent most?

C08L - Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds 6

C08G - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than BY Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds 5

C09J - ADHESIVES; Non-mechanical Aspects OF Adhesive Processes IN GENERAL; Adhesive Processes NOT Provided FOR ELSEWHERE; USE OF Materials AS Adhesives 4

C09D - Coating Compositions, e.g. Paints, Varnishes OR LACQUERS; Filling PASTES; Chemical Paint OR INK REMOVERS; INKS; Correcting FLUIDS; WOODSTAINS; Pastes OR Solids FOR Colouring OR PRINTING; USE OF Materials Therefor 3

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 2

C08K - Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances as compounding ingredients 2

C08J - WORKING-UP; General Processes OF COMPOUNDING; After-treatment NOT Covered BY Subclasses C08b, C08c, C08f, C08g or C08h 2

B27N - Manufacture BY DRY Processes OF Articles, With OR Without Organic Binding Agents, Made From Particles OR Fibres Consisting OF Wood OR Other Lignocellulosic OR Like Organic Material 2

E01C - Construction OF, OR Surfaces FOR, Roads, Sports Grounds, OR THE LIKE; Machines OR Auxiliary Tools FOR Construction OR Repair 1

Top 9 of 9 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#37,930

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

33.4 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

The Willamette Valley Company LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

The Willamette Valley Company LLC's lead technology class is C08L (Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds), 85.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C08L
Ranked #37,930 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare The Willamette Valley Company LLC against The Travel Hammock Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 33.4/100 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.