Is Tobacco Research AND Development Institute (PROPRIETARY) Limited's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Tobacco Research AND Development Institute (PROPRIETARY) Limited's recent grant velocity is +20% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). The company is maintaining or growing its granted-patent output.

What does claim depth mean for Tobacco Research AND Development Institute (PROPRIETARY) Limited's patents?

Tobacco Research AND Development Institute (PROPRIETARY) Limited's patents average 25.0 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.

USPTO 2015–2025 USPTO PatentsView Foreign Corporation

Tobacco Research AND Development Institute (PROPRIETARY) Limited

Q: Where does Tobacco Research AND Development Institute (PROPRIETARY) Limited rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Tobacco Research AND Development Institute (PROPRIETARY) Limited ranks #21,916 of 49,997 assignees by granted-patent volume, the same sort as the companies listing and top-holders ranking. See /methodology/#corpus-placement.

Q: How is the Tobacco Research AND Development Institute (PROPRIETARY) Limited 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 PatentsView assignee record - 13 granted patents across 3 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: A24C (Machines FOR Making Cigars OR Cigarettes).

Compiled by PlainPatent · May 15, 2026

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Tobacco ranks #21,916 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 13 patents across 3 technology areas.

#21,916
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 47th percentile
by Innovation Score (34.2/100): 25.0
avg claims per patent: +20%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R21916 · Foreign Corporation #21,916 · 13 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-UP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 13 grants
MID-PACK #21,916/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Tianjin Iconiq NEW…
CPC-NARROW A24C · 3 areas
INNOV-THIN 34.2/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 25.0 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-UP +20% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Tianjin Iconiq NEW Energy Vehicle Co., Ltd. (±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 Tobacco’s 34.2 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 9.1 pts (27%) Velocity 4.0 pts (12%) Breadth 6.1 pts (18%) Claim depth 15.0 pts (44%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Tobacco Research… · this assignee

34
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Tobacco's Innovation Score is 34.2/100 (47th 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 Tobacco?

Each dot is one of Tobacco’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). Tobacco’s own 25.0 claims/patent is ABOVE the 4.8 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Tobacco's grants concentrate

Tobacco Research AND Development Institute (PROPRIETARY) Limited is a focused PatentsView assignee: 3 CPC subclasses with 46.2% of grants classified under A24C (Machines FOR Making Cigars OR Cigarettes). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (2 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2018. By volume, Tobacco sits between Tianjin Iconiq NEW Energy Vehicle Co., Ltd. and Total Raffinage France.

Tobacco's three-year grant acceleration

Tobacco Research AND Development Institute (PROPRIETARY) Limited shows 3 grants in 2022–2024 against only 5 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.

Tianjin Iconiq NE…

13
Tiger

13
TJ(fujian) Indust…

13
TOA

13
TOK

13
Tomita Pharmaceut…

13
Topura

13
Total Raffinage F…

13
Tobacco Research… ◀

13

What this shows Tobacco holds 13 patents at rank #21,889, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Tobacco

By rank, the assignees closest to #21,889 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A24C (Machines FOR Making Cigars OR Cigarettes)

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

Tobacco's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

34 47th percentile higher than 47% 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.

View data table

Tobacco Research AND Development Institute (PROPRIETARY) Limited patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	2	15.4%
2018	1	7.7%
2019	2	15.4%
2020	2	15.4%
2021	1	7.7%
2022	1	7.7%
2024	2	15.4%
2025partial year	2	15.4%

Which technologies does Tobacco Research AND Development Institute (PROPRIETARY) Limited patent most?

A24C - Machines FOR Making Cigars OR Cigarettes 6

A24D - CIGARS; CIGARETTES; Tobacco Smoke FILTERS; Mouthpieces FOR Cigars OR CIGARETTES; Manufacture OF Tobacco Smoke Filters OR Mouthpieces 6

B26D - CUTTING; Details Common TO Machines FOR Perforating, Punching, Cutting-out, Stamping-out OR Severing 1

Top 3 of 3 technology areas

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

View all rankings → How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

Tobacco Research AND Development Institute (PROPRIETARY) Limited's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Tobacco Research AND Development Institute (PROPRIETARY) Limited's lead technology class is A24C (Machines FOR Making Cigars OR Cigarettes), 46.2% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A24C
Ranked #21,916 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Tobacco Research AND Development Institute (PROPRIETARY) Limited against Tianjin Iconiq NEW Energy Vehicle Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 34.2/100 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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