Where does Vanguard Packaging, LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Vanguard Packaging, LLC ranks #9,660 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 Vanguard Packaging, LLC hold?

Vanguard Packaging, LLC holds 33 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 9 technology areas.

What is Vanguard Packaging, LLC's Innovation Score?

Vanguard Packaging, LLC has an Innovation Score of 35.5 out of 100 (top 49% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Vanguard Packaging, LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Vanguard Packaging, LLC's recent grant velocity is -18% 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 Vanguard Packaging, LLC's patents?

Vanguard Packaging, LLC's patents average 15.2 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 Vanguard Packaging, 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

Vanguard Packaging, LLC

Q: What technology areas does Vanguard Packaging, LLC focus on?

Vanguard Packaging, LLC's top technology area is A47F (Special Furniture, Fittings, OR Accessories FOR Shops, Storehouses, Bars, Restaurants OR THE LIKE; Paying Counters) with 15 patents, ranking #21 of 482 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 9 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 33 granted patents across 9 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: A47F (Special Furniture, Fittings, OR Accessories FOR Shops, Storehouses, Bars, Restaurants OR THE LIKE; Paying Counters).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Vanguard ranks #9,660 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 33 patents across 9 technology areas.

#9,660
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 49%
by Innovation Score (35.5/100): 15.2
avg claims per patent: -18%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R9660 · US Corporation #9,660 · 33 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 33 grants
UPPER-Q #9,660/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Truth Hardware
CPC-NARROW A47F · 9 areas
INNOV-THIN 35.5/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.2 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DOWN -18% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Truth Hardware Corporation (±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 Vanguard’s 35.5 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 12.2 pts (34%) Velocity 3.6 pts (10%) Breadth 10.6 pts (30%) Claim depth 9.1 pts (26%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Delta Tooling · near

36
NEW World Medical · near

36
Tangible Play · near

36
Vanguard Packaging · this assignee

36
VTV Therapeutics · near

36
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Vanguard's Innovation Score is 35.5/100 (top 49% 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 Vanguard?

Each dot is one of Vanguard’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). Vanguard’s own 15.2 claims/patent is ABOVE the 13.5 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Vanguard's grants concentrate

Vanguard Packaging, LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 9 CPC subclasses with 45.5% of grants classified under A47F (Special Furniture, Fittings, OR Accessories FOR Shops, Storehouses, Bars, Restaurants OR THE LIKE; Paying Counters). Peak complete grant year is 2020 (6 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2016. By volume, Vanguard sits between Truth Hardware Corporation and Verona Holdings Sezc.

Vanguard's three-year grant acceleration

Vanguard Packaging, LLC shows 6 grants in 2022–2024 against only 11 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.

Truth Hardware

33
University of York

33
Université Paris—…

33
Université de Nic…

33
Varidesk

33
Vecna Robotics

33
Vero Biotech

33
Verona Holdings S…

33
Vanguard Packaging ◀

33

What this shows Vanguard holds 33 patents at rank #9,658, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Vanguard

By rank, the assignees closest to #9,658 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A47F (Special Furniture)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Vanguard, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A47F (Special Furniture), Vanguard ranks #21 of 482 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (36 here).

Delta Tooling Co., Ltd. 36 NEW World Medical, Inc. 36 Tangible Play, Inc. 36 VTV Therapeutics LLC 36

Vanguard's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

36 Top 49% higher than 51% 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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Vanguard Packaging, LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	3	9.1%
2016	2	6.1%
2017	4	12.1%
2018	5	15.2%
2019	3	9.1%
2020	6	18.2%
2021	2	6.1%
2022	2	6.1%
2023	2	6.1%
2024	2	6.1%
2025partial year	2	6.1%

Which technologies does Vanguard Packaging, LLC patent most?

A47F - Special Furniture, Fittings, OR Accessories FOR Shops, Storehouses, Bars, Restaurants OR THE LIKE; Paying Counters 15

B31D - Making Articles OF Paper, Cardboard OR Material Worked IN A Manner Analogous TO Paper, NOT Provided FOR IN Subclasses B31b OR B31c 9

G09F - DISPLAYING; ADVERTISING; SIGNS; Labels OR NAME-PLATES; Seals 9

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 9

A47B - TABLES; DESKS; Office FURNITURE; CABINETS; DRAWERS; General Details OF Furniture 7

B31B - Making Containers OF Paper, Cardboard OR Material Worked IN A Manner Analogous TO Paper 7

B65H - Handling Thin OR Filamentary Material, e.g. Sheets, Webs, Cables 4

B31F - Mechanical Working OR Deformation OF Paper, Cardboard OR Material Worked IN A Manner Analogous TO Paper 3

F16M - Frames, Casings OR Beds OF Engines, Machines OR Apparatus, NOT Specific TO Engines, Machines OR Apparatus Provided FOR ELSEWHERE; STANDS; Supports 2

Top 9 of 9 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

Vanguard Packaging, LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Vanguard Packaging, LLC's lead technology class is A47F (Special Furniture, Fittings, OR Accessories FOR Shops, Storehouses, Bars, Restaurants OR THE LIKE; Paying Counters), 45.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A47F
Ranked #9,660 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Vanguard Packaging, LLC against Truth Hardware Corporation, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 35.5/100 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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