Where does Afimilk Agricultural Cooperative Ltd. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Afimilk Agricultural Cooperative Ltd. ranks #28,003 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 Afimilk Agricultural Cooperative Ltd. hold?

Afimilk Agricultural Cooperative Ltd. holds 9 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2024, spanning 8 technology areas.

What is Afimilk Agricultural Cooperative Ltd.'s Innovation Score?

Afimilk Agricultural Cooperative Ltd. has an Innovation Score of 32.1 out of 100 (40th 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 Afimilk Agricultural Cooperative Ltd. focus on?

Afimilk Agricultural Cooperative Ltd.'s top technology area is A01J (Manufacture OF Dairy Products) with 8 patents, ranking #9 of 41 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 8 CPC subclasses total.

Is Afimilk Agricultural Cooperative Ltd.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Afimilk Agricultural Cooperative Ltd.'s recent grant velocity is +250% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Afimilk Agricultural Cooperative Ltd.'s patents?

Afimilk Agricultural Cooperative Ltd.'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 Afimilk Agricultural Cooperative Ltd. 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 Foreign Corporation

Afimilk Agricultural Cooperative Ltd.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 9 granted patents across 8 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2024. 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: A01J (Manufacture OF Dairy Products).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Afimilk ranks #28,003 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 9 patents across 8 technology areas.

#28,003
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 40th percentile
by Innovation Score (32.1/100): 15.2
avg claims per patent: +250%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R28003 · Foreign Corporation #28,003 · 9 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 9 grants
MID-PACK #28,003/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Adventist Health…
CPC-NARROW A01J · 8 areas
INNOV-THIN 32.1/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.2 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +250% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Adventist Health SYSTEM/SUNBELT, 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 Afimilk’s 32.1 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 (25%) Velocity 5.0 pts (16%) Breadth 10.0 pts (31%) Claim depth 9.1 pts (28%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Afimilk Agricultural… · this assignee

32
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Afimilk's Innovation Score is 32.1/100 (40th 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 Afimilk?

Each dot is one of Afimilk’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). Afimilk’s own 15.2 claims/patent is ABOVE the 11.4 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Afimilk's grants concentrate

Afimilk Agricultural Cooperative Ltd. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 8 CPC subclasses with 88.9% of grants classified under A01J (Manufacture OF Dairy Products). Peak complete grant year is 2021 (3 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2016. By volume, Afimilk sits between Adventist Health SYSTEM/SUNBELT, Inc. and Agence Nationale Pour LA Gestion DES DÉCHETS Radioactifs.

Afimilk's three-year grant acceleration

Afimilk Agricultural Cooperative Ltd. shows 3 grants in 2022–2024 against only 4 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.

Adventist Health…

9
Aegis Flow L L C

9
Aegis Sortation

9
Affl Associates

9
AFS Newco

9
AFT Pharmaceutica…

9
Afyren

9
Agence Nationale…

9
Afimilk Agricultu… ◀

9

What this shows Afimilk holds 9 patents at rank #27,985, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Afimilk

By rank, the assignees closest to #27,985 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A01J (Manufacture OF Dairy Products)

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

Afimilk's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

32 40th percentile higher than 40% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2024

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2016–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Afimilk Agricultural Cooperative Ltd. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	1	11.1%
2018	1	11.1%
2020	1	11.1%
2021	3	33.3%
2022	2	22.2%
2024	1	11.1%

Which technologies does Afimilk Agricultural Cooperative Ltd. patent most?

A01J - Manufacture OF Dairy Products 8

A01K - Animal HUSBANDRY; AVICULTURE; APICULTURE; PISCICULTURE; FISHING; Rearing OR Breeding Animals, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; NEW Breeds OF Animals 7

Y10S - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former Uspc Cross-reference ART Collections [XRACs] AND Digests 4

B25J - MANIPULATORS; Chambers Provided With Manipulation Devices 4

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 3

A61D - Veterinary Instruments, Implements, Tools, OR Methods 3

G01K - Measuring TEMPERATURE; Measuring Quantity OF HEAT; Thermally-sensitive Elements NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 1

Top 8 of 8 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

Afimilk Agricultural Cooperative Ltd.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Afimilk Agricultural Cooperative Ltd.'s lead technology class is A01J (Manufacture OF Dairy Products), 88.9% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A01J
Ranked #28,003 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Afimilk Agricultural Cooperative Ltd. against Adventist Health SYSTEM/SUNBELT, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 32.1/100 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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