Where does Apeel Technology, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Apeel Technology, Inc. ranks #8,158 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 Apeel Technology, Inc. hold?

Apeel Technology, Inc. holds 39 US utility patents granted between 2017 and 2025, spanning 33 technology areas.

What is Apeel Technology, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Apeel Technology, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 54.8 out of 100 (top 7% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Apeel Technology, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Apeel Technology, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +225% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Apeel Technology, Inc.'s patents?

Apeel Technology, Inc.'s patents average 23.6 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 Apeel Technology, Inc. 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

Apeel Technology, Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Apeel Technology, Inc. focus on?

Apeel Technology, Inc.'s top technology area is A23B (Preservation OF Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic BEVERAGES; Chemical Ripening OF Fruit OR Vegetables) with 29 patents, ranking #2 of 403 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 33 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 39 granted patents across 33 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: A23B (Preservation OF Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic BEVERAGES; Chemical Ripening OF Fruit OR Vegetables).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Apeel ranks #8,158 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 39 patents across 33 technology areas.

#8,158
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 7%
by Innovation Score (54.8/100): 23.6
avg claims per patent: +225%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R8158 · US Corporation #8,158 · 39 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 39 grants
UPPER-Q #8,158/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Air Liquide…
CPC-FOCUS A23B · 33 areas
INNOV-PAR 54.8/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 23.6 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +225% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Air Liquide Advanced Technologies U.S. LLC (±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 Apeel’s 54.8 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 12.7 pts (23%) Velocity 7.6 pts (14%) Breadth 20.3 pts (37%) Claim depth 14.2 pts (26%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Thule Sweden AB · near

55
Apeel Technology · this assignee

55
Forschungszentrum… · near

55
Lake Region… · near

55
Super ATV · near

55
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Apeel's Innovation Score is 54.8/100 (top 7% 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 Apeel?

Each dot is one of Apeel’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). Apeel’s own 23.6 claims/patent is ABOVE the 16.4 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Apeel's grants concentrate

Apeel Technology, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 33 CPC subclasses with 74.4% of grants classified under A23B (Preservation OF Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic BEVERAGES; Chemical Ripening OF Fruit OR Vegetables). Peak complete grant year is 2023 (8 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2017. By volume, Apeel sits between AYR Ltd. and Axogen Corporation.

Apeel's three-year grant acceleration

Apeel Technology, Inc. shows 16 grants in 2022–2024 against only 14 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.

AYR

39
Air Liquide Advan…

39
Aldeyra Therapeut…

39
American Science…

39
Apollo Tyres Glob…

39
Arisaka

39
Avicenatech

39
Axogen

39
Apeel Technology ◀

39

What this shows Apeel holds 39 patents at rank #8,162, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Apeel

By rank, the assignees closest to #8,162 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A23B (Preservation OF Foods)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Apeel, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A23B (Preservation OF Foods), Apeel ranks #2 of 403 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (55 here).

Lake Region Manufacturing, Inc. 55 Super ATV, LLC 55 Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH 55 Thule Sweden AB 55

Apeel's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

55 Top 7% higher than 93% 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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Apeel Technology, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2017	2	5.1%
2018	2	5.1%
2019	4	10.3%
2020	4	10.3%
2021	6	15.4%
2022	6	15.4%
2023	8	20.5%
2024	2	5.1%
2025partial year	5	12.8%

Which technologies does Apeel Technology, Inc. patent most?

A23B - Preservation OF Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic BEVERAGES; Chemical Ripening OF Fruit OR Vegetables 29

A23V - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages AND Lactic OR Propionic Acid Bacteria Used IN Foodstuffs OR Food Preparation 23

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 14

B01D - Separation 10

A01N - Preservation OF Bodies OF Humans OR Animals OR Plants OR Parts Thereof ; Biocides, e.g. AS Disinfectants, AS Pesticides OR AS Herbicides ; Pest Repellants OR ATTRACTANTS; Plant Growth Regulators 10

C08J - WORKING-UP; General Processes OF COMPOUNDING; After-treatment NOT Covered BY Subclasses C08b, C08c, C08f, C08g or C08h 9

C07C - Acyclic OR Carbocyclic Compounds 9

A23P - Shaping OR Working OF Foodstuffs, NOT Fully Covered BY A Single Other Subclass 9

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 7

C07D - Heterocyclic Compounds 6

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 6

A23N - Machines OR Apparatus FOR Treating Harvested Fruit, Vegetables OR Flower Bulbs IN Bulk, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Peeling Vegetables OR Fruit IN BULK; Apparatus FOR Preparing Animal Feeding- Stuffs 6

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

B05B - Spraying APPARATUS; Atomising APPARATUS; Nozzles 5

C11C - Fatty Acids From Fats, Oils OR WAXES; CANDLES; Fats, Oils OR Fatty Acids BY Chemical Modification OF Fats, Oils, OR Fatty Acids Obtained Therefrom 4

Top 15 of 33 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

Apeel Technology, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Apeel Technology, Inc.'s lead technology class is A23B (Preservation OF Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic BEVERAGES; Chemical Ripening OF Fruit OR Vegetables), 74.4% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A23B
Ranked #8,158 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Apeel Technology, Inc. against AYR Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 54.8/100 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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