Where does Arla Foods Amba rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Arla Foods Amba ranks #11,923 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 Arla Foods Amba hold?

Arla Foods Amba holds 25 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 15 technology areas.

What is Arla Foods Amba's Innovation Score?

Arla Foods Amba has an Innovation Score of 44.6 out of 100 (top 25% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Arla Foods Amba focus on?

Arla Foods Amba's top technology area is A23C (Dairy Products, e.g. Milk, Butter OR CHEESE; Milk OR Cheese SUBSTITUTES; Making OR Treatment Thereof) with 17 patents, ranking #17 of 208 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 15 CPC subclasses total.

Is Arla Foods Amba's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Arla Foods Amba's recent grant velocity is +150% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Arla Foods Amba's patents?

Arla Foods Amba's patents average 18.4 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 Arla Foods Amba 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

Arla Foods Amba

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 25 granted patents across 15 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: A23C (Dairy Products, e.g. Milk, Butter OR CHEESE; Milk OR Cheese SUBSTITUTES; Making OR Treatment Thereof).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Arla ranks #11,923 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 25 patents across 15 technology areas.

#11,923
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 25%
by Innovation Score (44.6/100): 18.4
avg claims per patent: +150%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R11923 · Foreign Corporation #11,923 · 25 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 25 grants
UPPER-Q #11,923/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Altek
CPC-FOCUS A23C · 15 areas
INNOV-PAR 44.6/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.4 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +150% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Altek 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 Arla’s 44.6 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 11.3 pts (25%) Velocity 8.6 pts (19%) Breadth 13.7 pts (31%) Claim depth 11.0 pts (25%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Arla Foods Amba · this assignee

45
Bone Foam · near

45
Invent ly · near

45
KEY Safety Systems · near

45
Lutronic Vision · near

45
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Arla's Innovation Score is 44.6/100 (top 25% 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 Arla?

Each dot is one of Arla’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). Arla’s own 18.4 claims/patent is ABOVE the 11.8 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Arla's grants concentrate

Arla Foods Amba is a focused PatentsView assignee: 15 CPC subclasses with 68% of grants classified under A23C (Dairy Products, e.g. Milk, Butter OR CHEESE; Milk OR Cheese SUBSTITUTES; Making OR Treatment Thereof). Peak complete grant year is 2020 (6 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2019. By volume, Arla sits between Altek Corporation and Autifony Therapeutics Limited.

Arla's three-year grant acceleration

Arla Foods Amba shows 9 grants in 2022–2024 against only 7 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.

Altek

25
Anellotech

25
Anhui Inno-sign I…

25
Ariosa Diagnostics

25
Aspen Surgical Pr…

25
Attopsemi Technol…

25
Aurobindo Pharma

25
Autifony Therapeu…

25
Arla Foods Amba ◀

25

What this shows Arla holds 25 patents at rank #11,927, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Arla

By rank, the assignees closest to #11,927 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A23C (Dairy Products)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Arla, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A23C (Dairy Products), Arla ranks #17 of 208 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (45 here).

Bone Foam, Inc. 45 Lutronic Vision Inc. 45 Invent.ly LLC 45 KEY Safety Systems, Inc. 45

Arla's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

45 Top 25% higher than 75% of 49,997 US assignees

Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more US assignees. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.

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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Arla Foods Amba patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	3	12.0%
2018	2	8.0%
2019	1	4.0%
2020	6	24.0%
2022	4	16.0%
2023	1	4.0%
2024	4	16.0%
2025partial year	4	16.0%

Which technologies does Arla Foods Amba patent most?

A23C - Dairy Products, e.g. Milk, Butter OR CHEESE; Milk OR Cheese SUBSTITUTES; Making OR Treatment Thereof 17

A23V - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages AND Lactic OR Propionic Acid Bacteria Used IN Foodstuffs OR Food Preparation 12

A23L - Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Preparation OR Treatment Thereof 11

A23J - Protein Compositions FOR FOODSTUFFS; Working-up Proteins FOR FOODSTUFFS; Phosphatide Compositions FOR Foodstuffs 11

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 5

A23B - Preservation OF Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic BEVERAGES; Chemical Ripening OF Fruit OR Vegetables 4

A61P - Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations 4

C07K - Peptides 4

Y02A - Technologies FOR Adaptation TO Climate Change 2

B65B - Machines, Apparatus OR Devices FOR, OR Methods OF, Packaging Articles OR MATERIALS; Unpacking 1

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 1

C12M - Apparatus FOR Enzymology OR MICROBIOLOGY; Apparatus FOR Culturing Microorganisms FOR Producing Biomass, FOR Growing Cells OR FOR Obtaining Fermentation OR Metabolic Products, i.e. Bioreactors OR Fermenters 1

B01D - Separation 1

A23K - Fodder 1

A23P - Shaping OR Working OF Foodstuffs, NOT Fully Covered BY A Single Other Subclass 1

Top 15 of 15 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

Arla Foods Amba's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Arla Foods Amba's lead technology class is A23C (Dairy Products, e.g. Milk, Butter OR CHEESE; Milk OR Cheese SUBSTITUTES; Making OR Treatment Thereof), 68% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A23C
Ranked #11,923 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Arla Foods Amba against Altek Corporation, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 44.6/100 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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