Where does Bellwether Coffee Co. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Bellwether Coffee Co. ranks #22,264 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 Bellwether Coffee Co. hold?

Bellwether Coffee Co. holds 12 US utility patents granted between 2019 and 2025, spanning 6 technology areas.

What is Bellwether Coffee Co.'s Innovation Score?

Bellwether Coffee Co. has an Innovation Score of 40.1 out of 100 (top 36% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Bellwether Coffee Co. focus on?

Bellwether Coffee Co.'s top technology area is A23F (COFFEE; TEA; Their SUBSTITUTES; Manufacture, Preparation, OR Infusion Thereof) with 11 patents, ranking #10 of 125 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 6 CPC subclasses total.

Is Bellwether Coffee Co.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Bellwether Coffee Co.'s recent grant velocity is +900% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Bellwether Coffee Co.'s patents?

Bellwether Coffee Co.'s patents average 18.2 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 Bellwether Coffee Co. 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

Bellwether Coffee Co.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 12 granted patents across 6 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2019–2025. 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: A23F (COFFEE; TEA; Their SUBSTITUTES; Manufacture, Preparation, OR Infusion Thereof).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Bellwether ranks #22,264 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 12 patents across 6 technology areas.

#22,264
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 36%
by Innovation Score (40.1/100): 18.2
avg claims per patent: +900%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R22264 · US Corporation #22,264 · 12 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 12 grants
MID-PACK #22,264/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Bei Yu Industrial
CPC-NARROW A23F · 6 areas
INNOV-PAR 40.1/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.2 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +900% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Bei Yu Industrial Co. (±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 Bellwether’s 40.1 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 8.9 pts (22%) Velocity 11.7 pts (29%) Breadth 8.7 pts (22%) Claim depth 10.9 pts (27%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Bellwether Coffee · this assignee

40
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Bellwether's Innovation Score is 40.1/100 (top 36% 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 Bellwether?

Each dot is one of Bellwether’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). Bellwether’s own 18.2 claims/patent is ABOVE the 11.7 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Bellwether's grants concentrate

Bellwether Coffee Co. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 6 CPC subclasses with 91.7% of grants classified under A23F (COFFEE; TEA; Their SUBSTITUTES; Manufacture, Preparation, OR Infusion Thereof). Peak complete grant year is 2022 (3 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2019. By volume, Bellwether sits between Bei Yu Industrial Co. and BicDroid Inc..

Bellwether's three-year grant acceleration

Bellwether Coffee Co. shows 7 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.

Bei Yu Industrial

12
Beijing AK Medical

12
Beijing Dabeinong…

12
Bella Vaughan

12
Berkshire Biomedi…

12
Berthold & KG

12
Beta Renewables S…

12
Bicdroid

12
Bellwether Coffee ◀

12

What this shows Bellwether holds 12 patents at rank #22,291, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Bellwether

By rank, the assignees closest to #22,291 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A23F (Coffee)

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

Bellwether's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

40 Top 36% higher than 64% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2019–2025

Grants by year

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

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Bellwether Coffee Co. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2019	1	8.3%
2020	1	8.3%
2021	2	16.7%
2022	3	25.0%
2023	2	16.7%
2024	2	16.7%
2025partial year	1	8.3%

Which technologies does Bellwether Coffee Co. patent most?

A23F - COFFEE; TEA; Their SUBSTITUTES; Manufacture, Preparation, OR Infusion Thereof 11

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 11

A47J - Kitchen EQUIPMENT; Coffee MILLS; Spice MILLS; Apparatus FOR Making Beverages 3

A23V - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages AND Lactic OR Propionic Acid Bacteria Used IN Foodstuffs OR Food Preparation 3

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

B05B - Spraying APPARATUS; Atomising APPARATUS; Nozzles 1

Top 6 of 6 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

Bellwether Coffee Co.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Bellwether Coffee Co.'s lead technology class is A23F (COFFEE; TEA; Their SUBSTITUTES; Manufacture, Preparation, OR Infusion Thereof), 91.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A23F
Ranked #22,264 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Bellwether Coffee Co. against Bei Yu Industrial Co., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 40.1/100 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

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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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