Where does Brita LP rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Brita LP ranks #2,655 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 Brita LP hold?

Brita LP holds 146 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 15 technology areas.

What is Brita LP's Innovation Score?

Brita LP has an Innovation Score of 38.6 out of 100 (top 40% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Brita LP focus on?

Brita LP's top technology area is C02F (Treatment OF Water, Waste Water, Sewage, OR Sludge) with 33 patents, ranking #21 of 1,366 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 15 CPC subclasses total.

Is Brita LP's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Brita LP's recent grant velocity is -57% 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 Brita LP's patents?

Brita LP's patents average 6.4 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 Brita LP 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

Brita LP

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 146 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: C02F (Treatment OF Water, Waste Water, Sewage, OR Sludge).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Brita ranks #2,655 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 146 patents across 15 technology areas.

#2,655
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 40%
by Innovation Score (38.6/100): 6.4
avg claims per patent: -57%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2655 · Foreign Corporation #2,655 · 146 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-SPARSE · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 146 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,655/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Akzo Nobel Chemicals…
CPC-FOCUS C02F · 15 areas
INNOV-THIN 38.6/100
CLAIMS-SPARSE 6.4 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -57% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Akzo Nobel Chemicals International B.V (±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 Brita’s 38.6 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 17.2 pts (45%) Velocity 3.9 pts (10%) Breadth 13.7 pts (35%) Claim depth 3.8 pts (10%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Brita · this assignee

39
Excel Industries · near

39
Mcwane · near

39
Nuvotronics · near

39
Universal Robots A/S · near

39
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Brita's Innovation Score is 38.6/100 (top 40% 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 Brita?

Each dot is one of Brita’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). Brita’s own 6.4 claims/patent is at or below the 13.6 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Brita's grants concentrate

Brita LP is a focused PatentsView assignee: 15 CPC subclasses with 22.6% of grants classified under C02F (Treatment OF Water, Waste Water, Sewage, OR Sludge). Peak complete grant year is 2018 (24 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2023. By volume, Brita sits between Apollo Intelligent Driving Technology (BEIJING) Co., Ltd. and IPG Photonics Corporation.

Brita's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Brita LP moved from 38 to 22 grants (0.58x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). Among 3,296 tracked assignees with ≥100 grants and ≥20 prior-period grants, that multiple ranks #2,498. See the growth leaderboard.

Apollo Intelligen…

146
Assa Abloy Americ…

146
Akzo Nobel Chemic…

146
Alexion Pharmaceu…

146
Dorco

146
FMC

146
Herman Miller

146
IPG Photonics

146
Brita ◀

146

What this shows Brita holds 146 patents at rank #2,655, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Brita

By rank, the assignees closest to #2,655 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C02F (Treatment OF Water)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Brita, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In C02F (Treatment OF Water), Brita ranks #21 of 1,366 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (39 here).

Nuvotronics, Inc 39 Mcwane, Inc. 39 Excel Industries, Inc. 39 Universal Robots A/S 39

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (6.4 here).

Mitsui Kinzoku ACT Corporation 6.4 avg Keter Plastic Ltd. 6.4 avg Polyplastics Co., Ltd. 6.4 avg Tumi, Inc. 6.4 avg

Brita's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

39 Top 40% higher than 60% 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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Brita LP patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	21	14.4%
2016	9	6.2%
2017	23	15.8%
2018	24	16.4%
2019	19	13.0%
2020	13	8.9%
2021	6	4.1%
2022	6	4.1%
2023	2	1.4%
2024	14	9.6%
2025partial year	9	6.2%

Which technologies does Brita LP patent most?

C02F - Treatment OF Water, Waste Water, Sewage, OR Sludge 33

B01D - Separation 33

A47G - Household OR Table Equipment 7

A47J - Kitchen EQUIPMENT; Coffee MILLS; Spice MILLS; Apparatus FOR Making Beverages 6

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 6

B67D - Dispensing, Delivering OR Transferring Liquids, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 5

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 2

G05D - Systems FOR Controlling OR Regulating Non-electric Variables 1

F16K - VALVES; TAPS; COCKS; ACTUATING-FLOATS; Devices FOR Venting OR Aerating 1

A45F - Travelling OR Camp EQUIPMENT: Sacks OR Packs Carried ON THE Body 1

G07C - Time OR Attendance REGISTERS; Registering OR Indicating THE Working OF MACHINES; Generating Random NUMBERS; Voting OR Lottery APPARATUS; Arrangements, Systems OR Apparatus FOR Checking NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere 1

G01R - Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables 1

G01F - Measuring Volume, Volume Flow, Mass Flow OR Liquid LEVEL; Metering BY Volume 1

B01J - Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus 1

B29C - Shaping OR Joining OF PLASTICS; Shaping OF Material IN A Plastic State, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; After-treatment OF THE Shaped Products, e.g. Repairing 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

Brita LP's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Brita LP's lead technology class is C02F (Treatment OF Water, Waste Water, Sewage, OR Sludge), 22.6% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C02F
Ranked #2,655 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Brita LP against Apollo Intelligent Driving Technology (BEIJING) Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 38.6/100 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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