Where does Bunge Loders Croklaan B.v. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Bunge Loders Croklaan B.v. ranks #25,935 of 50,000 assignees by granted-patent volume, the same sort as the companies listing and top-holders ranking. See /methodology/#corpus-placement.

How many patents does Bunge Loders Croklaan B.v. hold?

Bunge Loders Croklaan B.v. holds 10 US utility patents granted between 2019 and 2025, spanning 11 technology areas.

What is Bunge Loders Croklaan B.v.'s Innovation Score?

Bunge Loders Croklaan B.v. has an Innovation Score of 47.0 out of 100 (top 20% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Bunge Loders Croklaan B.v.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Bunge Loders Croklaan B.v.'s recent grant velocity is +500% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Bunge Loders Croklaan B.v.'s patents?

Bunge Loders Croklaan B.v.'s patents average 11.6 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 Bunge Loders Croklaan B.v. 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

Bunge Loders Croklaan B.v.

Q: What technology areas does Bunge Loders Croklaan B.v. focus on?

Bunge Loders Croklaan B.v.'s top technology area is A23V (INDEXING SCHEME RELATING TO FOODS, FOODSTUFFS OR NON-ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES AND LACTIC OR PROPIONIC ACID BACTERIA USED IN FOODSTUFFS OR FOOD PREPARATION) with 8 patents. Grants appear in 11 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 10 granted patents across 11 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: A23V (INDEXING SCHEME RELATING TO FOODS, FOODSTUFFS OR NON-ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES AND LACTIC OR PROPIONIC ACID BACTERIA USED IN FOODSTUFFS OR FOOD PREPARATION).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Bunge ranks #25,935 of 50,000 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 10 patents across 11 technology areas.

#25,935
of 50,000 US assignees by volume: Top 20%
by Innovation Score (47.0/100): 11.6
avg claims per patent: +500%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R25935 · Foreign Corporation #25,935 · 10 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-PAR · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 10 grants
MID-PACK #25,935/50,000
PHOTO-FINISH Badge
CPC-FOCUS A23V · 11 areas
INNOV-PAR 47.0/100
CLAIMS-PAR 11.6 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +500% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Badge 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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Arizona Board Of Reg… · near

47
Blue Evolution · near

47
Bunge Loders Croklaa… · this assignee

47
Inrix · near

47
Kosmek · near

47
3D Lighting Innovati… · lowest

7

What this shows Bunge's Innovation Score is 47.0/100 (top 20% 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.

Where Bunge's grants concentrate

Bunge Loders Croklaan B.v. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 11 CPC subclasses with 80% of grants classified under A23V (INDEXING SCHEME RELATING TO FOODS, FOODSTUFFS OR NON-ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES AND LACTIC OR PROPIONIC ACID BACTERIA USED IN FOODSTUFFS OR FOOD PREPARATION). Peak complete grant year is 2024 (4 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2019. By volume, Bunge sits between Brugg ROHR Ag Holding and Battle Sight Technologies, Llc.

Bunge's three-year grant acceleration

Bunge Loders Croklaan B.v. shows 6 grants in 2022–2024 against only 1 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.

Brugg ROHR Holding

10
Brillio

10
BTU Research

10
Building Creative…

10
Burkert S

10
Badge

10
Baidu Internation…

10
Battle Sight

10
Bunge Loders Crok… ◀

10

What this shows Bunge holds 10 patents at rank #25,882, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Bunge

By rank, the assignees closest to #25,882 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A23V (Indexing Scheme Relating TO Foods)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Bunge, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above).

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (47 here).

Arizona Board Of Regents Acting For And On Behalf Northern Arizona University 47 Blue Evolution Inc. 47 Inrix Inc. 47 Kosmek Ltd. 47

Bunge's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

47 Top 20% higher than 80% of 50,000 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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Bunge Loders Croklaan B.v. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2019	1	10.0%
2022	2	20.0%
2024	4	40.0%
2025partial year	3	30.0%

Which technologies does Bunge Loders Croklaan B.v. patent most?

A23V - INDEXING SCHEME RELATING TO FOODS, FOODSTUFFS OR NON-ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES AND LACTIC OR PROPIONIC ACID BACTERIA USED IN FOODSTUFFS OR FOOD PREPARATION 8

A23D - EDIBLE OILS OR FATS, e.g. MARGARINES, SHORTENINGS OR COOKING OILS 8

A23G - COCOA; COCOA PRODUCTS, e.g. CHOCOLATE; SUBSTITUTES FOR COCOA OR COCOA PRODUCTS; CONFECTIONERY; CHEWING GUM; ICE-CREAM; PREPARATION THEREOF 8

A23L - FOODS, FOODSTUFFS OR NON-ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; PREPARATION OR TREATMENT THEREOF 4

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

A21D - TREATMENT OF FLOUR OR DOUGH FOR BAKING, e.g. BY ADDITION OF MATERIALS; BAKING; BAKERY PRODUCTS 3

C12P - FERMENTATION OR ENZYME-USING PROCESSES TO SYNTHESISE A DESIRED CHEMICAL COMPOUND OR COMPOSITION OR TO SEPARATE OPTICAL ISOMERS FROM A RACEMIC MIXTURE 1

C09K - MATERIALS FOR MISCELLANEOUS APPLICATIONS, NOT PROVIDED FOR ELSEWHERE 1

C12N - MICROORGANISMS OR ENZYMES; COMPOSITIONS THEREOF; PROPAGATING, PRESERVING, OR MAINTAINING MICROORGANISMS; MUTATION OR GENETIC ENGINEERING; CULTURE MEDIA 1

A23P - SHAPING OR WORKING OF FOODSTUFFS, NOT FULLY COVERED BY A SINGLE OTHER SUBCLASS 1

C11B - PRODUCING, e.g. BY PRESSING RAW MATERIALS OR BY EXTRACTION FROM WASTE MATERIALS, REFINING OR PRESERVING FATS, FATTY SUBSTANCES, e.g. LANOLIN, FATTY OILS OR WAXES; ESSENTIAL OILS; PERFUMES 1

Top 11 of 11 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#25,935

of 50,000 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

47.0 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

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

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