Where does Colgate-Palmolive Company rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Colgate-Palmolive Company ranks #275 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 Colgate-Palmolive Company hold?

Colgate-Palmolive Company holds 1,565 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 116 technology areas.

What is Colgate-Palmolive Company's Innovation Score?

Colgate-Palmolive Company has an Innovation Score of 61.8 out of 100 (top 3% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Colgate-Palmolive Company focus on?

Colgate-Palmolive Company's top technology area is A61K (Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes) with 605 patents, ranking #17 of 7,163 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 116 CPC subclasses total.

Is Colgate-Palmolive Company's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Colgate-Palmolive Company's recent grant velocity is -12% 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 Colgate-Palmolive Company's patents?

Colgate-Palmolive Company's patents average 12.5 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 Colgate-Palmolive Company 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

Colgate-Palmolive Company

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 1,565 granted patents across 116 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: A61K (Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes).

Compiled by PlainPatent · May 15, 2026

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Colgate-palmolive ranks #275 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 1,565 patents across 116 technology areas.

#275
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 3%
by Innovation Score (61.8/100): 12.5
avg claims per patent: -12%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R275 · US Corporation #275 · 1,565 grants

GRANTS-LARGE · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-LARGE 1.6K grants
TOP-DECILE #275/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Acushnet
CPC-WIDE A61K · 116 areas
INNOV-STRONG 61.8/100
CLAIMS-RICH 12.5 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DOWN -12% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Acushnet Company (±2 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 Colgate-palmolive’s 61.8 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 25.4 pts (41%) Velocity 3.9 pts (6%) Breadth 25.0 pts (40%) Claim depth 7.5 pts (12%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Colgate-Palmolive · this assignee

62
Institut National… · near

62
Sony Mobile… · near

62
Allison Transmission · near

62
Panduit · near

62
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Colgate-palmolive's Innovation Score is 61.8/100 (top 3% 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 Colgate-palmolive?

Each dot is one of Colgate-palmolive’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). Colgate-palmolive’s own 12.5 claims/patent is at or below the 14.2 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

How Colgate-palmolive's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Colgate-Palmolive Company received 700 grants versus 791 in 2015–2019 (-12% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2019 at 206 grants and bottomed in 2015 at 99. Lead class A61K accounts for 38.7% of the portfolio across 116 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Sprint Communications Company, L.P. (#271) and Toray Industries, Inc. (#279).

Colgate-palmolive's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Colgate-Palmolive Company moved from 571 to 335 grants (0.59x 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 #2,480. See the growth leaderboard.

Sprint Communicat…

1,574
Wuhan China Star…

1,572
Meta Platforms

1,569
Acushnet

1,567
Colgate-palmolive ◀

1,565
Goodrich

1,557
Motorola Solutions

1,555
Bose

1,553
Toray Industries

1,543

What this shows Colgate-Palmolive holds 1,565 patents at rank #275, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Colgate-Palmolive

By rank, the assignees closest to #275 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A61K (Preparations FOR Medical)

Other assignees with the most granted patents in Colgate-Palmolive's primary technology class.

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Colgate-Palmolive, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A61K (Preparations FOR Medical), Colgate-Palmolive ranks #17 of 7,163 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (62 here).

Sony Mobile Communications Inc. 62 Institut National de la Sante et de la Recherche Medicale (INSERM) 62 Panduit Corp. 62 Allison Transmission, Inc. 62

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (12.5 here).

Volvo CAR Corporation 12.5 avg Federal-Mogul Burscheid GmbH 12.5 avg THE Board OF Trustees OF THE University OF Arkansas 12.5 avg Aichi Steel Corporation 12.5 avg

Colgate-palmolive's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

62 Top 3% higher than 97% 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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Colgate-Palmolive Company patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	99	6.3%
2016	164	10.5%
2017	166	10.6%
2018	156	10.0%
2019	206	13.2%
2020	202	12.9%
2021	163	10.4%
2022	132	8.4%
2023	102	6.5%
2024	101	6.5%
2025partial year	74	4.7%

Which technologies does Colgate-Palmolive Company patent most?

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 605

A61Q - Specific USE OF Cosmetics OR Similar Toiletry Preparations 595

A46B - Brushes 382

A61C - DENTISTRY; Apparatus OR Methods FOR Oral OR Dental Hygiene 233

A61P - Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations 162

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 88

A46D - Manufacture OF Brushes 69

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 66

C11D - Detergent COMPOSITIONS; USE OF Single Substances AS DETERGENTS; Soap OR SOAP-MAKING; Resin SOAPS; Recovery OF Glycerol 64

A61N - ELECTROTHERAPY; MAGNETOTHERAPY; Radiation THERAPY; Ultrasound Therapy 47

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 45

A45D - Hairdressing OR Shaving Equipment ; Equipment FOR Cosmetics OR Cosmetic Treatments, e.g. FOR Manicuring OR Pedicuring 38

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 33

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 28

B05B - Spraying APPARATUS; Atomising APPARATUS; Nozzles 23

Top 15 of 116 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

Colgate-Palmolive Company's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Colgate-Palmolive Company's lead technology class is A61K (Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes), 38.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A61K
Ranked #275 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Colgate-Palmolive Company against Sprint Communications Company, L.P., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 61.8/100 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

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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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