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Costa Express Limited

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 12 granted patents across 5 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2020–2025. 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: A47J (KITCHEN EQUIPMENT; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; APPARATUS FOR MAKING BEVERAGES).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Costa ranks #22,421 of 50,000 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 12 patents across 5 technology areas.

#22,421
of 50,000 US assignees by volume
Top 35%
by Innovation Score (40.6/100)
6.3
avg claims per patent

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R22421 · Foreign Corporation #22,421 · 12 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-SPARSE · TYPE-FRNCORP · SPAN-YRS · BOOK-RICH

  • GRANTS-MICRO 12 grants
  • MID-PACK #22,421/50,000
  • PHOTO-FINISH COPELAND CREATIVE DE…
  • CPC-NARROW A47J · 5 areas
  • INNOV-PAR 40.6/100
  • CLAIMS-SPARSE 6.3 claims/avg
  • TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
  • SPAN-YRS 2020–2025 · 6y
  • BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Copeland Creative Designs, Llc (±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.

Innovation-score neighbourhood around Costa

Lowest and highest poles plus nearest Innovation Score peers, not a full corpus board reprint.

score

What this shows Costa's Innovation Score is 40.6/100 (top 35% 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.

Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score As of 2015–2025

Where Costa's grants concentrate

Costa Express Limited is a focused PatentsView assignee: 5 CPC subclasses with 16.7% of grants classified under A47J (KITCHEN EQUIPMENT; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; APPARATUS FOR MAKING BEVERAGES). Peak complete grant year is 2024 (5 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2020. By volume, Costa sits between Copeland Creative Designs, Llc and Crystal International (group), Inc..

Who files at Costa's volume?

Granted US patents 2015–2025 versus its nearest-ranked assignees by volume, this company marked ◀

patents

What this shows Costa holds 12 patents at rank #22,374, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Source USPTO PatentsView, granted utility patents As of 2015–2025

Companies ranked near Costa

By rank, the assignees closest to #22,374 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A47J (Kitchen Equipment)

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

Costa's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

41 Top 35% higher than 65% of 50,000 US assignees

0–10: 687 US assignees (1%). Below this entry. 10–20: 2,527 US assignees (5%). Below this entry. 20–30: 13,162 US assignees (26%). Below this entry. 30–40: 15,294 US assignees (31%). Below this entry. 40–50: 11,491 US assignees (23%). This entry sits in this band. 50–60: 5,058 US assignees (10%). Above this entry. 60–70: 1,537 US assignees (3%). Above this entry. 70–80: 234 US assignees (0%). Above this entry. 80–90: 10 US assignees (0%). Above this entry. 90–100: 0 US assignees (0%). Above this entry. This assignee 0 100 every tracked assignee, bucketed by value

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

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USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2020–2025

Grants by year

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

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Costa Express Limited patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year Patents Granted Share of Period
2020 1 8.3%
2022 2 16.7%
2023 1 8.3%
2024 5 41.7%
2025partial year 3 25.0%

Which technologies does Costa Express Limited patent most?

Top 5 of 5 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#22,421

of 50,000 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

40.6 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

Every figure on PlainPatent is rendered directly from USPTO source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on USPTO source data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 2026.