Where does Costa Express Limited rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Costa Express Limited ranks #22,421 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 Costa Express Limited hold?

Costa Express Limited holds 12 US utility patents granted between 2020 and 2025, spanning 5 technology areas.

What is Costa Express Limited's Innovation Score?

Costa Express Limited has an Innovation Score of 40.6 out of 100 (top 35% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Costa Express Limited focus on?

Costa Express Limited's top technology area is A47J (Kitchen EQUIPMENT; Coffee MILLS; Spice MILLS; Apparatus FOR Making Beverages) with 2 patents, ranking #397 of 793 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 5 CPC subclasses total.

Is Costa Express Limited's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Insufficient historical data is available to calculate a velocity trend for Costa Express Limited.

What does claim depth mean for Costa Express Limited's patents?

Costa Express Limited's patents average 6.3 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 Costa Express Limited 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

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 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 12 patents across 5 technology areas.

#22,421
of 49,997 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 #22,421/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Copeland Creative…
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.

How Costa’s 40.6 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 8.9 pts (22%) Velocity 20.0 pts (49%) Breadth 7.9 pts (19%) Claim depth 3.8 pts (9%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Costa Express · this assignee

41
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

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.

Does more volume mean deeper claims for Costa?

Each dot is one of Costa’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). Costa’s own 6.3 claims/patent is at or below the 14.5 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

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..

Costa's three-year grant acceleration

Costa Express Limited shows 8 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.

Copeland Creative…

12
Cormetrics

12
Cortec L L C

12
Coskata

12
Crage Medical

12
Cree Lighting USA

12
Crown Bioscience…

12
Crystal Internati…

12
Costa Express ◀

12

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.

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 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

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?

A47J - Kitchen EQUIPMENT; Coffee MILLS; Spice MILLS; Apparatus FOR Making Beverages 2

C02F - Treatment OF Water, Waste Water, Sewage, OR Sludge 1

G07F - Coin-freed OR Like Apparatus 1

G06Q - Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory Purposes, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1

F25C - Producing, Working OR Handling ICE 1

Top 5 of 5 technology areas

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

View all rankings → How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

Costa Express Limited's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Costa Express Limited's lead technology class is A47J (Kitchen EQUIPMENT; Coffee MILLS; Spice MILLS; Apparatus FOR Making Beverages), 16.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A47J
Ranked #22,421 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Costa Express Limited against Copeland Creative Designs, LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 40.6/100 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

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.