Where does Diageo North America, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Diageo North America, Inc. ranks #15,955 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 Diageo North America, Inc. hold?

Diageo North America, Inc. holds 18 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2024, spanning 0 technology areas.

What is Diageo North America, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Diageo North America, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 30.8 out of 100 (35th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Diageo North America, Inc. focus on?

Diageo North America, Inc. holds grants across 0 technology areas classified under the Cooperative Patent Classification system.

Is Diageo North America, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Diageo North America, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -50% 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 Diageo North America, Inc.'s patents?

Diageo North America, Inc.'s patents average 1.0 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 Diageo North America, Inc. 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

Diageo North America, Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 18 granted patents across 0 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2024. Grant-trend analysis is cross-referenced to USPTO Patent Public Search; it does not measure application filings, current R&D, or legal strength.

Compiled by PlainPatent · May 15, 2026

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Diageo ranks #15,955 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 18 patents across 0 technology areas.

#15,955
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 35th percentile
by Innovation Score (30.8/100): 1.0
avg claims per patent: -50%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R15955 · US Corporation #15,955 · 18 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-UNK · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-SPARSE · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-RICH

GRANTS-MICRO 18 grants
MID-PACK #15,955/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH DeguDent
CPC-UNK CPC blank
INNOV-THIN 30.8/100
CLAIMS-SPARSE 1.0 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -50% vel
BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: DeguDent GmbH (±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 Diageo’s 30.8 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 10.2 pts (33%) Velocity 20.0 pts (65%) Breadth 0.0 pts (0%) Claim depth 0.6 pts (2%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Diageo North America · this assignee

31
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Diageo's Innovation Score is 30.8/100 (35th percentile 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 Diageo?

Each dot is one of Diageo’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). Diageo’s own 1.0 claims/patent is at or below the 17.7 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Diageo's grants concentrate

Diageo North America, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 0 CPC subclasses . Peak complete grant year is 2017 (4 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2021. By volume, Diageo sits between DeguDent GmbH and Domtar Paper Company, LLC.

Diageo's three-year grant acceleration

Diageo North America, Inc. shows 5 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.

Degudent

18
Delta-q

18
Designer Ties

18
Deuterx

18
Direct Supply

18
Distance Oy

18
Dixie Consumer Pr…

18
Domtar Paper

18
Diageo North Amer… ◀

18

What this shows Diageo holds 18 patents at rank #15,960, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Diageo

By rank, the assignees closest to #15,960 in granted patent volume.

Diageo's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

31 35th percentile higher than 35% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2024

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2015–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Diageo North America, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	3	16.7%
2016	3	16.7%
2017	4	22.2%
2018	2	11.1%
2021	1	5.6%
2022	1	5.6%
2024	4	22.2%

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

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What to do with this data

Diageo North America, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Ranked #15,955 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Diageo North America, Inc. against DeguDent GmbH, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 30.8/100 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

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.