Where does DMK Deutsches Milchkontor GmbH rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), DMK Deutsches Milchkontor GmbH ranks #11,623 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 DMK Deutsches Milchkontor GmbH hold?

DMK Deutsches Milchkontor GmbH holds 26 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2024, spanning 21 technology areas.

What is DMK Deutsches Milchkontor GmbH's Innovation Score?

DMK Deutsches Milchkontor GmbH has an Innovation Score of 37.6 out of 100 (top 43% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is DMK Deutsches Milchkontor GmbH's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

DMK Deutsches Milchkontor GmbH's recent grant velocity is +17% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). The company is maintaining or growing its granted-patent output.

What does claim depth mean for DMK Deutsches Milchkontor GmbH's patents?

DMK Deutsches Milchkontor GmbH'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 DMK Deutsches Milchkontor GmbH 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

DMK Deutsches Milchkontor GmbH

Q: What technology areas does DMK Deutsches Milchkontor GmbH focus on?

DMK Deutsches Milchkontor GmbH's top technology area is A23C (Dairy Products, e.g. Milk, Butter OR CHEESE; Milk OR Cheese SUBSTITUTES; Making OR Treatment Thereof) with 21 patents, ranking #11 of 208 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 21 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 26 granted patents across 21 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. Primary class: A23C (Dairy Products, e.g. Milk, Butter OR CHEESE; Milk OR Cheese SUBSTITUTES; Making OR Treatment Thereof).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, DMK ranks #11,623 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 26 patents across 21 technology areas.

#11,623
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 43%
by Innovation Score (37.6/100): 12.5
avg claims per patent: +17%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R11623 · Foreign Corporation #11,623 · 26 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-UP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 26 grants
UPPER-Q #11,623/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH D Swarovski KG
CPC-FOCUS A23C · 21 areas
INNOV-THIN 37.6/100
CLAIMS-RICH 12.5 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-UP +17% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: D. Swarovski KG (±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 DMK’s 37.6 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 11.4 pts (30%) Velocity 2.6 pts (7%) Breadth 16.2 pts (43%) Claim depth 7.5 pts (20%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
DMK Deutsches… · this assignee

38
Expensify · near

38
Helmut Fischer… · near

38
ILI Technology · near

38
Siemens · near

38
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows DMK's Innovation Score is 37.6/100 (top 43% 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 DMK?

Each dot is one of DMK’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). DMK’s own 12.5 claims/patent is at or below the 13.1 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where DMK's grants concentrate

DMK Deutsches Milchkontor GmbH is a focused PatentsView assignee: 21 CPC subclasses with 80.8% of grants classified under A23C (Dairy Products, e.g. Milk, Butter OR CHEESE; Milk OR Cheese SUBSTITUTES; Making OR Treatment Thereof). Peak complete grant year is 2020 (7 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2017. By volume, DMK sits between D. Swarovski KG and DOT Incorporation.

DMK's three-year grant acceleration

DMK Deutsches Milchkontor GmbH shows 5 grants in 2022–2024 against only 13 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.

D Swarovski KG

26
D3 Innovation

26
Dell Internationa…

26
Demerx

26
DNF

26
Dominion Energy

26
Dorma Deutschland

26
DOT Incorporation

26
DMK Deutsches Mil… ◀

26

What this shows DMK holds 26 patents at rank #11,619, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near DMK

By rank, the assignees closest to #11,619 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A23C (Dairy Products)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for DMK, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A23C (Dairy Products), DMK ranks #11 of 208 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (38 here).

Helmut Fischer GMBH Institut FÜR Elektronik UND Messtechnik 38 Expensify, Inc. 38 Siemens PLC 38 ILI Technology Corp. 38

DMK's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

38 Top 43% higher than 57% 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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DMK Deutsches Milchkontor GmbH patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	2	7.7%
2016	4	15.4%
2017	1	3.8%
2018	1	3.8%
2019	4	15.4%
2020	7	26.9%
2021	2	7.7%
2022	3	11.5%
2023	1	3.8%
2024	1	3.8%

Which technologies does DMK Deutsches Milchkontor GmbH patent most?

A23C - Dairy Products, e.g. Milk, Butter OR CHEESE; Milk OR Cheese SUBSTITUTES; Making OR Treatment Thereof 21

A23V - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages AND Lactic OR Propionic Acid Bacteria Used IN Foodstuffs OR Food Preparation 8

A23B - Preservation OF Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic BEVERAGES; Chemical Ripening OF Fruit OR Vegetables 7

A23J - Protein Compositions FOR FOODSTUFFS; Working-up Proteins FOR FOODSTUFFS; Phosphatide Compositions FOR Foodstuffs 7

A23L - Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Preparation OR Treatment Thereof 5

B01D - Separation 4

C13K - Saccharides Obtained From Natural Sources OR BY Hydrolysis OF Naturally Occurring Disaccharides, Oligosaccharides OR Polysaccharides 3

C12P - Fermentation OR Enzyme-using Processes TO Synthesise A Desired Chemical Compound OR Composition OR TO Separate Optical Isomers From A Racemic Mixture 2

A21D - Treatment OF Flour OR Dough FOR Baking, e.g. BY Addition OF MATERIALS; BAKING; Bakery Products 2

A23P - Shaping OR Working OF Foodstuffs, NOT Fully Covered BY A Single Other Subclass 2

C07K - Peptides 2

C12M - Apparatus FOR Enzymology OR MICROBIOLOGY; Apparatus FOR Culturing Microorganisms FOR Producing Biomass, FOR Growing Cells OR FOR Obtaining Fermentation OR Metabolic Products, i.e. Bioreactors OR Fermenters 1

C13B - Production OF SUCROSE; Apparatus Specially Adapted Therefor 1

A01J - Manufacture OF Dairy Products 1

A23G - COCOA; Cocoa Products, e.g. CHOCOLATE; Substitutes FOR Cocoa OR Cocoa PRODUCTS; CONFECTIONERY; Chewing GUM; ICE-CREAM; Preparation Thereof 1

Top 15 of 21 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

DMK Deutsches Milchkontor GmbH's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

DMK Deutsches Milchkontor GmbH's lead technology class is A23C (Dairy Products, e.g. Milk, Butter OR CHEESE; Milk OR Cheese SUBSTITUTES; Making OR Treatment Thereof), 80.8% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A23C
Ranked #11,623 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare DMK Deutsches Milchkontor GmbH against D. Swarovski KG, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 37.6/100 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

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