Where does Doskocil Manufacturing Company, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Doskocil Manufacturing Company, Inc. ranks #1,976 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 Doskocil Manufacturing Company, Inc. hold?

Doskocil Manufacturing Company, Inc. holds 203 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 32 technology areas.

What is Doskocil Manufacturing Company, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Doskocil Manufacturing Company, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 44.5 out of 100 (top 25% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Doskocil Manufacturing Company, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Doskocil Manufacturing Company, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -39% 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 Doskocil Manufacturing Company, Inc.'s patents?

Doskocil Manufacturing Company, Inc.'s patents average 5.5 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 Doskocil Manufacturing Company, 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

Doskocil Manufacturing Company, Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Doskocil Manufacturing Company, Inc. focus on?

Doskocil Manufacturing Company, Inc.'s top technology area is A01K (Animal HUSBANDRY; AVICULTURE; APICULTURE; PISCICULTURE; FISHING; Rearing OR Breeding Animals, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; NEW Breeds OF Animals) with 71 patents. Grants appear in 32 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 203 granted patents across 32 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: A01K (Animal HUSBANDRY; AVICULTURE; APICULTURE; PISCICULTURE; FISHING; Rearing OR Breeding Animals, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; NEW Breeds OF Animals).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Doskocil ranks #1,976 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 203 patents across 32 technology areas.

#1,976
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 25%
by Innovation Score (44.5/100): 5.5
avg claims per patent: -39%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1976 · US Corporation #1,976 · 203 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-SPARSE · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 203 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,976/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Albert Einstein…
CPC-FOCUS A01K · 32 areas
INNOV-PAR 44.5/100
CLAIMS-SPARSE 5.5 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DOWN -39% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Albert Einstein College of Medicine (±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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Diveplane · near

44
Doskocil Manufacturing · this assignee

44
Santa Clara University · near

44
Santen Pharmaceutical · near

44
Teva Pharmaceutical… · near

44
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Doskocil's Innovation Score is 44.5/100 (top 25% 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.

Where Doskocil's grants concentrate

Doskocil Manufacturing Company, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 32 CPC subclasses with 35% of grants classified under A01K (Animal HUSBANDRY; AVICULTURE; APICULTURE; PISCICULTURE; FISHING; Rearing OR Breeding Animals, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; NEW Breeds OF Animals). Peak complete grant year is 2017 (35 grants) versus a trough of 7 in 2024. By volume, Doskocil sits between The Noco Company and BP Corporation North America Inc..

Doskocil's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Doskocil Manufacturing Company, Inc. moved from 72 to 30 grants (0.42x 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 #2,848. See the growth leaderboard.

The Noco

204
Watlow Electric M…

204
Albert Einstein C…

203
Carbon

203
Tridonic & KG

203
University of Not…

203
Virginia Commonwe…

203
Doskocil Manufact… ◀

203
BP North America

202

What this shows Doskocil holds 203 patents at rank #1,976, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Doskocil

By rank, the assignees closest to #1,976 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A01K (Animal Husbandry)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Doskocil, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above).

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (44 here).

Santen Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. 44 Teva Pharmaceutical Industries, Ltd. 44 Diveplane Corporation 44 Santa Clara University 44

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (5.5 here).

LF Centennial Ltd. 5.5 avg Beijing Roborock Technology Co., Ltd. 5.5 avg Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Machine Tool Co., Ltd. 5.5 avg Hitachi Construction Machinery Co., Ltd. 5.6 avg

Doskocil's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

44 Top 25% higher than 75% 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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Doskocil Manufacturing Company, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	11	5.4%
2016	13	6.4%
2017	35	17.2%
2018	32	15.8%
2019	29	14.3%
2020	25	12.3%
2021	18	8.9%
2022	12	5.9%
2023	11	5.4%
2024	7	3.4%
2025partial year	10	4.9%

Which technologies does Doskocil Manufacturing Company, Inc. patent most?

A01K - Animal HUSBANDRY; AVICULTURE; APICULTURE; PISCICULTURE; FISHING; Rearing OR Breeding Animals, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; NEW Breeds OF Animals 71

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 5

E06B - Fixed OR Movable Closures FOR Openings IN Buildings, Vehicles, Fences OR Like Enclosures IN General, e.g. Doors, Windows, Blinds, Gates 5

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 5

B65H - Handling Thin OR Filamentary Material, e.g. Sheets, Webs, Cables 4

B29K - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses B29b, B29c OR B29d, Relating TO Moulding Materials OR TO Materials FOR ; Moulds, ; Reinforcements, Fillers OR Preformed Parts, e.g. Inserts 3

A63H - Toys, e.g. Tops, Dolls, Hoops OR Building Blocks 3

E05Y - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses E05d AND E05f, Relating TO Construction Elements, Electric Control, Power Supply, Power Signal OR Transmission, User Interfaces, Mounting OR Coupling, Details, Accessories, Auxiliary Operations NOT Otherwise Provided FOR, Application Thereof 3

E05D - Hinges OR Suspension Devices FOR Doors, Windows OR Wings 3

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 2

B60P - Vehicles Adapted FOR Load Transportation OR TO Transport, TO Carry, OR TO Comprise Special Loads OR Objects 2

F16B - Devices FOR Fastening OR Securing Constructional Elements OR Machine Parts Together, e.g. Nails, Bolts, Circlips, Clamps, Clips OR WEDGES; Joints OR Jointing 2

E05C - Bolts OR Fastening Devices FOR Wings, Specially FOR Doors OR Windows 2

F16C - SHAFTS; Flexible SHAFTS; Elements OR Crankshaft MECHANISMS; Rotary Bodies Other Than Gearing ELEMENTS; Bearings 2

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 2

Top 15 of 32 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#1,976

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

44.5 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

Doskocil Manufacturing Company, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Doskocil Manufacturing Company, Inc.'s lead technology class is A01K (Animal HUSBANDRY; AVICULTURE; APICULTURE; PISCICULTURE; FISHING; Rearing OR Breeding Animals, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; NEW Breeds OF Animals), 35% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A01K
Ranked #1,976 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Doskocil Manufacturing Company, Inc. against The Noco Company, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 44.5/100 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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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

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