Where does EPC Natural Products Co., Ltd. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), EPC Natural Products Co., Ltd. ranks #15,995 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 EPC Natural Products Co., Ltd. hold?

EPC Natural Products Co., Ltd. holds 18 US utility patents granted between 2019 and 2024, spanning 7 technology areas.

What is EPC Natural Products Co., Ltd.'s Innovation Score?

EPC Natural Products Co., Ltd. has an Innovation Score of 49.4 out of 100 (top 15% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is EPC Natural Products Co., Ltd.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

EPC Natural Products Co., Ltd.'s recent grant velocity is +700% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for EPC Natural Products Co., Ltd.'s patents?

EPC Natural Products Co., Ltd.'s patents average 20.9 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 EPC Natural Products Co., Ltd. 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

EPC Natural Products Co., Ltd.

Q: What technology areas does EPC Natural Products Co., Ltd. focus on?

EPC Natural Products Co., Ltd.'s top technology area is A23L (Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Preparation OR Treatment Thereof) with 18 patents, ranking #76 of 1,325 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 7 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 18 granted patents across 7 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2019–2024. 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: A23L (Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Preparation OR Treatment Thereof).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, EPC ranks #15,995 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 18 patents across 7 technology areas.

#15,995
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 15%
by Innovation Score (49.4/100): 20.9
avg claims per patent: +700%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R15995 · Foreign Corporation #15,995 · 18 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 18 grants
MID-PACK #15,995/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Enensys
CPC-NARROW A23L · 7 areas
INNOV-PAR 49.4/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 20.9 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +700% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Enensys Technologies (±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 EPC’s 49.4 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 (21%) Velocity 17.3 pts (35%) Breadth 9.4 pts (19%) Claim depth 12.6 pts (25%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
EPC Natural Products · this assignee

49
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows EPC's Innovation Score is 49.4/100 (top 15% 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 EPC?

Each dot is one of EPC’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). EPC’s own 20.9 claims/patent is ABOVE the 11.6 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where EPC's grants concentrate

EPC Natural Products Co., Ltd. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 7 CPC subclasses with 100% of grants classified under A23L (Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Preparation OR Treatment Thereof). Peak complete grant year is 2022 (7 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2019. By volume, EPC sits between Enensys Technologies and Exfo Solutions SAS.

EPC's three-year grant acceleration

EPC Natural Products Co., Ltd. shows 13 grants in 2022–2024 against only 5 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.

Enensys

18
ENF Technology

18
Enovate Systems

18
Enraytek Optoelec…

18
Essai

18
Etopus Technology

18
EVE Energy

18
Exfo Solutions SAS

18
EPC Natural Produ… ◀

18

What this shows EPC holds 18 patents at rank #15,985, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near EPC

By rank, the assignees closest to #15,985 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A23L (Foods)

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

EPC's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

49 Top 15% higher than 85% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2019–2024

Grants by year

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

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EPC Natural Products Co., Ltd. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2019	2	11.1%
2021	3	16.7%
2022	7	38.9%
2023	3	16.7%
2024	3	16.7%

Which technologies does EPC Natural Products Co., Ltd. patent most?

A23L - Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Preparation OR Treatment Thereof 18

A23V - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages AND Lactic OR Propionic Acid Bacteria Used IN Foodstuffs OR Food Preparation 18

C13K - Saccharides Obtained From Natural Sources OR BY Hydrolysis OF Naturally Occurring Disaccharides, Oligosaccharides OR Polysaccharides 14

A23F - COFFEE; TEA; Their SUBSTITUTES; Manufacture, Preparation, OR Infusion Thereof 14

A23G - COCOA; Cocoa Products, e.g. CHOCOLATE; Substitutes FOR Cocoa OR Cocoa PRODUCTS; CONFECTIONERY; Chewing GUM; ICE-CREAM; Preparation Thereof 14

A21D - Treatment OF Flour OR Dough FOR Baking, e.g. BY Addition OF MATERIALS; BAKING; Bakery Products 14

A23C - Dairy Products, e.g. Milk, Butter OR CHEESE; Milk OR Cheese SUBSTITUTES; Making OR Treatment Thereof 14

Top 7 of 7 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

EPC Natural Products Co., Ltd.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

EPC Natural Products Co., Ltd.'s lead technology class is A23L (Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Preparation OR Treatment Thereof), 100% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A23L
Ranked #15,995 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare EPC Natural Products Co., Ltd. against Enensys Technologies, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 49.4/100 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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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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