Where does Fonterra Co-Operative Group Limited rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Fonterra Co-Operative Group Limited ranks #31,677 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 Fonterra Co-Operative Group Limited hold?

Fonterra Co-Operative Group Limited holds 8 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2025, spanning 10 technology areas.

What is Fonterra Co-Operative Group Limited's Innovation Score?

Fonterra Co-Operative Group Limited has an Innovation Score of 32.1 out of 100 (40th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Fonterra Co-Operative Group Limited's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Fonterra Co-Operative Group Limited's recent grant velocity is +100% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Fonterra Co-Operative Group Limited's patents?

Fonterra Co-Operative Group Limited's patents average 18.5 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 Fonterra Co-Operative Group 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

Fonterra Co-Operative Group Limited

Q: What technology areas does Fonterra Co-Operative Group Limited focus on?

Fonterra Co-Operative Group Limited's top technology area is A23C (Dairy Products, e.g. Milk, Butter OR CHEESE; Milk OR Cheese SUBSTITUTES; Making OR Treatment Thereof) with 7 patents, ranking #38 of 208 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 10 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 8 granted patents across 10 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2025. 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: 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, Fonterra ranks #31,677 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 8 patents across 10 technology areas.

#31,677
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 40th percentile
by Innovation Score (32.1/100): 18.5
avg claims per patent: +100%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R31677 · Foreign Corporation #31,677 · 8 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 8 grants
MID-PACK #31,677/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Focused Technology…
CPC-FOCUS A23C · 10 areas
INNOV-THIN 32.1/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.5 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +100% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Focused Technology Solutions, Inc. (±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 Fonterra’s 32.1 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 7.6 pts (24%) Velocity 2.2 pts (7%) Breadth 11.2 pts (35%) Claim depth 11.1 pts (35%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

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Fonterra -Operative… · this assignee

32
3D Lighting… · lowest

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What this shows Fonterra's Innovation Score is 32.1/100 (40th 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 Fonterra?

Each dot is one of Fonterra’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). Fonterra’s own 18.5 claims/patent is ABOVE the 17.5 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Fonterra's grants concentrate

Fonterra Co-Operative Group Limited is a focused PatentsView assignee: 10 CPC subclasses with 87.5% 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 2016 (2 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2020. By volume, Fonterra sits between Focused Technology Solutions, Inc. and Foresite Healthcare, LLC.

Fonterra's three-year grant acceleration

Fonterra Co-Operative Group Limited shows 1 grants in 2022–2024 against only 3 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.

Focused Technolog…

8
Fondazione Teleth…

8
Fontaine Engineer…

8
Fontaine Modifica…

8
Food & Beverage I…

8
Food Cycle Science

8
Forelux

8
Foresite Healthca…

8
Fonterra -operati… ◀

8

What this shows Fonterra holds 8 patents at rank #31,690, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Fonterra

By rank, the assignees closest to #31,690 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A23C (Dairy Products)

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

Fonterra's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

32 40th percentile higher than 40% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2016–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Fonterra Co-Operative Group Limited patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	2	25.0%
2020	1	12.5%
2021	2	25.0%
2024	1	12.5%
2025partial year	2	25.0%

Which technologies does Fonterra Co-Operative Group Limited patent most?

A23C - Dairy Products, e.g. Milk, Butter OR CHEESE; Milk OR Cheese SUBSTITUTES; Making OR Treatment Thereof 7

A23V - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages AND Lactic OR Propionic Acid Bacteria Used IN Foodstuffs OR Food Preparation 5

A23L - Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Preparation OR Treatment Thereof 4

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

C07H - SUGARS; Derivatives THEREOF; NUCLEOSIDES; NUCLEOTIDES; Nucleic Acids 3

A61P - Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations 3

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 3

A23J - Protein Compositions FOR FOODSTUFFS; Working-up Proteins FOR FOODSTUFFS; Phosphatide Compositions FOR Foodstuffs 3

C12N - Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media 2

A23B - Preservation OF Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic BEVERAGES; Chemical Ripening OF Fruit OR Vegetables 1

Top 10 of 10 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

Fonterra Co-Operative Group Limited's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Fonterra Co-Operative Group Limited's lead technology class is A23C (Dairy Products, e.g. Milk, Butter OR CHEESE; Milk OR Cheese SUBSTITUTES; Making OR Treatment Thereof), 87.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A23C
Ranked #31,677 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Fonterra Co-Operative Group Limited against Focused Technology Solutions, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 32.1/100 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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