Where does Food Equipment Technologies Company, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Food Equipment Technologies Company, Inc. ranks #16,805 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 Food Equipment Technologies Company, Inc. hold?

Food Equipment Technologies Company, Inc. holds 17 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2023, spanning 10 technology areas.

What is Food Equipment Technologies Company, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Food Equipment Technologies Company, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 37.2 out of 100 (top 44% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Food Equipment Technologies Company, Inc. focus on?

Food Equipment Technologies Company, Inc.'s top technology area is A47J (Kitchen EQUIPMENT; Coffee MILLS; Spice MILLS; Apparatus FOR Making Beverages) with 15 patents, ranking #68 of 793 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 10 CPC subclasses total.

Is Food Equipment Technologies Company, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Food Equipment Technologies Company, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -87% 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 Food Equipment Technologies Company, Inc.'s patents?

Food Equipment Technologies Company, Inc.'s patents average 24.0 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 Food Equipment Technologies 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

Food Equipment Technologies Company, Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 17 granted patents across 10 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2023. 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: A47J (Kitchen EQUIPMENT; Coffee MILLS; Spice MILLS; Apparatus FOR Making Beverages).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Food ranks #16,805 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 17 patents across 10 technology areas.

#16,805
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 44%
by Innovation Score (37.2/100): 24.0
avg claims per patent: -87%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R16805 · US Corporation #16,805 · 17 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 17 grants
MID-PACK #16,805/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Fitt S P A
CPC-FOCUS A47J · 10 areas
INNOV-THIN 37.2/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 24.0 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -87% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Fitt S.P.A. (±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 Food’s 37.2 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 10.0 pts (27%) Velocity 1.7 pts (5%) Breadth 11.2 pts (30%) Claim depth 14.4 pts (39%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Food Equipment · this assignee

37
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Food's Innovation Score is 37.2/100 (top 44% 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 Food?

Each dot is one of Food’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). Food’s own 24.0 claims/patent is ABOVE the 16.5 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Food's grants concentrate

Food Equipment Technologies Company, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 10 CPC subclasses with 88.2% of grants classified under A47J (Kitchen EQUIPMENT; Coffee MILLS; Spice MILLS; Apparatus FOR Making Beverages). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (5 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2020. By volume, Food sits between Fitt S.P.A. and FXS Ventures, LLC.

Food's three-year grant acceleration

Food Equipment Technologies Company, Inc. shows 1 grants in 2022–2024 against only 4 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.

Fitt S P A

17
Flambeau

17
Flir Commercial S…

17
Flir Systems Trad…

17
Forta

17
FOX Broadcasting

17
Fuse

17
FXS Ventures

17
Food Equipment ◀

17

What this shows Food holds 17 patents at rank #16,801, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Food

By rank, the assignees closest to #16,801 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A47J (Kitchen Equipment)

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

Food's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

37 Top 44% higher than 56% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2023

Grants by year

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

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Food Equipment Technologies Company, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	5	29.4%
2016	4	23.5%
2017	3	17.6%
2019	3	17.6%
2020	1	5.9%
2023	1	5.9%

Which technologies does Food Equipment Technologies Company, Inc. patent most?

A47J - Kitchen EQUIPMENT; Coffee MILLS; Spice MILLS; Apparatus FOR Making Beverages 15

B67D - Dispensing, Delivering OR Transferring Liquids, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 5

G01F - Measuring Volume, Volume Flow, Mass Flow OR Liquid LEVEL; Metering BY Volume 4

A23F - COFFEE; TEA; Their SUBSTITUTES; Manufacture, Preparation, OR Infusion Thereof 3

H05B - Electric HEATING; Electric Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Circuit Arrangements FOR Electric Light Sources, IN General 2

B65B - Machines, Apparatus OR Devices FOR, OR Methods OF, Packaging Articles OR MATERIALS; Unpacking 1

F16B - Devices FOR Fastening OR Securing Constructional Elements OR Machine Parts Together, e.g. Nails, Bolts, Circlips, Clamps, Clips OR WEDGES; Joints OR Jointing 1

B02C - Crushing, Pulverising, OR Disintegrating IN GENERAL; Milling Grain 1

G08B - Signalling OR Calling SYSTEMS; Order TELEGRAPHS; Alarm Systems 1

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 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

Food Equipment Technologies Company, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Food Equipment Technologies Company, Inc.'s lead technology class is A47J (Kitchen EQUIPMENT; Coffee MILLS; Spice MILLS; Apparatus FOR Making Beverages), 88.2% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A47J
Ranked #16,805 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Food Equipment Technologies Company, Inc. against Fitt S.P.A., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 37.2/100 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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