Where does Food Machinery Engineering, Lmtd rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Food Machinery Engineering, Lmtd ranks #28,777 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 Machinery Engineering, Lmtd hold?

Food Machinery Engineering, Lmtd holds 9 US utility patents granted between 2019 and 2025, spanning 13 technology areas.

What is Food Machinery Engineering, Lmtd's Innovation Score?

Food Machinery Engineering, Lmtd has an Innovation Score of 48.4 out of 100 (top 17% 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 Machinery Engineering, Lmtd focus on?

Food Machinery Engineering, Lmtd's top technology area is A21B (Bakers' OVENS; Machines OR Equipment FOR Baking) with 6 patents, ranking #8 of 84 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 13 CPC subclasses total.

Is Food Machinery Engineering, Lmtd's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Food Machinery Engineering, Lmtd's recent grant velocity is +500% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Food Machinery Engineering, Lmtd's patents?

Food Machinery Engineering, Lmtd's patents average 18.4 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 Machinery Engineering, Lmtd 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

Food Machinery Engineering, Lmtd

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 9 granted patents across 13 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2019–2025. 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: A21B (Bakers' OVENS; Machines OR Equipment FOR Baking).

Compiled by PlainPatent · May 15, 2026

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Food ranks #28,777 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 9 patents across 13 technology areas.

#28,777
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 17%
by Innovation Score (48.4/100): 18.4
avg claims per patent: +500%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R28777 · Foreign Corporation #28,777 · 9 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 9 grants
MID-PACK #28,777/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Flow Forward Medical
CPC-FOCUS A21B · 13 areas
INNOV-PAR 48.4/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.4 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +500% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Flow Forward Medical, 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 Food’s 48.4 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 8.0 pts (16%) Velocity 16.7 pts (34%) Breadth 12.7 pts (26%) Claim depth 11.1 pts (23%)

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What this shows Food's Innovation Score is 48.4/100 (top 17% 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 18.4 claims/patent is at or below the 20.1 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Food's grants concentrate

Food Machinery Engineering, Lmtd is a focused PatentsView assignee: 13 CPC subclasses with 66.7% of grants classified under A21B (Bakers' OVENS; Machines OR Equipment FOR Baking). Peak complete grant year is 2024 (4 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2019. By volume, Food sits between Flow Forward Medical, Inc. and Formovie (Chongqing) Innovative Technology Co., Ltd..

Food's three-year grant acceleration

Food Machinery Engineering, Lmtd shows 5 grants in 2022–2024 against only 2 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.

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What this shows Food holds 9 patents at rank #28,783, 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 #28,783 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A21B (Bakers' Ovens)

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)

48 Top 17% higher than 83% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2019–2025

Grants by year

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

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Food Machinery Engineering, Lmtd patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2019	1	11.1%
2021	1	11.1%
2023	1	11.1%
2024	4	44.4%
2025partial year	2	22.2%

Which technologies does Food Machinery Engineering, Lmtd patent most?

A21B - Bakers' OVENS; Machines OR Equipment FOR Baking 6

A21C - Machines OR Equipment FOR Making OR Processing DOUGHS; Handling Baked Articles Made From Dough 6

B08B - Cleaning IN GENERAL; Prevention OF Fouling IN General 5

A47L - Domestic Washing OR Cleaning ; Suction Cleaners IN General 3

A46B - Brushes 3

B05B - Spraying APPARATUS; Atomising APPARATUS; Nozzles 3

A47J - Kitchen EQUIPMENT; Coffee MILLS; Spice MILLS; Apparatus FOR Making Beverages 3

C09D - Coating Compositions, e.g. Paints, Varnishes OR LACQUERS; Filling PASTES; Chemical Paint OR INK REMOVERS; INKS; Correcting FLUIDS; WOODSTAINS; Pastes OR Solids FOR Colouring OR PRINTING; USE OF Materials Therefor 3

A23P - Shaping OR Working OF Foodstuffs, NOT Fully Covered BY A Single Other Subclass 3

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 3

B26D - CUTTING; Details Common TO Machines FOR Perforating, Punching, Cutting-out, Stamping-out OR Severing 3

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 3

B65G - Transport OR Storage Devices, e.g. Conveyors FOR Loading OR Tipping, Shop Conveyor Systems OR Pneumatic Tube Conveyors 2

Top 13 of 13 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 Machinery Engineering, Lmtd's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Food Machinery Engineering, Lmtd's lead technology class is A21B (Bakers' OVENS; Machines OR Equipment FOR Baking), 66.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A21B
Ranked #28,777 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Food Machinery Engineering, Lmtd against Flow Forward Medical, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 48.4/100 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

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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