Where does Frito-Lay North America, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Frito-Lay North America, Inc. ranks #2,358 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 Frito-Lay North America, Inc. hold?

Frito-Lay North America, Inc. holds 166 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 64 technology areas.

What is Frito-Lay North America, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Frito-Lay North America, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 53.4 out of 100 (top 9% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Frito-Lay North America, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Frito-Lay North America, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -66% 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 Frito-Lay North America, Inc.'s patents?

Frito-Lay North America, Inc.'s patents average 13.9 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 Frito-Lay North America, 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

Frito-Lay North America, Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Frito-Lay North America, Inc. focus on?

Frito-Lay North America, Inc.'s top technology area is A23L (Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Preparation OR Treatment Thereof) with 37 patents, ranking #28 of 1,325 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 64 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 166 granted patents across 64 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: 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, Frito-lay ranks #2,358 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 166 patents across 64 technology areas.

#2,358
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 9%
by Innovation Score (53.4/100): 13.9
avg claims per patent: -66%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2358 · US Corporation #2,358 · 166 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 166 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,358/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Canva Pty
CPC-WIDE A23L · 64 areas
INNOV-PAR 53.4/100
CLAIMS-RICH 13.9 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -66% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Canva Pty Ltd (±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 Frito-lay’s 53.4 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 17.7 pts (33%) Velocity 2.4 pts (4%) Breadth 25.0 pts (47%) Claim depth 8.3 pts (16%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

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Tenneco · near

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University of Seoul… · near

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Cheil Industries · near

53
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53
3D Lighting… · lowest

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What this shows Frito-lay's Innovation Score is 53.4/100 (top 9% 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 Frito-lay?

Each dot is one of Frito-lay’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). Frito-lay’s own 13.9 claims/patent is at or below the 16.0 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

How Frito-lay's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Frito-Lay North America, Inc. received 41 grants versus 119 in 2015–2019 (-66% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2016 at 26 grants and bottomed in 2024 at 3. Lead class A23L accounts for 22.3% of the portfolio across 64 subclasses. Volume neighbours: The University of Miami (#2,354) and McMaster University (#2,362).

Frito-lay's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Frito-Lay North America, Inc. moved from 44 to 16 grants (0.36x 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 #2,927. See the growth leaderboard.

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Canva Pty

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What this shows Frito-Lay holds 166 patents at rank #2,358, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Frito-Lay

By rank, the assignees closest to #2,358 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A23L (Foods)

Other assignees with the most granted patents in Frito-Lay's primary technology class.

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Frito-Lay, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A23L (Foods), Frito-Lay ranks #28 of 1,325 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (53 here).

Tenneco GmbH 53 University of Seoul Industry Cooperation Foundation 53 Idemia Identity & Security France 53 Cheil Industries Inc. 53

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (13.9 here).

Primetals Technologies Austria GmbH 13.9 avg Munchkin, Inc. 13.9 avg Black Sesame Technologies Inc. 13.9 avg Meyn Food Processing Technology B.V. 13.9 avg

Frito-lay's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

53 Top 9% higher than 91% 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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Frito-Lay North America, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	25	15.1%
2016	26	15.7%
2017	25	15.1%
2018	24	14.5%
2019	19	11.4%
2020	15	9.0%
2021	10	6.0%
2022	6	3.6%
2023	7	4.2%
2024	3	1.8%
2025partial year	6	3.6%

Which technologies does Frito-Lay North America, Inc. patent most?

A23L - Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Preparation OR Treatment Thereof 37

B65B - Machines, Apparatus OR Devices FOR, OR Methods OF, Packaging Articles OR MATERIALS; Unpacking 25

A23P - Shaping OR Working OF Foodstuffs, NOT Fully Covered BY A Single Other Subclass 22

A23V - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages AND Lactic OR Propionic Acid Bacteria Used IN Foodstuffs OR Food Preparation 20

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 17

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 17

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 14

A21D - Treatment OF Flour OR Dough FOR Baking, e.g. BY Addition OF MATERIALS; BAKING; Bakery Products 11

G01H - Measurement OF Mechanical Vibrations OR Ultrasonic, Sonic OR Infrasonic Waves 9

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 7

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 7

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 7

A21C - Machines OR Equipment FOR Making OR Processing DOUGHS; Handling Baked Articles Made From Dough 7

B26D - CUTTING; Details Common TO Machines FOR Perforating, Punching, Cutting-out, Stamping-out OR Severing 6

A23B - Preservation OF Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic BEVERAGES; Chemical Ripening OF Fruit OR Vegetables 6

Top 15 of 64 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

Frito-Lay North America, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Frito-Lay North America, Inc.'s lead technology class is A23L (Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Preparation OR Treatment Thereof), 22.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A23L
Ranked #2,358 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Frito-Lay North America, Inc. against The University of Miami, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 53.4/100 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.

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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

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