Where does Glanbia Nutritionals Limited rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Glanbia Nutritionals Limited ranks #47,077 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 Glanbia Nutritionals Limited hold?

Glanbia Nutritionals Limited holds 5 US utility patents granted between 2021 and 2025, spanning 6 technology areas.

What is Glanbia Nutritionals Limited's Innovation Score?

Glanbia Nutritionals Limited has an Innovation Score of 33.2 out of 100 (44th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Glanbia Nutritionals Limited's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Insufficient historical data is available to calculate a velocity trend for Glanbia Nutritionals Limited.

What does claim depth mean for Glanbia Nutritionals Limited's patents?

Glanbia Nutritionals Limited's patents average 8.4 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 Glanbia Nutritionals 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

Glanbia Nutritionals Limited

Q: What technology areas does Glanbia Nutritionals Limited focus on?

Glanbia Nutritionals Limited's top technology area is A23C (Dairy Products, e.g. Milk, Butter OR CHEESE; Milk OR Cheese SUBSTITUTES; Making OR Treatment Thereof) with 4 patents, ranking #57 of 208 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 6 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 5 granted patents across 6 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2021–2025. 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, Glanbia ranks #47,077 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 5 patents across 6 technology areas.

#47,077
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 44th percentile
by Innovation Score (33.2/100): 8.4
avg claims per patent

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R47077 · Foreign Corporation #47,077 · 5 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · BOTTOM-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-PAR · TYPE-FRNCORP · SPAN-YRS · BOOK-RICH

GRANTS-MICRO 5 grants
BOTTOM-DECILE #47,077/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH GKN Hybrid Power
CPC-NARROW A23C · 6 areas
INNOV-THIN 33.2/100
CLAIMS-PAR 8.4 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
SPAN-YRS 2021–2025 · 5y
BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: GKN Hybrid Power Limited (±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 Glanbia’s 33.2 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 6.2 pts (19%) Velocity 13.3 pts (40%) Breadth 8.7 pts (26%) Claim depth 5.0 pts (15%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Glanbia Nutritionals · this assignee

33
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Glanbia's Innovation Score is 33.2/100 (44th 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 Glanbia?

Each dot is one of Glanbia’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). Glanbia’s own 8.4 claims/patent is at or below the 13.6 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Glanbia's grants concentrate

Glanbia Nutritionals Limited is a focused PatentsView assignee: 6 CPC subclasses with 80% of grants classified under A23C (Dairy Products, e.g. Milk, Butter OR CHEESE; Milk OR Cheese SUBSTITUTES; Making OR Treatment Thereof). By volume, Glanbia sits between GKN Hybrid Power Limited and Global E-dentity, Inc..

Glanbia's three-year grant acceleration

Glanbia Nutritionals Limited shows 2 grants in 2022–2024 against only 1 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 Glanbia holds 5 patents at rank #47,026, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Glanbia

By rank, the assignees closest to #47,026 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A23C (Dairy Products)

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

Glanbia's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

33 44th percentile higher than 44% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2021–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2021–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Glanbia Nutritionals Limited patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2021	1	20.0%
2022	1	20.0%
2023	1	20.0%
2025partial year	2	40.0%

Which technologies does Glanbia Nutritionals Limited patent most?

A23C - Dairy Products, e.g. Milk, Butter OR CHEESE; Milk OR Cheese SUBSTITUTES; Making OR Treatment Thereof 4

A23V - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages AND Lactic OR Propionic Acid Bacteria Used IN Foodstuffs OR Food Preparation 2

A23L - Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Preparation OR Treatment Thereof 2

A01J - Manufacture OF Dairy Products 1

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 1

A23J - Protein Compositions FOR FOODSTUFFS; Working-up Proteins FOR FOODSTUFFS; Phosphatide Compositions FOR Foodstuffs 1

Top 6 of 6 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

Glanbia Nutritionals Limited's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Glanbia Nutritionals Limited's lead technology class is A23C (Dairy Products, e.g. Milk, Butter OR CHEESE; Milk OR Cheese SUBSTITUTES; Making OR Treatment Thereof), 80% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A23C
Ranked #47,077 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Glanbia Nutritionals Limited against GKN Hybrid Power Limited, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 33.2/100 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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