Where does Heineken Supply Chain B.V. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Heineken Supply Chain B.V. ranks #4,884 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 Heineken Supply Chain B.V. hold?

Heineken Supply Chain B.V. holds 71 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 31 technology areas.

What is Heineken Supply Chain B.V.'s Innovation Score?

Heineken Supply Chain B.V. has an Innovation Score of 54.3 out of 100 (top 8% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Heineken Supply Chain B.V. focus on?

Heineken Supply Chain B.V.'s top technology area is B67D (Dispensing, Delivering OR Transferring Liquids, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR) with 42 patents, ranking #6 of 469 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 31 CPC subclasses total.

Is Heineken Supply Chain B.V.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Heineken Supply Chain B.V.'s recent grant velocity is +44% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). The company is maintaining or growing its granted-patent output.

What does claim depth mean for Heineken Supply Chain B.V.'s patents?

Heineken Supply Chain B.V.'s patents average 22.5 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 Heineken Supply Chain B.V. 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

Heineken Supply Chain B.V.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 71 granted patents across 31 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: B67D (Dispensing, Delivering OR Transferring Liquids, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Heineken ranks #4,884 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 71 patents across 31 technology areas.

#4,884
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 8%
by Innovation Score (54.3/100): 22.5
avg claims per patent: +44%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R4884 · Foreign Corporation #4,884 · 71 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-UP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 71 grants
TOP-DECILE #4,884/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Guangdong Aoyun…
CPC-FOCUS B67D · 31 areas
INNOV-PAR 54.3/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 22.5 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-UP +44% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Guangdong Aoyun Technology Co., 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 Heineken’s 54.3 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 14.8 pts (27%) Velocity 6.4 pts (12%) Breadth 19.7 pts (36%) Claim depth 13.5 pts (25%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Cymer · near

54
Heineken Supply… · this assignee

54
Masonite · near

54
Takasago International · near

54
University of… · near

54
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Heineken's Innovation Score is 54.3/100 (top 8% 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 Heineken?

Each dot is one of Heineken’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). Heineken’s own 22.5 claims/patent is ABOVE the 13.0 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Heineken's grants concentrate

Heineken Supply Chain B.V. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 31 CPC subclasses with 59.2% of grants classified under B67D (Dispensing, Delivering OR Transferring Liquids, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR). Peak complete grant year is 2020 (11 grants) versus a trough of 3 in 2015. By volume, Heineken sits between Guangdong Aoyun Technology Co., Ltd. and Inventus Holdings, LLC.

Heineken's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Heineken Supply Chain B.V. moved from 22 to 21 grants (0.95x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Guangdong Aoyun T…

71
Handylab

71
Hanwha Aerospace

71
Hefei Midea Refri…

71
Hyperfine Research

71
Innoplexus

71
International Rec…

71
Inventus Holdings

71
Heineken Supply C… ◀

71

What this shows Heineken holds 71 patents at rank #4,884, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Heineken

By rank, the assignees closest to #4,884 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B67D (Dispensing)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Heineken, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B67D (Dispensing), Heineken ranks #6 of 469 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (54 here).

Cymer, LLC 54 Takasago International Corporation 54 Masonite Corporation 54 University of Saskatchewan 54

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (22.5 here).

Light Field Lab, Inc. 22.5 avg Capsovision, Inc. 22.5 avg The Mitre Corporation 22.5 avg Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems, Inc. 22.5 avg

Heineken's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

54 Top 8% higher than 92% 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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Heineken Supply Chain B.V. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	3	4.2%
2016	4	5.6%
2017	5	7.0%
2018	6	8.5%
2019	7	9.9%
2020	11	15.5%
2021	4	5.6%
2022	5	7.0%
2023	6	8.5%
2024	10	14.1%
2025partial year	10	14.1%

Which technologies does Heineken Supply Chain B.V. patent most?

B67D - Dispensing, Delivering OR Transferring Liquids, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 42

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 23

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

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 15

B29B - Preparation OR Pretreatment OF THE Material TO BE SHAPED; Making Granules OR PREFORMS; Recovery OF Plastics OR Other Constituents OF Waste Material Containing Plastics 14

C12C - BEER; Preparation OF Beer BY Fermentation ; Preparation OF Malt FOR Making BEER; Preparation OF Hops FOR Making Beer 13

B29K - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses B29b, B29c OR B29d, Relating TO Moulding Materials OR TO Materials FOR ; Moulds, ; Reinforcements, Fillers OR Preformed Parts, e.g. Inserts 9

C12H - Pasteurisation, Sterilisation, Preservation, Purification, Clarification OR Ageing OF Alcoholic BEVERAGES; Methods FOR Altering THE Alcohol Content OF Fermented Solutions OR Alcoholic Beverages 9

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 8

B65B - Machines, Apparatus OR Devices FOR, OR Methods OF, Packaging Articles OR MATERIALS; Unpacking 7

B29D - Producing Particular Articles From Plastics OR From Substances IN A Plastic State 4

B01J - Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus 4

G01F - Measuring Volume, Volume Flow, Mass Flow OR Liquid LEVEL; Metering BY Volume 3

B01D - Separation 3

C12N - Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media 3

Top 15 of 31 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

Heineken Supply Chain B.V.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Heineken Supply Chain B.V.'s lead technology class is B67D (Dispensing, Delivering OR Transferring Liquids, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR), 59.2% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B67D
Ranked #4,884 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Heineken Supply Chain B.V. against Guangdong Aoyun Technology Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 54.3/100 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

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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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