Where does Impossible Foods Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Impossible Foods Inc. ranks #7,860 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 Impossible Foods Inc. hold?

Impossible Foods Inc. holds 41 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 19 technology areas.

What is Impossible Foods Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Impossible Foods Inc. has an Innovation Score of 46.8 out of 100 (top 20% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Impossible Foods Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Impossible Foods Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +29% 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 Impossible Foods Inc.'s patents?

Impossible Foods Inc.'s patents average 19.8 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 Impossible Foods 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

Impossible Foods Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Impossible Foods Inc. focus on?

Impossible Foods Inc.'s top technology area is A23J (Protein Compositions FOR FOODSTUFFS; Working-up Proteins FOR FOODSTUFFS; Phosphatide Compositions FOR Foodstuffs) with 21 patents, ranking #5 of 142 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 19 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 41 granted patents across 19 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: A23J (Protein Compositions FOR FOODSTUFFS; Working-up Proteins FOR FOODSTUFFS; Phosphatide Compositions FOR Foodstuffs).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Impossible ranks #7,860 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 41 patents across 19 technology areas.

#7,860
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 20%
by Innovation Score (46.8/100): 19.8
avg claims per patent: +29%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R7860 · US Corporation #7,860 · 41 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-UP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 41 grants
UPPER-Q #7,860/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Imerys USA
CPC-FOCUS A23J · 19 areas
INNOV-PAR 46.8/100
CLAIMS-RICH 19.8 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-UP +29% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Imerys USA, 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 Impossible’s 46.8 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 12.9 pts (28%) Velocity 6.7 pts (14%) Breadth 15.4 pts (33%) Claim depth 11.9 pts (25%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Cygames · near

47
Devicor Medical… · near

47
dSPACE digital… · near

47
Impossible Foods · this assignee

47
OnPoint Medical · near

47
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Impossible's Innovation Score is 46.8/100 (top 20% 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 Impossible?

Each dot is one of Impossible’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). Impossible’s own 19.8 claims/patent is ABOVE the 13.6 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Impossible's grants concentrate

Impossible Foods Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 19 CPC subclasses with 51.2% of grants classified under A23J (Protein Compositions FOR FOODSTUFFS; Working-up Proteins FOR FOODSTUFFS; Phosphatide Compositions FOR Foodstuffs). Peak complete grant year is 2019 (6 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2015. By volume, Impossible sits between Institute OF Physics, THE Chinese Academy OF Sciences and JX Metals Corporation.

Impossible's three-year grant acceleration

Impossible Foods Inc. shows 14 grants in 2022–2024 against only 14 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.

Institute OF Phys…

41
Intact Vascular

41
Iwis Motorsysteme…

41
Imerys USA

41
Inventec Applianc…

41
Japan Polyethylene

41
JDS Uniphase

41
JX Metals

41
Impossible Foods ◀

41

What this shows Impossible holds 41 patents at rank #7,864, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Impossible

By rank, the assignees closest to #7,864 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A23J (Protein Compositions FOR Foodstuffs)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Impossible, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A23J (Protein Compositions FOR Foodstuffs), Impossible ranks #5 of 142 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (47 here).

OnPoint Medical, Inc. 47 Cygames, Inc. 47 dSPACE digital signal processing and control engineering GmbH 47 Devicor Medical Products, Inc. 47

Impossible's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

47 Top 20% higher than 80% 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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Impossible Foods Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1	2.4%
2017	5	12.2%
2018	5	12.2%
2019	6	14.6%
2020	3	7.3%
2021	5	12.2%
2022	5	12.2%
2023	3	7.3%
2024	6	14.6%
2025partial year	2	4.9%

Which technologies does Impossible Foods Inc. patent most?

A23J - Protein Compositions FOR FOODSTUFFS; Working-up Proteins FOR FOODSTUFFS; Phosphatide Compositions FOR Foodstuffs 21

A23L - Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Preparation OR Treatment Thereof 20

C07K - Peptides 15

A23V - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages AND Lactic OR Propionic Acid Bacteria Used IN Foodstuffs OR Food Preparation 15

C12N - Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media 15

A23D - Edible Oils OR Fats, e.g. Margarines, Shortenings OR Cooking Oils 8

C12Y - Enzymes 7

C12G - WINE; Preparation THEREOF; Alcoholic Beverages ; Preparation OF Alcoholic Beverages NOT Provided FOR IN Subclasses C12c OR C12h 7

C12C - BEER; Preparation OF Beer BY Fermentation ; Preparation OF Malt FOR Making BEER; Preparation OF Hops FOR Making Beer 7

B01D - Separation 6

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 5

A23C - Dairy Products, e.g. Milk, Butter OR CHEESE; Milk OR Cheese SUBSTITUTES; Making OR Treatment Thereof 5

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 5

B01J - Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus 2

C07D - Heterocyclic Compounds 2

Top 15 of 19 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

Impossible Foods Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Impossible Foods Inc.'s lead technology class is A23J (Protein Compositions FOR FOODSTUFFS; Working-up Proteins FOR FOODSTUFFS; Phosphatide Compositions FOR Foodstuffs), 51.2% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A23J
Ranked #7,860 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Impossible Foods Inc. against Institute OF Physics, THE Chinese Academy OF Sciences, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 46.8/100 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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