Where does J-oil Mills, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), J-oil Mills, Inc. ranks #18,781 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 J-oil Mills, Inc. hold?

J-oil Mills, Inc. holds 15 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 16 technology areas.

What is J-oil Mills, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

J-oil Mills, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 28.7 out of 100 (28th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does J-oil Mills, Inc. focus on?

J-oil Mills, Inc.'s top technology area is A23L (Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Preparation OR Treatment Thereof) with 8 patents, ranking #195 of 1,325 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 16 CPC subclasses total.

Is J-oil Mills, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

J-oil Mills, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -82% 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 J-oil Mills, Inc.'s patents?

J-oil Mills, Inc.'s patents average 8.3 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 J-oil Mills, 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 Foreign Corporation

J-oil Mills, Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 15 granted patents across 16 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).

Compiled by PlainPatent · May 15, 2026

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, J-oil ranks #18,781 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 15 patents across 16 technology areas.

#18,781
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 28th percentile
by Innovation Score (28.7/100): 8.3
avg claims per patent: -82%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R18781 · Foreign Corporation #18,781 · 15 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 15 grants
MID-PACK #18,781/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Interset Software
CPC-FOCUS A23L · 16 areas
INNOV-THIN 28.7/100
CLAIMS-PAR 8.3 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -82% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Interset Software 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 J-oil’s 28.7 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 9.6 pts (33%) Velocity 0.0 pts (0%) Breadth 14.1 pts (49%) Claim depth 5.0 pts (17%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

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J-oil Mills · this assignee

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JOY Global Longview… · near

29
Silver Creek… · near

29
Daca Design · near

29
Mitsubishi Hitachi… · near

29
3D Lighting… · lowest

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What this shows J-oil's Innovation Score is 28.7/100 (28th 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 J-oil?

Each dot is one of J-oil’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). J-oil’s own 8.3 claims/patent is at or below the 14.5 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where J-oil's grants concentrate

J-oil Mills, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 16 CPC subclasses with 53.3% of grants classified under A23L (Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Preparation OR Treatment Thereof). Peak complete grant year is 2016 (5 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2018. By volume, J-oil sits between Interset Software Inc. and Jand, Inc..

Interset Software

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Intuitive Researc…

15
J-metrics Technol…

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J Frank Schmidt &…

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J Van Geest Holdi…

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Jagotec

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Jand

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J-oil Mills ◀

15

What this shows J-oil holds 15 patents at rank #18,776, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near J-oil

By rank, the assignees closest to #18,776 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A23L (Foods)

Other assignees with the most granted patents in J-oil's primary technology class.

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for J-oil, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A23L (Foods), J-oil ranks #195 of 1,325 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (29 here).

Silver Creek Pharmaceuticals, Inc. 29 JOY Global Longview Operations LLC 29 Mitsubishi Hitachi Tool Engineering, Ltd. 29 Daca Design LLC 29

J-oil's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

29 28th percentile higher than 28% 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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J-oil Mills, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	2	13.3%
2016	5	33.3%
2017	2	13.3%
2018	1	6.7%
2019	1	6.7%
2020	1	6.7%
2021	1	6.7%
2025partial year	2	13.3%

Which technologies does J-oil Mills, Inc. patent most?

A23L - Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Preparation OR Treatment Thereof 8

A61P - Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations 7

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 7

A23D - Edible Oils OR Fats, e.g. Margarines, Shortenings OR Cooking Oils 6

A61Q - Specific USE OF Cosmetics OR Similar Toiletry Preparations 5

A23V - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages AND Lactic OR Propionic Acid Bacteria Used IN Foodstuffs OR Food Preparation 4

A21D - Treatment OF Flour OR Dough FOR Baking, e.g. BY Addition OF MATERIALS; BAKING; Bakery Products 3

C11B - Producing, e.g. BY Pressing RAW Materials OR BY Extraction From Waste Materials, Refining OR Preserving Fats, Fatty Substances, e.g. Lanolin, Fatty Oils OR WAXES; Essential OILS; Perfumes 2

A23K - Fodder 2

C11C - Fatty Acids From Fats, Oils OR WAXES; CANDLES; Fats, Oils OR Fatty Acids BY Chemical Modification OF Fats, Oils, OR Fatty Acids Obtained Therefrom 2

A23P - Shaping OR Working OF Foodstuffs, NOT Fully Covered BY A Single Other Subclass 1

A47J - Kitchen EQUIPMENT; Coffee MILLS; Spice MILLS; Apparatus FOR Making Beverages 1

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 1

C08B - POLYSACCHARIDES; Derivatives Thereof 1

C07C - Acyclic OR Carbocyclic Compounds 1

Top 15 of 16 technology areas

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Data Source

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What to do with this data

J-oil Mills, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

J-oil Mills, Inc.'s lead technology class is A23L (Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Preparation OR Treatment Thereof), 53.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A23L
Ranked #18,781 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare J-oil Mills, Inc. against Interset Software Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 28.7/100 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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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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