Where does Kellogg Company rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Kellogg Company ranks #5,089 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 Kellogg Company hold?

Kellogg Company holds 68 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2024, spanning 38 technology areas.

What is Kellogg Company's Innovation Score?

Kellogg Company has an Innovation Score of 47.4 out of 100 (top 19% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Kellogg Company's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Kellogg Company's recent grant velocity is +83% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Kellogg Company's patents?

Kellogg Company's patents average 10.5 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 Kellogg Company 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

Kellogg Company

Q: What technology areas does Kellogg Company focus on?

Kellogg Company's top technology area is A23L (Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Preparation OR Treatment Thereof) with 14 patents. Grants appear in 38 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 68 granted patents across 38 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2024. 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, Kellogg ranks #5,089 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 68 patents across 38 technology areas.

#5,089
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 19%
by Innovation Score (47.4/100): 10.5
avg claims per patent: +83%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R5089 · US Corporation #5,089 · 68 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 68 grants
UPPER-Q #5,089/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Intellihot
CPC-FOCUS A23L · 38 areas
INNOV-PAR 47.4/100
CLAIMS-PAR 10.5 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +83% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Intellihot, 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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
ADP · near

47
Advanced Drainage… · near

47
Andrew Wireless… · near

47
Cirrus Logic… · near

47
Kellogg · this assignee

47
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Kellogg's Innovation Score is 47.4/100 (top 19% 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.

Where Kellogg's grants concentrate

Kellogg Company is a focused PatentsView assignee: 38 CPC subclasses with 20.6% of grants classified under A23L (Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Preparation OR Treatment Thereof). Peak complete grant year is 2020 (14 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2017. By volume, Kellogg sits between Intellihot, Inc. and Maquet Cardiovascular LLC.

Kellogg's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Kellogg Company moved from 31 to 22 grants (0.71x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Intellihot

68
Intellisist

68
Jade Bird Display…

68
Kathrein-werke KG

68
Komori

68
Kumu Networks

68
Lvmh Recherche

68
Maquet Cardiovasc…

68
Kellogg ◀

68

What this shows Kellogg holds 68 patents at rank #5,087, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Kellogg

By rank, the assignees closest to #5,087 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A23L (Foods)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Kellogg, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above).

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (47 here).

Advanced Drainage Systems, Inc. 47 Andrew Wireless Systems GmbH 47 Cirrus Logic International Semiconductor Ltd. 47 ADP, Inc. 47

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (10.5 here).

Oclaro Japan, Inc. 10.5 avg S. C. Johnson & SON, Inc. 10.5 avg Hyundai Autron Co., Ltd. 10.5 avg Xyzprinting, Inc. 10.5 avg

Kellogg's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

47 Top 19% higher than 81% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2024

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2015–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Kellogg Company patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	3	4.4%
2016	6	8.8%
2017	2	2.9%
2018	4	5.9%
2019	9	13.2%
2020	14	20.6%
2021	8	11.8%
2022	6	8.8%
2023	8	11.8%
2024	8	11.8%

Which technologies does Kellogg Company patent most?

A23L - Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Preparation OR Treatment Thereof 14

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

A23P - Shaping OR Working OF Foodstuffs, NOT Fully Covered BY A Single Other Subclass 13

B65B - Machines, Apparatus OR Devices FOR, OR Methods OF, Packaging Articles OR MATERIALS; Unpacking 13

A23V - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages AND Lactic OR Propionic Acid Bacteria Used IN Foodstuffs OR Food Preparation 11

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 9

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

G06Q - Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory Purposes, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 6

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 5

A23J - Protein Compositions FOR FOODSTUFFS; Working-up Proteins FOR FOODSTUFFS; Phosphatide Compositions FOR Foodstuffs 4

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 4

A21D - Treatment OF Flour OR Dough FOR Baking, e.g. BY Addition OF MATERIALS; BAKING; Bakery Products 4

B31B - Making Containers OF Paper, Cardboard OR Material Worked IN A Manner Analogous TO Paper 4

A23G - COCOA; Cocoa Products, e.g. CHOCOLATE; Substitutes FOR Cocoa OR Cocoa PRODUCTS; CONFECTIONERY; Chewing GUM; ICE-CREAM; Preparation Thereof 3

A21B - Bakers' OVENS; Machines OR Equipment FOR Baking 3

Top 15 of 38 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#5,089

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

47.4 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

Kellogg Company's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Kellogg Company's lead technology class is A23L (Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Preparation OR Treatment Thereof), 20.6% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A23L
Ranked #5,089 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Kellogg Company against Intellihot, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 47.4/100 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.

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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