Where does Kemin Industries, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Kemin Industries, Inc. ranks #7,290 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 Kemin Industries, Inc. hold?

Kemin Industries, Inc. holds 45 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 29 technology areas.

What is Kemin Industries, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Kemin Industries, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 43.7 out of 100 (top 27% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Kemin Industries, Inc. focus on?

Kemin Industries, Inc.'s top technology area is A61K (Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes) with 20 patents, ranking #1,122 of 7,163 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 29 CPC subclasses total.

Is Kemin Industries, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Kemin Industries, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -61% 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 Kemin Industries, Inc.'s patents?

Kemin Industries, Inc.'s patents average 13.6 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 Kemin Industries, 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

Kemin Industries, Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 45 granted patents across 29 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: A61K (Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Kemin ranks #7,290 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 45 patents across 29 technology areas.

#7,290
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 27%
by Innovation Score (43.7/100): 13.6
avg claims per patent: -61%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R7290 · US Corporation #7,290 · 45 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 45 grants
UPPER-Q #7,290/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Intelligent…
CPC-FOCUS A61K · 29 areas
INNOV-PAR 43.7/100
CLAIMS-RICH 13.6 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -61% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Intelligent Technologies International, 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 Kemin’s 43.7 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 13.2 pts (30%) Velocity 3.3 pts (8%) Breadth 19.0 pts (44%) Claim depth 8.1 pts (19%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Allied Telesis… · near

44
Burckhardt Compression · near

44
Japanese Foundation… · near

44
Kemin Industries · this assignee

44
Universidade… · near

44
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Kemin's Innovation Score is 43.7/100 (top 27% 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 Kemin?

Each dot is one of Kemin’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). Kemin’s own 13.6 claims/patent is ABOVE the 12.8 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Kemin's grants concentrate

Kemin Industries, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 29 CPC subclasses with 44.4% of grants classified under A61K (Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes). Peak complete grant year is 2017 (12 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2016. By volume, Kemin sits between Intelligent Technologies International, Inc. and Locus Solutions Ipco, LLC.

Kemin's three-year grant acceleration

Kemin Industries, Inc. shows 6 grants in 2022–2024 against only 12 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.

Intelligent Inter…

45
International Fru…

45
J Schmalz

45
Joyson Safety Sys…

45
Know Labs

45
Kranos IP

45
Kraussmaffei

45
Locus Solutions I…

45
Kemin Industries ◀

45

What this shows Kemin holds 45 patents at rank #7,287, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Kemin

By rank, the assignees closest to #7,287 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A61K (Preparations FOR Medical)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Kemin, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A61K (Preparations FOR Medical), Kemin ranks #1,122 of 7,163 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (44 here).

Japanese Foundation for Cancer Research 44 Allied Telesis Holdings Kabushiki Kaisha 44 Burckhardt Compression AG 44 Universidade Federal Do Rio Grande Do Sul—UFRGS 44

Kemin's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

44 Top 27% higher than 73% 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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Kemin Industries, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	2	4.4%
2016	1	2.2%
2017	12	26.7%
2018	10	22.2%
2019	6	13.3%
2020	4	8.9%
2021	2	4.4%
2022	3	6.7%
2023	3	6.7%
2025partial year	2	4.4%

Which technologies does Kemin Industries, Inc. patent most?

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 20

A23K - Fodder 11

A01H - NEW Plants OR ; NON-TRANSGENIC; Processes FOR Obtaining THEM; Plant Reproduction BY Tissue Culture Techniques 10

A61P - Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations 8

C07C - Acyclic OR Carbocyclic Compounds 6

A01N - Preservation OF Bodies OF Humans OR Animals OR Plants OR Parts Thereof ; Biocides, e.g. AS Disinfectants, AS Pesticides OR AS Herbicides ; Pest Repellants OR ATTRACTANTS; Plant Growth Regulators 5

A23L - Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Preparation OR Treatment Thereof 5

A23B - Preservation OF Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic BEVERAGES; Chemical Ripening OF Fruit OR Vegetables 4

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

C12P - Fermentation OR Enzyme-using Processes TO Synthesise A Desired Chemical Compound OR Composition OR TO Separate Optical Isomers From A Racemic Mixture 2

C01B - Non-metallic ELEMENTS; Compounds THEREOF; ; Metalloids OR Compounds Thereof NOT Covered BY Subclass C01c 2

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

C07F - Acyclic, Carbocyclic OR Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium OR Tellurium 2

A01G - HORTICULTURE; Cultivation OF Vegetables, Flowers, Rice, Fruit, Vines, Hops OR SEAWEED; FORESTRY; Watering 2

A01P - Biocidal, Pest Repellant, Pest Attractant OR Plant Growth Regulatory Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Preparations 2

Top 15 of 29 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

Kemin Industries, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Kemin Industries, Inc.'s lead technology class is A61K (Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes), 44.4% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A61K
Ranked #7,290 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Kemin Industries, Inc. against Intelligent Technologies International, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 43.7/100 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

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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