Where does Kewpie Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Kewpie Corporation ranks #16,136 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 Kewpie Corporation hold?

Kewpie Corporation holds 18 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 18 technology areas.

What is Kewpie Corporation's Innovation Score?

Kewpie Corporation has an Innovation Score of 32.6 out of 100 (42nd percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Kewpie Corporation's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Kewpie Corporation's recent grant velocity is +0% 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 Kewpie Corporation's patents?

Kewpie Corporation's patents average 10.0 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 Kewpie Corporation 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

Kewpie Corporation

Q: What technology areas does Kewpie Corporation focus on?

Kewpie Corporation'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 18 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 18 granted patents across 18 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).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Kewpie ranks #16,136 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 18 patents across 18 technology areas.

#16,136
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 42nd percentile
by Innovation Score (32.6/100): 10.0
avg claims per patent: +0%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R16136 · Foreign Corporation #16,136 · 18 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 18 grants
MID-PACK #16,136/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Jubilant Generics
CPC-FOCUS A23L · 18 areas
INNOV-THIN 32.6/100
CLAIMS-PAR 10.0 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-FLAT +0% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Jubilant Generics Limited (±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 Kewpie’s 32.6 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 10.2 pts (31%) Velocity 1.5 pts (5%) Breadth 15.0 pts (46%) Claim depth 6.0 pts (18%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Kewpie · this assignee

33
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Kewpie's Innovation Score is 32.6/100 (42nd 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 Kewpie?

Each dot is one of Kewpie’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). Kewpie’s own 10.0 claims/patent is ABOVE the 8.6 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Kewpie's grants concentrate

Kewpie Corporation is a focused PatentsView assignee: 18 CPC subclasses with 44.4% of grants classified under A23L (Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Preparation OR Treatment Thereof). Peak complete grant year is 2019 (3 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2015. By volume, Kewpie sits between Jubilant Generics Limited and Koge Micro Tech Co., Ltd..

Kewpie's three-year grant acceleration

Kewpie Corporation shows 2 grants in 2022–2024 against only 9 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.

Jubilant Generics

18
Juntendo Educatio…

18
Kanagawa Universi…

18
Keter Luxembourg…

18
Keylex

18
KGS Jewels

18
Kinova

18
Koge Micro Tech

18
Kewpie ◀

18

What this shows Kewpie holds 18 patents at rank #16,133, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Kewpie

By rank, the assignees closest to #16,133 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A23L (Foods)

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

Kewpie's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

33 42nd percentile higher than 42% 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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Kewpie Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1	5.6%
2016	2	11.1%
2018	2	11.1%
2019	3	16.7%
2020	3	16.7%
2021	3	16.7%
2022	1	5.6%
2023	1	5.6%
2025partial year	2	11.1%

Which technologies does Kewpie Corporation patent most?

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

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 7

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

A61P - Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations 4

C08B - POLYSACCHARIDES; Derivatives Thereof 3

A61Q - Specific USE OF Cosmetics OR Similar Toiletry Preparations 3

C08L - Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds 3

A23B - Preservation OF Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic BEVERAGES; Chemical Ripening OF Fruit OR Vegetables 2

C12N - Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media 2

A23D - Edible Oils OR Fats, e.g. Margarines, Shortenings OR Cooking Oils 2

A61J - Containers Specially Adapted FOR Medical OR Pharmaceutical PURPOSES; Devices OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Bringing Pharmaceutical Products Into Particular Physical OR Administering FORMS; Devices FOR Administering Food OR Medicines ORALLY; Baby COMFORTERS; Devices FOR Receiving Spittle 1

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 1

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

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 1

B05C - Apparatus FOR Applying Fluent Materials TO Surfaces, IN General 1

Top 15 of 18 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

Kewpie Corporation's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Kewpie Corporation's lead technology class is A23L (Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Preparation OR Treatment Thereof), 44.4% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A23L
Ranked #16,136 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Kewpie Corporation against Jubilant Generics Limited, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 32.6/100 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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