Where does Koninklijke Douwe Egberts B.V. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Koninklijke Douwe Egberts B.V. ranks #2,156 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 Koninklijke Douwe Egberts B.V. hold?

Koninklijke Douwe Egberts B.V. holds 183 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 34 technology areas.

What is Koninklijke Douwe Egberts B.V.'s Innovation Score?

Koninklijke Douwe Egberts B.V. has an Innovation Score of 57.8 out of 100 (top 5% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Koninklijke Douwe Egberts B.V. focus on?

Koninklijke Douwe Egberts B.V.'s top technology area is A47J (Kitchen EQUIPMENT; Coffee MILLS; Spice MILLS; Apparatus FOR Making Beverages) with 145 patents, ranking #6 of 793 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 34 CPC subclasses total.

Is Koninklijke Douwe Egberts B.V.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Koninklijke Douwe Egberts B.V.'s recent grant velocity is +5% 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 Koninklijke Douwe Egberts B.V.'s patents?

Koninklijke Douwe Egberts B.V.'s patents average 23.8 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 Koninklijke Douwe Egberts B.V. 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

Koninklijke Douwe Egberts B.V.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 183 granted patents across 34 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: A47J (Kitchen EQUIPMENT; Coffee MILLS; Spice MILLS; Apparatus FOR Making Beverages).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Koninklijke ranks #2,156 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 183 patents across 34 technology areas.

#2,156
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 5%
by Innovation Score (57.8/100): 23.8
avg claims per patent: +5%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2156 · Foreign Corporation #2,156 · 183 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-FLAT · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 183 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,156/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Danmarks Tekniske…
CPC-FOCUS A47J · 34 areas
INNOV-PAR 57.8/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 23.8 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-FLAT +5% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Danmarks Tekniske Universitet (±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 Koninklijke’s 57.8 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 18.0 pts (31%) Velocity 4.9 pts (8%) Breadth 20.6 pts (36%) Claim depth 14.3 pts (25%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Valve · near

58
Clarios Germany & KG · near

58
Koninklijke Douwe… · this assignee

58
Zoetis Services · near

58
International Paper · near

58
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Koninklijke's Innovation Score is 57.8/100 (top 5% 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 Koninklijke?

Each dot is one of Koninklijke’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). Koninklijke’s own 23.8 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.0 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Koninklijke's grants concentrate

Koninklijke Douwe Egberts B.V. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 34 CPC subclasses with 79.2% of grants classified under A47J (Kitchen EQUIPMENT; Coffee MILLS; Spice MILLS; Apparatus FOR Making Beverages). Peak complete grant year is 2017 (25 grants) versus a trough of 9 in 2015. By volume, Koninklijke sits between DR. Johannes Heidenhain GMBH and Pony AI Inc..

Koninklijke's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Koninklijke Douwe Egberts B.V. moved from 59 to 43 grants (0.73x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). Among 3,296 tracked assignees with ≥100 grants and ≥20 prior-period grants, that multiple ranks #2,060. See the growth leaderboard.

DR Johannes Heide…

183
Danmarks Tekniske…

183
Electro-motive Di…

183
Huawei Cloud Comp…

183
Montres Breguet

183
National Cancer C…

183
Panasonic Healthc…

183
Pony AI

183
Koninklijke Douwe… ◀

183

What this shows Koninklijke holds 183 patents at rank #2,156, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Koninklijke

By rank, the assignees closest to #2,156 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A47J (Kitchen Equipment)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Koninklijke, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A47J (Kitchen Equipment), Koninklijke ranks #6 of 793 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (58 here).

Zoetis Services LLC 58 Clarios Germany GmbH & Co. KG 58 International Paper Company 58 Valve Corporation 58

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (23.8 here).

Array BioPharma, Inc. 23.8 avg KLA Corporation 23.8 avg Hollingsworth & Vose Company 23.8 avg Haemonetics Corporation 23.8 avg

Koninklijke's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

58 Top 5% higher than 95% 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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Koninklijke Douwe Egberts B.V. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	9	4.9%
2016	19	10.4%
2017	25	13.7%
2018	17	9.3%
2019	14	7.7%
2020	23	12.6%
2021	22	12.0%
2022	13	7.1%
2023	16	8.7%
2024	14	7.7%
2025partial year	11	6.0%

Which technologies does Koninklijke Douwe Egberts B.V. patent most?

A47J - Kitchen EQUIPMENT; Coffee MILLS; Spice MILLS; Apparatus FOR Making Beverages 145

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 92

A23F - COFFEE; TEA; Their SUBSTITUTES; Manufacture, Preparation, OR Infusion Thereof 51

B67D - Dispensing, Delivering OR Transferring Liquids, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 17

A23L - Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Preparation OR Treatment Thereof 12

A23C - Dairy Products, e.g. Milk, Butter OR CHEESE; Milk OR Cheese SUBSTITUTES; Making OR Treatment Thereof 8

B65B - Machines, Apparatus OR Devices FOR, OR Methods OF, Packaging Articles OR MATERIALS; Unpacking 8

G01F - Measuring Volume, Volume Flow, Mass Flow OR Liquid LEVEL; Metering BY Volume 7

A23V - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages AND Lactic OR Propionic Acid Bacteria Used IN Foodstuffs OR Food Preparation 7

A23P - Shaping OR Working OF Foodstuffs, NOT Fully Covered BY A Single Other Subclass 6

H04M - Telephonic Communication 4

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 4

G07F - Coin-freed OR Like Apparatus 4

B08B - Cleaning IN GENERAL; Prevention OF Fouling IN General 3

B01F - Mixing, e.g. Dissolving, Emulsifying OR Dispersing 3

Top 15 of 34 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

Koninklijke Douwe Egberts B.V.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Koninklijke Douwe Egberts B.V.'s lead technology class is A47J (Kitchen EQUIPMENT; Coffee MILLS; Spice MILLS; Apparatus FOR Making Beverages), 79.2% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A47J
Ranked #2,156 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Koninklijke Douwe Egberts B.V. against DR. Johannes Heidenhain GMBH, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 57.8/100 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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