Where does Kraft Foods R & D, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Kraft Foods R & D, Inc. ranks #5,603 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 Kraft Foods R & D, Inc. hold?

Kraft Foods R & D, Inc. holds 61 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2019, spanning 26 technology areas.

What is Kraft Foods R & D, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Kraft Foods R & D, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 40.6 out of 100 (top 35% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Kraft Foods R & D, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Kraft Foods R & D, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -100% 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 Kraft Foods R & D, Inc.'s patents?

Kraft Foods R & D, Inc.'s patents average 13.9 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 Kraft Foods R & D, 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

Kraft Foods R & D, Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Kraft Foods R & D, Inc. focus on?

Kraft Foods R & D, Inc.'s top technology area is 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) with 22 patents, ranking #152 of 3,365 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 26 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 61 granted patents across 26 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2019. 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: 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 F).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Kraft ranks #5,603 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 61 patents across 26 technology areas.

#5,603
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 35%
by Innovation Score (40.6/100): 13.9
avg claims per patent: -100%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R5603 · US Corporation #5,603 · 61 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 61 grants
UPPER-Q #5,603/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Innovaplant…
CPC-FOCUS B65D · 26 areas
INNOV-PAR 40.6/100
CLAIMS-RICH 13.9 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -100% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Innovaplant Zierpflanzen GmbH + Co. KG (±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 Kraft’s 40.6 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 14.3 pts (35%) Velocity 0.0 pts (0%) Breadth 18.0 pts (44%) Claim depth 8.3 pts (20%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Cdgm Glass · near

41
Kraft Foods R & D · this assignee

41
Ningbo Fotile… · near

41
Shenzhen Guanke · near

41
Standard Bariatrics · near

41
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Kraft's Innovation Score is 40.6/100 (top 35% 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 Kraft?

Each dot is one of Kraft’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). Kraft’s own 13.9 claims/patent is ABOVE the 13.8 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Kraft's grants concentrate

Kraft Foods R & D, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 26 CPC subclasses with 36.1% of grants classified under 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 F). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (15 grants) versus a trough of 10 in 2018. By volume, Kraft sits between Innovaplant Zierpflanzen GmbH + Co. KG and Light Labs Inc..

Innovaplant Zierp…

61
Inpria

61
Institute for Res…

61
Kolster Holding B…

61
Kimball Internati…

61
Lesaffre ET Compa…

61
Lone Gull Holdings

61
Light Labs

61
Kraft Foods R & D ◀

61

What this shows Kraft holds 61 patents at rank #5,600, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Kraft

By rank, the assignees closest to #5,600 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B65D (Containers FOR Storage OR Transport OF Articles OR Materials)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Kraft, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B65D (Containers FOR Storage OR Transport OF Articles OR Materials), Kraft ranks #152 of 3,365 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (41 here).

Shenzhen Guanke Technologies Co., Ltd 41 Standard Bariatrics, Inc. 41 Cdgm Glass Co., Ltd 41 Ningbo Fotile Kitchen Ware Co., Ltd. 41

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (13.9 here).

Diehl Aerospace GmbH 13.9 avg KPR U.S., LLC 13.9 avg UNIVERSITÉ Paris DIDEROT—PARIS 7 13.9 avg Xiaomi 13.9 avg

Kraft's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

41 Top 35% higher than 65% of 49,997 US assignees

Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more US assignees. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.

Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2019

Grants by year

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

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Kraft Foods R & D, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	15	24.6%
2016	15	24.6%
2017	11	18.0%
2018	10	16.4%
2019	10	16.4%

Which technologies does Kraft Foods R & D, Inc. patent most?

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 22

A23G - COCOA; Cocoa Products, e.g. CHOCOLATE; Substitutes FOR Cocoa OR Cocoa PRODUCTS; CONFECTIONERY; Chewing GUM; ICE-CREAM; Preparation Thereof 16

A47J - Kitchen EQUIPMENT; Coffee MILLS; Spice MILLS; Apparatus FOR Making Beverages 15

A23F - COFFEE; TEA; Their SUBSTITUTES; Manufacture, Preparation, OR Infusion Thereof 9

A23V - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages AND Lactic OR Propionic Acid Bacteria Used IN Foodstuffs OR Food Preparation 8

B65B - Machines, Apparatus OR Devices FOR, OR Methods OF, Packaging Articles OR MATERIALS; Unpacking 6

A23L - Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Preparation OR Treatment Thereof 4

A23P - Shaping OR Working OF Foodstuffs, NOT Fully Covered BY A Single Other Subclass 4

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

A23C - Dairy Products, e.g. Milk, Butter OR CHEESE; Milk OR Cheese SUBSTITUTES; Making OR Treatment Thereof 3

B31B - Making Containers OF Paper, Cardboard OR Material Worked IN A Manner Analogous TO Paper 2

B65G - Transport OR Storage Devices, e.g. Conveyors FOR Loading OR Tipping, Shop Conveyor Systems OR Pneumatic Tube Conveyors 2

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 2

A47G - Household OR Table Equipment 2

A01J - Manufacture OF Dairy Products 2

Top 15 of 26 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

Kraft Foods R & D, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Kraft Foods R & D, Inc.'s lead technology class is 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 F), 36.1% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B65D
Ranked #5,603 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Kraft Foods R & D, Inc. against Innovaplant Zierpflanzen GmbH + Co. KG, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 40.6/100 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

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