Where does Lamb Weston, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Lamb Weston, Inc. ranks #6,675 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 Lamb Weston, Inc. hold?

Lamb Weston, Inc. holds 50 US utility patents granted between 2018 and 2025, spanning 7 technology areas.

What is Lamb Weston, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Lamb Weston, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 29.2 out of 100 (30th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Lamb Weston, Inc. focus on?

Lamb Weston, Inc.'s top technology area is B26D (CUTTING; Details Common TO Machines FOR Perforating, Punching, Cutting-out, Stamping-out OR Severing) with 6 patents, ranking #59 of 595 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 7 CPC subclasses total.

Is Lamb Weston, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Lamb Weston, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +290% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Lamb Weston, Inc.'s patents?

Lamb Weston, Inc.'s patents average 4.7 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 Lamb Weston, 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

Lamb Weston, Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 50 granted patents across 7 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2018–2025. 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: B26D (CUTTING; Details Common TO Machines FOR Perforating, Punching, Cutting-out, Stamping-out OR Severing).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Lamb ranks #6,675 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 50 patents across 7 technology areas.

#6,675
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 30th percentile
by Innovation Score (29.2/100): 4.7
avg claims per patent: +290%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R6675 · US Corporation #6,675 · 50 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-SPARSE · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 50 grants
UPPER-Q #6,675/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Kagoshima University
CPC-NARROW B26D · 7 areas
INNOV-THIN 29.2/100
CLAIMS-SPARSE 4.7 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +290% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Kagoshima University (±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 Lamb’s 29.2 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 13.6 pts (47%) Velocity 3.4 pts (12%) Breadth 9.4 pts (32%) Claim depth 2.8 pts (10%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Darco International · near

29
Raptor Pharmaceuticals · near

29
Lamb Weston · this assignee

29
Dispersive Networks · near

29
Kichler Lighting · near

29
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Lamb's Innovation Score is 29.2/100 (30th 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 Lamb?

Each dot is one of Lamb’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). Lamb’s own 4.7 claims/patent is at or below the 14.0 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Lamb's grants concentrate

Lamb Weston, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 7 CPC subclasses with 12% of grants classified under B26D (CUTTING; Details Common TO Machines FOR Perforating, Punching, Cutting-out, Stamping-out OR Severing). Peak complete grant year is 2020 (13 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2018. By volume, Lamb sits between Klingelnberg GMBH and Ningbo Futai Electric Limited.

Lamb's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Lamb Weston, Inc. moved from 31 to 16 grants (0.52x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Klingelnberg

50
Kosmek

50
Kagoshima Univers…

50
Koss

50
Loci Controls

50
Mftb Holdco

50
Montage Technology

50
Ningbo Futai Elec…

50
Lamb Weston ◀

50

What this shows Lamb holds 50 patents at rank #6,674, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Lamb

By rank, the assignees closest to #6,674 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B26D (Cutting)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Lamb, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B26D (Cutting), Lamb ranks #59 of 595 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (29 here).

Raptor Pharmaceuticals Inc. 29 Darco International, Inc. 29 Kichler Lighting LLC 29 Dispersive Networks, Inc. 29

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (4.7 here).

SMK Corporation 4.7 avg Ledil OY 4.7 avg Topgolf Callaway Brands Corp. 4.7 avg Toyo Tire & Rubber Co., Ltd. 4.7 avg

Lamb's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

29 30th percentile higher than 30% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2018–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2018–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Lamb Weston, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2018	2	4.0%
2019	8	16.0%
2020	13	26.0%
2021	10	20.0%
2022	7	14.0%
2023	4	8.0%
2024	5	10.0%
2025partial year	1	2.0%

Which technologies does Lamb Weston, Inc. patent most?

B26D - CUTTING; Details Common TO Machines FOR Perforating, Punching, Cutting-out, Stamping-out OR Severing 6

B07C - Postal SORTING; Sorting Individual Articles, OR Bulk Material FIT TO BE Sorted Piece-meal, e.g. BY Picking 5

F16C - SHAFTS; Flexible SHAFTS; Elements OR Crankshaft MECHANISMS; Rotary Bodies Other Than Gearing ELEMENTS; Bearings 3

F15B - Systems Acting BY Means OF Fluids IN GENERAL; Fluid-pressure Actuators, e.g. SERVOMOTORS; Details OF Fluid-pressure Systems, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 3

F16K - VALVES; TAPS; COCKS; ACTUATING-FLOATS; Devices FOR Venting OR Aerating 2

B02C - Crushing, Pulverising, OR Disintegrating IN GENERAL; Milling Grain 1

A23N - Machines OR Apparatus FOR Treating Harvested Fruit, Vegetables OR Flower Bulbs IN Bulk, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Peeling Vegetables OR Fruit IN BULK; Apparatus FOR Preparing Animal Feeding- Stuffs 1

Top 7 of 7 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

Lamb Weston, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Lamb Weston, Inc.'s lead technology class is B26D (CUTTING; Details Common TO Machines FOR Perforating, Punching, Cutting-out, Stamping-out OR Severing), 12% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B26D
Ranked #6,675 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Lamb Weston, Inc. against Klingelnberg GMBH, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 29.2/100 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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