Where does Land O'Lakes, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Land O'Lakes, Inc. ranks #6,044 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 Land O'Lakes, Inc. hold?

Land O'Lakes, Inc. holds 56 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 18 technology areas.

What is Land O'Lakes, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Land O'Lakes, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 41.8 out of 100 (top 32% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Land O'Lakes, Inc. focus on?

Land O'Lakes, Inc.'s top technology area is A23C (Dairy Products, e.g. Milk, Butter OR CHEESE; Milk OR Cheese SUBSTITUTES; Making OR Treatment Thereof) with 28 patents, ranking #5 of 208 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 18 CPC subclasses total.

Is Land O'Lakes, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Land O'Lakes, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +22% 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 Land O'Lakes, Inc.'s patents?

Land O'Lakes, Inc.'s patents average 10.3 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 Land O'Lakes, 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

Land O'Lakes, Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 56 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: A23C (Dairy Products, e.g. Milk, Butter OR CHEESE; Milk OR Cheese SUBSTITUTES; Making OR Treatment Thereof).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Land ranks #6,044 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 56 patents across 18 technology areas.

#6,044
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 32%
by Innovation Score (41.8/100): 10.3
avg claims per patent: +22%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R6044 · US Corporation #6,044 · 56 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 56 grants
UPPER-Q #6,044/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Knauf Insulation Sprl
CPC-FOCUS A23C · 18 areas
INNOV-PAR 41.8/100
CLAIMS-PAR 10.3 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-UP +22% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Knauf Insulation Sprl (±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 Land’s 41.8 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 14.0 pts (33%) Velocity 6.7 pts (16%) Breadth 15.0 pts (36%) Claim depth 6.2 pts (15%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Forma Therapeutics · near

42
IQ-Analog · near

42
Land O'Lakes · this assignee

42
Mawetal · near

42
Wako Pure Chemical… · near

42
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Land's Innovation Score is 41.8/100 (top 32% 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 Land?

Each dot is one of Land’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). Land’s own 10.3 claims/patent is at or below the 14.1 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Land's grants concentrate

Land O'Lakes, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 18 CPC subclasses with 50% of grants classified under A23C (Dairy Products, e.g. Milk, Butter OR CHEESE; Milk OR Cheese SUBSTITUTES; Making OR Treatment Thereof). Peak complete grant year is 2019 (8 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2016. By volume, Land sits between Korea Institute OF Civil Engineering AND Building Technology and Menicon Co., Ltd..

Land's three-year grant acceleration

Land O'Lakes, Inc. shows 18 grants in 2022–2024 against only 18 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.

Korea Institute O…

56
KX

56
Knauf Insulation…

56
LF Centennial

56
Leupold & Stevens

56
Longitude Semicon…

56
Martin Profession…

56
Menicon

56
Land O'lakes ◀

56

What this shows Land holds 56 patents at rank #6,045, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Land

By rank, the assignees closest to #6,045 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A23C (Dairy Products)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Land, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A23C (Dairy Products), Land ranks #5 of 208 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (42 here).

Forma Therapeutics, Inc. 42 IQ-Analog Corporation 42 Wako Pure Chemical Industries, Ltd. 42 Mawetal LLC 42

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (10.3 here).

Revision Military S.a.r.L. 10.3 avg I-shou University 10.3 avg Jxtg Nippon OIL & Energy Corporation 10.3 avg Hanwha Solutions Corporation 10.3 avg

Land's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

42 Top 32% higher than 68% 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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Land O'Lakes, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	4	7.1%
2016	2	3.6%
2017	4	7.1%
2018	5	8.9%
2019	8	14.3%
2020	2	3.6%
2021	8	14.3%
2022	6	10.7%
2023	7	12.5%
2024	5	8.9%
2025partial year	5	8.9%

Which technologies does Land O'Lakes, Inc. patent most?

A23C - Dairy Products, e.g. Milk, Butter OR CHEESE; Milk OR Cheese SUBSTITUTES; Making OR Treatment Thereof 28

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

A23D - Edible Oils OR Fats, e.g. Margarines, Shortenings OR Cooking Oils 5

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

A23K - Fodder 5

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 5

Y10S - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former Uspc Cross-reference ART Collections [XRACs] AND Digests 5

A23J - Protein Compositions FOR FOODSTUFFS; Working-up Proteins FOR FOODSTUFFS; Phosphatide Compositions FOR Foodstuffs 4

B01D - Separation 4

A01G - HORTICULTURE; Cultivation OF Vegetables, Flowers, Rice, Fruit, Vines, Hops OR SEAWEED; FORESTRY; Watering 3

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 3

G06Q - Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory Purposes, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 3

A01J - Manufacture OF Dairy Products 3

A23P - Shaping OR Working OF Foodstuffs, NOT Fully Covered BY A Single Other Subclass 3

A23B - Preservation OF Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic BEVERAGES; Chemical Ripening OF Fruit OR Vegetables 3

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

Land O'Lakes, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Land O'Lakes, Inc.'s lead technology class is A23C (Dairy Products, e.g. Milk, Butter OR CHEESE; Milk OR Cheese SUBSTITUTES; Making OR Treatment Thereof), 50% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A23C
Ranked #6,044 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Land O'Lakes, Inc. against Korea Institute OF Civil Engineering AND Building Technology, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 41.8/100 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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