Where does Leprino Foods Company rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Leprino Foods Company ranks #15,420 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 Leprino Foods Company hold?

Leprino Foods Company holds 19 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2025, spanning 21 technology areas.

What is Leprino Foods Company's Innovation Score?

Leprino Foods Company has an Innovation Score of 54.9 out of 100 (top 7% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Leprino Foods Company focus on?

Leprino Foods Company's top technology area is A23C (Dairy Products, e.g. Milk, Butter OR CHEESE; Milk OR Cheese SUBSTITUTES; Making OR Treatment Thereof) with 11 patents, ranking #25 of 208 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 21 CPC subclasses total.

Is Leprino Foods Company's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Leprino Foods Company's recent grant velocity is +50% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Leprino Foods Company's patents?

Leprino Foods Company's patents average 25.2 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 Leprino Foods Company 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

Leprino Foods Company

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 19 granted patents across 21 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2025. 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).

Compiled by PlainPatent · May 15, 2026

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Leprino ranks #15,420 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 19 patents across 21 technology areas.

#15,420
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 7%
by Innovation Score (54.9/100): 25.2
avg claims per patent: +50%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R15420 · US Corporation #15,420 · 19 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 19 grants
MID-PACK #15,420/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Laplace Interventional
CPC-FOCUS A23C · 21 areas
INNOV-PAR 54.9/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 25.2 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +50% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Laplace Interventional Inc. (±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 Leprino’s 54.9 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 10.3 pts (19%) Velocity 13.3 pts (24%) Breadth 16.2 pts (30%) Claim depth 15.0 pts (27%)

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What this shows Leprino's Innovation Score is 54.9/100 (top 7% 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 Leprino?

Each dot is one of Leprino’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). Leprino’s own 25.2 claims/patent is ABOVE the 11.8 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Leprino's grants concentrate

Leprino Foods Company is a focused PatentsView assignee: 21 CPC subclasses with 57.9% 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 2023 (4 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2018. By volume, Leprino sits between Lsil & Co., Inc. and Light & Motion Industries.

Leprino's three-year grant acceleration

Leprino Foods Company shows 6 grants in 2022–2024 against only 3 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.

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What this shows Leprino holds 19 patents at rank #15,425, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Leprino

By rank, the assignees closest to #15,425 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A23C (Dairy Products)

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

Leprino's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

55 Top 7% higher than 93% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2016–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Leprino Foods Company patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	2	10.5%
2017	3	15.8%
2018	1	5.3%
2020	1	5.3%
2021	2	10.5%
2023	4	21.1%
2024	2	10.5%
2025partial year	4	21.1%

Which technologies does Leprino Foods Company patent most?

A23C - Dairy Products, e.g. Milk, Butter OR CHEESE; Milk OR Cheese SUBSTITUTES; Making OR Treatment Thereof 11

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

B01D - Separation 3

C09K - Materials FOR Miscellaneous Applications, NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere 2

F25D - REFRIGERATORS; Cold ROOMS; ICE-BOXES; Cooling OR Freezing Apparatus NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 2

F25C - Producing, Working OR Handling ICE 2

Y02B - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Buildings, e.g. Housing, House Appliances OR Related End-user Applications 2

Y02A - Technologies FOR Adaptation TO Climate Change 2

E04B - General Building CONSTRUCTIONS; Walls, e.g. PARTITIONS; ROOFS; FLOORS; CEILINGS; Insulation OR Other Protection OF Buildings 2

C07H - SUGARS; Derivatives THEREOF; NUCLEOSIDES; NUCLEOTIDES; Nucleic Acids 1

C12P - Fermentation OR Enzyme-using Processes TO Synthesise A Desired Chemical Compound OR Composition OR TO Separate Optical Isomers From A Racemic Mixture 1

C12Y - Enzymes 1

B65B - Machines, Apparatus OR Devices FOR, OR Methods OF, Packaging Articles OR MATERIALS; Unpacking 1

B65G - Transport OR Storage Devices, e.g. Conveyors FOR Loading OR Tipping, Shop Conveyor Systems OR Pneumatic Tube Conveyors 1

A23L - Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Preparation OR Treatment Thereof 1

Top 15 of 21 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

Leprino Foods Company's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Leprino Foods Company's lead technology class is A23C (Dairy Products, e.g. Milk, Butter OR CHEESE; Milk OR Cheese SUBSTITUTES; Making OR Treatment Thereof), 57.9% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A23C
Ranked #15,420 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Leprino Foods Company against Lsil & Co., Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 54.9/100 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

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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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