Where does Linco Food Systems A/S rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Linco Food Systems A/S ranks #12,523 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 Linco Food Systems A/S hold?

Linco Food Systems A/S holds 24 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2024, spanning 7 technology areas.

What is Linco Food Systems A/S's Innovation Score?

Linco Food Systems A/S has an Innovation Score of 37.4 out of 100 (top 44% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Linco Food Systems A/S focus on?

Linco Food Systems A/S's top technology area is A22C (Processing Meat, Poultry, OR Fish) with 18 patents, ranking #15 of 119 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 7 CPC subclasses total.

Is Linco Food Systems A/S's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Linco Food Systems A/S's recent grant velocity is -50% 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 Linco Food Systems A/S's patents?

Linco Food Systems A/S's patents average 25.0 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 Linco Food Systems A/S 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

Linco Food Systems A/S

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 24 granted patents across 7 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2024. 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: A22C (Processing Meat, Poultry, OR Fish).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Linco ranks #12,523 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 24 patents across 7 technology areas.

#12,523
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 44%
by Innovation Score (37.4/100): 25.0
avg claims per patent: -50%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R12523 · Foreign Corporation #12,523 · 24 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 24 grants
MID-PACK #12,523/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Legrand SNC
CPC-NARROW A22C · 7 areas
INNOV-THIN 37.4/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 25.0 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -50% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Legrand SNC (±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 Linco’s 37.4 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 11.1 pts (30%) Velocity 1.9 pts (5%) Breadth 9.4 pts (25%) Claim depth 15.0 pts (40%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
China Pharmaceutical… · near

37
Daesang · near

37
The Research… · near

37
Grand Design RV · near

37
Linco Food Systems A/S · this assignee

37
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Linco's Innovation Score is 37.4/100 (top 44% 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 Linco?

Each dot is one of Linco’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). Linco’s own 25.0 claims/patent is ABOVE the 19.0 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Linco's grants concentrate

Linco Food Systems A/S is a focused PatentsView assignee: 7 CPC subclasses with 75% of grants classified under A22C (Processing Meat, Poultry, OR Fish). Peak complete grant year is 2018 (5 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2019. By volume, Linco sits between Legrand SNC and Lookingglass Cyber Solutions, Inc..

Linco's three-year grant acceleration

Linco Food Systems A/S shows 2 grants in 2022–2024 against only 7 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.

Legrand SNC

24
LEO Laboratories

24
LG Magna E-powert…

24
Lghorizon

24
Lisnr

24
Lock N Climb

24
Loma Vista Medical

24
Lookingglass Cybe…

24
Linco Food System… ◀

24

What this shows Linco holds 24 patents at rank #12,518, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Linco

By rank, the assignees closest to #12,518 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A22C (Processing Meat)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Linco, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A22C (Processing Meat), Linco ranks #15 of 119 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (37 here).

Grand Design RV, LLC 37 China Pharmaceutical University 37 The Research Foundation for Mental Hygiene, Inc 37 Daesang Corporation 37

Linco's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

37 Top 44% higher than 56% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2024

Grants by year

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

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Linco Food Systems A/S patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	3	12.5%
2016	3	12.5%
2017	4	16.7%
2018	5	20.8%
2019	1	4.2%
2020	3	12.5%
2021	3	12.5%
2022	1	4.2%
2024	1	4.2%

Which technologies does Linco Food Systems A/S patent most?

A22C - Processing Meat, Poultry, OR Fish 18

A22B - Slaughtering 6

A01K - Animal HUSBANDRY; AVICULTURE; APICULTURE; PISCICULTURE; FISHING; Rearing OR Breeding Animals, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; NEW Breeds OF Animals 3

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 3

Y02A - Technologies FOR Adaptation TO Climate Change 1

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 1

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 1

Top 7 of 7 technology areas

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

View all rankings → How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

Linco Food Systems A/S's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Linco Food Systems A/S's lead technology class is A22C (Processing Meat, Poultry, OR Fish), 75% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A22C
Ranked #12,523 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Linco Food Systems A/S against Legrand SNC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 37.4/100 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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