Where does McCain Foods Limited rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), McCain Foods Limited ranks #8,432 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 McCain Foods Limited hold?

McCain Foods Limited holds 38 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 8 technology areas.

What is McCain Foods Limited's Innovation Score?

McCain Foods Limited has an Innovation Score of 36.0 out of 100 (top 48% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does McCain Foods Limited focus on?

McCain Foods Limited'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 8 CPC subclasses total.

Is McCain Foods Limited's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

McCain Foods Limited's recent grant velocity is -52% 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 McCain Foods Limited's patents?

McCain Foods Limited's patents average 4.4 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 McCain Foods Limited 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

McCain Foods Limited

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 38 granted patents across 8 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: B26D (CUTTING; Details Common TO Machines FOR Perforating, Punching, Cutting-out, Stamping-out OR Severing).

Compiled by PlainPatent · May 15, 2026

RSS updates for this company

Explore the portfolio See the ranking

The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Mccain ranks #8,432 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 38 patents across 8 technology areas.

#8,432
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 48%
by Innovation Score (36.0/100): 4.4
avg claims per patent: -52%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R8432 · Foreign Corporation #8,432 · 38 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 38 grants
UPPER-Q #8,432/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH MacDermid Enthone
CPC-NARROW B26D · 8 areas
INNOV-THIN 36.0/100
CLAIMS-SPARSE 4.4 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -52% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: MacDermid Enthone 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 Mccain’s 36.0 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 12.7 pts (35%) Velocity 10.7 pts (30%) Breadth 10.0 pts (28%) Claim depth 2.6 pts (7%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Current Health · near

36
Homewerks Worldwide · near

36
McCain Foods · this assignee

36
Nanoport Technology · near

36
Silgan Containers · near

36
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Mccain's Innovation Score is 36.0/100 (top 48% 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 Mccain?

Each dot is one of Mccain’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). Mccain’s own 4.4 claims/patent is at or below the 18.1 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Mccain's grants concentrate

McCain Foods Limited is a focused PatentsView assignee: 8 CPC subclasses with 15.8% of grants classified under B26D (CUTTING; Details Common TO Machines FOR Perforating, Punching, Cutting-out, Stamping-out OR Severing). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (21 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2019. By volume, Mccain sits between Mpow Technology Co., Limited and Micronas GmbH.

Mccain's three-year grant acceleration

McCain Foods Limited shows 8 grants in 2022–2024 against only 5 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.

Mpow Technology

38
Macdermid Enthone

38
Malwarebytes

38
Marvin Lumber and…

38
Mckesson Financia…

38
Medtentia Interna…

38
Merative US

38
Micronas

38
Mccain Foods ◀

38

What this shows McCain holds 38 patents at rank #8,438, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near McCain

By rank, the assignees closest to #8,438 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B26D (Cutting)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

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

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (36 here).

Nanoport Technology Inc. 36 Silgan Containers LLC 36 Homewerks Worldwide, LLC 36 Current Health Limited 36

Mccain's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

36 Top 48% higher than 52% 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 · 2015–2025

Grants by year

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

View data table

McCain Foods Limited patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	21	55.3%
2016	3	7.9%
2019	1	2.6%
2021	4	10.5%
2022	2	5.3%
2023	4	10.5%
2024	2	5.3%
2025partial year	1	2.6%

Which technologies does McCain Foods Limited patent most?

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

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 3

A23L - Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Preparation OR Treatment Thereof 2

A23V - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages AND Lactic OR Propionic Acid Bacteria Used IN Foodstuffs OR Food Preparation 1

A01D - HARVESTING; Mowing 1

A01G - HORTICULTURE; Cultivation OF Vegetables, Flowers, Rice, Fruit, Vines, Hops OR SEAWEED; FORESTRY; Watering 1

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 1

A23P - Shaping OR Working OF Foodstuffs, NOT Fully Covered BY A Single Other Subclass 1

Top 8 of 8 technology areas

More on this record

Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

View all rankings → How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

McCain Foods Limited's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

McCain Foods Limited's lead technology class is B26D (CUTTING; Details Common TO Machines FOR Perforating, Punching, Cutting-out, Stamping-out OR Severing), 15.8% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B26D
Ranked #8,432 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare McCain Foods Limited against Mpow Technology Co., Limited, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 36.0/100 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

Every figure on PlainPatent is rendered directly from USPTO source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on USPTO source data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 2026.