Where does McCormick & Company, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), McCormick & Company, Inc. ranks #7,043 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 McCormick & Company, Inc. hold?

McCormick & Company, Inc. holds 47 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 18 technology areas.

What is McCormick & Company, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

McCormick & Company, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 46.0 out of 100 (top 22% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is McCormick & Company, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

McCormick & Company, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -24% 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 McCormick & Company, Inc.'s patents?

McCormick & Company, Inc.'s patents average 8.5 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 McCormick & Company, 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

McCormick & Company, Inc.

Q: What technology areas does McCormick & Company, Inc. focus on?

McCormick & Company, Inc.'s top technology area is A23L (Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Preparation OR Treatment Thereof) with 7 patents, ranking #239 of 1,325 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 18 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 47 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: A23L (Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Preparation OR Treatment Thereof).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Mccormick ranks #7,043 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 47 patents across 18 technology areas.

#7,043
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 22%
by Innovation Score (46.0/100): 8.5
avg claims per patent: -24%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R7043 · US Corporation #7,043 · 47 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 47 grants
UPPER-Q #7,043/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Make Great Sales
CPC-FOCUS A23L · 18 areas
INNOV-PAR 46.0/100
CLAIMS-PAR 8.5 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DOWN -24% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Make Great Sales Limited (±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 Mccormick’s 46.0 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 13.4 pts (29%) Velocity 12.5 pts (27%) Breadth 15.0 pts (33%) Claim depth 5.1 pts (11%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Avintiv Specialty… · near

46
McCormick & · this assignee

46
Middle Chart · near

46
Mitsubishi Paper Mills · near

46
The Eastern · near

46
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Mccormick's Innovation Score is 46.0/100 (top 22% 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 Mccormick?

Each dot is one of Mccormick’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). Mccormick’s own 8.5 claims/patent is at or below the 16.1 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Mccormick's grants concentrate

McCormick & Company, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 18 CPC subclasses with 14.9% of grants classified under A23L (Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Preparation OR Treatment Thereof). Peak complete grant year is 2023 (8 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2020. By volume, Mccormick sits between MTS Systems Corporation and Neuboron Medtech Ltd..

Mccormick's three-year grant acceleration

McCormick & Company, Inc. shows 15 grants in 2022–2024 against only 8 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.

MTS Systems

47
Make Great Sales

47
Marchesini Group…

47
Maxar Space

47
Mettler-toledo In…

47
Mevion Medical Sy…

47
Microchip Technol…

47
Neuboron Medtech

47
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47

What this shows McCormick holds 47 patents at rank #7,045, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near McCormick

By rank, the assignees closest to #7,045 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A23L (Foods)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for McCormick, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A23L (Foods), McCormick ranks #239 of 1,325 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (46 here).

Avintiv Specialty Materials Inc. 46 The Eastern Company 46 Mitsubishi Paper Mills Limited 46 Middle Chart, LLC 46

Mccormick's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

46 Top 22% higher than 78% 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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McCormick & Company, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	7	14.9%
2016	4	8.5%
2017	5	10.6%
2018	5	10.6%
2019	4	8.5%
2020	1	2.1%
2021	3	6.4%
2022	2	4.3%
2023	8	17.0%
2024	5	10.6%
2025partial year	3	6.4%

Which technologies does McCormick & Company, Inc. patent most?

A23L - Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Preparation OR Treatment Thereof 7

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 6

A23P - Shaping OR Working OF Foodstuffs, NOT Fully Covered BY A Single Other Subclass 5

A23V - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages AND Lactic OR Propionic Acid Bacteria Used IN Foodstuffs OR Food Preparation 4

A47J - Kitchen EQUIPMENT; Coffee MILLS; Spice MILLS; Apparatus FOR Making Beverages 2

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 2

A23D - Edible Oils OR Fats, e.g. Margarines, Shortenings OR Cooking Oils 1

A61P - Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations 1

A23B - Preservation OF Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic BEVERAGES; Chemical Ripening OF Fruit OR Vegetables 1

A47G - Household OR Table Equipment 1

B05B - Spraying APPARATUS; Atomising APPARATUS; Nozzles 1

B01J - Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus 1

G01F - Measuring Volume, Volume Flow, Mass Flow OR Liquid LEVEL; Metering BY Volume 1

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 1

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 1

Top 15 of 18 technology areas

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Data Source

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What to do with this data

McCormick & Company, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

McCormick & Company, Inc.'s lead technology class is A23L (Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Preparation OR Treatment Thereof), 14.9% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A23L
Ranked #7,043 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare McCormick & Company, Inc. against MTS Systems Corporation, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 46.0/100 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

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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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