Where does Mead Johnson Nutrition Company rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Mead Johnson Nutrition Company ranks #5,230 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 Mead Johnson Nutrition Company hold?

Mead Johnson Nutrition Company holds 66 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2023, spanning 20 technology areas.

What is Mead Johnson Nutrition Company's Innovation Score?

Mead Johnson Nutrition Company has an Innovation Score of 39.7 out of 100 (top 37% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Mead Johnson Nutrition Company's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Mead Johnson Nutrition Company's recent grant velocity is -53% 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 Mead Johnson Nutrition Company's patents?

Mead Johnson Nutrition Company's patents average 11.9 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 Mead Johnson Nutrition 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

Mead Johnson Nutrition Company

Q: What technology areas does Mead Johnson Nutrition Company focus on?

Mead Johnson Nutrition Company's top technology area is A23L (Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Preparation OR Treatment Thereof) with 37 patents. Grants appear in 20 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 66 granted patents across 20 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2023. 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, Mead ranks #5,230 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 66 patents across 20 technology areas.

#5,230
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 37%
by Innovation Score (39.7/100): 11.9
avg claims per patent: -53%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R5230 · US Corporation #5,230 · 66 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 66 grants
UPPER-Q #5,230/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Magseis FF
CPC-FOCUS A23L · 20 areas
INNOV-THIN 39.7/100
CLAIMS-PAR 11.9 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -53% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Magseis FF LLC (±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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
KHN Solutions · near

40
KSB Aktiengesellschaft · near

40
Mead Johnson Nutrition · this assignee

40
Medical Components · near

40
Wuhan Xinxin… · near

40
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Mead's Innovation Score is 39.7/100 (top 37% 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.

Where Mead's grants concentrate

Mead Johnson Nutrition Company is a focused PatentsView assignee: 20 CPC subclasses with 56.1% of grants classified under A23L (Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Preparation OR Treatment Thereof). Peak complete grant year is 2016 (24 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2022. By volume, Mead sits between Mapsted Corp. and Nexeon Limited.

Mead's three-year grant acceleration

Mead Johnson Nutrition Company shows 6 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.

Mapsted

66
Mayekawa MFG

66
Medtronic Ablatio…

66
Magseis FF

66
Mobius Imaging

66
Netlist

66
New Audio

66
Nexeon

66
Mead Johnson Nutr… ◀

66

What this shows Mead holds 66 patents at rank #5,231, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Mead

By rank, the assignees closest to #5,231 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A23L (Foods)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Mead, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above).

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (40 here).

Wuhan Xinxin Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd. 40 Medical Components, Inc. 40 KHN Solutions, LLC 40 KSB Aktiengesellschaft 40

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (11.9 here).

BorgWarner Ludwigsburg GmbH 11.9 avg Bobst MEX SA 11.9 avg Korea Research Institute OF Standards AND Science 11.9 avg LS Electric Co., Ltd. 11.9 avg

Mead's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

40 Top 37% higher than 63% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2023

Grants by year

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

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Mead Johnson Nutrition Company patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	6	9.1%
2016	24	36.4%
2017	5	7.6%
2018	7	10.6%
2019	3	4.5%
2020	8	12.1%
2021	7	10.6%
2022	2	3.0%
2023	4	6.1%

Which technologies does Mead Johnson Nutrition Company patent most?

A23L - Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Preparation OR Treatment Thereof 37

A23V - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages AND Lactic OR Propionic Acid Bacteria Used IN Foodstuffs OR Food Preparation 32

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 31

A61P - Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations 20

A23J - Protein Compositions FOR FOODSTUFFS; Working-up Proteins FOR FOODSTUFFS; Phosphatide Compositions FOR Foodstuffs 7

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

C12Y - Enzymes 4

C12N - Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media 2

B65B - Machines, Apparatus OR Devices FOR, OR Methods OF, Packaging Articles OR MATERIALS; Unpacking 2

G01F - Measuring Volume, Volume Flow, Mass Flow OR Liquid LEVEL; Metering BY Volume 2

Y02A - Technologies FOR Adaptation TO Climate Change 2

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

A47G - Household OR Table Equipment 1

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

Top 15 of 20 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#5,230

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

39.7 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

Mead Johnson Nutrition Company's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Mead Johnson Nutrition Company's lead technology class is A23L (Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Preparation OR Treatment Thereof), 56.1% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A23L
Ranked #5,230 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Mead Johnson Nutrition Company against Mapsted Corp., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 39.7/100 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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