Where does Megmilk SNOW Brand Co., Ltd. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Megmilk SNOW Brand Co., Ltd. ranks #18,886 of 50,000 assignees by granted-patent volume, the same sort as the companies listing and top-holders ranking. See /methodology/#corpus-placement.

How many patents does Megmilk SNOW Brand Co., Ltd. hold?

Megmilk SNOW Brand Co., Ltd. holds 15 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2022, spanning 17 technology areas.

What is Megmilk SNOW Brand Co., Ltd.'s Innovation Score?

Megmilk SNOW Brand Co., Ltd. has an Innovation Score of 31.1 out of 100 (top 64% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Megmilk SNOW Brand Co., Ltd.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Megmilk SNOW Brand Co., Ltd.'s recent grant velocity is -85% 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 Megmilk SNOW Brand Co., Ltd.'s patents?

Megmilk SNOW Brand Co., Ltd.'s patents average 7.8 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 Megmilk SNOW Brand Co., Ltd. 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

Megmilk SNOW Brand Co., Ltd.

Q: What technology areas does Megmilk SNOW Brand Co., Ltd. focus on?

Megmilk SNOW Brand Co., Ltd.'s top technology area is A61K (PREPARATIONS FOR MEDICAL, DENTAL OR TOILETRY PURPOSES) with 14 patents. Grants appear in 17 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 15 granted patents across 17 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2022. 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: A61K (PREPARATIONS FOR MEDICAL, DENTAL OR TOILETRY PURPOSES).

Compiled by PlainPatent · May 15, 2026

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Megmilk ranks #18,886 of 50,000 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 15 patents across 17 technology areas.

#18,886
of 50,000 US assignees by volume: Top 64%
by Innovation Score (31.1/100): 7.8
avg claims per patent: -85%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R18886 · Foreign Corporation #18,886 · 15 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-SPARSE · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 15 grants
MID-PACK #18,886/50,000
PHOTO-FINISH MATERIAL SCIENCE
CPC-FOCUS A61K · 17 areas
INNOV-THIN 31.1/100
CLAIMS-SPARSE 7.8 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -85% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Material Science Co., Ltd. (±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
Megmilk SNOW Brand · this assignee

31
3D Lighting Innovati… · lowest

7

What this shows Megmilk SNOW Brand Co., Ltd. stamps GRANTS-MICRO, MID-PACK, PHOTO-FINISH, CPC-FOCUS, INNOV-THIN, CLAIMS-SPARSE, TYPE-FRNCORP, VEL-DROP, BOOK-FULL. Volume places it #18,886 of 50,000; Innovation Score 31.1/100 sits in the top 64% of the PatentsView-derived corpus. Closest grant-volume peer on this plate is Material Science Co., Ltd. (±0 grants).

Portfolio overview

Megmilk SNOW Brand Co., Ltd. has been granted 15 US utility patents between 2015 and 2022, placing Megmilk SNOW Brand Co., Ltd. at #18,886 of 50,000 across all assignees tracked by PlainPatent. This portfolio spans 17 distinct Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC) subclasses, averaging 7.8 claims per patent with primary concentration in A61K (PREPARATIONS FOR MEDICAL, DENTAL OR TOILETRY PURPOSES). As a Foreign Corporation, Megmilk SNOW Brand Co., Ltd. is one of the more focused assignees in the PatentsView dataset. By volume, Megmilk sits between Material Science Co., Ltd. (15 patents, rank #18,870) and Michael Hörauf Maschinenfabrik Gmbh UND Co. KG (15 patents, rank #18,878) - the closest US assignees by grant volume. The composite Innovation Score of 31.1/100 blends portfolio volume, grant velocity, technology breadth, and claim depth into a single comparable measure drawn directly from USPTO PatentsView records.

Grant cadence records the difference between two grant-year windows. Between 2020 and 2024 the company received 2 grants, compared with 13 in the 2015–2019 window, a -85% shift in five-year grant velocity. Both windows cover five complete grant years; the latest PatentsView year is a partial release and is excluded from this comparison, though it still appears in the yearly table and chart below. Grant timing can lag the related application by years, so this comparison does not establish current R&D spending, strategic intent, or a company’s application activity. The Foreign Corporation classification provides context for the assignee record, not a conclusion about its business strategy.

Claim depth and technology breadth describe this aggregate record. Megmilk SNOW Brand Co., Ltd.'s 7.8 average claims per patent is an average count, not a measure of claim scope, legal strength, enforceability, or design-around risk. The record spans 17 CPC subclasses. Combined with portfolio volume, these figures let readers compare the documented grant records of assignees in similar technology classes.

Material Science

15
Mayser

15
Mechanix WEAR

15
Medasense Biometr…

15
Merck KGAA

15
Mertek Industries

15
Metgen OY

15
Michael HÖRAUF Ma…

15
Megmilk SNOW Brand ◀

15

What this shows Megmilk holds 15 patents at rank #18,874, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Megmilk

By rank, the assignees closest to #18,874 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A61K (Preparations FOR Medical)

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

Megmilk's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

31 Top 64% higher than 36% of 50,000 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2022

Grants by year

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

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Megmilk SNOW Brand Co., Ltd. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	2	13.3%
2016	2	13.3%
2017	3	20.0%
2018	4	26.7%
2019	2	13.3%
2020	1	6.7%
2022	1	6.7%

Which technologies does Megmilk SNOW Brand Co., Ltd. patent most?

A61K - PREPARATIONS FOR MEDICAL, DENTAL OR TOILETRY PURPOSES 14

A61P - SPECIFIC THERAPEUTIC ACTIVITY OF CHEMICAL COMPOUNDS OR MEDICINAL PREPARATIONS 13

A23V - INDEXING SCHEME RELATING TO FOODS, FOODSTUFFS OR NON-ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES AND LACTIC OR PROPIONIC ACID BACTERIA USED IN FOODSTUFFS OR FOOD PREPARATION 13

A23L - FOODS, FOODSTUFFS OR NON-ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; PREPARATION OR TREATMENT THEREOF 11

C12Y - ENZYMES 9

A23K - FODDER 8

A61Q - SPECIFIC USE OF COSMETICS OR SIMILAR TOILETRY PREPARATIONS 6

A23C - DAIRY PRODUCTS, e.g. MILK, BUTTER OR CHEESE; MILK OR CHEESE SUBSTITUTES; MAKING OR TREATMENT THEREOF 6

C07K - PEPTIDES 3

A23J - PROTEIN COMPOSITIONS FOR FOODSTUFFS; WORKING-UP PROTEINS FOR FOODSTUFFS; PHOSPHATIDE COMPOSITIONS FOR FOODSTUFFS 2

C12N - MICROORGANISMS OR ENZYMES; COMPOSITIONS THEREOF; PROPAGATING, PRESERVING, OR MAINTAINING MICROORGANISMS; MUTATION OR GENETIC ENGINEERING; CULTURE MEDIA 2

Y02P - CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION TECHNOLOGIES IN THE PRODUCTION OR PROCESSING OF GOODS 2

A23B - PRESERVATION OF FOODS, FOODSTUFFS OR NON-ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES; CHEMICAL RIPENING OF FRUIT OR VEGETABLES 1

C09K - MATERIALS FOR MISCELLANEOUS APPLICATIONS, NOT PROVIDED FOR ELSEWHERE 1

A23D - EDIBLE OILS OR FATS, e.g. MARGARINES, SHORTENINGS OR COOKING OILS 1

Top 15 of 17 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#18,886

of 50,000 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

31.1 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

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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