Where does Milliken & Company rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Milliken & Company ranks #1,448 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 Milliken & Company hold?

Milliken & Company holds 288 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 99 technology areas.

What is Milliken & Company's Innovation Score?

Milliken & Company has an Innovation Score of 58.8 out of 100 (top 4% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Milliken & Company focus on?

Milliken & Company's top technology area is C08K (Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances as compounding ingredients) with 65 patents, ranking #60 of 1,963 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 99 CPC subclasses total.

Is Milliken & Company's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Milliken & Company's recent grant velocity is +4% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). The company is maintaining or growing its granted-patent output.

What does claim depth mean for Milliken & Company's patents?

Milliken & Company's patents average 14.9 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 Milliken & 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

Milliken & Company

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 288 granted patents across 99 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: C08K (Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances as compounding ingredients).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Milliken ranks #1,448 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 288 patents across 99 technology areas.

#1,448
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 4%
by Innovation Score (58.8/100): 14.9
avg claims per patent: +4%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1448 · US Corporation #1,448 · 288 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-FLAT · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 288 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,448/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Ajou University…
CPC-WIDE C08K · 99 areas
INNOV-PAR 58.8/100
CLAIMS-RICH 14.9 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-FLAT +4% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Ajou University Industry-academic Cooperation (±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 Milliken’s 58.8 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 19.6 pts (33%) Velocity 5.2 pts (9%) Breadth 25.0 pts (43%) Claim depth 8.9 pts (15%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Children's Hospital… · near

59
Ginkgo Bioworks · near

59
Milliken & · this assignee

59
Hyperloop · near

59
Shenzhen University · near

59
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Milliken's Innovation Score is 58.8/100 (top 4% 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 Milliken?

Each dot is one of Milliken’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). Milliken’s own 14.9 claims/patent is ABOVE the 12.8 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How Milliken's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Milliken & Company received 137 grants versus 132 in 2015–2019 (+4% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2020 at 35 grants and bottomed in 2022 at 18. Lead class C08K accounts for 22.6% of the portfolio across 99 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Shopify Inc. (#1,444) and Carl Freudenberg KG (#1,452).

Milliken's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Milliken & Company moved from 94 to 74 grants (0.79x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). Among 3,296 tracked assignees with ≥100 grants and ≥20 prior-period grants, that multiple ranks #1,882. See the growth leaderboard.

Shopify

289
Seescan

289
Ajou University I…

288
Julius Blum

288
National Institut…

288
Nifco

288
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288
Alnylam Pharmaceu…

287
Carl Freudenberg…

287

What this shows Milliken holds 288 patents at rank #1,448, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Milliken

By rank, the assignees closest to #1,448 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C08K (Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances…)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Milliken, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In C08K (Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances…), Milliken ranks #60 of 1,963 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (59 here).

Ginkgo Bioworks, Inc. 59 Shenzhen University 59 Hyperloop Technologies, Inc. 59 Children's Hospital Medical Center 59

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (14.9 here).

Universiteit Gent 14.9 avg Multi-Chem Group, LLC 14.9 avg Intelligent Energy Limited 14.9 avg China Mobile Communications Group Co., Ltd. 14.9 avg

Milliken's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

59 Top 4% higher than 96% 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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Milliken & Company patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	25	8.7%
2016	21	7.3%
2017	26	9.0%
2018	29	10.1%
2019	31	10.8%
2020	35	12.2%
2021	28	9.7%
2022	18	6.3%
2023	34	11.8%
2024	22	7.6%
2025partial year	19	6.6%

Which technologies does Milliken & Company patent most?

C08K - Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances as compounding ingredients 65

C11D - Detergent COMPOSITIONS; USE OF Single Substances AS DETERGENTS; Soap OR SOAP-MAKING; Resin SOAPS; Recovery OF Glycerol 55

C08L - Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds 54

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 49

C09B - Organic Dyes OR Closely-related Compounds FOR Producing Dyes ; , e.g. PIGMENTS; MORDANTS; Lakes 49

D10B - Indexing Scheme Associated With Sublasses OF Section D, Relating TO Textiles 47

C08G - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than BY Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds 36

B29C - Shaping OR Joining OF PLASTICS; Shaping OF Material IN A Plastic State, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; After-treatment OF THE Shaped Products, e.g. Repairing 35

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 35

D03D - Woven FABRICS; Methods OF WEAVING; Looms 33

C08J - WORKING-UP; General Processes OF COMPOUNDING; After-treatment NOT Covered BY Subclasses C08b, C08c, C08f, C08g or C08h 31

B29K - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses B29b, B29c OR B29d, Relating TO Moulding Materials OR TO Materials FOR ; Moulds, ; Reinforcements, Fillers OR Preformed Parts, e.g. Inserts 27

D06M - Treatment, NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere IN Class D06, OF Fibres, Threads, Yarns, Fabrics, Feathers OR Fibrous Goods Made From Such Materials 26

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 22

D06N - Wall, Floor, OR Like Covering Materials, e.g. Linoleum, Oilcloth, Artificial Leather, Roofing Felt, Consisting OF A Fibrous WEB Coated With A Layer OF Macromolecular MATERIAL; Flexible Sheet Material NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 22

Top 15 of 99 technology areas

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

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What to do with this data

Milliken & Company's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Milliken & Company's lead technology class is C08K (Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances as compounding ingredients), 22.6% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C08K
Ranked #1,448 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Milliken & Company against Shopify Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 58.8/100 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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