Where does Mizkan Holdings Co., Ltd. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Mizkan Holdings Co., Ltd. ranks #11,009 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 Mizkan Holdings Co., Ltd. hold?

Mizkan Holdings Co., Ltd. holds 28 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2025, spanning 15 technology areas.

What is Mizkan Holdings Co., Ltd.'s Innovation Score?

Mizkan Holdings Co., Ltd. has an Innovation Score of 53.0 out of 100 (top 9% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Mizkan Holdings Co., Ltd.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Mizkan Holdings Co., Ltd.'s recent grant velocity is +567% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Mizkan Holdings Co., Ltd.'s patents?

Mizkan Holdings Co., Ltd.'s patents average 12.8 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 Mizkan Holdings 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

Mizkan Holdings Co., Ltd.

Q: What technology areas does Mizkan Holdings Co., Ltd. focus on?

Mizkan Holdings Co., Ltd.'s top technology area is A23L (Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Preparation OR Treatment Thereof) with 25 patents, ranking #53 of 1,325 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 15 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 28 granted patents across 15 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2025. 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, Mizkan ranks #11,009 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 28 patents across 15 technology areas.

#11,009
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 9%
by Innovation Score (53.0/100): 12.8
avg claims per patent: +567%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R11009 · Foreign Corporation #11,009 · 28 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 28 grants
UPPER-Q #11,009/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Management Services…
CPC-FOCUS A23L · 15 areas
INNOV-PAR 53.0/100
CLAIMS-RICH 12.8 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +567% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Management Services Group, 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 Mizkan’s 53.0 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 11.6 pts (22%) Velocity 20.0 pts (38%) Breadth 13.7 pts (26%) Claim depth 7.7 pts (15%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Alfaisal University · near

53
CoolIT Systems · near

53
entigenlogic · near

53
Meiji · near

53
Mizkan Holdings · this assignee

53
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Mizkan's Innovation Score is 53.0/100 (top 9% 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 Mizkan?

Each dot is one of Mizkan’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). Mizkan’s own 12.8 claims/patent is at or below the 15.9 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Mizkan's grants concentrate

Mizkan Holdings Co., Ltd. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 15 CPC subclasses with 89.3% of grants classified under A23L (Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Preparation OR Treatment Thereof). Peak complete grant year is 2022 (9 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2016. By volume, Mizkan sits between Medrx Co., Ltd. and Manehu Product Alliance, LLC.

Mizkan's three-year grant acceleration

Mizkan Holdings Co., Ltd. shows 18 grants in 2022–2024 against only 4 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.

Medrx

28
MHI Vestas Offsho…

28
Microbial Chemist…

28
Mineral Earth Sci…

28
Moldino Tool Engi…

28
Multinarity

28
Management Servic…

28
Manehu Product Al…

28
Mizkan Holdings ◀

28

What this shows Mizkan holds 28 patents at rank #10,999, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Mizkan

By rank, the assignees closest to #10,999 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A23L (Foods)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Mizkan, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A23L (Foods), Mizkan ranks #53 of 1,325 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (53 here).

CoolIT Systems, Inc. 53 Alfaisal University 53 entigenlogic LLC 53 Meiji Co., Ltd. 53

Mizkan's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

53 Top 9% higher than 91% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2016–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Mizkan Holdings Co., Ltd. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	1	3.6%
2019	2	7.1%
2021	2	7.1%
2022	9	32.1%
2023	2	7.1%
2024	7	25.0%
2025partial year	5	17.9%

Which technologies does Mizkan Holdings Co., Ltd. patent most?

A23L - Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Preparation OR Treatment Thereof 25

A23V - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages AND Lactic OR Propionic Acid Bacteria Used IN Foodstuffs OR Food Preparation 12

A23P - Shaping OR Working OF Foodstuffs, NOT Fully Covered BY A Single Other Subclass 4

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 2

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

A23B - Preservation OF Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic BEVERAGES; Chemical Ripening OF Fruit OR Vegetables 2

C12P - Fermentation OR Enzyme-using Processes TO Synthesise A Desired Chemical Compound OR Composition OR TO Separate Optical Isomers From A Racemic Mixture 1

C07C - Acyclic OR Carbocyclic Compounds 1

C12J - VINEGAR; Preparation OR Purification Thereof 1

A23G - COCOA; Cocoa Products, e.g. CHOCOLATE; Substitutes FOR Cocoa OR Cocoa PRODUCTS; CONFECTIONERY; Chewing GUM; ICE-CREAM; Preparation Thereof 1

C13B - Production OF SUCROSE; Apparatus Specially Adapted Therefor 1

C12Q - Measuring OR Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids OR Microorganisms ; Compositions OR Test Papers THEREFOR; Processes OF Preparing Such COMPOSITIONS; Condition-responsive Control IN Microbiological OR Enzymological Processes 1

C12R - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses C12c - C12q, Relating TO Microorganisms 1

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

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

Top 15 of 15 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

Mizkan Holdings Co., Ltd.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Mizkan Holdings Co., Ltd.'s lead technology class is A23L (Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Preparation OR Treatment Thereof), 89.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A23L
Ranked #11,009 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Mizkan Holdings Co., Ltd. against Medrx Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 53.0/100 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

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