Where does Morinaga Milk Industry Co., Ltd. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Morinaga Milk Industry Co., Ltd. ranks #7,739 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 Morinaga Milk Industry Co., Ltd. hold?

Morinaga Milk Industry Co., Ltd. holds 42 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 23 technology areas.

What is Morinaga Milk Industry Co., Ltd.'s Innovation Score?

Morinaga Milk Industry Co., Ltd. has an Innovation Score of 49.3 out of 100 (top 15% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Morinaga Milk Industry Co., Ltd.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Morinaga Milk Industry Co., Ltd.'s recent grant velocity is -29% 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 Morinaga Milk Industry Co., Ltd.'s patents?

Morinaga Milk Industry Co., Ltd.'s patents average 8.2 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 Morinaga Milk Industry 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

Morinaga Milk Industry Co., Ltd.

Q: What technology areas does Morinaga Milk Industry Co., Ltd. focus on?

Morinaga Milk Industry Co., Ltd.'s top technology area is A23L (Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Preparation OR Treatment Thereof) with 24 patents, ranking #54 of 1,325 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 23 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 42 granted patents across 23 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, Morinaga ranks #7,739 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 42 patents across 23 technology areas.

#7,739
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 15%
by Innovation Score (49.3/100): 8.2
avg claims per patent: -29%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R7739 · Foreign Corporation #7,739 · 42 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 42 grants
UPPER-Q #7,739/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Melnor
CPC-FOCUS A23L · 23 areas
INNOV-PAR 49.3/100
CLAIMS-PAR 8.2 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -29% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Melnor 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 Morinaga’s 49.3 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 13.0 pts (26%) Velocity 14.4 pts (29%) Breadth 17.0 pts (34%) Claim depth 4.9 pts (10%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
23andMe · near

49
Insightec · near

49
Morinaga Milk Industry · this assignee

49
National University… · near

49
Neuravi · near

49
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Morinaga's Innovation Score is 49.3/100 (top 15% 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 Morinaga?

Each dot is one of Morinaga’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). Morinaga’s own 8.2 claims/patent is at or below the 10.2 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Morinaga's grants concentrate

Morinaga Milk Industry Co., Ltd. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 23 CPC subclasses with 57.1% 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 (8 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2019. By volume, Morinaga sits between Melnor Inc. and NantCell, Inc..

Morinaga's three-year grant acceleration

Morinaga Milk Industry Co., Ltd. shows 13 grants in 2022–2024 against only 6 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.

Melnor

42
Merus

42
Microsoft Mobile…

42
Modne

42
Mozarc Medical US

42
Nanthealth

42
Nippon Steel & Su…

42
Nantcell

42
Morinaga Milk Ind… ◀

42

What this shows Morinaga holds 42 patents at rank #7,739, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Morinaga

By rank, the assignees closest to #7,739 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A23L (Foods)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Morinaga, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A23L (Foods), Morinaga ranks #54 of 1,325 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (49 here).

Insightec Ltd. 49 National University Corporation Okayama University 49 23andMe, Inc. 49 Neuravi Limited 49

Morinaga's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

49 Top 15% higher than 85% 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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Morinaga Milk Industry Co., Ltd. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	5	11.9%
2016	8	19.0%
2017	4	9.5%
2018	5	11.9%
2019	2	4.8%
2020	2	4.8%
2021	2	4.8%
2022	5	11.9%
2023	3	7.1%
2024	5	11.9%
2025partial year	1	2.4%

Which technologies does Morinaga Milk Industry Co., Ltd. patent most?

A23L - Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Preparation OR Treatment Thereof 24

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 24

A61P - Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations 21

A23V - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages AND Lactic OR Propionic Acid Bacteria Used IN Foodstuffs OR Food Preparation 19

C12N - Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media 14

C12R - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses C12c - C12q, Relating TO Microorganisms 10

C02F - Treatment OF Water, Waste Water, Sewage, OR Sludge 9

A23C - Dairy Products, e.g. Milk, Butter OR CHEESE; Milk OR Cheese SUBSTITUTES; Making OR Treatment Thereof 9

A23K - Fodder 7

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 5

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 4

C25B - Electrolytic OR Electrophoretic Processes FOR THE Production OF Compounds OR NON-METALS; Apparatus Therefor 3

C07K - Peptides 3

A23J - Protein Compositions FOR FOODSTUFFS; Working-up Proteins FOR FOODSTUFFS; Phosphatide Compositions FOR Foodstuffs 3

C08L - Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds 2

Top 15 of 23 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

Morinaga Milk Industry Co., Ltd.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Morinaga Milk Industry Co., Ltd.'s lead technology class is A23L (Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Preparation OR Treatment Thereof), 57.1% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A23L
Ranked #7,739 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Morinaga Milk Industry Co., Ltd. against Melnor Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 49.3/100 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

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