Where does Nestec S.A. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Nestec S.A. ranks #725 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 Nestec S.A. hold?

Nestec S.A. holds 630 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2021, spanning 118 technology areas.

What is Nestec S.A.'s Innovation Score?

Nestec S.A. has an Innovation Score of 55.8 out of 100 (top 7% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Nestec S.A. focus on?

Nestec S.A.'s top technology area is A47J (Kitchen EQUIPMENT; Coffee MILLS; Spice MILLS; Apparatus FOR Making Beverages) with 232 patents, ranking #2 of 793 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 118 CPC subclasses total.

Is Nestec S.A.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Nestec S.A.'s recent grant velocity is -100% 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 Nestec S.A.'s patents?

Nestec S.A.'s patents average 14.2 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 Nestec S.A. 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

Nestec S.A.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 630 granted patents across 118 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2021. 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: A47J (Kitchen EQUIPMENT; Coffee MILLS; Spice MILLS; Apparatus FOR Making Beverages).

Compiled by PlainPatent · May 15, 2026

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Nestec ranks #725 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 630 patents across 118 technology areas.

#725
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 7%
by Innovation Score (55.8/100): 14.2
avg claims per patent: -100%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R725 · Foreign Corporation #725 · 630 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 630 grants
TOP-DECILE #725/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Maxim Integrated…
CPC-WIDE A47J · 118 areas
INNOV-PAR 55.8/100
CLAIMS-RICH 14.2 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -100% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Maxim Integrated Products, 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 Nestec’s 55.8 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 22.3 pts (40%) Velocity 0.0 pts (0%) Breadth 25.0 pts (45%) Claim depth 8.5 pts (15%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
AAC Pte · near

56
Adval Tech Holding · near

56
Nestec · this assignee

56
The University of… · near

56
Hitachi High- · near

56
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Nestec's Innovation Score is 55.8/100 (top 7% 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 Nestec?

Each dot is one of Nestec’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). Nestec’s own 14.2 claims/patent is ABOVE the 13.8 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How Nestec's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Nestec S.A. received 1 grants versus 629 in 2015–2019 (-100% equal-window velocity, bottom decile growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2016 at 167 grants and bottomed in 2021 at 1. Lead class A47J accounts for 36.8% of the portfolio across 118 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Continental Teves AG & Co. OHG (#721) and Inventio AG (#729).

Continental Teves…

631
Covestro Deutschl…

631
Sikorsky Aircraft

631
Maxim Integrated…

630
Nestec ◀

630
Inventec (Pudong)…

629
Lennox Industries

629
Spotify AB

626
Inventio

623

What this shows Nestec holds 630 patents at rank #725, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Nestec

By rank, the assignees closest to #725 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A47J (Kitchen Equipment)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Nestec, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A47J (Kitchen Equipment), Nestec ranks #2 of 793 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (56 here).

The University of Toledo 56 Adval Tech Holding AG 56 AAC Technologies Pte. Ltd. 56 Hitachi High-Technologies Corporation 56

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (14.2 here).

Triple WIN TECHNOLOGY(SHENZHEN) Co. Ltd. 14.2 avg Panasonic Automotive Systems Co., Ltd. 14.2 avg ASC Engineered Solutions, LLC 14.2 avg Atlantic Inertial Systems Limited 14.2 avg

Nestec's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

56 Top 7% higher than 93% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2021

Grants by year

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

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Nestec S.A. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	122	19.4%
2016	167	26.5%
2017	137	21.7%
2018	137	21.7%
2019	66	10.5%
2021	1	0.2%

Which technologies does Nestec S.A. patent most?

A47J - Kitchen EQUIPMENT; Coffee MILLS; Spice MILLS; Apparatus FOR Making Beverages 232

A23L - Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Preparation OR Treatment Thereof 202

A23V - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages AND Lactic OR Propionic Acid Bacteria Used IN Foodstuffs OR Food Preparation 158

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 150

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 142

A61P - Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations 138

A23K - Fodder 52

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 47

A23G - COCOA; Cocoa Products, e.g. CHOCOLATE; Substitutes FOR Cocoa OR Cocoa PRODUCTS; CONFECTIONERY; Chewing GUM; ICE-CREAM; Preparation Thereof 37

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 37

A23C - Dairy Products, e.g. Milk, Butter OR CHEESE; Milk OR Cheese SUBSTITUTES; Making OR Treatment Thereof 32

A61Q - Specific USE OF Cosmetics OR Similar Toiletry Preparations 27

A23F - COFFEE; TEA; Their SUBSTITUTES; Manufacture, Preparation, OR Infusion Thereof 26

B65B - Machines, Apparatus OR Devices FOR, OR Methods OF, Packaging Articles OR MATERIALS; Unpacking 25

B67D - Dispensing, Delivering OR Transferring Liquids, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 23

Top 15 of 118 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

Nestec S.A.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Nestec S.A.'s lead technology class is A47J (Kitchen EQUIPMENT; Coffee MILLS; Spice MILLS; Apparatus FOR Making Beverages), 36.8% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A47J
Ranked #725 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Nestec S.A. against Continental Teves AG & Co. OHG, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 55.8/100 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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