Where does Ocean Spray Cranberries, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Ocean Spray Cranberries, Inc. ranks #12,602 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 Ocean Spray Cranberries, Inc. hold?

Ocean Spray Cranberries, Inc. holds 24 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 15 technology areas.

What is Ocean Spray Cranberries, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Ocean Spray Cranberries, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 40.9 out of 100 (top 34% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Ocean Spray Cranberries, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Ocean Spray Cranberries, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -72% 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 Ocean Spray Cranberries, Inc.'s patents?

Ocean Spray Cranberries, Inc.'s patents average 21.2 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 Ocean Spray Cranberries, Inc. 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

Ocean Spray Cranberries, Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Ocean Spray Cranberries, Inc. focus on?

Ocean Spray Cranberries, Inc.'s top technology area is A23L (Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Preparation OR Treatment Thereof) with 16 patents, ranking #86 of 1,325 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 15 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 24 granted patents across 15 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, Ocean ranks #12,602 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 24 patents across 15 technology areas.

#12,602
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 34%
by Innovation Score (40.9/100): 21.2
avg claims per patent: -72%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R12602 · US Corporation #12,602 · 24 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 24 grants
MID-PACK #12,602/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH NorthShore Universit…
CPC-FOCUS A23L · 15 areas
INNOV-PAR 40.9/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 21.2 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -72% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: NorthShore University HealthSystem (±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 Ocean’s 40.9 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 11.1 pts (27%) Velocity 3.3 pts (8%) Breadth 13.7 pts (34%) Claim depth 12.7 pts (31%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Banma Zhixing… · near

41
Fine M-tec · near

41
Ocean Spray… · this assignee

41
Rompower Technology… · near

41
TriMed · near

41
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Ocean's Innovation Score is 40.9/100 (top 34% 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 Ocean?

Each dot is one of Ocean’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). Ocean’s own 21.2 claims/patent is ABOVE the 8.5 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Ocean's grants concentrate

Ocean Spray Cranberries, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 15 CPC subclasses with 66.7% of grants classified under A23L (Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Preparation OR Treatment Thereof). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (5 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2023. By volume, Ocean sits between NorthShore University HealthSystem and Patuga LLC.

Ocean's three-year grant acceleration

Ocean Spray Cranberries, Inc. shows 3 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.

Northshore Univer…

24
OMM Imports

24
Osram Beteiligung…

24
Oxti

24
Orochem

24
Orthogonal

24
P E Labellers S P…

24
Patuga

24
Ocean Spray Cranb… ◀

24

What this shows Ocean holds 24 patents at rank #12,605, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Ocean

By rank, the assignees closest to #12,605 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A23L (Foods)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Ocean, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A23L (Foods), Ocean ranks #86 of 1,325 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (41 here).

TriMed Inc. 41 Rompower Technology Holdings, LLC 41 Fine M-tec Co., Ltd 41 Banma Zhixing Network (HONGKONG) Co., Limited 41

Ocean's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

41 Top 34% higher than 66% 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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Ocean Spray Cranberries, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	5	20.8%
2016	5	20.8%
2017	2	8.3%
2018	2	8.3%
2019	4	16.7%
2020	2	8.3%
2022	2	8.3%
2023	1	4.2%
2025partial year	1	4.2%

Which technologies does Ocean Spray Cranberries, Inc. patent most?

A23L - Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Preparation OR Treatment Thereof 16

A23V - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages AND Lactic OR Propionic Acid Bacteria Used IN Foodstuffs OR Food Preparation 14

B01D - Separation 8

A23B - Preservation OF Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic BEVERAGES; Chemical Ripening OF Fruit OR Vegetables 6

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 4

C09B - Organic Dyes OR Closely-related Compounds FOR Producing Dyes ; , e.g. PIGMENTS; MORDANTS; Lakes 3

A23N - Machines OR Apparatus FOR Treating Harvested Fruit, Vegetables OR Flower Bulbs IN Bulk, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Peeling Vegetables OR Fruit IN BULK; Apparatus FOR Preparing Animal Feeding- Stuffs 2

A61P - Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations 2

C08B - POLYSACCHARIDES; Derivatives Thereof 2

A23J - Protein Compositions FOR FOODSTUFFS; Working-up Proteins FOR FOODSTUFFS; Phosphatide Compositions FOR Foodstuffs 1

Y02A - Technologies FOR Adaptation TO Climate Change 1

C12Y - Enzymes 1

A01N - Preservation OF Bodies OF Humans OR Animals OR Plants OR Parts Thereof ; Biocides, e.g. AS Disinfectants, AS Pesticides OR AS Herbicides ; Pest Repellants OR ATTRACTANTS; Plant Growth Regulators 1

C07D - Heterocyclic Compounds 1

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

Ocean Spray Cranberries, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Ocean Spray Cranberries, Inc.'s lead technology class is A23L (Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Preparation OR Treatment Thereof), 66.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A23L
Ranked #12,602 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Ocean Spray Cranberries, Inc. against NorthShore University HealthSystem, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 40.9/100 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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