Where does Proteus Industries Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Proteus Industries Inc. ranks #11,048 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 Proteus Industries Inc. hold?

Proteus Industries Inc. holds 28 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 15 technology areas.

What is Proteus Industries Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Proteus Industries 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 Proteus Industries Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Proteus Industries Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -53% 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 Proteus Industries Inc.'s patents?

Proteus Industries Inc.'s patents average 19.8 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 Proteus Industries 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

Proteus Industries Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Proteus Industries Inc. focus on?

Proteus Industries Inc.'s top technology area is A23V (Indexing Scheme Relating TO Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages AND Lactic OR Propionic Acid Bacteria Used IN Foodstuffs OR Food Preparation) with 14 patents, ranking #72 of 1,053 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 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: A23V (Indexing Scheme Relating TO Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages AND Lactic OR Propionic Acid Bacteria Used IN Foodstuffs OR Food Preparation).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Proteus ranks #11,048 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 28 patents across 15 technology areas.

#11,048
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 34%
by Innovation Score (40.9/100): 19.8
avg claims per patent: -53%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R11048 · US Corporation #11,048 · 28 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 28 grants
UPPER-Q #11,048/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Point Blank…
CPC-FOCUS A23V · 15 areas
INNOV-PAR 40.9/100
CLAIMS-RICH 19.8 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -53% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Point Blank Enterprises, 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 Proteus’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 11.6 pts (28%) Velocity 3.7 pts (9%) Breadth 13.7 pts (33%) Claim depth 11.9 pts (29%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
BackBeat Medical · near

41
Jawaharlal Nehru… · near

41
MRA Systems · near

41
Proteus Industries · this assignee

41
Sangmyung University… · near

41
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Proteus'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 Proteus?

Each dot is one of Proteus’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). Proteus’s own 19.8 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.6 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Proteus's grants concentrate

Proteus Industries Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 15 CPC subclasses with 50% of grants classified under A23V (Indexing Scheme Relating TO Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages AND Lactic OR Propionic Acid Bacteria Used IN Foodstuffs OR Food Preparation). Peak complete grant year is 2019 (6 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2021. By volume, Proteus sits between Point Blank Enterprises, Inc. and RGB Systems, Inc..

Proteus's three-year grant acceleration

Proteus Industries Inc. shows 5 grants in 2022–2024 against only 9 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.

Point Blank Enter…

28
Polares Medical

28
Private Identity

28
Protein Metrics

28
RA Pharmaceuticals

28
Radiall

28
Raycan Technology…

28
RGB Systems

28
Proteus Industries ◀

28

What this shows Proteus holds 28 patents at rank #11,047, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Proteus

By rank, the assignees closest to #11,047 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A23V (Indexing Scheme Relating TO Foods)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Proteus, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A23V (Indexing Scheme Relating TO Foods), Proteus ranks #72 of 1,053 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (41 here).

Sangmyung University Industry-Academy Cooperation Foundation 41 MRA Systems, LLC 41 BackBeat Medical, LLC 41 Jawaharlal Nehru Centre FOR Advanced Scientific Research 41

Proteus'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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Proteus Industries Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	2	7.1%
2016	3	10.7%
2017	2	7.1%
2018	4	14.3%
2019	6	21.4%
2020	2	7.1%
2021	1	3.6%
2022	2	7.1%
2023	3	10.7%
2025partial year	3	10.7%

Which technologies does Proteus Industries Inc. patent most?

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

A23J - Protein Compositions FOR FOODSTUFFS; Working-up Proteins FOR FOODSTUFFS; Phosphatide Compositions FOR Foodstuffs 13

A23L - Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Preparation OR Treatment Thereof 12

B23K - Soldering OR UNSOLDERING; WELDING; Cladding OR Plating BY Soldering OR WELDING; Cutting BY Applying Heat Locally, e.g. Flame CUTTING; Working BY Laser Beam 10

H05K - Printed CIRCUITS; Casings OR Constructional Details OF Electric APPARATUS; Manufacture OF Assemblages OF Electrical Components 9

F04B - Positive-displacement Machines FOR LIQUIDS; Pumps 8

F15B - Systems Acting BY Means OF Fluids IN GENERAL; Fluid-pressure Actuators, e.g. SERVOMOTORS; Details OF Fluid-pressure Systems, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 8

F17D - Pipe-line SYSTEMS; Pipe-lines 8

F16K - VALVES; TAPS; COCKS; ACTUATING-FLOATS; Devices FOR Venting OR Aerating 8

A22C - Processing Meat, Poultry, OR Fish 4

A23P - Shaping OR Working OF Foodstuffs, NOT Fully Covered BY A Single Other Subclass 2

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

F01P - Cooling OF Machines OR Engines IN GENERAL; Cooling OF Internal-combustion Engines 1

F25B - Refrigeration Machines, Plants OR SYSTEMS; Combined Heating AND Refrigeration SYSTEMS; Heat Pump Systems 1

A21D - Treatment OF Flour OR Dough FOR Baking, e.g. BY Addition OF MATERIALS; BAKING; Bakery Products 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

Proteus Industries Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Proteus Industries Inc.'s lead technology class is A23V (Indexing Scheme Relating TO Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages AND Lactic OR Propionic Acid Bacteria Used IN Foodstuffs OR Food Preparation), 50% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A23V
Ranked #11,048 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Proteus Industries Inc. against Point Blank Enterprises, Inc., 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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