Where does PureCircle Sdn Bhd rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), PureCircle Sdn Bhd ranks #4,097 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 PureCircle Sdn Bhd hold?

PureCircle Sdn Bhd holds 88 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 25 technology areas.

What is PureCircle Sdn Bhd's Innovation Score?

PureCircle Sdn Bhd has an Innovation Score of 45.4 out of 100 (top 23% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is PureCircle Sdn Bhd's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

PureCircle Sdn Bhd's recent grant velocity is -5% 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 PureCircle Sdn Bhd's patents?

PureCircle Sdn Bhd's patents average 8.9 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 PureCircle Sdn Bhd 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

PureCircle Sdn Bhd

Q: What technology areas does PureCircle Sdn Bhd focus on?

PureCircle Sdn Bhd's top technology area is A23L (Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Preparation OR Treatment Thereof) with 83 patents, ranking #10 of 1,325 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 25 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 88 granted patents across 25 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, Purecircle ranks #4,097 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 88 patents across 25 technology areas.

#4,097
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 23%
by Innovation Score (45.4/100): 8.9
avg claims per patent: -5%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R4097 · Foreign Corporation #4,097 · 88 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-PAR · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-FLAT · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 88 grants
TOP-DECILE #4,097/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Magna Seating
CPC-FOCUS A23L · 25 areas
INNOV-PAR 45.4/100
CLAIMS-PAR 8.9 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-FLAT -5% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Magna Seating 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 Purecircle’s 45.4 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 15.5 pts (34%) Velocity 6.9 pts (15%) Breadth 17.7 pts (39%) Claim depth 5.3 pts (12%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Broan-NuTone · near

45
Ceres · near

45
Good Tree Internatio… · near

45
PureCircle Sdn Bhd · this assignee

45
Restful Pump · near

45
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Purecircle's Innovation Score is 45.4/100 (top 23% 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 Purecircle?

Each dot is one of Purecircle’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). Purecircle’s own 8.9 claims/patent is at or below the 15.4 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Purecircle's grants concentrate

PureCircle Sdn Bhd is a focused PatentsView assignee: 25 CPC subclasses with 94.3% of grants classified under A23L (Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Preparation OR Treatment Thereof). Peak complete grant year is 2019 (13 grants) versus a trough of 4 in 2021. By volume, Purecircle sits between Magna Seating Inc. and Tactotek OY.

Purecircle's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, PureCircle Sdn Bhd moved from 27 to 28 grants (1.04x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Magna Seating

88
Nissin Kogyo

88
Netscout Systems

88
O2micro

88
Qatar Foundation…

88
Ricoh Imaging

88
Sunovion Pharmace…

88
Tactotek OY

88
Purecircle Sdn Bhd ◀

88

What this shows PureCircle holds 88 patents at rank #4,097, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near PureCircle

By rank, the assignees closest to #4,097 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A23L (Foods)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for PureCircle, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A23L (Foods), PureCircle ranks #10 of 1,325 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (45 here).

Ceres, Inc. 45 Broan-NuTone LLC 45 Good Tree International, Inc. 45 Restful Pump, Inc. 45

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (8.9 here).

Hyundai Heavy Industries Co., Ltd. 8.9 avg AAC Acoustic Technologies (SHENZHEN) Co., Ltd. 8.9 avg Optim Corporation 8.9 avg PAX Labs, Inc. 8.9 avg

Purecircle's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

45 Top 23% higher than 77% 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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PureCircle Sdn Bhd patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	5	5.7%
2016	9	10.2%
2017	10	11.4%
2018	7	8.0%
2019	13	14.8%
2020	10	11.4%
2021	4	4.5%
2022	9	10.2%
2023	8	9.1%
2024	11	12.5%
2025partial year	2	2.3%

Which technologies does PureCircle Sdn Bhd patent most?

A23L - Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Preparation OR Treatment Thereof 83

A23V - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages AND Lactic OR Propionic Acid Bacteria Used IN Foodstuffs OR Food Preparation 62

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 43

C07H - SUGARS; Derivatives THEREOF; NUCLEOSIDES; NUCLEOTIDES; Nucleic Acids 34

A61Q - Specific USE OF Cosmetics OR Similar Toiletry Preparations 33

A23C - Dairy Products, e.g. Milk, Butter OR CHEESE; Milk OR Cheese SUBSTITUTES; Making OR Treatment Thereof 20

C12P - Fermentation OR Enzyme-using Processes TO Synthesise A Desired Chemical Compound OR Composition OR TO Separate Optical Isomers From A Racemic Mixture 20

A23G - COCOA; Cocoa Products, e.g. CHOCOLATE; Substitutes FOR Cocoa OR Cocoa PRODUCTS; CONFECTIONERY; Chewing GUM; ICE-CREAM; Preparation Thereof 17

A21D - Treatment OF Flour OR Dough FOR Baking, e.g. BY Addition OF MATERIALS; BAKING; Bakery Products 16

A24B - Manufacture OR Preparation OF Tobacco FOR Smoking OR CHEWING; TOBACCO; Snuff 16

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 11

C12N - Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media 8

C12Y - Enzymes 8

A01H - NEW Plants OR ; NON-TRANSGENIC; Processes FOR Obtaining THEM; Plant Reproduction BY Tissue Culture Techniques 6

A23P - Shaping OR Working OF Foodstuffs, NOT Fully Covered BY A Single Other Subclass 6

Top 15 of 25 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

PureCircle Sdn Bhd's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

PureCircle Sdn Bhd's lead technology class is A23L (Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Preparation OR Treatment Thereof), 94.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A23L
Ranked #4,097 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare PureCircle Sdn Bhd against Magna Seating Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 45.4/100 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.

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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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