Where does Purina Animal Nutrition LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Purina Animal Nutrition LLC ranks #4,351 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 Purina Animal Nutrition LLC hold?

Purina Animal Nutrition LLC holds 82 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 20 technology areas.

What is Purina Animal Nutrition LLC's Innovation Score?

Purina Animal Nutrition LLC has an Innovation Score of 43.3 out of 100 (top 28% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Purina Animal Nutrition LLC focus on?

Purina Animal Nutrition LLC's top technology area is A23K (Fodder) with 70 patents, ranking #4 of 396 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 20 CPC subclasses total.

Is Purina Animal Nutrition LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Purina Animal Nutrition LLC's recent grant velocity is -24% 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 Purina Animal Nutrition LLC's patents?

Purina Animal Nutrition LLC's patents average 15.4 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 Purina Animal Nutrition LLC 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

Purina Animal Nutrition LLC

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 82 granted patents across 20 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: A23K (Fodder).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Purina ranks #4,351 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 82 patents across 20 technology areas.

#4,351
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 28%
by Innovation Score (43.3/100): 15.4
avg claims per patent: -24%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R4351 · US Corporation #4,351 · 82 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 82 grants
TOP-DECILE #4,351/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Oberthur
CPC-FOCUS A23K · 20 areas
INNOV-PAR 43.3/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.4 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DOWN -24% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Oberthur Technologies (±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 Purina’s 43.3 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 15.3 pts (35%) Velocity 2.9 pts (7%) Breadth 15.8 pts (36%) Claim depth 9.3 pts (21%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Curexo · near

43
GKN Sinter Metals · near

43
Purina Animal… · this assignee

43
Rev-a-shelf · near

43
Veoneer Sweden AB · near

43
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Purina's Innovation Score is 43.3/100 (top 28% 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 Purina?

Each dot is one of Purina’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). Purina’s own 15.4 claims/patent is at or below the 16.5 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Purina's grants concentrate

Purina Animal Nutrition LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 20 CPC subclasses with 85.4% of grants classified under A23K (Fodder). Peak complete grant year is 2019 (15 grants) versus a trough of 4 in 2023. By volume, Purina sits between Oberthur Technologies and Research Development Foundation.

Purina's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Purina Animal Nutrition LLC moved from 34 to 15 grants (0.44x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Oberthur

82
Ortho-clinical Di…

82
OUR United

82
Pixtronix

82
Qualtrics

82
Reliaquest Holdin…

82
Reckitt Benckiser

82
Research Developm…

82
Purina Animal Nut… ◀

82

What this shows Purina holds 82 patents at rank #4,349, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Purina

By rank, the assignees closest to #4,349 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A23K (Fodder)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Purina, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A23K (Fodder), Purina ranks #4 of 396 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (43 here).

Veoneer Sweden AB 43 GKN Sinter Metals, LLC 43 Curexo, Inc. 43 Rev-a-shelf Company, LLC 43

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (15.4 here).

Holcim Technology Ltd 15.4 avg Daramic, LLC 15.4 avg Ineos Styrolution Group GMBH 15.4 avg Böllhoff Verbindungstechnik GmbH 15.4 avg

Purina's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

43 Top 28% higher than 72% 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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Purina Animal Nutrition LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	8	9.8%
2016	6	7.3%
2017	5	6.1%
2018	11	13.4%
2019	15	18.3%
2020	11	13.4%
2021	8	9.8%
2022	7	8.5%
2023	4	4.9%
2024	4	4.9%
2025partial year	3	3.7%

Which technologies does Purina Animal Nutrition LLC patent most?

A23K - Fodder 70

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 26

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 16

A23V - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages AND Lactic OR Propionic Acid Bacteria Used IN Foodstuffs OR Food Preparation 15

A01K - Animal HUSBANDRY; AVICULTURE; APICULTURE; PISCICULTURE; FISHING; Rearing OR Breeding Animals, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; NEW Breeds OF Animals 10

Y10S - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former Uspc Cross-reference ART Collections [XRACs] AND Digests 5

A23P - Shaping OR Working OF Foodstuffs, NOT Fully Covered BY A Single Other Subclass 4

A23D - Edible Oils OR Fats, e.g. Margarines, Shortenings OR Cooking Oils 3

B29C - Shaping OR Joining OF PLASTICS; Shaping OF Material IN A Plastic State, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; After-treatment OF THE Shaped Products, e.g. Repairing 3

B01J - Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus 3

A61P - Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations 3

A23C - Dairy Products, e.g. Milk, Butter OR CHEESE; Milk OR Cheese SUBSTITUTES; Making OR Treatment Thereof 3

A23L - Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Preparation OR Treatment Thereof 2

B30B - Presses IN General 2

B65B - Machines, Apparatus OR Devices FOR, OR Methods OF, Packaging Articles OR MATERIALS; Unpacking 2

Top 15 of 20 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

Purina Animal Nutrition LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Purina Animal Nutrition LLC's lead technology class is A23K (Fodder), 85.4% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A23K
Ranked #4,351 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Purina Animal Nutrition LLC against Oberthur Technologies, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 43.3/100 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

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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