Where does Roquette Freres rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Roquette Freres ranks #2,665 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 Roquette Freres hold?

Roquette Freres holds 146 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 56 technology areas.

What is Roquette Freres's Innovation Score?

Roquette Freres has an Innovation Score of 58.1 out of 100 (top 5% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Roquette Freres focus on?

Roquette Freres's top technology area is A23L (Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Preparation OR Treatment Thereof) with 46 patents, ranking #21 of 1,325 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 56 CPC subclasses total.

Is Roquette Freres's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Roquette Freres's recent grant velocity is -18% 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 Roquette Freres's patents?

Roquette Freres's patents average 13.8 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 Roquette Freres 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

Roquette Freres

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 146 granted patents across 56 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, Roquette ranks #2,665 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 146 patents across 56 technology areas.

#2,665
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 5%
by Innovation Score (58.1/100): 13.8
avg claims per patent: -18%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2665 · Foreign Corporation #2,665 · 146 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 146 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,665/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Kardium
CPC-WIDE A23L · 56 areas
INNOV-PAR 58.1/100
CLAIMS-RICH 13.8 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -18% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Kardium 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 Roquette’s 58.1 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 17.2 pts (30%) Velocity 7.6 pts (13%) Breadth 25.0 pts (43%) Claim depth 8.3 pts (14%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Infosys · near

58
Knauf Insulation · near

58
Power Integrations · near

58
Roquette Freres · this assignee

58
Sigmastar Technology · near

58
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Roquette's Innovation Score is 58.1/100 (top 5% 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 Roquette?

Each dot is one of Roquette’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). Roquette’s own 13.8 claims/patent is ABOVE the 12.6 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How Roquette's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Roquette Freres received 61 grants versus 74 in 2015–2019 (-18% equal-window velocity, at median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2016 at 22 grants and bottomed in 2023 at 8. Lead class A23L accounts for 31.5% of the portfolio across 56 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Kardium Inc. (#2,661) and Samsonite IP Holdings S.a r.l. (#2,669).

Roquette's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Roquette Freres moved from 36 to 41 grants (1.14x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). Among 3,296 tracked assignees with ≥100 grants and ≥20 prior-period grants, that multiple ranks #891. See the growth leaderboard.

Kardium

146
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146
Reliance Industri…

146
Rohm and Haas Mat…

146
Safran Transmissi…

146
Shenzhen Royole

146
Spin Memory

146
Samsonite IP Hold…

146
Roquette Freres ◀

146

What this shows Roquette holds 146 patents at rank #2,665, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Roquette

By rank, the assignees closest to #2,665 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A23L (Foods)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Roquette, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A23L (Foods), Roquette ranks #21 of 1,325 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (58 here).

Infosys Limited 58 Power Integrations, Inc. 58 Knauf Insulation, Inc. 58 Sigmastar Technology Ltd. 58

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (13.8 here).

Electricite DE France 13.8 avg EV Group E. Thallner GMBH 13.8 avg Autoliv Development AB 13.8 avg Poly-clip System GMBH & Co. KG 13.8 avg

Roquette's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

58 Top 5% higher than 95% 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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Roquette Freres patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	12	8.2%
2016	22	15.1%
2017	12	8.2%
2018	12	8.2%
2019	16	11.0%
2020	11	7.5%
2021	9	6.2%
2022	17	11.6%
2023	8	5.5%
2024	16	11.0%
2025partial year	11	7.5%

Which technologies does Roquette Freres patent most?

A23L - Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Preparation OR Treatment Thereof 46

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 45

A61P - Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations 29

A23V - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages AND Lactic OR Propionic Acid Bacteria Used IN Foodstuffs OR Food Preparation 28

C08L - Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds 23

C12P - Fermentation OR Enzyme-using Processes TO Synthesise A Desired Chemical Compound OR Composition OR TO Separate Optical Isomers From A Racemic Mixture 22

C08G - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than BY Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds 19

C12N - Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media 19

C08B - POLYSACCHARIDES; Derivatives Thereof 18

C07D - Heterocyclic Compounds 18

A23J - Protein Compositions FOR FOODSTUFFS; Working-up Proteins FOR FOODSTUFFS; Phosphatide Compositions FOR Foodstuffs 12

C09D - Coating Compositions, e.g. Paints, Varnishes OR LACQUERS; Filling PASTES; Chemical Paint OR INK REMOVERS; INKS; Correcting FLUIDS; WOODSTAINS; Pastes OR Solids FOR Colouring OR PRINTING; USE OF Materials Therefor 12

A23G - COCOA; Cocoa Products, e.g. CHOCOLATE; Substitutes FOR Cocoa OR Cocoa PRODUCTS; CONFECTIONERY; Chewing GUM; ICE-CREAM; Preparation Thereof 11

B01D - Separation 11

C08K - Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances as compounding ingredients 10

Top 15 of 56 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

Roquette Freres's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Roquette Freres's lead technology class is A23L (Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Preparation OR Treatment Thereof), 31.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A23L
Ranked #2,665 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Roquette Freres against Kardium Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 58.1/100 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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