Where does Safe Foods Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Safe Foods Corporation ranks #8,673 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 Safe Foods Corporation hold?

Safe Foods Corporation holds 37 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 18 technology areas.

What is Safe Foods Corporation's Innovation Score?

Safe Foods Corporation has an Innovation Score of 50.8 out of 100 (top 12% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Safe Foods Corporation's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Safe Foods Corporation's recent grant velocity is +62% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Safe Foods Corporation's patents?

Safe Foods Corporation's patents average 14.8 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 Safe Foods Corporation 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

Safe Foods Corporation

Q: What technology areas does Safe Foods Corporation focus on?

Safe Foods Corporation's top technology area is A23B (Preservation OF Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic BEVERAGES; Chemical Ripening OF Fruit OR Vegetables) with 33 patents, ranking #1 of 403 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 18 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 37 granted patents across 18 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: A23B (Preservation OF Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic BEVERAGES; Chemical Ripening OF Fruit OR Vegetables).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Safe ranks #8,673 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 37 patents across 18 technology areas.

#8,673
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 12%
by Innovation Score (50.8/100): 14.8
avg claims per patent: +62%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R8673 · US Corporation #8,673 · 37 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 37 grants
UPPER-Q #8,673/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Saint-Augustin…
CPC-FOCUS A23B · 18 areas
INNOV-PAR 50.8/100
CLAIMS-RICH 14.8 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +62% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Saint-Augustin Canada Electric 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 Safe’s 50.8 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 12.6 pts (25%) Velocity 14.3 pts (28%) Breadth 15.0 pts (30%) Claim depth 8.9 pts (18%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Evonik Röhm · near

51
O&M Halyard · near

51
Safe Foods · this assignee

51
Unitika · near

51
Weyerhaeuser NR · near

51
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Safe's Innovation Score is 50.8/100 (top 12% 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 Safe?

Each dot is one of Safe’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). Safe’s own 14.8 claims/patent is ABOVE the 14.4 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Safe's grants concentrate

Safe Foods Corporation is a focused PatentsView assignee: 18 CPC subclasses with 89.2% of grants classified under A23B (Preservation OF Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic BEVERAGES; Chemical Ripening OF Fruit OR Vegetables). Peak complete grant year is 2022 (6 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2017. By volume, Safe sits between Shenzhen Poweroak Newener Co., Ltd and Schölly Fiberoptic GmbH.

Safe's three-year grant acceleration

Safe Foods Corporation shows 15 grants in 2022–2024 against only 7 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.

Shenzhen Poweroak…

37
Smeg S P A

37
Suez International

37
Swarovski Lighting

37
Saint-augustin Ca…

37
San Diego State U…

37
Satisloh

37
Schölly Fiberoptic

37
Safe Foods ◀

37

What this shows Safe holds 37 patents at rank #8,678, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Safe

By rank, the assignees closest to #8,678 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A23B (Preservation OF Foods)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Safe, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A23B (Preservation OF Foods), Safe ranks #1 of 403 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (51 here).

Weyerhaeuser NR Company 51 Unitika Ltd. 51 O&M Halyard, Inc. 51 Evonik Röhm GmbH 51

Safe's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

51 Top 12% higher than 88% 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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Safe Foods Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	2	5.4%
2016	5	13.5%
2017	1	2.7%
2018	4	10.8%
2019	1	2.7%
2020	4	10.8%
2021	2	5.4%
2022	6	16.2%
2023	3	8.1%
2024	6	16.2%
2025partial year	3	8.1%

Which technologies does Safe Foods Corporation patent most?

A23B - Preservation OF Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic BEVERAGES; Chemical Ripening OF Fruit OR Vegetables 33

B01D - Separation 25

A23V - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages AND Lactic OR Propionic Acid Bacteria Used IN Foodstuffs OR Food Preparation 21

C02F - Treatment OF Water, Waste Water, Sewage, OR Sludge 18

A22C - Processing Meat, Poultry, OR Fish 11

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 9

A61L - Methods OR Apparatus FOR Sterilising Materials OR Objects IN GENERAL; Disinfection, Sterilisation OR Deodorisation OF AIR; Chemical Aspects OF Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads OR Surgical ARTICLES; Materials FOR Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads OR Surgical Articles 8

G01V - GEOPHYSICS; Gravitational MEASUREMENTS; Detecting Masses OR OBJECTS; Tags 6

G01F - Measuring Volume, Volume Flow, Mass Flow OR Liquid LEVEL; Metering BY Volume 6

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 6

A22B - Slaughtering 5

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 3

G06Q - Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory Purposes, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 3

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 3

Y02A - Technologies FOR Adaptation TO Climate Change 2

Top 15 of 18 technology areas

More on this record

Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

View all rankings → How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

Safe Foods Corporation's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Safe Foods Corporation's lead technology class is A23B (Preservation OF Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic BEVERAGES; Chemical Ripening OF Fruit OR Vegetables), 89.2% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A23B
Ranked #8,673 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Safe Foods Corporation against Shenzhen Poweroak Newener Co., Ltd, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 50.8/100 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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