Where does Sapporo Breweries Limited rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Sapporo Breweries Limited ranks #17,150 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 Sapporo Breweries Limited hold?

Sapporo Breweries Limited holds 17 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2024, spanning 10 technology areas.

What is Sapporo Breweries Limited's Innovation Score?

Sapporo Breweries Limited has an Innovation Score of 30.4 out of 100 (34th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Sapporo Breweries Limited's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Sapporo Breweries Limited's recent grant velocity is +13% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). The company is maintaining or growing its granted-patent output.

What does claim depth mean for Sapporo Breweries Limited's patents?

Sapporo Breweries Limited's patents average 8.1 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 Sapporo Breweries Limited 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

Sapporo Breweries Limited

Q: What technology areas does Sapporo Breweries Limited focus on?

Sapporo Breweries Limited's top technology area is C12C (BEER; Preparation OF Beer BY Fermentation ; Preparation OF Malt FOR Making BEER; Preparation OF Hops FOR Making Beer) with 7 patents, ranking #8 of 69 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 10 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 17 granted patents across 10 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2024. 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: C12C (BEER; Preparation OF Beer BY Fermentation ; Preparation OF Malt FOR Making BEER; Preparation OF Hops FOR Making Beer).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Sapporo ranks #17,150 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 17 patents across 10 technology areas.

#17,150
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 34th percentile
by Innovation Score (30.4/100): 8.1
avg claims per patent: +13%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R17150 · Foreign Corporation #17,150 · 17 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-PAR · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-UP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 17 grants
MID-PACK #17,150/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Sapphire
CPC-FOCUS C12C · 10 areas
INNOV-THIN 30.4/100
CLAIMS-PAR 8.1 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-UP +13% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Sapphire Technologies, 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 Sapporo’s 30.4 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 10.0 pts (33%) Velocity 4.4 pts (14%) Breadth 11.2 pts (37%) Claim depth 4.8 pts (16%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Sapporo Breweries · this assignee

30
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Sapporo's Innovation Score is 30.4/100 (34th percentile 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 Sapporo?

Each dot is one of Sapporo’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). Sapporo’s own 8.1 claims/patent is at or below the 15.7 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Sapporo's grants concentrate

Sapporo Breweries Limited is a focused PatentsView assignee: 10 CPC subclasses with 41.2% of grants classified under C12C (BEER; Preparation OF Beer BY Fermentation ; Preparation OF Malt FOR Making BEER; Preparation OF Hops FOR Making Beer). Peak complete grant year is 2016 (3 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2015. By volume, Sapporo sits between Suzhou Sonavox Electronics Co., Ltd. and Schweitzer Mauduit International, Inc..

Sapporo's three-year grant acceleration

Sapporo Breweries Limited shows 4 grants in 2022–2024 against only 6 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.

Suzhou Sonavox

17
Syntilla Medical

17
Sysnav

17
Sapphire

17
Scality

17
Schaltbau

17
Schenck Process E…

17
Schweitzer Maudui…

17
Sapporo Breweries ◀

17

What this shows Sapporo holds 17 patents at rank #17,201, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Sapporo

By rank, the assignees closest to #17,201 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C12C (BEER)

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

Sapporo's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

30 34th percentile higher than 34% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2024

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2015–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Sapporo Breweries Limited patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1	5.9%
2016	3	17.6%
2018	3	17.6%
2019	1	5.9%
2020	3	17.6%
2021	2	11.8%
2022	2	11.8%
2024	2	11.8%

Which technologies does Sapporo Breweries Limited patent most?

C12C - BEER; Preparation OF Beer BY Fermentation ; Preparation OF Malt FOR Making BEER; Preparation OF Hops FOR Making Beer 7

A23L - Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Preparation OR Treatment Thereof 5

C12G - WINE; Preparation THEREOF; Alcoholic Beverages ; Preparation OF Alcoholic Beverages NOT Provided FOR IN Subclasses C12c OR C12h 3

C12N - Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media 3

A23V - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages AND Lactic OR Propionic Acid Bacteria Used IN Foodstuffs OR Food Preparation 3

C12P - Fermentation OR Enzyme-using Processes TO Synthesise A Desired Chemical Compound OR Composition OR TO Separate Optical Isomers From A Racemic Mixture 2

C12R - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses C12c - C12q, Relating TO Microorganisms 2

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 1

C12Q - Measuring OR Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids OR Microorganisms ; Compositions OR Test Papers THEREFOR; Processes OF Preparing Such COMPOSITIONS; Condition-responsive Control IN Microbiological OR Enzymological Processes 1

A01H - NEW Plants OR ; NON-TRANSGENIC; Processes FOR Obtaining THEM; Plant Reproduction BY Tissue Culture Techniques 1

Top 10 of 10 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

Sapporo Breweries Limited's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Sapporo Breweries Limited's lead technology class is C12C (BEER; Preparation OF Beer BY Fermentation ; Preparation OF Malt FOR Making BEER; Preparation OF Hops FOR Making Beer), 41.2% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C12C
Ranked #17,150 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Sapporo Breweries Limited against Suzhou Sonavox Electronics Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 30.4/100 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.

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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