Where does Schweitzer Mauduit International, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Schweitzer Mauduit International, Inc. ranks #17,158 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 Schweitzer Mauduit International, Inc. hold?

Schweitzer Mauduit International, Inc. holds 17 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2024, spanning 24 technology areas.

What is Schweitzer Mauduit International, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Schweitzer Mauduit International, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 44.1 out of 100 (top 26% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Schweitzer Mauduit International, Inc. focus on?

Schweitzer Mauduit International, Inc.'s top technology area is A23F (COFFEE; TEA; Their SUBSTITUTES; Manufacture, Preparation, OR Infusion Thereof) with 7 patents, ranking #17 of 125 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 24 CPC subclasses total.

Is Schweitzer Mauduit International, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Schweitzer Mauduit International, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +43% 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 Schweitzer Mauduit International, Inc.'s patents?

Schweitzer Mauduit International, Inc.'s patents average 21.1 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 Schweitzer Mauduit International, Inc. 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

Schweitzer Mauduit International, Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 17 granted patents across 24 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: A23F (COFFEE; TEA; Their SUBSTITUTES; Manufacture, Preparation, OR Infusion Thereof).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Schweitzer ranks #17,158 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 17 patents across 24 technology areas.

#17,158
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 26%
by Innovation Score (44.1/100): 21.1
avg claims per patent: +43%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R17158 · US Corporation #17,158 · 17 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 17 grants
MID-PACK #17,158/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Sapporo Breweries
CPC-FOCUS A23F · 24 areas
INNOV-PAR 44.1/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 21.1 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-UP +43% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Sapporo Breweries Limited (±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 Schweitzer’s 44.1 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 10.0 pts (23%) Velocity 4.2 pts (10%) Breadth 17.3 pts (39%) Claim depth 12.7 pts (29%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

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3D Lighting… · lowest

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What this shows Schweitzer's Innovation Score is 44.1/100 (top 26% 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 Schweitzer?

Each dot is one of Schweitzer’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). Schweitzer’s own 21.1 claims/patent is ABOVE the 14.6 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Schweitzer's grants concentrate

Schweitzer Mauduit International, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 24 CPC subclasses with 41.2% of grants classified under A23F (COFFEE; TEA; Their SUBSTITUTES; Manufacture, Preparation, OR Infusion Thereof). Peak complete grant year is 2019 (3 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2015. By volume, Schweitzer sits between Sapporo Breweries Limited and Seikilife (Shanghai) Housewares Co., Ltd..

Schweitzer's three-year grant acceleration

Schweitzer Mauduit International, Inc. shows 5 grants in 2022–2024 against only 8 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.

Sapporo Breweries

17
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17
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17
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17
Scott Health & Sa…

17
Searete

17
Seekops

17
Seikilife (Shangh…

17
Schweitzer Maudui… ◀

17

What this shows Schweitzer holds 17 patents at rank #17,205, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Schweitzer

By rank, the assignees closest to #17,205 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A23F (Coffee)

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

Schweitzer's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

44 Top 26% higher than 74% 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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Schweitzer Mauduit International, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1	5.9%
2016	1	5.9%
2018	2	11.8%
2019	3	17.6%
2020	3	17.6%
2021	2	11.8%
2022	3	17.6%
2023	1	5.9%
2024	1	5.9%

Which technologies does Schweitzer Mauduit International, Inc. patent most?

A23F - COFFEE; TEA; Their SUBSTITUTES; Manufacture, Preparation, OR Infusion Thereof 7

A23L - Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Preparation OR Treatment Thereof 7

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 7

A24D - CIGARS; CIGARETTES; Tobacco Smoke FILTERS; Mouthpieces FOR Cigars OR CIGARETTES; Manufacture OF Tobacco Smoke Filters OR Mouthpieces 7

A61P - Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations 5

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

A23G - COCOA; Cocoa Products, e.g. CHOCOLATE; Substitutes FOR Cocoa OR Cocoa PRODUCTS; CONFECTIONERY; Chewing GUM; ICE-CREAM; Preparation Thereof 3

D21H - Pulp COMPOSITIONS; Preparation Thereof NOT Covered BY Subclasses D21c OR D21D; Impregnating OR Coating OF PAPER; Treatment OF Finished Paper NOT Covered BY Class B31 OR Subclass D21G; Paper NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 3

A61Q - Specific USE OF Cosmetics OR Similar Toiletry Preparations 2

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 2

A24C - Machines FOR Making Cigars OR Cigarettes 2

A24B - Manufacture OR Preparation OF Tobacco FOR Smoking OR CHEWING; TOBACCO; Snuff 2

B65D - Containers FOR Storage OR Transport OF Articles OR Materials, e.g. Bags, Barrels, Bottles, Boxes, Cans, Cartons, Crates, Drums, Jars, Tanks, Hoppers, Forwarding CONTAINERS; Accessories, Closures, OR Fittings THEREFOR; Packaging ELEMENTS; Packages 2

C12P - Fermentation OR Enzyme-using Processes TO Synthesise A Desired Chemical Compound OR Composition OR TO Separate Optical Isomers From A Racemic Mixture 1

C11B - Producing, e.g. BY Pressing RAW Materials OR BY Extraction From Waste Materials, Refining OR Preserving Fats, Fatty Substances, e.g. Lanolin, Fatty Oils OR WAXES; Essential OILS; Perfumes 1

Top 15 of 24 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

Schweitzer Mauduit International, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Schweitzer Mauduit International, Inc.'s lead technology class is A23F (COFFEE; TEA; Their SUBSTITUTES; Manufacture, Preparation, OR Infusion Thereof), 41.2% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A23F
Ranked #17,158 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Schweitzer Mauduit International, Inc. against Sapporo Breweries Limited, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 44.1/100 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

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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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