Where does Sensient Colors LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Sensient Colors LLC ranks #16,344 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 Sensient Colors LLC hold?

Sensient Colors LLC holds 18 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 19 technology areas.

What is Sensient Colors LLC's Innovation Score?

Sensient Colors LLC has an Innovation Score of 48.8 out of 100 (top 16% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Sensient Colors LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Sensient Colors LLC's recent grant velocity is -30% 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 Sensient Colors LLC's patents?

Sensient Colors LLC's patents average 20.1 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 Sensient Colors 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

Sensient Colors LLC

Q: What technology areas does Sensient Colors LLC focus on?

Sensient Colors LLC's top technology area is A23L (Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Preparation OR Treatment Thereof) with 7 patents, ranking #239 of 1,325 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 19 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 18 granted patents across 19 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, Sensient ranks #16,344 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 18 patents across 19 technology areas.

#16,344
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 16%
by Innovation Score (48.8/100): 20.1
avg claims per patent: -30%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R16344 · US Corporation #16,344 · 18 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 18 grants
MID-PACK #16,344/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Sea Tel
CPC-FOCUS A23L · 19 areas
INNOV-PAR 48.8/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 20.1 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DOWN -30% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Sea Tel, 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 Sensient’s 48.8 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 10.2 pts (21%) Velocity 11.1 pts (23%) Breadth 15.4 pts (32%) Claim depth 12.1 pts (25%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Sensient Colors · this assignee

49
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Sensient's Innovation Score is 48.8/100 (top 16% 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 Sensient?

Each dot is one of Sensient’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). Sensient’s own 20.1 claims/patent is ABOVE the 14.9 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Sensient's grants concentrate

Sensient Colors LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 19 CPC subclasses with 38.9% of grants classified under A23L (Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Preparation OR Treatment Thereof). Peak complete grant year is 2017 (4 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2018. By volume, Sensient sits between Sea Tel, Inc. and Shenzhen Earfun Technology Co., Ltd..

Sensient's three-year grant acceleration

Sensient Colors LLC shows 5 grants in 2022–2024 against only 3 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.

Sea Tel

18
Sederma

18
Semprius

18
Sense Photonics

18
Serum Institute o…

18
Shawshank Ledz

18
Shenzhen Airsmart…

18
Shenzhen Earfun T…

18
Sensient Colors ◀

18

What this shows Sensient holds 18 patents at rank #16,368, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Sensient

By rank, the assignees closest to #16,368 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A23L (Foods)

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

Sensient's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

49 Top 16% higher than 84% 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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Sensient Colors LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	2	11.1%
2016	2	11.1%
2017	4	22.2%
2018	1	5.6%
2019	1	5.6%
2020	1	5.6%
2021	1	5.6%
2022	3	16.7%
2023	1	5.6%
2024	1	5.6%
2025partial year	1	5.6%

Which technologies does Sensient Colors LLC patent most?

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

A23P - Shaping OR Working OF Foodstuffs, NOT Fully Covered BY A Single Other Subclass 7

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 7

A23G - COCOA; Cocoa Products, e.g. CHOCOLATE; Substitutes FOR Cocoa OR Cocoa PRODUCTS; CONFECTIONERY; Chewing GUM; ICE-CREAM; Preparation Thereof 6

A23V - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages AND Lactic OR Propionic Acid Bacteria Used IN Foodstuffs OR Food Preparation 6

C09B - Organic Dyes OR Closely-related Compounds FOR Producing Dyes ; , e.g. PIGMENTS; MORDANTS; Lakes 4

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 3

A01H - NEW Plants OR ; NON-TRANSGENIC; Processes FOR Obtaining THEM; Plant Reproduction BY Tissue Culture Techniques 3

C09C - Treatment OF Inorganic Materials, Other Than Fibrous Fillers, TO Enhance Their Pigmenting OR Filling Properties ; Preparation OF Carbon Black ; ; Preparation OF Inorganic Materials Which ARE NO Single Chemical Compounds AND Which ARE Mainly Used AS Pigments OR Fillers 2

A61Q - Specific USE OF Cosmetics OR Similar Toiletry Preparations 2

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 1

C01P - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Structural AND Physical Aspects OF Solid Inorganic Compounds 1

C07D - Heterocyclic Compounds 1

A23B - Preservation OF Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic BEVERAGES; Chemical Ripening OF Fruit OR Vegetables 1

C08B - POLYSACCHARIDES; Derivatives Thereof 1

Top 15 of 19 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

Sensient Colors LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Sensient Colors LLC's lead technology class is A23L (Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Preparation OR Treatment Thereof), 38.9% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A23L
Ranked #16,344 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Sensient Colors LLC against Sea Tel, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 48.8/100 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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