Where does Societe des Produits Nestle S.A. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Societe des Produits Nestle S.A. ranks #507 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 Societe des Produits Nestle S.A. hold?

Societe des Produits Nestle S.A. holds 887 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 115 technology areas.

What is Societe des Produits Nestle S.A.'s Innovation Score?

Societe des Produits Nestle S.A. has an Innovation Score of 62.7 out of 100 (top 2% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Societe des Produits Nestle S.A.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Societe des Produits Nestle S.A.'s recent grant velocity is +312% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Societe des Produits Nestle S.A.'s patents?

Societe des Produits Nestle S.A.'s patents average 12.2 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 Societe des Produits Nestle S.A. 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

Societe des Produits Nestle S.A.

Q: What technology areas does Societe des Produits Nestle S.A. focus on?

Societe des Produits Nestle S.A.'s top technology area is A23L (Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Preparation OR Treatment Thereof) with 267 patents. Grants appear in 115 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 887 granted patents across 115 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, Societe ranks #507 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 887 patents across 115 technology areas.

#507
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 2%
by Innovation Score (62.7/100): 12.2
avg claims per patent: +312%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R507 · Foreign Corporation #507 · 887 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 887 grants
TOP-DECILE #507/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Stmicroelectronics
CPC-WIDE A23L · 115 areas
INNOV-STRONG 62.7/100
CLAIMS-RICH 12.2 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +312% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Stmicroelectronics, Inc. (±1 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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Kokusai Electric · near

63
Societe des… · this assignee

63
Locus Solutions Ipco · near

63
Sumitomo Wiring… · near

63
University of Utah… · near

63
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Societe's Innovation Score is 62.7/100 (top 2% 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.

How Societe's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Societe des Produits Nestle S.A. received 647 grants versus 157 in 2015–2019 (+312% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2020 at 152 grants and bottomed in 2017 at 10. Lead class A23L accounts for 30.1% of the portfolio across 115 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Shell OIL Compny (#503) and E.I. DU Pont DE Nemours AND Company (#511).

Societe's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Societe des Produits Nestle S.A. moved from 357 to 370 grants (1.04x 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 #1,088. See the growth leaderboard.

Shell OIL Compny

890
Epistar

889
Stmicroelectronics

888
Zhejiang Universi…

888
Societe des Produ… ◀

887
Weatherford Techn…

886
Toyota Boshoku

885
Furukawa Electric

883
E I DU Pont DE Ne…

882

What this shows Societe holds 887 patents at rank #507, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Societe

By rank, the assignees closest to #507 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A23L (Foods)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Societe, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above).

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (63 here).

University of Utah Research Foundation 63 Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd. 63 Locus Solutions Ipco, LLC 63 Kokusai Electric Corporation 63

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (12.2 here).

THE University OF Tokyo 12.2 avg THE Coca-cola Company 12.2 avg Hyundai Motor Company 12.2 avg Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University 12.2 avg

Societe's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

63 Top 2% higher than 98% 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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Societe des Produits Nestle S.A. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	28	3.2%
2016	23	2.6%
2017	10	1.1%
2018	16	1.8%
2019	80	9.0%
2020	152	17.1%
2021	125	14.1%
2022	146	16.5%
2023	107	12.1%
2024	117	13.2%
2025partial year	83	9.4%

Which technologies does Societe des Produits Nestle S.A. patent most?

A23L - Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Preparation OR Treatment Thereof 267

A23V - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages AND Lactic OR Propionic Acid Bacteria Used IN Foodstuffs OR Food Preparation 208

A47J - Kitchen EQUIPMENT; Coffee MILLS; Spice MILLS; Apparatus FOR Making Beverages 208

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 208

A61P - Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations 179

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 110

A23K - Fodder 77

A23G - COCOA; Cocoa Products, e.g. CHOCOLATE; Substitutes FOR Cocoa OR Cocoa PRODUCTS; CONFECTIONERY; Chewing GUM; ICE-CREAM; Preparation Thereof 64

A23C - Dairy Products, e.g. Milk, Butter OR CHEESE; Milk OR Cheese SUBSTITUTES; Making OR Treatment Thereof 50

A23F - COFFEE; TEA; Their SUBSTITUTES; Manufacture, Preparation, OR Infusion Thereof 44

A23P - Shaping OR Working OF Foodstuffs, NOT Fully Covered BY A Single Other Subclass 43

A23J - Protein Compositions FOR FOODSTUFFS; Working-up Proteins FOR FOODSTUFFS; Phosphatide Compositions FOR Foodstuffs 32

B65B - Machines, Apparatus OR Devices FOR, OR Methods OF, Packaging Articles OR MATERIALS; Unpacking 27

A23D - Edible Oils OR Fats, e.g. Margarines, Shortenings OR Cooking Oils 25

A01K - Animal HUSBANDRY; AVICULTURE; APICULTURE; PISCICULTURE; FISHING; Rearing OR Breeding Animals, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; NEW Breeds OF Animals 24

Top 15 of 115 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#507

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

62.7 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

Societe des Produits Nestle S.A.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Societe des Produits Nestle S.A.'s lead technology class is A23L (Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Preparation OR Treatment Thereof), 30.1% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A23L
Ranked #507 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Societe des Produits Nestle S.A. against Shell OIL Compny, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 62.7/100 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.

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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

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