Where does Starbucks Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Starbucks Corporation ranks #2,101 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 Starbucks Corporation hold?

Starbucks Corporation holds 188 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 39 technology areas.

What is Starbucks Corporation's Innovation Score?

Starbucks Corporation has an Innovation Score of 59.5 out of 100 (top 4% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Starbucks Corporation focus on?

Starbucks Corporation's top technology area is A47J (Kitchen EQUIPMENT; Coffee MILLS; Spice MILLS; Apparatus FOR Making Beverages) with 49 patents, ranking #16 of 793 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 39 CPC subclasses total.

Is Starbucks Corporation's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Starbucks Corporation's recent grant velocity is +94% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Starbucks Corporation's patents?

Starbucks Corporation's patents average 9.9 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 Starbucks 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

Starbucks Corporation

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 188 granted patents across 39 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: A47J (Kitchen EQUIPMENT; Coffee MILLS; Spice MILLS; Apparatus FOR Making Beverages).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Starbucks ranks #2,101 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 188 patents across 39 technology areas.

#2,101
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 4%
by Innovation Score (59.5/100): 9.9
avg claims per patent: +94%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2101 · US Corporation #2,101 · 188 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-PAR · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 188 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,101/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Beijing Jingdong…
CPC-FOCUS A47J · 39 areas
INNOV-PAR 59.5/100
CLAIMS-PAR 9.9 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +94% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Beijing Jingdong Shangke Information Technology Co., Ltd. (±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 Starbucks’s 59.5 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 18.1 pts (30%) Velocity 13.3 pts (22%) Breadth 22.1 pts (37%) Claim depth 5.9 pts (10%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Starbucks · this assignee

59
Docusign · near

59
Energous · near

59
Roche Sequencing… · near

59
Tetra Laval… · near

59
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Starbucks's Innovation Score is 59.5/100 (top 4% 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 Starbucks?

Each dot is one of Starbucks’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). Starbucks’s own 9.9 claims/patent is at or below the 13.0 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Starbucks's grants concentrate

Starbucks Corporation is a focused PatentsView assignee: 39 CPC subclasses with 26.1% of grants classified under A47J (Kitchen EQUIPMENT; Coffee MILLS; Spice MILLS; Apparatus FOR Making Beverages). Peak complete grant year is 2024 (49 grants) versus a trough of 5 in 2015. By volume, Starbucks sits between Beijing Jingdong Shangke Information Technology Co., Ltd. and Visteon Global Technologies, Inc..

Starbucks's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Starbucks Corporation moved from 35 to 70 grants (2.00x 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 #214. See the growth leaderboard.

Beijing Jingdong…

188
Fujimi Incorporat…

188
Hamilton Beach Br…

188
Nanning Fugui Pre…

188
Symbotic

188
The Royal Institu…

188
VIB VZW

188
Visteon Global

188
Starbucks ◀

188

What this shows Starbucks holds 188 patents at rank #2,101, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Starbucks

By rank, the assignees closest to #2,101 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A47J (Kitchen Equipment)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Starbucks, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A47J (Kitchen Equipment), Starbucks ranks #16 of 793 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (59 here).

Docusign, Inc. 59 Roche Sequencing Solutions, Inc. 59 Energous Corporation 59 Tetra Laval Holdings & Finance S.A. 59

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (9.9 here).

ISP Investments LLC 9.9 avg Hitachi Astemo, Ltd. 9.9 avg Uacj Corporation 9.9 avg Nidec Tosok Corporation 9.9 avg

Starbucks's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

59 Top 4% higher than 96% 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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Starbucks Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	5	2.7%
2016	10	5.3%
2017	11	5.9%
2018	10	5.3%
2019	12	6.4%
2020	10	5.3%
2021	13	6.9%
2022	8	4.3%
2023	13	6.9%
2024	49	26.1%
2025partial year	47	25.0%

Which technologies does Starbucks Corporation patent most?

A47J - Kitchen EQUIPMENT; Coffee MILLS; Spice MILLS; Apparatus FOR Making Beverages 49

A23F - COFFEE; TEA; Their SUBSTITUTES; Manufacture, Preparation, OR Infusion Thereof 28

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 23

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 18

B67D - Dispensing, Delivering OR Transferring Liquids, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 15

A23L - Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Preparation OR Treatment Thereof 12

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 12

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 10

G07F - Coin-freed OR Like Apparatus 8

B01F - Mixing, e.g. Dissolving, Emulsifying OR Dispersing 6

A23C - Dairy Products, e.g. Milk, Butter OR CHEESE; Milk OR Cheese SUBSTITUTES; Making OR Treatment Thereof 6

G05F - Systems FOR Regulating Electric OR Magnetic Variables 5

G05D - Systems FOR Controlling OR Regulating Non-electric Variables 5

Y04S - Systems Integrating Technologies Related TO Power Network Operation, Communication OR Information Technologies FOR Improving THE Electrical Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution, Management OR Usage, i.e. Smart Grids 5

Y02B - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Buildings, e.g. Housing, House Appliances OR Related End-user Applications 5

Top 15 of 39 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

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

Starbucks Corporation's lead technology class is A47J (Kitchen EQUIPMENT; Coffee MILLS; Spice MILLS; Apparatus FOR Making Beverages), 26.1% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A47J
Ranked #2,101 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Starbucks Corporation against Beijing Jingdong Shangke Information Technology Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 59.5/100 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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