Where does Suntory Beverage & Food Limited rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Suntory Beverage & Food Limited ranks #15,661 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 Suntory Beverage & Food Limited hold?

Suntory Beverage & Food Limited holds 19 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2018, spanning 11 technology areas.

What is Suntory Beverage & Food Limited's Innovation Score?

Suntory Beverage & Food Limited has an Innovation Score of 24.9 out of 100 (16th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Suntory Beverage & Food Limited's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Suntory Beverage & Food Limited's recent grant velocity is -100% 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 Suntory Beverage & Food Limited's patents?

Suntory Beverage & Food Limited's patents average 4.8 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 Suntory Beverage & Food 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

Suntory Beverage & Food Limited

Q: What technology areas does Suntory Beverage & Food Limited focus on?

Suntory Beverage & Food Limited's top technology area is 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) with 7 patents, ranking #510 of 3,365 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 11 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 19 granted patents across 11 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2018. 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: 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 F).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Suntory ranks #15,661 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 19 patents across 11 technology areas.

#15,661
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 16th percentile
by Innovation Score (24.9/100): 4.8
avg claims per patent: -100%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R15661 · Foreign Corporation #15,661 · 19 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 19 grants
MID-PACK #15,661/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH SSW Holding
CPC-FOCUS B65D · 11 areas
INNOV-THIN 24.9/100
CLAIMS-SPARSE 4.8 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -100% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: SSW Holding Company, LLC (±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 Suntory’s 24.9 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 10.3 pts (41%) Velocity 0.0 pts (0%) Breadth 11.7 pts (47%) Claim depth 2.9 pts (12%)

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What this shows Suntory's Innovation Score is 24.9/100 (16th 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 Suntory?

Each dot is one of Suntory’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). Suntory’s own 4.8 claims/patent is at or below the 14.2 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Suntory's grants concentrate

Suntory Beverage & Food Limited is a focused PatentsView assignee: 11 CPC subclasses with 36.8% of grants classified under 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 F). Peak complete grant year is 2018 (10 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2016. By volume, Suntory sits between SSW Holding Company, LLC and Synthos S.A..

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What this shows Suntory holds 19 patents at rank #15,621, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Suntory

By rank, the assignees closest to #15,621 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B65D (Containers FOR Storage OR Transport OF Articles OR Materials)

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

Suntory's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

25 16th percentile higher than 16% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2018

Grants by year

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

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Suntory Beverage & Food Limited patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	4	21.1%
2016	1	5.3%
2017	4	21.1%
2018	10	52.6%

Which technologies does Suntory Beverage & Food Limited patent most?

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 7

B65B - Machines, Apparatus OR Devices FOR, OR Methods OF, Packaging Articles OR MATERIALS; Unpacking 5

A47J - Kitchen EQUIPMENT; Coffee MILLS; Spice MILLS; Apparatus FOR Making Beverages 3

B29C - Shaping OR Joining OF PLASTICS; Shaping OF Material IN A Plastic State, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; After-treatment OF THE Shaped Products, e.g. Repairing 3

B01F - Mixing, e.g. Dissolving, Emulsifying OR Dispersing 3

A23L - Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Preparation OR Treatment Thereof 2

A61L - Methods OR Apparatus FOR Sterilising Materials OR Objects IN GENERAL; Disinfection, Sterilisation OR Deodorisation OF AIR; Chemical Aspects OF Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads OR Surgical ARTICLES; Materials FOR Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads OR Surgical Articles 2

B67C - Cleaning, Filling With Liquids OR Semiliquids, OR Emptying, OF Bottles, Jars, Cans, Casks, Barrels, OR Similar Containers, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Funnels 2

A23F - COFFEE; TEA; Their SUBSTITUTES; Manufacture, Preparation, OR Infusion Thereof 1

B29D - Producing Particular Articles From Plastics OR From Substances IN A Plastic State 1

B67B - Applying Closure Members TO Bottles Jars, OR Similar CONTAINERS; Opening Closed Containers 1

Top 11 of 11 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

Suntory Beverage & Food Limited's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Suntory Beverage & Food Limited's lead technology class is 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 F), 36.8% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B65D
Ranked #15,661 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Suntory Beverage & Food Limited against SSW Holding Company, LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 24.9/100 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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