Where does Tate & Lyle Ingredients Americas LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Tate & Lyle Ingredients Americas LLC ranks #10,199 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 Tate & Lyle Ingredients Americas LLC hold?

Tate & Lyle Ingredients Americas LLC holds 31 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 18 technology areas.

What is Tate & Lyle Ingredients Americas LLC's Innovation Score?

Tate & Lyle Ingredients Americas LLC has an Innovation Score of 42.3 out of 100 (top 31% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Tate & Lyle Ingredients Americas LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Tate & Lyle Ingredients Americas LLC's recent grant velocity is -70% 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 Tate & Lyle Ingredients Americas LLC's patents?

Tate & Lyle Ingredients Americas LLC's patents average 24.4 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 Tate & Lyle Ingredients Americas 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

Tate & Lyle Ingredients Americas LLC

Q: What technology areas does Tate & Lyle Ingredients Americas LLC focus on?

Tate & Lyle Ingredients Americas LLC's top technology area is A23L (Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Preparation OR Treatment Thereof) with 28 patents, ranking #47 of 1,325 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 18 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 31 granted patents across 18 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, Tate ranks #10,199 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 31 patents across 18 technology areas.

#10,199
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 31%
by Innovation Score (42.3/100): 24.4
avg claims per patent: -70%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R10199 · US Corporation #10,199 · 31 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 31 grants
UPPER-Q #10,199/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH The Catholic…
CPC-FOCUS A23L · 18 areas
INNOV-PAR 42.3/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 24.4 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -70% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: The Catholic University of America (±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 Tate’s 42.3 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 12.0 pts (28%) Velocity 0.7 pts (2%) Breadth 15.0 pts (35%) Claim depth 14.7 pts (35%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Conviva · near

42
Kangwon National… · near

42
Scion Neurostim · near

42
Tate & Lyle… · this assignee

42
Tealium · near

42
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Tate's Innovation Score is 42.3/100 (top 31% 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 Tate?

Each dot is one of Tate’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). Tate’s own 24.4 claims/patent is ABOVE the 16.5 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Tate's grants concentrate

Tate & Lyle Ingredients Americas LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 18 CPC subclasses with 90.3% of grants classified under A23L (Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Preparation OR Treatment Thereof). Peak complete grant year is 2018 (6 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2022. By volume, Tate sits between Triune Systems, LLC and Universidad POLITÉCNICA DE Madrid.

Tate's three-year grant acceleration

Tate & Lyle Ingredients Americas LLC shows 1 grants in 2022–2024 against only 10 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.

Triune Systems

31
Trixell

31
TTP

31
TVA Medical

31
The Catholic Univ…

31
Tintri by DDN

31
Tyco France SAS

31
Universidad Polit…

31
Tate & Lyle Ingre… ◀

31

What this shows Tate holds 31 patents at rank #10,206, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Tate

By rank, the assignees closest to #10,206 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A23L (Foods)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Tate, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A23L (Foods), Tate ranks #47 of 1,325 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (42 here).

Scion Neurostim, Inc. 42 Tealium Inc. 42 Kangwon National University University-Industry Cooperation Foundation 42 Conviva Inc. 42

Tate's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

42 Top 31% higher than 69% 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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Tate & Lyle Ingredients Americas LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	3	9.7%
2016	5	16.1%
2017	5	16.1%
2018	6	19.4%
2019	4	12.9%
2020	2	6.5%
2021	4	12.9%
2022	1	3.2%
2025partial year	1	3.2%

Which technologies does Tate & Lyle Ingredients Americas LLC patent most?

A23L - Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Preparation OR Treatment Thereof 28

A23V - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages AND Lactic OR Propionic Acid Bacteria Used IN Foodstuffs OR Food Preparation 25

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 10

C12P - Fermentation OR Enzyme-using Processes TO Synthesise A Desired Chemical Compound OR Composition OR TO Separate Optical Isomers From A Racemic Mixture 8

A23P - Shaping OR Working OF Foodstuffs, NOT Fully Covered BY A Single Other Subclass 8

C08B - POLYSACCHARIDES; Derivatives Thereof 8

A61P - Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations 6

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

A61Q - Specific USE OF Cosmetics OR Similar Toiletry Preparations 5

A23G - COCOA; Cocoa Products, e.g. CHOCOLATE; Substitutes FOR Cocoa OR Cocoa PRODUCTS; CONFECTIONERY; Chewing GUM; ICE-CREAM; Preparation Thereof 5

C12Y - Enzymes 4

A23K - Fodder 3

C08L - Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds 3

C12N - Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media 2

C13K - Saccharides Obtained From Natural Sources OR BY Hydrolysis OF Naturally Occurring Disaccharides, Oligosaccharides OR Polysaccharides 1

Top 15 of 18 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

Tate & Lyle Ingredients Americas LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Tate & Lyle Ingredients Americas LLC's lead technology class is A23L (Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Preparation OR Treatment Thereof), 90.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A23L
Ranked #10,199 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Tate & Lyle Ingredients Americas LLC against Triune Systems, LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 42.3/100 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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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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