Where does Tereos Starch & Sweeteners Belgium rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Tereos Starch & Sweeteners Belgium ranks #30,362 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 Tereos Starch & Sweeteners Belgium hold?

Tereos Starch & Sweeteners Belgium holds 9 US utility patents granted between 2019 and 2023, spanning 23 technology areas.

What is Tereos Starch & Sweeteners Belgium's Innovation Score?

Tereos Starch & Sweeteners Belgium has an Innovation Score of 37.5 out of 100 (top 43% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Tereos Starch & Sweeteners Belgium's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Tereos Starch & Sweeteners Belgium's recent grant velocity is +250% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Tereos Starch & Sweeteners Belgium's patents?

Tereos Starch & Sweeteners Belgium's patents average 17.9 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 Tereos Starch & Sweeteners Belgium 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

Tereos Starch & Sweeteners Belgium

Q: What technology areas does Tereos Starch & Sweeteners Belgium focus on?

Tereos Starch & Sweeteners Belgium's top technology area is A23L (Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Preparation OR Treatment Thereof) with 4 patents, ranking #424 of 1,325 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 23 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 9 granted patents across 23 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2019–2023. 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, Tereos ranks #30,362 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 9 patents across 23 technology areas.

#30,362
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 43%
by Innovation Score (37.5/100): 17.9
avg claims per patent: +250%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R30362 · Foreign Corporation #30,362 · 9 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 9 grants
MID-PACK #30,362/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Tenfold
CPC-FOCUS A23L · 23 areas
INNOV-THIN 37.5/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.9 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +250% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Tenfold Technologies, 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 Tereos’s 37.5 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 8.0 pts (21%) Velocity 1.9 pts (5%) Breadth 17.0 pts (45%) Claim depth 10.7 pts (28%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

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Tereos Starch &… · this assignee

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3D Lighting… · lowest

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What this shows Tereos's Innovation Score is 37.5/100 (top 43% 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 Tereos?

Each dot is one of Tereos’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). Tereos’s own 17.9 claims/patent is ABOVE the 12.4 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Tereos's grants concentrate

Tereos Starch & Sweeteners Belgium is a focused PatentsView assignee: 23 CPC subclasses with 44.4% of grants classified under A23L (Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Preparation OR Treatment Thereof). Peak complete grant year is 2021 (3 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2019. By volume, Tereos sits between Tenfold Technologies, LLC and TGI Technology PTE Ltd.

Tereos's three-year grant acceleration

Tereos Starch & Sweeteners Belgium shows 2 grants in 2022–2024 against only 7 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.

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What this shows Tereos holds 9 patents at rank #30,311, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Tereos

By rank, the assignees closest to #30,311 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A23L (Foods)

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

Tereos's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

38 Top 43% higher than 57% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2019–2023

Grants by year

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

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Tereos Starch & Sweeteners Belgium patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2019	2	22.2%
2020	2	22.2%
2021	3	33.3%
2023	2	22.2%

Which technologies does Tereos Starch & Sweeteners Belgium patent most?

A23L - Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Preparation OR Treatment Thereof 4

C08J - WORKING-UP; General Processes OF COMPOUNDING; After-treatment NOT Covered BY Subclasses C08b, C08c, C08f, C08g or C08h 4

C08G - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than BY Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds 3

C11D - Detergent COMPOSITIONS; USE OF Single Substances AS DETERGENTS; Soap OR SOAP-MAKING; Resin SOAPS; Recovery OF Glycerol 3

C07D - Heterocyclic Compounds 3

C08K - Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances as compounding ingredients 3

C09J - ADHESIVES; Non-mechanical Aspects OF Adhesive Processes IN GENERAL; Adhesive Processes NOT Provided FOR ELSEWHERE; USE OF Materials AS Adhesives 3

C07C - Acyclic OR Carbocyclic Compounds 3

A23V - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages AND Lactic OR Propionic Acid Bacteria Used IN Foodstuffs OR Food Preparation 2

A23J - Protein Compositions FOR FOODSTUFFS; Working-up Proteins FOR FOODSTUFFS; Phosphatide Compositions FOR Foodstuffs 2

C07H - SUGARS; Derivatives THEREOF; NUCLEOSIDES; NUCLEOTIDES; Nucleic Acids 2

A01N - Preservation OF Bodies OF Humans OR Animals OR Plants OR Parts Thereof ; Biocides, e.g. AS Disinfectants, AS Pesticides OR AS Herbicides ; Pest Repellants OR ATTRACTANTS; Plant Growth Regulators 2

A61P - Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations 2

A61Q - Specific USE OF Cosmetics OR Similar Toiletry Preparations 2

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 2

Top 15 of 23 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

Tereos Starch & Sweeteners Belgium's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Tereos Starch & Sweeteners Belgium's lead technology class is A23L (Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Preparation OR Treatment Thereof), 44.4% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A23L
Ranked #30,362 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Tereos Starch & Sweeteners Belgium against Tenfold Technologies, LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 37.5/100 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.

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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

Compiled by PlainPatent , US Patent Intelligence Editorial Process · May 15, 2026

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