Where does The A2 Milk Company Limited rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), The A2 Milk Company Limited ranks #37,897 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 The A2 Milk Company Limited hold?

The A2 Milk Company Limited holds 7 US utility patents granted between 2020 and 2025, spanning 7 technology areas.

What is The A2 Milk Company Limited's Innovation Score?

The A2 Milk Company Limited has an Innovation Score of 30.5 out of 100 (34th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does The A2 Milk Company Limited focus on?

The A2 Milk Company Limited's top technology area is A61P (Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations) with 5 patents, ranking #3,434 of 6,058 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 7 CPC subclasses total.

Is The A2 Milk Company Limited's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Insufficient historical data is available to calculate a velocity trend for The A2 Milk Company Limited.

What does claim depth mean for The A2 Milk Company Limited's patents?

The A2 Milk Company Limited's patents average 6.6 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 The A2 Milk Company 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

The A2 Milk Company Limited

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 7 granted patents across 7 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2020–2025. 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: A61P (Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, The ranks #37,897 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 7 patents across 7 technology areas.

#37,897
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 34th percentile
by Innovation Score (30.5/100): 6.6
avg claims per patent

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R37897 · Foreign Corporation #37,897 · 7 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · LOWER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-SPARSE · TYPE-FRNCORP · SPAN-YRS · BOOK-RICH

GRANTS-MICRO 7 grants
LOWER-Q #37,897/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Tesseract Structural…
CPC-NARROW A61P · 7 areas
INNOV-THIN 30.5/100
CLAIMS-SPARSE 6.6 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
SPAN-YRS 2020–2025 · 6y
BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Tesseract Structural Innovations, Inc. (±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 The’s 30.5 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 7.2 pts (24%) Velocity 10.0 pts (33%) Breadth 9.4 pts (31%) Claim depth 3.9 pts (13%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

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The A2 Milk · this assignee

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3D Lighting… · lowest

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What this shows The's Innovation Score is 30.5/100 (34th 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 The?

Each dot is one of The’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). The’s own 6.6 claims/patent is at or below the 12.9 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where The's grants concentrate

The A2 Milk Company Limited is a focused PatentsView assignee: 7 CPC subclasses with 71.4% of grants classified under A61P (Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations). Peak complete grant year is 2020 (2 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2022. By volume, The sits between Tesseract Structural Innovations, Inc. and The E3 Company, LLC.

The's three-year grant acceleration

The A2 Milk Company Limited shows 3 grants in 2022–2024 against only 2 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.

Tesseract Structu…

7
Teufelberger Gese…

7
Texas Christian U…

7
Textio

7
The Cleaver-brooks

7
The Connectivity…

7
The Covell Group

7
The E3

7
The A2 Milk ◀

7

What this shows The holds 7 patents at rank #37,954, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near The

By rank, the assignees closest to #37,954 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A61P (Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Me…)

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

The's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

30 34th percentile higher than 34% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2020–2025

Grants by year

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

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The A2 Milk Company Limited patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2020	2	28.6%
2022	1	14.3%
2024	2	28.6%
2025partial year	2	28.6%

Which technologies does The A2 Milk Company Limited patent most?

A61P - Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations 5

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 5

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

A23V - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages AND Lactic OR Propionic Acid Bacteria Used IN Foodstuffs OR Food Preparation 4

A23K - Fodder 3

A23C - Dairy Products, e.g. Milk, Butter OR CHEESE; Milk OR Cheese SUBSTITUTES; Making OR Treatment Thereof 3

A23J - Protein Compositions FOR FOODSTUFFS; Working-up Proteins FOR FOODSTUFFS; Phosphatide Compositions FOR Foodstuffs 1

Top 7 of 7 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

The A2 Milk Company Limited's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

The A2 Milk Company Limited's lead technology class is A61P (Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations), 71.4% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A61P
Ranked #37,897 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare The A2 Milk Company Limited against Tesseract Structural Innovations, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 30.5/100 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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