Where does THE Coca-cola Company rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), THE Coca-cola Company ranks #980 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 Coca-cola Company hold?

THE Coca-cola Company holds 449 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 117 technology areas.

What is THE Coca-cola Company's Innovation Score?

THE Coca-cola Company has an Innovation Score of 59.0 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%).

Is THE Coca-cola Company's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

THE Coca-cola Company's recent grant velocity is -16% 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 THE Coca-cola Company's patents?

THE Coca-cola Company's patents average 12.2 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 Coca-cola Company 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

THE Coca-cola Company

Q: What technology areas does THE Coca-cola Company focus on?

THE Coca-cola Company's top technology area is B67D (Dispensing, Delivering OR Transferring Liquids, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR) with 119 patents. Grants appear in 117 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 449 granted patents across 117 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: B67D (Dispensing, Delivering OR Transferring Liquids, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, THE ranks #980 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 449 patents across 117 technology areas.

#980
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 4%
by Innovation Score (59.0/100): 12.2
avg claims per patent: -16%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R980 · US Corporation #980 · 449 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 449 grants
TOP-DECILE #980/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Avery Dennison…
CPC-WIDE B67D · 117 areas
INNOV-PAR 59.0/100
CLAIMS-RICH 12.2 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DOWN -16% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Avery Dennison Retail Information Services 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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Wayne State University · near

59
THE Coca-cola · this assignee

59
University of… · near

59
University of… · near

59
Dexerials · near

59
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows THE's Innovation Score is 59.0/100 (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.

How THE's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, THE Coca-cola Company received 195 grants versus 233 in 2015–2019 (-16% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2015 at 71 grants and bottomed in 2018 at 29. Lead class B67D accounts for 26.5% of the portfolio across 117 subclasses. Volume neighbours: The MathWorks, Inc. (#976) and Yanmar Holdings Co., Ltd. (#984).

THE's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, THE Coca-cola Company moved from 129 to 108 grants (0.84x 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 #1,700. See the growth leaderboard.

The Mathworks

450
Avery Dennison Re…

449
Hologic

449
Rosemount Aerospa…

449
THE Coca-cola ◀

449
Richtek Technology

448
Schneider Electri…

448
Wacker Chemie

448
Yanmar Holdings

448

What this shows THE holds 449 patents at rank #980, 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 #980 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B67D (Dispensing)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for THE, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above).

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (59 here).

University of Cincinnati 59 University of Louisville Research Foundation, Inc. 59 Dexerials Corporation 59 Wayne State University 59

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (12.2 here).

MTD Products Inc 12.2 avg Sungrow Power Supply Co., Ltd. 12.2 avg ScienBiziP Consulting(Shenzhen)Co., Ltd. 12.2 avg Omnitek Partners LLC 12.2 avg

THE'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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THE Coca-cola Company patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	71	15.8%
2016	57	12.7%
2017	34	7.6%
2018	29	6.5%
2019	42	9.4%
2020	47	10.5%
2021	40	8.9%
2022	43	9.6%
2023	36	8.0%
2024	29	6.5%
2025partial year	21	4.7%

Which technologies does THE Coca-cola Company patent most?

B67D - Dispensing, Delivering OR Transferring Liquids, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 119

G07F - Coin-freed OR Like Apparatus 84

A23L - Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Preparation OR Treatment Thereof 64

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 55

A23V - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages AND Lactic OR Propionic Acid Bacteria Used IN Foodstuffs OR Food Preparation 38

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 36

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 29

F25D - REFRIGERATORS; Cold ROOMS; ICE-BOXES; Cooling OR Freezing Apparatus NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 20

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 19

B29K - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses B29b, B29c OR B29d, Relating TO Moulding Materials OR TO Materials FOR ; Moulds, ; Reinforcements, Fillers OR Preformed Parts, e.g. Inserts 18

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 17

C07H - SUGARS; Derivatives THEREOF; NUCLEOSIDES; NUCLEOTIDES; Nucleic Acids 16

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 16

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 15

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 12

Top 15 of 117 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#980

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

59.0 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

THE Coca-cola Company's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

THE Coca-cola Company's lead technology class is B67D (Dispensing, Delivering OR Transferring Liquids, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR), 26.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B67D
Ranked #980 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare THE Coca-cola Company against The MathWorks, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 59.0/100 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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