Where does The Company of Animals Limited rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), The Company of Animals Limited ranks #43,596 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 Company of Animals Limited hold?

The Company of Animals Limited holds 6 US utility patents granted between 2021 and 2025, spanning 2 technology areas.

What is The Company of Animals Limited's Innovation Score?

The Company of Animals Limited has an Innovation Score of 16.4 out of 100 (4th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is The Company of Animals Limited's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Insufficient historical data is available to calculate a velocity trend for The Company of Animals Limited.

What does claim depth mean for The Company of Animals Limited's patents?

The Company of Animals Limited's patents average 4.2 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 Company of Animals 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 Company of Animals Limited

Q: What technology areas does The Company of Animals Limited focus on?

The Company of Animals Limited's top technology area is B33Y (Additive Manufacturing, i.e. Manufacturing OF Three-dimensional [3-D] Objects BY Additive Deposition, Additive Agglomeration OR Additive Layering, e.g. BY 3-D Printing, Stereolithography OR Selective Laser Sintering) with 1 patents, ranking #818 of 1,250 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 2 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 6 granted patents across 2 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2021–2025. 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: B33Y (Additive Manufacturing, i.e. Manufacturing OF Three-dimensional [3-D] Objects BY Additive Deposition, Additive Agglomeration OR Additive Layering, e.g. BY 3-D Printing, Stereolithography OR Selective ).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, The ranks #43,596 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 6 patents across 2 technology areas.

#43,596
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 4th percentile
by Innovation Score (16.4/100): 4.2
avg claims per patent

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R43596 · Foreign Corporation #43,596 · 6 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 6 grants
LOWER-Q #43,596/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH The Boston Beer
CPC-NARROW B33Y · 2 areas
INNOV-LOW 16.4/100
CLAIMS-SPARSE 4.2 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
SPAN-YRS 2021–2025 · 5y
BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: The Boston Beer Company (±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 16.4 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 6.7 pts (41%) Velocity 2.2 pts (13%) Breadth 5.0 pts (30%) Claim depth 2.5 pts (15%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

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The of Animals · this assignee

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What this shows The's Innovation Score is 16.4/100 (4th 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 4.2 claims/patent is at or below the 13.0 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 Company of Animals Limited is a focused PatentsView assignee: 2 CPC subclasses with 16.7% of grants classified under B33Y (Additive Manufacturing, i.e. Manufacturing OF Three-dimensional [3-D] Objects BY Additive Deposition, Additive Agglomeration OR Additive Layering, e.g. BY 3-D Printing, Stereolithography OR Selective ). Peak complete grant year is 2021 (3 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2024. By volume, The sits between The Boston Beer Company and The Lindy Bowman Company.

The's three-year grant acceleration

The Company of Animals Limited shows 1 grants in 2022–2024 against only 3 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.

The Boston Beer

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What this shows The holds 6 patents at rank #43,658, 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 #43,658 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B33Y (Additive Manufacturing)

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)

16 4th percentile higher than 4% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2021–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2021–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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The Company of Animals Limited patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2021	3	50.0%
2024	1	16.7%
2025partial year	2	33.3%

Which technologies does The Company of Animals Limited patent most?

B33Y - Additive Manufacturing, i.e. Manufacturing OF Three-dimensional [3-D] Objects BY Additive Deposition, Additive Agglomeration OR Additive Layering, e.g. BY 3-D Printing, Stereolithography OR Selective Laser Sintering 1

A01K - Animal HUSBANDRY; AVICULTURE; APICULTURE; PISCICULTURE; FISHING; Rearing OR Breeding Animals, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; NEW Breeds OF Animals 1

Top 2 of 2 technology areas

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What to do with this data

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

The Company of Animals Limited's lead technology class is B33Y (Additive Manufacturing, i.e. Manufacturing OF Three-dimensional [3-D] Objects BY Additive Deposition, Additive Agglomeration OR Additive Layering, e.g. BY 3-D Printing, Stereolithography OR Selective ), 16.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B33Y
Ranked #43,596 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare The Company of Animals Limited against The Boston Beer Company, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 16.4/100 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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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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