Where does The Quaker Oats Company rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), The Quaker Oats Company ranks #6,597 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 Quaker Oats Company hold?

The Quaker Oats Company holds 51 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 28 technology areas.

What is The Quaker Oats Company's Innovation Score?

The Quaker Oats Company has an Innovation Score of 41.8 out of 100 (top 32% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is The Quaker Oats Company's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

The Quaker Oats Company's recent grant velocity is -60% 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 Quaker Oats Company's patents?

The Quaker Oats Company's patents average 11.6 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 Quaker Oats 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 Quaker Oats Company

Q: What technology areas does The Quaker Oats Company focus on?

The Quaker Oats Company's top technology area is A23L (Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Preparation OR Treatment Thereof) with 23 patents, ranking #58 of 1,325 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 28 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 51 granted patents across 28 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, The ranks #6,597 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 51 patents across 28 technology areas.

#6,597
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 32%
by Innovation Score (41.8/100): 11.6
avg claims per patent: -60%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R6597 · US Corporation #6,597 · 51 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 51 grants
UPPER-Q #6,597/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Tellabs Operations
CPC-FOCUS A23L · 28 areas
INNOV-PAR 41.8/100
CLAIMS-PAR 11.6 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -60% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Tellabs Operations, 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 41.8 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 13.6 pts (33%) Velocity 2.5 pts (6%) Breadth 18.7 pts (45%) Claim depth 7.0 pts (17%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Akonia Holographics · near

42
Intellective Ai · near

42
The Quaker Oats · this assignee

42
Forage Genetics… · near

42
J S T · near

42
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows The's Innovation Score is 41.8/100 (top 32% 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 11.6 claims/patent is ABOVE the 7.9 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where The's grants concentrate

The Quaker Oats Company is a focused PatentsView assignee: 28 CPC subclasses with 45.1% of grants classified under A23L (Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Preparation OR Treatment Thereof). Peak complete grant year is 2019 (12 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2018. By volume, The sits between Thermo Electron Scientific Instruments LLC and VTV Therapeutics LLC.

The's three-year grant acceleration

The Quaker Oats Company shows 7 grants in 2022–2024 against only 19 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.

Thermo Electron S…

51
Tokuyama Dental

51
Tellabs Operations

51
Tempur-pedic Mana…

51
Toshiba Electron…

51
Tower Manufacturi…

51
University OF Lei…

51
VTV Therapeutics

51
The Quaker Oats ◀

51

What this shows The holds 51 patents at rank #6,600, 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 #6,600 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A23L (Foods)

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). In A23L (Foods), The ranks #58 of 1,325 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (42 here).

Intellective Ai, Inc. 42 Forage Genetics International, LLC 42 Akonia Holographics LLC 42 J.S.T. Corporation 42

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (11.6 here).

Moen Incorporated 11.6 avg SnapRays, LLC 11.6 avg Beijing Founder Electronics Co., Ltd. 11.6 avg Exelixis, Inc. 11.6 avg

The's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

42 Top 32% higher than 68% 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 Quaker Oats Company patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	10	19.6%
2016	5	9.8%
2017	7	13.7%
2018	1	2.0%
2019	12	23.5%
2020	2	3.9%
2021	5	9.8%
2022	3	5.9%
2023	2	3.9%
2024	2	3.9%
2025partial year	2	3.9%

Which technologies does The Quaker Oats Company patent most?

A23L - Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Preparation OR Treatment Thereof 23

A23V - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages AND Lactic OR Propionic Acid Bacteria Used IN Foodstuffs OR Food Preparation 15

A23P - Shaping OR Working OF Foodstuffs, NOT Fully Covered BY A Single Other Subclass 13

A23G - COCOA; Cocoa Products, e.g. CHOCOLATE; Substitutes FOR Cocoa OR Cocoa PRODUCTS; CONFECTIONERY; Chewing GUM; ICE-CREAM; Preparation Thereof 9

A21D - Treatment OF Flour OR Dough FOR Baking, e.g. BY Addition OF MATERIALS; BAKING; Bakery Products 8

A23C - Dairy Products, e.g. Milk, Butter OR CHEESE; Milk OR Cheese SUBSTITUTES; Making OR Treatment Thereof 7

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 5

A61P - Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations 4

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 4

C12P - Fermentation OR Enzyme-using Processes TO Synthesise A Desired Chemical Compound OR Composition OR TO Separate Optical Isomers From A Racemic Mixture 3

A23B - Preservation OF Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic BEVERAGES; Chemical Ripening OF Fruit OR Vegetables 2

C13K - Saccharides Obtained From Natural Sources OR BY Hydrolysis OF Naturally Occurring Disaccharides, Oligosaccharides OR Polysaccharides 2

A23K - Fodder 2

G01F - Measuring Volume, Volume Flow, Mass Flow OR Liquid LEVEL; Metering BY Volume 2

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 2

Top 15 of 28 technology areas

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What to do with this data

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The Quaker Oats Company's lead technology class is A23L (Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Preparation OR Treatment Thereof), 45.1% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A23L
Ranked #6,597 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare The Quaker Oats Company against Thermo Electron Scientific Instruments LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 41.8/100 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

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