Where does The Vollrath Company, L.L.C. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), The Vollrath Company, L.L.C. ranks #4,919 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 Vollrath Company, L.L.C. hold?

The Vollrath Company, L.L.C. holds 71 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 29 technology areas.

What is The Vollrath Company, L.L.C.'s Innovation Score?

The Vollrath Company, L.L.C. has an Innovation Score of 42.4 out of 100 (top 31% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is The Vollrath Company, L.L.C.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

The Vollrath Company, L.L.C.'s recent grant velocity is +27% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). The company is maintaining or growing its granted-patent output.

What does claim depth mean for The Vollrath Company, L.L.C.'s patents?

The Vollrath Company, L.L.C.'s patents average 9.9 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 The Vollrath Company, L.L.C. 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 Vollrath Company, L.L.C.

Q: What technology areas does The Vollrath Company, L.L.C. focus on?

The Vollrath Company, L.L.C.'s top technology area is A47J (Kitchen EQUIPMENT; Coffee MILLS; Spice MILLS; Apparatus FOR Making Beverages) with 19 patents. Grants appear in 29 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 71 granted patents across 29 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: A47J (Kitchen EQUIPMENT; Coffee MILLS; Spice MILLS; Apparatus FOR Making Beverages).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, The ranks #4,919 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 71 patents across 29 technology areas.

#4,919
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 31%
by Innovation Score (42.4/100): 9.9
avg claims per patent: +27%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R4919 · US Corporation #4,919 · 71 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-PAR · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-UP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 71 grants
TOP-DECILE #4,919/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Siemens Gamesa…
CPC-FOCUS A47J · 29 areas
INNOV-PAR 42.4/100
CLAIMS-PAR 9.9 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-UP +27% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy Innovation & Technology S. L. (±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
Auspex Pharmaceuticals · near

42
Piramal Pharma · near

42
QSC · near

42
The Vollrath L L C · this assignee

42
Zimmer Biomet Spine · near

42
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows The's Innovation Score is 42.4/100 (top 31% 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.

Where The's grants concentrate

The Vollrath Company, L.L.C. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 29 CPC subclasses with 26.8% of grants classified under A47J (Kitchen EQUIPMENT; Coffee MILLS; Spice MILLS; Apparatus FOR Making Beverages). Peak complete grant year is 2021 (16 grants) versus a trough of 3 in 2016. By volume, The sits between Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy Innovation & Technology S. L. and Unverferth Manufacturing Co., Inc..

The's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, The Vollrath Company, L.L.C. moved from 33 to 13 grants (0.39x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Siemens Gamesa Re…

71
Single Buoy Moori…

71
Tokitae

71
True Manufacturing

71
Twelve

71
Universiteit Antw…

71
University OF Sci…

71
Unverferth Manufa…

71
The Vollrath L L C ◀

71

What this shows The holds 71 patents at rank #4,921, 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 #4,921 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A47J (Kitchen Equipment)

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 (42 here).

Zimmer Biomet Spine, Inc. 42 Auspex Pharmaceuticals, Inc. 42 QSC, LLC 42 Piramal Pharma Limited 42

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (9.9 here).

Shin-Etsu Polymer Co., Ltd. 9.9 avg Shandong University 9.9 avg Technogym S.P.A. 9.8 avg Shijiazhuang Chengzhi Yonghua Display Material Co., Ltd. 9.9 avg

The's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

42 Top 31% higher than 69% 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 Vollrath Company, L.L.C. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	6	8.5%
2016	3	4.2%
2017	6	8.5%
2018	7	9.9%
2019	8	11.3%
2020	9	12.7%
2021	16	22.5%
2022	5	7.0%
2023	3	4.2%
2024	5	7.0%
2025partial year	3	4.2%

Which technologies does The Vollrath Company, L.L.C. patent most?

A47J - Kitchen EQUIPMENT; Coffee MILLS; Spice MILLS; Apparatus FOR Making Beverages 19

A23G - COCOA; Cocoa Products, e.g. CHOCOLATE; Substitutes FOR Cocoa OR Cocoa PRODUCTS; CONFECTIONERY; Chewing GUM; ICE-CREAM; Preparation Thereof 11

H05B - Electric HEATING; Electric Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Circuit Arrangements FOR Electric Light Sources, IN General 9

A47F - Special Furniture, Fittings, OR Accessories FOR Shops, Storehouses, Bars, Restaurants OR THE LIKE; Paying Counters 7

G07F - Coin-freed OR Like Apparatus 6

A47G - Household OR Table Equipment 2

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 2

Y10S - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former Uspc Cross-reference ART Collections [XRACs] AND Digests 2

B26D - CUTTING; Details Common TO Machines FOR Perforating, Punching, Cutting-out, Stamping-out OR Severing 2

H02M - Apparatus FOR Conversion Between AC AND AC, Between AC AND DC, OR Between DC AND DC, AND FOR USE With Mains OR Similar Power Supply SYSTEMS; Conversion OF DC OR AC Input Power Into Surge Output POWER; Control OR Regulation Thereof 2

F24C - Domestic Stoves OR Ranges ; Details OF Domestic Stoves OR Ranges, OF General Application 2

G05D - Systems FOR Controlling OR Regulating Non-electric Variables 2

H03L - Automatic Control, Starting, Synchronisation OR Stabilisation OF Generators OF Electronic Oscillations OR Pulses 1

Y02B - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Buildings, e.g. Housing, House Appliances OR Related End-user Applications 1

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 1

Top 15 of 29 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#4,919

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

42.4 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 Vollrath Company, L.L.C.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

The Vollrath Company, L.L.C.'s lead technology class is A47J (Kitchen EQUIPMENT; Coffee MILLS; Spice MILLS; Apparatus FOR Making Beverages), 26.8% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A47J
Ranked #4,919 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare The Vollrath Company, L.L.C. against Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy Innovation & Technology S. L., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 42.4/100 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

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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