Where does Trade Secret Chocolates rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Trade Secret Chocolates ranks #38,009 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 Trade Secret Chocolates hold?

Trade Secret Chocolates holds 7 US utility patents granted between 2020 and 2024, spanning 8 technology areas.

What is Trade Secret Chocolates's Innovation Score?

Trade Secret Chocolates has an Innovation Score of 39.3 out of 100 (top 38% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Trade Secret Chocolates's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Insufficient historical data is available to calculate a velocity trend for Trade Secret Chocolates.

What does claim depth mean for Trade Secret Chocolates's patents?

Trade Secret Chocolates's patents average 9.1 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 Trade Secret Chocolates 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

Trade Secret Chocolates

Q: What technology areas does Trade Secret Chocolates focus on?

Trade Secret Chocolates's top technology area is A23G (COCOA; Cocoa Products, e.g. CHOCOLATE; Substitutes FOR Cocoa OR Cocoa PRODUCTS; CONFECTIONERY; Chewing GUM; ICE-CREAM; Preparation Thereof) with 4 patents. Grants appear in 8 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 7 granted patents across 8 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2020–2024. 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: A23G (COCOA; Cocoa Products, e.g. CHOCOLATE; Substitutes FOR Cocoa OR Cocoa PRODUCTS; CONFECTIONERY; Chewing GUM; ICE-CREAM; Preparation Thereof).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Trade ranks #38,009 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 7 patents across 8 technology areas.

#38,009
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 38%
by Innovation Score (39.3/100): 9.1
avg claims per patent

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R38009 · US Corporation #38,009 · 7 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 7 grants
LOWER-Q #38,009/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Touchlight IP
CPC-NARROW A23G · 8 areas
INNOV-THIN 39.3/100
CLAIMS-PAR 9.1 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
SPAN-YRS 2020–2024 · 5y
BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Touchlight IP Limited (±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
Trade Secret… · this assignee

39
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Trade's Innovation Score is 39.3/100 (top 38% 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 Trade's grants concentrate

Trade Secret Chocolates is a focused PatentsView assignee: 8 CPC subclasses with 57.1% of grants classified under A23G (COCOA; Cocoa Products, e.g. CHOCOLATE; Substitutes FOR Cocoa OR Cocoa PRODUCTS; CONFECTIONERY; Chewing GUM; ICE-CREAM; Preparation Thereof). Peak complete grant year is 2024 (3 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2020. By volume, Trade sits between Touchlight IP Limited and Transfinder Corporation.

Trade's three-year grant acceleration

Trade Secret Chocolates shows 5 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.

Touchlight IP

7
Touchstone Resear…

7
Toyko Electron

7
Tracon Pharmaceut…

7
Tradecapture OTC

7
Trajan Scientific…

7
Tramontina USA

7
Transfinder

7
Trade Secret Choc… ◀

7

What this shows Trade holds 7 patents at rank #38,010, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Trade

By rank, the assignees closest to #38,010 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A23G (Cocoa)

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

Trade's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

39 Top 38% higher than 62% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2020–2024

Grants by year

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

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Trade Secret Chocolates patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2020	1	14.3%
2021	1	14.3%
2023	2	28.6%
2024	3	42.9%

Which technologies does Trade Secret Chocolates patent most?

A23G - COCOA; Cocoa Products, e.g. CHOCOLATE; Substitutes FOR Cocoa OR Cocoa PRODUCTS; CONFECTIONERY; Chewing GUM; ICE-CREAM; Preparation Thereof 4

B67D - Dispensing, Delivering OR Transferring Liquids, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1

B02C - Crushing, Pulverising, OR Disintegrating IN GENERAL; Milling Grain 1

B07B - Separating Solids From Solids BY Sieving, Screening, Sifting OR BY Using GAS CURRENTS; Separating BY Other DRY Methods Applicable TO Bulk Material, e.g. Loose Articles FIT TO BE Handled Like Bulk Material 1

C12F - Recovery OF By-products OF Fermented Solutions ; Denatured ALCOHOL; Preparation Thereof 1

C12G - WINE; Preparation THEREOF; Alcoholic Beverages ; Preparation OF Alcoholic Beverages NOT Provided FOR IN Subclasses C12c OR C12h 1

C07C - Acyclic OR Carbocyclic Compounds 1

B01D - Separation 1

Top 8 of 8 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#38,009

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

39.3 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

Trade Secret Chocolates's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Trade Secret Chocolates's lead technology class is A23G (COCOA; Cocoa Products, e.g. CHOCOLATE; Substitutes FOR Cocoa OR Cocoa PRODUCTS; CONFECTIONERY; Chewing GUM; ICE-CREAM; Preparation Thereof), 57.1% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A23G
Ranked #38,009 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Trade Secret Chocolates against Touchlight IP Limited, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 39.3/100 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

Every figure on PlainPatent is rendered directly from USPTO source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on USPTO source data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 2026.