Where does Tropicana Products, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Tropicana Products, Inc. ranks #11,846 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 Tropicana Products, Inc. hold?

Tropicana Products, Inc. holds 26 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 20 technology areas.

What is Tropicana Products, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Tropicana Products, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 40.0 out of 100 (top 37% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Tropicana Products, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Tropicana Products, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -21% 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 Tropicana Products, Inc.'s patents?

Tropicana Products, Inc.'s patents average 13.8 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 Tropicana Products, Inc. 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

Tropicana Products, Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Tropicana Products, Inc. focus on?

Tropicana Products, Inc.'s top technology area is A23L (Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Preparation OR Treatment Thereof) with 10 patents, ranking #148 of 1,325 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 20 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 26 granted patents across 20 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, Tropicana ranks #11,846 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 26 patents across 20 technology areas.

#11,846
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 37%
by Innovation Score (40.0/100): 13.8
avg claims per patent: -21%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R11846 · US Corporation #11,846 · 26 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 26 grants
UPPER-Q #11,846/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH The Government of…
CPC-FOCUS A23L · 20 areas
INNOV-THIN 40.0/100
CLAIMS-RICH 13.8 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DOWN -21% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: The Government of the United States of America, represented by the Secretary of Homeland Security (±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 Tropicana’s 40.0 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 11.4 pts (29%) Velocity 4.4 pts (11%) Breadth 15.8 pts (40%) Claim depth 8.3 pts (21%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Hayashi Telempu · near

40
Medinstill Development · near

40
Primal Fusion · near

40
Tropicana Products · this assignee

40
Zhejiang Hengfeng… · near

40
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Tropicana's Innovation Score is 40.0/100 (top 37% 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 Tropicana?

Each dot is one of Tropicana’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). Tropicana’s own 13.8 claims/patent is at or below the 19.0 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Tropicana's grants concentrate

Tropicana Products, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 20 CPC subclasses with 38.5% of grants classified under A23L (Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Preparation OR Treatment Thereof). Peak complete grant year is 2017 (4 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2024. By volume, Tropicana sits between The Government of the United States of America, represented by the Secretary of Homeland Security and University OF Miyazaki.

Tropicana's three-year grant acceleration

Tropicana Products, Inc. shows 6 grants in 2022–2024 against only 9 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 Government of…

26
The Prudential In…

26
Torrey Pines Logic

26
Touch Bionics

26
Trutag

26
Universidad DE Sa…

26
University OF Cen…

26
University OF Miy…

26
Tropicana Products ◀

26

What this shows Tropicana holds 26 patents at rank #11,848, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Tropicana

By rank, the assignees closest to #11,848 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A23L (Foods)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Tropicana, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A23L (Foods), Tropicana ranks #148 of 1,325 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (40 here).

Hayashi Telempu Corporation 40 Medinstill Development LLC 40 Primal Fusion Inc. 40 Zhejiang Hengfeng Top Leisure Co., Ltd. 40

Tropicana's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

40 Top 37% higher than 63% 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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Tropicana Products, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	3	11.5%
2016	3	11.5%
2017	4	15.4%
2019	4	15.4%
2020	2	7.7%
2021	3	11.5%
2022	3	11.5%
2023	2	7.7%
2024	1	3.8%
2025partial year	1	3.8%

Which technologies does Tropicana Products, Inc. patent most?

A23L - Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Preparation OR Treatment Thereof 10

F16L - PIPES; Joints OR Fittings FOR PIPES; Supports FOR Pipes, Cables OR Protective TUBING; Means FOR Thermal Insulation IN General 4

B65G - Transport OR Storage Devices, e.g. Conveyors FOR Loading OR Tipping, Shop Conveyor Systems OR Pneumatic Tube Conveyors 3

B08B - Cleaning IN GENERAL; Prevention OF Fouling IN General 3

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 2

A23V - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages AND Lactic OR Propionic Acid Bacteria Used IN Foodstuffs OR Food Preparation 2

B04B - Centrifuges 2

C11B - Producing, e.g. BY Pressing RAW Materials OR BY Extraction From Waste Materials, Refining OR Preserving Fats, Fatty Substances, e.g. Lanolin, Fatty Oils OR WAXES; Essential OILS; Perfumes 2

B01D - Separation 2

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 2

F15D - Fluid Dynamics, i.e. Methods OR Means FOR Influencing THE Flow OF Gases OR Liquids 1

D03D - Woven FABRICS; Methods OF WEAVING; Looms 1

A01G - HORTICULTURE; Cultivation OF Vegetables, Flowers, Rice, Fruit, Vines, Hops OR SEAWEED; FORESTRY; Watering 1

D10B - Indexing Scheme Associated With Sublasses OF Section D, Relating TO Textiles 1

Y02A - Technologies FOR Adaptation TO Climate Change 1

Top 15 of 20 technology areas

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

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What to do with this data

Tropicana Products, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Tropicana Products, Inc.'s lead technology class is A23L (Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Preparation OR Treatment Thereof), 38.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A23L
Ranked #11,846 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Tropicana Products, Inc. against The Government of the United States of America, represented by the Secretary of Homeland Security, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 40.0/100 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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