Where does Tyson Foods, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Tyson Foods, Inc. ranks #7,493 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 Tyson Foods, Inc. hold?

Tyson Foods, Inc. holds 44 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 33 technology areas.

What is Tyson Foods, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Tyson Foods, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 48.6 out of 100 (top 16% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Tyson Foods, Inc. focus on?

Tyson Foods, Inc.'s top technology area is A22C (Processing Meat, Poultry, OR Fish) with 20 patents, ranking #13 of 119 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 33 CPC subclasses total.

Is Tyson Foods, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Tyson Foods, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +16% 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 Tyson Foods, Inc.'s patents?

Tyson Foods, Inc.'s patents average 16.3 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 Tyson Foods, 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

Tyson Foods, Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 44 granted patents across 33 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: A22C (Processing Meat, Poultry, OR Fish).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Tyson ranks #7,493 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 44 patents across 33 technology areas.

#7,493
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 16%
by Innovation Score (48.6/100): 16.3
avg claims per patent: +16%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R7493 · US Corporation #7,493 · 44 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 44 grants
UPPER-Q #7,493/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Terves
CPC-FOCUS A22C · 33 areas
INNOV-PAR 48.6/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.3 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-UP +16% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Terves, LLC (±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 Tyson’s 48.6 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 13.1 pts (27%) Velocity 5.3 pts (11%) Breadth 20.3 pts (42%) Claim depth 9.8 pts (20%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Diamond Innovations · near

49
Intelligent Fusion… · near

49
Agility Fuel Systems · near

49
King Slide Works · near

49
Tyson Foods · this assignee

49
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Tyson's Innovation Score is 48.6/100 (top 16% 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 Tyson?

Each dot is one of Tyson’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). Tyson’s own 16.3 claims/patent is ABOVE the 12.8 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Tyson's grants concentrate

Tyson Foods, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 33 CPC subclasses with 45.5% of grants classified under A22C (Processing Meat, Poultry, OR Fish). Peak complete grant year is 2017 (7 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2022. By volume, Tyson sits between Trackman A/S and Universidad DE Chile.

Tyson's three-year grant acceleration

Tyson Foods, Inc. shows 12 grants in 2022–2024 against only 15 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.

Trackman A/S

44
Terves

44
The Charlotte Mec…

44
Thorley Industries

44
U-shin

44
U S Bank National…

44
Ulsan National In…

44
Universidad DE Ch…

44
Tyson Foods ◀

44

What this shows Tyson holds 44 patents at rank #7,493, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Tyson

By rank, the assignees closest to #7,493 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A22C (Processing Meat)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Tyson, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A22C (Processing Meat), Tyson ranks #13 of 119 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (49 here).

Agility Fuel Systems LLC 49 King Slide Works Co., Ltd. 49 Intelligent Fusion Technology, Inc. 49 Diamond Innovations, Inc. 49

Tyson's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

49 Top 16% higher than 84% 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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Tyson Foods, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	2	4.5%
2016	3	6.8%
2017	7	15.9%
2018	2	4.5%
2019	5	11.4%
2020	7	15.9%
2021	3	6.8%
2022	1	2.3%
2023	6	13.6%
2024	5	11.4%
2025partial year	3	6.8%

Which technologies does Tyson Foods, Inc. patent most?

A22C - Processing Meat, Poultry, OR Fish 20

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

A01K - Animal HUSBANDRY; AVICULTURE; APICULTURE; PISCICULTURE; FISHING; Rearing OR Breeding Animals, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; NEW Breeds OF Animals 10

A23V - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages AND Lactic OR Propionic Acid Bacteria Used IN Foodstuffs OR Food Preparation 8

B26D - CUTTING; Details Common TO Machines FOR Perforating, Punching, Cutting-out, Stamping-out OR Severing 8

A23P - Shaping OR Working OF Foodstuffs, NOT Fully Covered BY A Single Other Subclass 6

A23B - Preservation OF Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic BEVERAGES; Chemical Ripening OF Fruit OR Vegetables 6

B29C - Shaping OR Joining OF PLASTICS; Shaping OF Material IN A Plastic State, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; After-treatment OF THE Shaped Products, e.g. Repairing 3

B02C - Crushing, Pulverising, OR Disintegrating IN GENERAL; Milling Grain 3

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 3

B25J - MANIPULATORS; Chambers Provided With Manipulation Devices 3

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

B66F - Hoisting, Lifting, Hauling OR Pushing, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR, e.g. Devices Which Apply A Lifting OR Pushing Force Directly TO THE Surface OF A Load 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 3

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 2

Top 15 of 33 technology areas

More on this record

Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

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What to do with this data

Tyson Foods, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Tyson Foods, Inc.'s lead technology class is A22C (Processing Meat, Poultry, OR Fish), 45.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A22C
Ranked #7,493 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Tyson Foods, Inc. against Trackman A/S, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 48.6/100 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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