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

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Upside Foods, Inc. ranks #10,809 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 Upside Foods, Inc. hold?

Upside Foods, Inc. holds 29 US utility patents granted between 2021 and 2025, spanning 14 technology areas.

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

Upside Foods, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 56.3 out of 100 (top 6% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

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

Insufficient historical data is available to calculate a velocity trend for Upside Foods, Inc..

What does claim depth mean for Upside Foods, Inc.'s patents?

Upside Foods, Inc.'s patents average 18.9 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 Upside 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

Upside Foods, Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Upside Foods, Inc. focus on?

Upside Foods, Inc.'s top technology area is C12M (Apparatus FOR Enzymology OR MICROBIOLOGY; Apparatus FOR Culturing Microorganisms FOR Producing Biomass, FOR Growing Cells OR FOR Obtaining Fermentation OR Metabolic Products, i.e. Bioreactors OR Fermenters) with 23 patents, ranking #28 of 832 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 14 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 29 granted patents across 14 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2021–2025. 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: C12M (Apparatus FOR Enzymology OR MICROBIOLOGY; Apparatus FOR Culturing Microorganisms FOR Producing Biomass, FOR Growing Cells OR FOR Obtaining Fermentation OR Metabolic Products, i.e. Bioreactors OR Ferme).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Upside ranks #10,809 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 29 patents across 14 technology areas.

#10,809
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 6%
by Innovation Score (56.3/100): 18.9
avg claims per patent

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R10809 · US Corporation #10,809 · 29 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · SPAN-YRS · BOOK-RICH

GRANTS-SMALL 29 grants
UPPER-Q #10,809/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Uipco
CPC-FOCUS C12M · 14 areas
INNOV-PAR 56.3/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.9 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
SPAN-YRS 2021–2025 · 5y
BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Uipco, 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 Upside’s 56.3 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 11.7 pts (21%) Velocity 20.0 pts (36%) Breadth 13.2 pts (23%) Claim depth 11.4 pts (20%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Illinois Institute… · near

56
Niantic · near

56
Neapco Intellectual… · near

56
Toto · near

56
Upside Foods · this assignee

56
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Upside's Innovation Score is 56.3/100 (top 6% 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 Upside?

Each dot is one of Upside’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). Upside’s own 18.9 claims/patent is ABOVE the 14.4 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Upside's grants concentrate

Upside Foods, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 14 CPC subclasses with 79.3% of grants classified under C12M (Apparatus FOR Enzymology OR MICROBIOLOGY; Apparatus FOR Culturing Microorganisms FOR Producing Biomass, FOR Growing Cells OR FOR Obtaining Fermentation OR Metabolic Products, i.e. Bioreactors OR Ferme). Peak complete grant year is 2024 (10 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2021. By volume, Upside sits between Uipco, LLC and Valo Health, Inc..

Upside's three-year grant acceleration

Upside Foods, Inc. shows 23 grants in 2022–2024 against only 1 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.

Uipco

29
Universite DE Lie…

29
Universite DE Poi…

29
Unlimiter MFA

29
Valeo Kapec

29
Vectura Delivery…

29
Volvo Penta

29
Valo Health

29
Upside Foods ◀

29

What this shows Upside holds 29 patents at rank #10,808, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Upside

By rank, the assignees closest to #10,808 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C12M (Apparatus FOR Enzymology OR Microbiology)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Upside, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In C12M (Apparatus FOR Enzymology OR Microbiology), Upside ranks #28 of 832 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (56 here).

Neapco Intellectual Property Holdings, LLC 56 Toto Ltd. 56 Illinois Institute of Technology 56 Niantic, Inc. 56

Upside's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

56 Top 6% higher than 94% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2021–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2021–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Upside Foods, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2021	1	3.4%
2022	4	13.8%
2023	9	31.0%
2024	10	34.5%
2025partial year	5	17.2%

Which technologies does Upside Foods, Inc. patent most?

C12M - Apparatus FOR Enzymology OR MICROBIOLOGY; Apparatus FOR Culturing Microorganisms FOR Producing Biomass, FOR Growing Cells OR FOR Obtaining Fermentation OR Metabolic Products, i.e. Bioreactors OR Fermenters 23

C12N - Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media 20

A23L - Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Preparation OR Treatment Thereof 19

A23V - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages AND Lactic OR Propionic Acid Bacteria Used IN Foodstuffs OR Food Preparation 12

A23J - Protein Compositions FOR FOODSTUFFS; Working-up Proteins FOR FOODSTUFFS; Phosphatide Compositions FOR Foodstuffs 5

A22C - Processing Meat, Poultry, OR Fish 4

C07K - Peptides 3

C12P - Fermentation OR Enzyme-using Processes TO Synthesise A Desired Chemical Compound OR Composition OR TO Separate Optical Isomers From A Racemic Mixture 2

C12Y - Enzymes 2

B05B - Spraying APPARATUS; Atomising APPARATUS; Nozzles 2

A61L - Methods OR Apparatus FOR Sterilising Materials OR Objects IN GENERAL; Disinfection, Sterilisation OR Deodorisation OF AIR; Chemical Aspects OF Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads OR Surgical ARTICLES; Materials FOR Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads OR Surgical Articles 1

C08J - WORKING-UP; General Processes OF COMPOUNDING; After-treatment NOT Covered BY Subclasses C08b, C08c, C08f, C08g or C08h 1

C12Q - Measuring OR Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids OR Microorganisms ; Compositions OR Test Papers THEREFOR; Processes OF Preparing Such COMPOSITIONS; Condition-responsive Control IN Microbiological OR Enzymological Processes 1

A23B - Preservation OF Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic BEVERAGES; Chemical Ripening OF Fruit OR Vegetables 1

Top 14 of 14 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

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

Upside Foods, Inc.'s lead technology class is C12M (Apparatus FOR Enzymology OR MICROBIOLOGY; Apparatus FOR Culturing Microorganisms FOR Producing Biomass, FOR Growing Cells OR FOR Obtaining Fermentation OR Metabolic Products, i.e. Bioreactors OR Ferme), 79.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C12M
Ranked #10,809 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Upside Foods, Inc. against Uipco, LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 56.3/100 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

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