Where does Zee Company rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Zee Company ranks #25,590 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 Zee Company hold?

Zee Company holds 11 US utility patents granted between 2017 and 2022, spanning 16 technology areas.

What is Zee Company's Innovation Score?

Zee Company has an Innovation Score of 37.0 out of 100 (top 45% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Zee Company focus on?

Zee Company's top technology area is A23B (Preservation OF Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic BEVERAGES; Chemical Ripening OF Fruit OR Vegetables) with 6 patents, ranking #44 of 403 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 16 CPC subclasses total.

Is Zee Company's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Zee Company's recent grant velocity is +75% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Zee Company's patents?

Zee Company's patents average 22.4 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 Zee Company 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

Zee Company

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 11 granted patents across 16 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2017–2022. 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: A23B (Preservation OF Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic BEVERAGES; Chemical Ripening OF Fruit OR Vegetables).

Compiled by PlainPatent · May 15, 2026

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Zee ranks #25,590 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 11 patents across 16 technology areas.

#25,590
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 45%
by Innovation Score (37.0/100): 22.4
avg claims per patent: +75%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R25590 · US Corporation #25,590 · 11 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 11 grants
MID-PACK #25,590/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH ZapFraud
CPC-FOCUS A23B · 16 areas
INNOV-THIN 37.0/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 22.4 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +75% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: ZapFraud, Inc. (±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 Zee’s 37.0 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 8.6 pts (23%) Velocity 0.8 pts (2%) Breadth 14.1 pts (38%) Claim depth 13.5 pts (36%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Zee · this assignee

37
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Zee's Innovation Score is 37.0/100 (top 45% 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 Zee?

Each dot is one of Zee’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). Zee’s own 22.4 claims/patent is ABOVE the 14.8 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Zee's grants concentrate

Zee Company is a focused PatentsView assignee: 16 CPC subclasses with 54.5% of grants classified under A23B (Preservation OF Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic BEVERAGES; Chemical Ripening OF Fruit OR Vegetables). Peak complete grant year is 2020 (3 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2022. By volume, Zee sits between Ziptronix, Inc. and Zhuji Itop Hardware Tools Co., Ltd..

Zee's three-year grant acceleration

Zee Company shows 1 grants in 2022–2024 against only 8 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.

Ziptronix

11
Zoomdata

11
Zyxel Communicati…

11
Zapfraud

11
Zerobrush

11
Zhejiang Guozi Ro…

11
Zhejiang Zeekr Au…

11
Zhuji Itop Hardwa…

11
Zee ◀

11

What this shows Zee holds 11 patents at rank #25,584, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Zee

By rank, the assignees closest to #25,584 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A23B (Preservation OF Foods)

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

Zee's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

37 Top 45% higher than 55% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2017–2022

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2017–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Zee Company patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2017	2	18.2%
2019	2	18.2%
2020	3	27.3%
2021	3	27.3%
2022	1	9.1%

Which technologies does Zee Company patent most?

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

A22C - Processing Meat, Poultry, OR Fish 5

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

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

A23P - Shaping OR Working OF Foodstuffs, NOT Fully Covered BY A Single Other Subclass 3

C11D - Detergent COMPOSITIONS; USE OF Single Substances AS DETERGENTS; Soap OR SOAP-MAKING; Resin SOAPS; Recovery OF Glycerol 2

C07C - Acyclic OR Carbocyclic Compounds 2

A01N - Preservation OF Bodies OF Humans OR Animals OR Plants OR Parts Thereof ; Biocides, e.g. AS Disinfectants, AS Pesticides OR AS Herbicides ; Pest Repellants OR ATTRACTANTS; Plant Growth Regulators 2

A23N - Machines OR Apparatus FOR Treating Harvested Fruit, Vegetables OR Flower Bulbs IN Bulk, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Peeling Vegetables OR Fruit IN BULK; Apparatus FOR Preparing Animal Feeding- Stuffs 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 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

B01F - Mixing, e.g. Dissolving, Emulsifying OR Dispersing 1

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 1

A22B - Slaughtering 1

Y02A - Technologies FOR Adaptation TO Climate Change 1

Top 15 of 16 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

Zee Company's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Zee Company's lead technology class is A23B (Preservation OF Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic BEVERAGES; Chemical Ripening OF Fruit OR Vegetables), 54.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A23B
Ranked #25,590 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Zee Company against Ziptronix, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 37.0/100 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

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.