- All sections
- A - Human necessities
- A23L - Foods, foodstuffs, or non-alcoholic beverages, not covered by subclasses or ; their preparation or treatment, e.g. cooking, modification of nutritive qualities, physical treatment ; preservation of foods or foodstuffs, in general
- A23L 1/304 - Inorganic salts, minerals, trace elements
Patent holdings for IPC class A23L 1/304
Total number of patents in this class: 632
10-year publication summary
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115
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49
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7
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4
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1
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1
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| 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
Principal owners for this class
| Owner |
All patents
|
This class
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|---|---|---|
| Nestec S.A. | 2777 |
33 |
| Unilever PLC | 3540 |
27 |
| Unilever N.V. | 3440 |
27 |
| N.V. Nutricia | 1022 |
23 |
| Hindustan Unilever Limited | 1281 |
20 |
| Abbott Laboratories | 2542 |
18 |
| Société des Produits Nestlé S.A. | 9672 |
12 |
| Kaneka Corporation | 4445 |
7 |
| DSM IP Assets B.V. | 5856 |
5 |
| The Coca-Cola Company | 2528 |
5 |
| Novartis AG | 11238 |
4 |
| Chemische Fabrik Budenheim KG | 229 |
4 |
| Council of Scientific & Industrial Research | 1397 |
4 |
| Hindustan Lever Limited | 226 |
4 |
| Lesaffre Yeast Corporation | 36 |
4 |
| Melaleuca, Inc. | 315 |
4 |
| MJN U.S. Holdings LLC | 271 |
4 |
| Stokely-Van Camp, Inc. | 342 |
4 |
| Tropicana Products, Inc. | 318 |
4 |
| Bayer Consumer Care AG | 603 |
3 |
| Other owners | 416 |