Where does Afyren rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Afyren ranks #28,006 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 Afyren hold?

Afyren holds 9 US utility patents granted between 2017 and 2025, spanning 13 technology areas.

What is Afyren's Innovation Score?

Afyren has an Innovation Score of 32.0 out of 100 (40th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Afyren's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Afyren's recent grant velocity is +0% 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 Afyren's patents?

Afyren's patents average 11.4 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 Afyren 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 Foreign Corporation

Afyren

Q: What technology areas does Afyren focus on?

Afyren's top technology area is C12P (Fermentation OR Enzyme-using Processes TO Synthesise A Desired Chemical Compound OR Composition OR TO Separate Optical Isomers From A Racemic Mixture) with 6 patents, ranking #307 of 1,268 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 13 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 9 granted patents across 13 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2017–2025. 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: C12P (Fermentation OR Enzyme-using Processes TO Synthesise A Desired Chemical Compound OR Composition OR TO Separate Optical Isomers From A Racemic Mixture).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Afyren ranks #28,006 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 9 patents across 13 technology areas.

#28,006
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 40th percentile
by Innovation Score (32.0/100): 11.4
avg claims per patent: +0%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R28006 · Foreign Corporation #28,006 · 9 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-PAR · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-FLAT · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 9 grants
MID-PACK #28,006/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Affl Associates
CPC-FOCUS C12P · 13 areas
INNOV-THIN 32.0/100
CLAIMS-PAR 11.4 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-FLAT +0% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Affl Associates, 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 Afyren’s 32.0 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 8.0 pts (25%) Velocity 4.4 pts (14%) Breadth 12.7 pts (40%) Claim depth 6.9 pts (22%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Afyren · this assignee

32
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Afyren's Innovation Score is 32.0/100 (40th percentile 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 Afyren?

Each dot is one of Afyren’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). Afyren’s own 11.4 claims/patent is at or below the 15.7 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Afyren's grants concentrate

Afyren is a focused PatentsView assignee: 13 CPC subclasses with 66.7% of grants classified under C12P (Fermentation OR Enzyme-using Processes TO Synthesise A Desired Chemical Compound OR Composition OR TO Separate Optical Isomers From A Racemic Mixture). Peak complete grant year is 2017 (2 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2018. By volume, Afyren sits between Affl Associates, Inc. and Agis Software Development LLC.

Afyren's three-year grant acceleration

Afyren shows 2 grants in 2022–2024 against only 3 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.

Affl Associates

9
Afimilk Agricultu…

9
AFS Newco

9
AFT Pharmaceutica…

9
Agence Nationale…

9
Aggregate Knowled…

9
AGI Engineering

9
Agis Software Dev…

9
Afyren ◀

9

What this shows Afyren holds 9 patents at rank #27,988, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Afyren

By rank, the assignees closest to #27,988 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C12P (Fermentation OR Enzyme-using Processes TO Synthesise A De…)

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

Afyren's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

32 40th percentile higher than 40% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2017–2025

Grants by year

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

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Afyren patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2017	2	22.2%
2018	1	11.1%
2019	1	11.1%
2021	2	22.2%
2022	1	11.1%
2023	1	11.1%
2025partial year	1	11.1%

Which technologies does Afyren patent most?

C12P - Fermentation OR Enzyme-using Processes TO Synthesise A Desired Chemical Compound OR Composition OR TO Separate Optical Isomers From A Racemic Mixture 6

C05F - Organic Fertilisers NOT Covered BY Subclasses C05b, C05c, e.g. Fertilisers From Waste OR Refuse 4

Y02A - Technologies FOR Adaptation TO Climate Change 4

C07C - Acyclic OR Carbocyclic Compounds 3

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 2

C05D - Inorganic Fertilisers NOT Covered BY Subclasses C05b, C05C; Fertilisers Producing Carbon Dioxide 2

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 2

Y02W - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Wastewater Treatment OR Waste Management 2

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 2

B01D - Separation 1

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 1

C08G - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than BY Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds 1

C25B - Electrolytic OR Electrophoretic Processes FOR THE Production OF Compounds OR NON-METALS; Apparatus Therefor 1

Top 13 of 13 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

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

Afyren's lead technology class is C12P (Fermentation OR Enzyme-using Processes TO Synthesise A Desired Chemical Compound OR Composition OR TO Separate Optical Isomers From A Racemic Mixture), 66.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C12P
Ranked #28,006 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Afyren against Affl Associates, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 32.0/100 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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