Where does Agrofresh Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Agrofresh Inc. ranks #7,809 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 Agrofresh Inc. hold?

Agrofresh Inc. holds 41 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 21 technology areas.

What is Agrofresh Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Agrofresh Inc. has an Innovation Score of 41.0 out of 100 (top 34% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Agrofresh Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Agrofresh Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -44% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). Grant activity has slowed relative to earlier years.

What does claim depth mean for Agrofresh Inc.'s patents?

Agrofresh Inc.'s patents average 17.8 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 Agrofresh 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

Agrofresh Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Agrofresh Inc. focus on?

Agrofresh Inc.'s top technology area is 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) with 36 patents, ranking #36 of 1,216 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 21 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 41 granted patents across 21 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: 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).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Agrofresh ranks #7,809 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 41 patents across 21 technology areas.

#7,809
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 34%
by Innovation Score (41.0/100): 17.8
avg claims per patent: -44%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R7809 · US Corporation #7,809 · 41 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 41 grants
UPPER-Q #7,809/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Adient Engineering…
CPC-FOCUS A01N · 21 areas
INNOV-PAR 41.0/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.8 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -44% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Adient Engineering and IP GmbH (±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 Agrofresh’s 41.0 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 12.9 pts (31%) Velocity 1.3 pts (3%) Breadth 16.2 pts (39%) Claim depth 10.7 pts (26%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Agrofresh · this assignee

41
AS IP Holdco · near

41
Gaming Arts · near

41
Peking University… · near

41
Pennsy · near

41
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Agrofresh's Innovation Score is 41.0/100 (top 34% 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 Agrofresh?

Each dot is one of Agrofresh’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). Agrofresh’s own 17.8 claims/patent is ABOVE the 13.1 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Agrofresh's grants concentrate

Agrofresh Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 21 CPC subclasses with 87.8% of grants classified under 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). Peak complete grant year is 2018 (10 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2024. By volume, Agrofresh sits between Zhejiang Geely Automobile Research Institute Co., Ltd and Aerostar International LLC.

Agrofresh's three-year grant acceleration

Agrofresh Inc. shows 3 grants in 2022–2024 against only 16 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.

Zhejiang Geely Au…

42
ZON

42
Zhuhai Kelitong

42
nvent Services

42
Altr Solutions

41
APS Technology

41
Adient Engineerin…

41
Aerostar Internat…

41
Agrofresh ◀

41

What this shows Agrofresh holds 41 patents at rank #7,807, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Agrofresh

By rank, the assignees closest to #7,807 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A01N (Preservation OF Bodies OF Humans OR Animals OR Plants OR…)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Agrofresh, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A01N (Preservation OF Bodies OF Humans OR Animals OR Plants OR…), Agrofresh ranks #36 of 1,216 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (41 here).

Gaming Arts, LLC 41 AS IP Holdco, LLC 41 Pennsy Corporation 41 Peking University Founder Group Co., Ltd. 41

Agrofresh's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

41 Top 34% higher than 66% 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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Agrofresh Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	4	9.8%
2016	2	4.9%
2017	4	9.8%
2018	10	24.4%
2019	5	12.2%
2020	6	14.6%
2021	5	12.2%
2023	2	4.9%
2024	1	2.4%
2025partial year	2	4.9%

Which technologies does Agrofresh Inc. patent most?

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 36

A23B - Preservation OF Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic BEVERAGES; Chemical Ripening OF Fruit OR Vegetables 24

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 9

C07F - Acyclic, Carbocyclic OR Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium OR Tellurium 8

Y02A - Technologies FOR Adaptation TO Climate Change 6

A23V - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages AND Lactic OR Propionic Acid Bacteria Used IN Foodstuffs OR Food Preparation 6

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 5

B01J - Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus 4

C07D - Heterocyclic Compounds 4

C07C - Acyclic OR Carbocyclic Compounds 4

B65B - Machines, Apparatus OR Devices FOR, OR Methods OF, Packaging Articles OR MATERIALS; Unpacking 3

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 1

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 1

B29K - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses B29b, B29c OR B29d, Relating TO Moulding Materials OR TO Materials FOR ; Moulds, ; Reinforcements, Fillers OR Preformed Parts, e.g. Inserts 1

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 1

Top 15 of 21 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

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

Agrofresh Inc.'s lead technology class is 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), 87.8% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A01N
Ranked #7,809 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Agrofresh Inc. against Zhejiang Geely Automobile Research Institute Co., Ltd, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 41.0/100 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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