Where does Amano Enzyme Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Amano Enzyme Inc. ranks #7,107 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 Amano Enzyme Inc. hold?

Amano Enzyme Inc. holds 46 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 27 technology areas.

What is Amano Enzyme Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Amano Enzyme Inc. has an Innovation Score of 44.7 out of 100 (top 25% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

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

Amano Enzyme Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -17% 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 Amano Enzyme Inc.'s patents?

Amano Enzyme Inc.'s patents average 8.6 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 Amano Enzyme 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 Foreign Corporation

Amano Enzyme Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Amano Enzyme Inc. focus on?

Amano Enzyme Inc.'s top technology area is C12N (Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media) with 40 patents, ranking #259 of 4,144 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 27 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 46 granted patents across 27 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: C12N (Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Amano ranks #7,107 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 46 patents across 27 technology areas.

#7,107
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 25%
by Innovation Score (44.7/100): 8.6
avg claims per patent: -17%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R7107 · Foreign Corporation #7,107 · 46 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-PAR · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 46 grants
UPPER-Q #7,107/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Ab-kwekersrechten B V
CPC-FOCUS C12N · 27 areas
INNOV-PAR 44.7/100
CLAIMS-PAR 8.6 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -17% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Ab-kwekersrechten B.V. (±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 Amano’s 44.7 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 13.3 pts (30%) Velocity 7.9 pts (18%) Breadth 18.4 pts (41%) Claim depth 5.2 pts (12%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Amano Enzyme · this assignee

45
China International… · near

45
Enlighted · near

45
G&H Diversified… · near

45
Mapsted · near

45
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Amano's Innovation Score is 44.7/100 (top 25% 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 Amano?

Each dot is one of Amano’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). Amano’s own 8.6 claims/patent is at or below the 10.8 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Amano's grants concentrate

Amano Enzyme Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 27 CPC subclasses with 87% of grants classified under C12N (Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media). Peak complete grant year is 2016 (8 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2024. By volume, Amano sits between inVia Robotics, Inc. and Ariel Scientific Innovations Ltd..

Amano's three-year grant acceleration

Amano Enzyme Inc. shows 13 grants in 2022–2024 against only 11 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.

invia Robotics

47
A U Vista

46
Ab-kwekersrechten…

46
ACE

46
Ampere S

46
Ankon Medical (Sh…

46
Applied Invention

46
Ariel Scientific…

46
Amano Enzyme ◀

46

What this shows Amano holds 46 patents at rank #7,107, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Amano

By rank, the assignees closest to #7,107 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C12N (Microorganisms OR Enzymes)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Amano, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In C12N (Microorganisms OR Enzymes), Amano ranks #259 of 4,144 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (45 here).

Enlighted, Inc. 45 G&H Diversified Manufacturing LP 45 Mapsted Corp. 45 China International Marine Containers (GROUP) Co., Ltd. 45

Amano's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

45 Top 25% higher than 75% 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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Amano Enzyme Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	6	13.0%
2016	8	17.4%
2017	3	6.5%
2018	3	6.5%
2019	4	8.7%
2020	2	4.3%
2021	5	10.9%
2022	7	15.2%
2023	5	10.9%
2024	1	2.2%
2025partial year	2	4.3%

Which technologies does Amano Enzyme Inc. patent most?

C12N - Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media 40

C12Y - Enzymes 39

C12P - Fermentation OR Enzyme-using Processes TO Synthesise A Desired Chemical Compound OR Composition OR TO Separate Optical Isomers From A Racemic Mixture 19

A23L - Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Preparation OR Treatment Thereof 14

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 13

A61P - Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations 12

A23V - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages AND Lactic OR Propionic Acid Bacteria Used IN Foodstuffs OR Food Preparation 8

C12R - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses C12c - C12q, Relating TO Microorganisms 5

A23C - Dairy Products, e.g. Milk, Butter OR CHEESE; Milk OR Cheese SUBSTITUTES; Making OR Treatment Thereof 5

A21D - Treatment OF Flour OR Dough FOR Baking, e.g. BY Addition OF MATERIALS; BAKING; Bakery Products 4

C08B - POLYSACCHARIDES; Derivatives Thereof 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 3

C07H - SUGARS; Derivatives THEREOF; NUCLEOSIDES; NUCLEOTIDES; Nucleic Acids 3

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 3

C12C - BEER; Preparation OF Beer BY Fermentation ; Preparation OF Malt FOR Making BEER; Preparation OF Hops FOR Making Beer 2

Top 15 of 27 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

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

Amano Enzyme Inc.'s lead technology class is C12N (Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media), 87% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C12N
Ranked #7,107 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Amano Enzyme Inc. against inVia Robotics, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 44.7/100 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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