Where does Ascendis Pharma A/S rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Ascendis Pharma A/S ranks #7,661 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 Ascendis Pharma A/S hold?

Ascendis Pharma A/S holds 42 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 12 technology areas.

What is Ascendis Pharma A/S's Innovation Score?

Ascendis Pharma A/S has an Innovation Score of 51.2 out of 100 (top 12% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Ascendis Pharma A/S focus on?

Ascendis Pharma A/S's top technology area is A61K (Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes) with 22 patents, ranking #1,019 of 7,163 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 12 CPC subclasses total.

Is Ascendis Pharma A/S's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Ascendis Pharma A/S's recent grant velocity is +69% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Ascendis Pharma A/S's patents?

Ascendis Pharma A/S's patents average 19.5 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 Ascendis Pharma A/S 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

Ascendis Pharma A/S

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 42 granted patents across 12 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: A61K (Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Ascendis ranks #7,661 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 42 patents across 12 technology areas.

#7,661
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 12%
by Innovation Score (51.2/100): 19.5
avg claims per patent: +69%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R7661 · Foreign Corporation #7,661 · 42 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 42 grants
UPPER-Q #7,661/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH AGC Automotive…
CPC-FOCUS A61K · 12 areas
INNOV-PAR 51.2/100
CLAIMS-RICH 19.5 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +69% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: AGC Automotive Americas R&D, 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 Ascendis’s 51.2 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 13.0 pts (25%) Velocity 14.3 pts (28%) Breadth 12.2 pts (24%) Claim depth 11.7 pts (23%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Ascendis Pharma A/S · this assignee

51
Chime Financial · near

51
Technical University… · near

51
Transocean Sedco… · near

51
Yamaguchi University · near

51
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Ascendis's Innovation Score is 51.2/100 (top 12% 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 Ascendis?

Each dot is one of Ascendis’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). Ascendis’s own 19.5 claims/patent is ABOVE the 16.5 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Ascendis's grants concentrate

Ascendis Pharma A/S is a focused PatentsView assignee: 12 CPC subclasses with 52.4% of grants classified under A61K (Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes). Peak complete grant year is 2023 (6 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2016. By volume, Ascendis sits between A.M. Surgical, Inc. and Armaments Research Company, Inc..

Ascendis's three-year grant acceleration

Ascendis Pharma A/S shows 15 grants in 2022–2024 against only 7 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.

A M Surgical

42
AGC Automotive Am…

42
Allnex Netherland…

42
ARB

42
Allergan Industri…

42
Amtech Systems

42
Arity Internation…

42
Armaments Research

42
Ascendis Pharma A… ◀

42

What this shows Ascendis holds 42 patents at rank #7,657, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Ascendis

By rank, the assignees closest to #7,657 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A61K (Preparations FOR Medical)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Ascendis, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A61K (Preparations FOR Medical), Ascendis ranks #1,019 of 7,163 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (51 here).

Transocean Sedco Forex Ventures Limited 51 Technical University of Denmark 51 Yamaguchi University 51 Chime Financial, Inc. 51

Ascendis's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

51 Top 12% higher than 88% 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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Ascendis Pharma A/S patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	4	9.5%
2016	1	2.4%
2017	3	7.1%
2018	5	11.9%
2020	3	7.1%
2021	4	9.5%
2022	5	11.9%
2023	6	14.3%
2024	4	9.5%
2025partial year	7	16.7%

Which technologies does Ascendis Pharma A/S patent most?

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 22

A61M - Devices FOR Introducing Media Into, OR Onto, THE Body ; Devices FOR Transducing Body Media OR FOR Taking Media From THE Body ; Devices FOR Producing OR Ending Sleep OR Stupor 17

A61P - Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations 15

C07K - Peptides 4

C08G - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than BY Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds 3

C08L - Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds 3

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

C08J - WORKING-UP; General Processes OF COMPOUNDING; After-treatment NOT Covered BY Subclasses C08b, C08c, C08f, C08g or C08h 2

B82Y - Specific Uses OR Applications OF NANOSTRUCTURES; Measurement OR Analysis OF NANOSTRUCTURES; Manufacture OR Treatment OF Nanostructures 2

C08F - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained BY Reactions Only Involving Carbon-to-carbon Unsaturated Bonds 1

Y02A - Technologies FOR Adaptation TO Climate Change 1

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 1

Top 12 of 12 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

Ascendis Pharma A/S's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Ascendis Pharma A/S's lead technology class is A61K (Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes), 52.4% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A61K
Ranked #7,661 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Ascendis Pharma A/S against A.M. Surgical, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 51.2/100 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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