Where does Ascus Biosciences, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Ascus Biosciences, Inc. ranks #22,211 of 50,000 assignees by granted-patent volume, the same sort as the companies listing and top-holders ranking. See /methodology/#corpus-placement.

How many patents does Ascus Biosciences, Inc. hold?

Ascus Biosciences, Inc. holds 12 US utility patents granted between 2017 and 2020, spanning 11 technology areas.

What is Ascus Biosciences, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Ascus Biosciences, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 32.2 out of 100 (top 60% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Ascus Biosciences, Inc. focus on?

Ascus Biosciences, Inc.'s top technology area is A23K (FODDER) with 12 patents. Grants appear in 11 CPC subclasses total.

Is Ascus Biosciences, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Ascus Biosciences, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -29% 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 Ascus Biosciences, Inc.'s patents?

Ascus Biosciences, Inc.'s patents average 19.3 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 Ascus Biosciences, 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

Ascus Biosciences, Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 12 granted patents across 11 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2017–2020. 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: A23K (FODDER).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Ascus ranks #22,211 of 50,000 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 12 patents across 11 technology areas.

#22,211
of 50,000 US assignees by volume: Top 60%
by Innovation Score (32.2/100): 19.3
avg claims per patent: -29%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R22211 · US Corporation #22,211 · 12 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 12 grants
MID-PACK #22,211/50,000
PHOTO-FINISH Areva Wind
CPC-FOCUS A23K · 11 areas
INNOV-THIN 32.2/100
CLAIMS-RICH 19.3 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DOWN -29% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Areva Wind 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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Ascus Biosciences · this assignee

32
3D Lighting Innovati… · lowest

7

What this shows Ascus's Innovation Score is 32.2/100 (top 60% 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.

Where Ascus's grants concentrate

Ascus Biosciences, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 11 CPC subclasses with 100% of grants classified under A23K (FODDER). Peak complete grant year is 2020 (5 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2017. By volume, Ascus sits between Areva Wind Gmbh and Atlas Genetics Limited.

Areva Wind

12
Arntz Beteiligung…

12
Arrows Up

12
Artema Labs

12
Aspiring Sky

12
Astra Capital Inc…

12
Astrumu

12
Atlas Genetics

12
Ascus Biosciences ◀

12

What this shows Ascus holds 12 patents at rank #22,225, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Ascus

By rank, the assignees closest to #22,225 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A23K (Fodder)

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

Ascus's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

32 Top 60% higher than 40% of 50,000 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2017–2020

Grants by year

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

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Ascus Biosciences, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2017	1	8.3%
2018	2	16.7%
2019	4	33.3%
2020	5	41.7%

Which technologies does Ascus Biosciences, Inc. patent most?

A23K - FODDER 12

A61K - PREPARATIONS FOR MEDICAL, DENTAL OR TOILETRY PURPOSES 12

C12N - MICROORGANISMS OR ENZYMES; COMPOSITIONS THEREOF; PROPAGATING, PRESERVING, OR MAINTAINING MICROORGANISMS; MUTATION OR GENETIC ENGINEERING; CULTURE MEDIA 10

A23L - FOODS, FOODSTUFFS OR NON-ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; PREPARATION OR TREATMENT THEREOF 7

A61P - SPECIFIC THERAPEUTIC ACTIVITY OF CHEMICAL COMPOUNDS OR MEDICINAL PREPARATIONS 7

C12R - INDEXING SCHEME ASSOCIATED WITH SUBCLASSES C12C - C12Q, RELATING TO MICROORGANISMS 3

C12Q - MEASURING OR TESTING PROCESSES INVOLVING ENZYMES, NUCLEIC ACIDS OR MICROORGANISMS ; COMPOSITIONS OR TEST PAPERS THEREFOR; PROCESSES OF PREPARING SUCH COMPOSITIONS; CONDITION-RESPONSIVE CONTROL IN MICROBIOLOGICAL OR ENZYMOLOGICAL PROCESSES 2

G16B - BIOINFORMATICS, i.e. INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY [ICT] SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR GENETIC OR PROTEIN-RELATED DATA PROCESSING IN COMPUTATIONAL MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2

A23V - INDEXING SCHEME RELATING TO FOODS, FOODSTUFFS OR NON-ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES AND LACTIC OR PROPIONIC ACID BACTERIA USED IN FOODSTUFFS OR FOOD PREPARATION 2

A01K - ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; AVICULTURE; APICULTURE; PISCICULTURE; FISHING; REARING OR BREEDING ANIMALS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; NEW BREEDS OF ANIMALS 2

G01N - INVESTIGATING OR ANALYSING MATERIALS BY DETERMINING THEIR CHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL PROPERTIES 1

Top 11 of 11 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#22,211

of 50,000 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

32.2 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

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

Every figure on PlainPatent is rendered directly from USPTO source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on USPTO source data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 2026.