Where does Axcella Health Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Axcella Health Inc. ranks #11,562 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 Axcella Health Inc. hold?

Axcella Health Inc. holds 26 US utility patents granted between 2017 and 2023, spanning 12 technology areas.

What is Axcella Health Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Axcella Health 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%).

What technology areas does Axcella Health Inc. focus on?

Axcella Health Inc.'s top technology area is A61K (Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes) with 25 patents, ranking #906 of 7,163 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 12 CPC subclasses total.

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

Axcella Health Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +36% 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 Axcella Health Inc.'s patents?

Axcella Health Inc.'s patents average 21.6 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 Axcella Health 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

Axcella Health Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 26 granted patents across 12 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2017–2023. 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, Axcella ranks #11,562 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 26 patents across 12 technology areas.

#11,562
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 34%
by Innovation Score (41.0/100): 21.6
avg claims per patent: +36%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R11562 · US Corporation #11,562 · 26 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 26 grants
UPPER-Q #11,562/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Aero Industries
CPC-FOCUS A61K · 12 areas
INNOV-PAR 41.0/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 21.6 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-UP +36% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Aero Industries, 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 Axcella’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 11.4 pts (28%) Velocity 4.4 pts (11%) Breadth 12.2 pts (30%) Claim depth 13.0 pts (32%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Axcella Health · this assignee

41
BHS Corrugated… · near

41
CSR Technology… · near

41
Iridex · near

41
Vieworks · near

41
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Axcella'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 Axcella?

Each dot is one of Axcella’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). Axcella’s own 21.6 claims/patent is ABOVE the 14.4 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Axcella's grants concentrate

Axcella Health Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 12 CPC subclasses with 96.2% of grants classified under A61K (Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes). Peak complete grant year is 2023 (6 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2018. By volume, Axcella sits between Australian Nuclear Science AND Technology Organisation and Alfred Kaercher SE & Co. KG.

Axcella's three-year grant acceleration

Axcella Health Inc. shows 8 grants in 2022–2024 against only 12 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.

Australian Nuclea…

26
Autefa Solutions…

26
Automotive Lighti…

26
Avermedia

26
Aero Industries

26
Agri-cover

26
Aker Subsea AS

26
Alfred Kaercher S…

26
Axcella Health ◀

26

What this shows Axcella holds 26 patents at rank #11,545, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Axcella

By rank, the assignees closest to #11,545 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A61K (Preparations FOR Medical)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Axcella, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A61K (Preparations FOR Medical), Axcella ranks #906 of 7,163 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (41 here).

CSR Technology Holdings Inc. 41 Vieworks Co., Ltd. 41 Iridex Corporation 41 BHS Corrugated Maschinen-und Anlagenbau GMBH 41

Axcella'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 · 2017–2023

Grants by year

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

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Axcella Health Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2017	4	15.4%
2018	2	7.7%
2019	5	19.2%
2020	3	11.5%
2021	4	15.4%
2022	2	7.7%
2023	6	23.1%

Which technologies does Axcella Health Inc. patent most?

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 25

A61P - Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations 22

A23L - Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Preparation OR Treatment Thereof 20

A23V - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages AND Lactic OR Propionic Acid Bacteria Used IN Foodstuffs OR Food Preparation 14

C07K - Peptides 6

A23J - Protein Compositions FOR FOODSTUFFS; Working-up Proteins FOR FOODSTUFFS; Phosphatide Compositions FOR Foodstuffs 4

C12N - Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media 3

C12Y - Enzymes 3

G16B - Bioinformatics, i.e. Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Genetic OR Protein-related Data Processing IN Computational Molecular Biology 3

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

Y02A - Technologies FOR Adaptation TO Climate Change 2

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

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

Axcella Health Inc.'s lead technology class is A61K (Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes), 96.2% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A61K
Ranked #11,562 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Axcella Health Inc. against Australian Nuclear Science AND Technology Organisation, 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

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.