Where does Balchem Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Balchem Corporation ranks #39,014 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 Balchem Corporation hold?

Balchem Corporation holds 6 US utility patents granted between 2021 and 2025, spanning 11 technology areas.

What is Balchem Corporation's Innovation Score?

Balchem Corporation has an Innovation Score of 49.8 out of 100 (top 14% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Balchem Corporation focus on?

Balchem Corporation's top technology area is A61K (Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes) with 4 patents, ranking #4,709 of 7,163 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 11 CPC subclasses total.

Is Balchem Corporation's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Insufficient historical data is available to calculate a velocity trend for Balchem Corporation.

What does claim depth mean for Balchem Corporation's patents?

Balchem Corporation's patents average 18.8 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 Balchem Corporation 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

Balchem Corporation

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 6 granted patents across 11 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2021–2025. 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).

Compiled by PlainPatent · May 15, 2026

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Balchem ranks #39,014 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 6 patents across 11 technology areas.

#39,014
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 14%
by Innovation Score (49.8/100): 18.8
avg claims per patent

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R39014 · US Corporation #39,014 · 6 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · LOWER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · SPAN-YRS · BOOK-RICH

GRANTS-MICRO 6 grants
LOWER-Q #39,014/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Bactiguard AB
CPC-FOCUS A61K · 11 areas
INNOV-PAR 49.8/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.8 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
SPAN-YRS 2021–2025 · 5y
BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Bactiguard AB (±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 Balchem’s 49.8 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 6.7 pts (13%) Velocity 20.0 pts (40%) Breadth 11.7 pts (24%) Claim depth 11.3 pts (23%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

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Balchem · this assignee

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3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Balchem's Innovation Score is 49.8/100 (top 14% 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 Balchem?

Each dot is one of Balchem’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). Balchem’s own 18.8 claims/patent is ABOVE the 13.7 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Balchem's grants concentrate

Balchem Corporation is a focused PatentsView assignee: 11 CPC subclasses with 66.7% of grants classified under A61K (Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes). Peak complete grant year is 2022 (2 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2021. By volume, Balchem sits between Bactiguard AB and BAM Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und-pruefung.

Balchem's three-year grant acceleration

Balchem Corporation shows 4 grants in 2022–2024 against only 1 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.

Bactiguard AB

6
Badvr

6
Bagel Labs

6
Bagi Research

6
Baldwin Americas

6
Ball Beverage CAN…

6
BAM

6
BAM Bundesanstalt…

6
Balchem ◀

6

What this shows Balchem holds 6 patents at rank #39,013, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Balchem

By rank, the assignees closest to #39,013 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A61K (Preparations FOR Medical)

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

Balchem's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

50 Top 14% higher than 86% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2021–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2021–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Balchem Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2021	1	16.7%
2022	2	33.3%
2023	2	33.3%
2025partial year	1	16.7%

Which technologies does Balchem Corporation patent most?

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 4

A61P - Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations 3

B30B - Presses IN General 2

C07B - General Methods OF Organic CHEMISTRY; Apparatus Therefor 2

B02C - Crushing, Pulverising, OR Disintegrating IN GENERAL; Milling Grain 2

C07C - Acyclic OR Carbocyclic Compounds 2

B01J - Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus 1

A23P - Shaping OR Working OF Foodstuffs, NOT Fully Covered BY A Single Other Subclass 1

A23L - Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Preparation OR Treatment Thereof 1

A23K - Fodder 1

A23V - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages AND Lactic OR Propionic Acid Bacteria Used IN Foodstuffs OR Food Preparation 1

Top 11 of 11 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

Balchem Corporation's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Balchem Corporation's lead technology class is A61K (Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes), 66.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A61K
Ranked #39,014 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Balchem Corporation against Bactiguard AB, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 49.8/100 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.