Where does Ball Horticultural Company rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Ball Horticultural Company ranks #1,141 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 Ball Horticultural Company hold?

Ball Horticultural Company holds 370 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 12 technology areas.

What is Ball Horticultural Company's Innovation Score?

Ball Horticultural Company has an Innovation Score of 38.1 out of 100 (top 42% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Ball Horticultural Company's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Ball Horticultural Company's recent grant velocity is +1% 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 Ball Horticultural Company's patents?

Ball Horticultural Company's patents average 2.7 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 Ball Horticultural Company 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

Ball Horticultural Company

Q: What technology areas does Ball Horticultural Company focus on?

Ball Horticultural Company's top technology area is A01H (NEW Plants OR ; NON-TRANSGENIC; Processes FOR Obtaining THEM; Plant Reproduction BY Tissue Culture Techniques) with 20 patents, ranking #36 of 285 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 12 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 370 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: A01H (NEW Plants OR ; NON-TRANSGENIC; Processes FOR Obtaining THEM; Plant Reproduction BY Tissue Culture Techniques).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Ball ranks #1,141 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 370 patents across 12 technology areas.

#1,141
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 42%
by Innovation Score (38.1/100): 2.7
avg claims per patent: +1%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1141 · US Corporation #1,141 · 370 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-SPARSE · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-FLAT · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 370 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,141/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Dentsply Sirona
CPC-FOCUS A01H · 12 areas
INNOV-THIN 38.1/100
CLAIMS-SPARSE 2.7 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-FLAT +1% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Dentsply Sirona 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 Ball’s 38.1 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 20.4 pts (54%) Velocity 3.8 pts (10%) Breadth 12.2 pts (32%) Claim depth 1.6 pts (4%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Ball Horticultural · this assignee

38
JenaValve Technology · near

38
Jiangnan Environment… · near

38
Rolic · near

38
SR Holdings · near

38
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Ball's Innovation Score is 38.1/100 (top 42% 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 Ball?

Each dot is one of Ball’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). Ball’s own 2.7 claims/patent is at or below the 13.2 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Ball's grants concentrate

Ball Horticultural Company is a focused PatentsView assignee: 12 CPC subclasses with 5.4% of grants classified under A01H (NEW Plants OR ; NON-TRANSGENIC; Processes FOR Obtaining THEM; Plant Reproduction BY Tissue Culture Techniques). Peak complete grant year is 2021 (50 grants) versus a trough of 19 in 2024. By volume, Ball sits between HL Mando Corporation and Jatco Ltd.

Ball's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Ball Horticultural Company moved from 146 to 84 grants (0.57x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). Among 3,296 tracked assignees with ≥100 grants and ≥20 prior-period grants, that multiple ranks #2,508. See the growth leaderboard.

HL Mando

371
Puma SE

371
The Curators of t…

371
Ventana Medical S…

371
Dentsply Sirona

370
Eagle Industry

370
Ivoclar Vivadent

370
Jatco

370
Ball Horticultural ◀

370

What this shows Ball holds 370 patents at rank #1,141, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Ball

By rank, the assignees closest to #1,141 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A01H (NEW Plants OR)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Ball, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A01H (NEW Plants OR), Ball ranks #36 of 285 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (38 here).

JenaValve Technology, Inc. 38 SR Holdings, LLC 38 Jiangnan Environmental Protection Group Inc. 38 Rolic AG 38

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (2.7 here).

Mr. Bar-B-Q Products LLC 2.7 avg YouCopia Products, Inc. 2.7 avg Tomy Company, Ltd. 2.7 avg Direct Pack, Inc. 2.7 avg

Ball's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

38 Top 42% higher than 58% 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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Ball Horticultural Company patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	40	10.8%
2016	38	10.3%
2017	22	5.9%
2018	31	8.4%
2019	49	13.2%
2020	47	12.7%
2021	50	13.5%
2022	38	10.3%
2023	27	7.3%
2024	19	5.1%
2025partial year	9	2.4%

Which technologies does Ball Horticultural Company patent most?

A01H - NEW Plants OR ; NON-TRANSGENIC; Processes FOR Obtaining THEM; Plant Reproduction BY Tissue Culture Techniques 20

A01C - PLANTING; SOWING; Fertilising 6

A01G - HORTICULTURE; Cultivation OF Vegetables, Flowers, Rice, Fruit, Vines, Hops OR SEAWEED; FORESTRY; Watering 6

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 2

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 2

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 2

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

C12N - Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media 2

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 1

G01V - GEOPHYSICS; Gravitational MEASUREMENTS; Detecting Masses OR OBJECTS; Tags 1

C12Y - Enzymes 1

B65D - Containers FOR Storage OR Transport OF Articles OR Materials, e.g. Bags, Barrels, Bottles, Boxes, Cans, Cartons, Crates, Drums, Jars, Tanks, Hoppers, Forwarding CONTAINERS; Accessories, Closures, OR Fittings THEREFOR; Packaging ELEMENTS; Packages 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

Ball Horticultural Company's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Ball Horticultural Company's lead technology class is A01H (NEW Plants OR ; NON-TRANSGENIC; Processes FOR Obtaining THEM; Plant Reproduction BY Tissue Culture Techniques), 5.4% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A01H
Ranked #1,141 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Ball Horticultural Company against HL Mando Corporation, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 38.1/100 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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