Where does Basf Agricultural Solutions Seed US LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Basf Agricultural Solutions Seed US LLC ranks #4,104 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 Basf Agricultural Solutions Seed US LLC hold?

Basf Agricultural Solutions Seed US LLC holds 87 US utility patents granted between 2019 and 2025, spanning 15 technology areas.

What is Basf Agricultural Solutions Seed US LLC's Innovation Score?

Basf Agricultural Solutions Seed US LLC has an Innovation Score of 45.5 out of 100 (top 23% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Basf Agricultural Solutions Seed US LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Basf Agricultural Solutions Seed US LLC's recent grant velocity is +517% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Basf Agricultural Solutions Seed US LLC's patents?

Basf Agricultural Solutions Seed US LLC's patents average 18.0 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 Basf Agricultural Solutions Seed US LLC 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

Basf Agricultural Solutions Seed US LLC

Q: What technology areas does Basf Agricultural Solutions Seed US LLC focus on?

Basf Agricultural Solutions Seed US LLC's top technology area is C12N (Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media) with 50 patents, ranking #196 of 4,144 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 15 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 87 granted patents across 15 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2019–2025. 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: C12N (Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Basf ranks #4,104 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 87 patents across 15 technology areas.

#4,104
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 23%
by Innovation Score (45.5/100): 18.0
avg claims per patent: +517%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R4104 · US Corporation #4,104 · 87 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 87 grants
TOP-DECILE #4,104/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Beijing Tusen Zhitu…
CPC-FOCUS C12N · 15 areas
INNOV-PAR 45.5/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.0 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +517% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Beijing Tusen Zhitu Technology Co., Ltd. (±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 Basf’s 45.5 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 15.5 pts (34%) Velocity 5.5 pts (12%) Breadth 13.7 pts (30%) Claim depth 10.8 pts (24%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Basf Agricultural… · this assignee

46
Grow Solutions Tech · near

46
Lite-on Singapore PTE · near

46
Mahle Metal Leve S/A · near

46
Polyplastics · near

46
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Basf's Innovation Score is 45.5/100 (top 23% 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 Basf?

Each dot is one of Basf’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). Basf’s own 18.0 claims/patent is ABOVE the 17.6 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Basf's grants concentrate

Basf Agricultural Solutions Seed US LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 15 CPC subclasses with 57.5% of grants classified under C12N (Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media). Peak complete grant year is 2020 (19 grants) versus a trough of 7 in 2024. By volume, Basf sits between Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc. and Board of Trustees of the Univeristy of Alabama, for and on behalf of the University of Alabama in Huntsville.

Basf's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Basf Agricultural Solutions Seed US LLC moved from 47 to 39 grants (0.83x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Sunovion Pharmace…

88
Tactotek OY

88
Toray Plastics (A…

88
WIN Semiconductors

88
Belimo Holding

87
BIC Violex Single…

87
Beijing Tusen Zhi…

87
Board of Trustees…

87
Basf Agricultural… ◀

87

What this shows Basf holds 87 patents at rank #4,104, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Basf

By rank, the assignees closest to #4,104 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C12N (Microorganisms OR Enzymes)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Basf, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In C12N (Microorganisms OR Enzymes), Basf ranks #196 of 4,144 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (46 here).

Mahle Metal Leve S/A 46 Polyplastics Co., Ltd. 46 Grow Solutions Tech LLC 46 Lite-on Singapore PTE. Ltd. 46

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (18.0 here).

Pmc-sierra US, Inc. 18.0 avg Teledyne Flir Commercial Systems, Inc. 18.0 avg Boehringer Ingelheim Vetmedica GMBH 18.0 avg AeroVironment, Inc. 18.0 avg

Basf's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

46 Top 23% higher than 77% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2019–2025

Grants by year

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

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Basf Agricultural Solutions Seed US LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2019	12	13.8%
2020	19	21.8%
2021	16	18.4%
2022	14	16.1%
2023	18	20.7%
2024	7	8.0%
2025partial year	1	1.1%

Which technologies does Basf Agricultural Solutions Seed US LLC patent most?

C12N - Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media 50

A01H - NEW Plants OR ; NON-TRANSGENIC; Processes FOR Obtaining THEM; Plant Reproduction BY Tissue Culture Techniques 45

C07K - Peptides 27

Y02A - Technologies FOR Adaptation TO Climate Change 26

C12Y - Enzymes 15

A01N - Preservation OF Bodies OF Humans OR Animals OR Plants OR Parts Thereof ; Biocides, e.g. AS Disinfectants, AS Pesticides OR AS Herbicides ; Pest Repellants OR ATTRACTANTS; Plant Growth Regulators 15

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 9

B07C - Postal SORTING; Sorting Individual Articles, OR Bulk Material FIT TO BE Sorted Piece-meal, e.g. BY Picking 2

B03B - Separating Solid Materials Using Liquids OR Using Pneumatic Tables OR Jigs 2

A01C - PLANTING; SOWING; Fertilising 1

A01G - HORTICULTURE; Cultivation OF Vegetables, Flowers, Rice, Fruit, Vines, Hops OR SEAWEED; FORESTRY; Watering 1

B01L - Chemical OR Physical Laboratory Apparatus FOR General USE 1

A23D - Edible Oils OR Fats, e.g. Margarines, Shortenings OR Cooking Oils 1

C11B - Producing, e.g. BY Pressing RAW Materials OR BY Extraction From Waste Materials, Refining OR Preserving Fats, Fatty Substances, e.g. Lanolin, Fatty Oils OR WAXES; Essential OILS; Perfumes 1

A23K - Fodder 1

Top 15 of 15 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

Basf Agricultural Solutions Seed US LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Basf Agricultural Solutions Seed US LLC's lead technology class is C12N (Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media), 57.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C12N
Ranked #4,104 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Basf Agricultural Solutions Seed US LLC against Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 45.5/100 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

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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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