Where does Basf Plant Science Company GmbH rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Basf Plant Science Company GmbH ranks #2,943 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 Plant Science Company GmbH hold?

Basf Plant Science Company GmbH holds 129 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 30 technology areas.

What is Basf Plant Science Company GmbH's Innovation Score?

Basf Plant Science Company GmbH has an Innovation Score of 49.2 out of 100 (top 15% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Basf Plant Science Company GmbH's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Basf Plant Science Company GmbH's recent grant velocity is -52% 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 Basf Plant Science Company GmbH's patents?

Basf Plant Science Company GmbH's patents average 16.4 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 Plant Science Company GmbH 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 Foreign Corporation

Basf Plant Science Company GmbH

Q: What technology areas does Basf Plant Science Company GmbH focus on?

Basf Plant Science Company GmbH's top technology area is C12N (Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media) with 119 patents, ranking #72 of 4,144 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 30 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 129 granted patents across 30 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: 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 #2,943 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 129 patents across 30 technology areas.

#2,943
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 15%
by Innovation Score (49.2/100): 16.4
avg claims per patent: -52%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2943 · Foreign Corporation #2,943 · 129 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 129 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,943/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH AMS International
CPC-FOCUS C12N · 30 areas
INNOV-PAR 49.2/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.4 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -52% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: AMS International AG (±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 49.2 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 16.8 pts (34%) Velocity 3.2 pts (6%) Breadth 19.4 pts (39%) Claim depth 9.9 pts (20%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Basf Plant Science · this assignee

49
Cummins-Allison · near

49
Krohne Messtechnik · near

49
Oracle America · near

49
Universal Lighting · near

49
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Basf's Innovation Score is 49.2/100 (top 15% 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 16.4 claims/patent is ABOVE the 16.2 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 Plant Science Company GmbH is a focused PatentsView assignee: 30 CPC subclasses with 92.2% 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 2016 (20 grants) versus a trough of 5 in 2024. By volume, Basf sits between Wangs Alliance Corporation and Lenovo Innovations Limited (Hong Kong).

Basf's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Basf Plant Science Company GmbH moved from 40 to 19 grants (0.47x 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 #2,756. See the growth leaderboard.

Wangs Alliance

130
Xiamen Sanan Opto…

130
AMS International

129
Ball

129
Dish Network Indi…

129
Equifax

129
First Data

129
Lenovo Innovation…

129
Basf Plant Science ◀

129

What this shows Basf holds 129 patents at rank #2,943, 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 #2,943 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 #72 of 4,144 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (49 here).

Krohne Messtechnik GmbH 49 Universal Lighting Technologies Inc. 49 Oracle America, Inc. 49 Cummins-Allison Corp. 49

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (16.4 here).

Worcester Polytechnic Institute 16.4 avg GE OIL & GAS UK Ltd 16.4 avg Pioneer Surgical Technology, Inc. 16.4 avg Solventum Intellectual Properties Company 16.4 avg

Basf's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

49 Top 15% higher than 85% 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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Basf Plant Science Company GmbH patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	19	14.7%
2016	20	15.5%
2017	13	10.1%
2018	15	11.6%
2019	18	14.0%
2020	14	10.9%
2021	8	6.2%
2022	6	4.7%
2023	8	6.2%
2024	5	3.9%
2025partial year	3	2.3%

Which technologies does Basf Plant Science Company GmbH patent most?

C12N - Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media 119

C07K - Peptides 41

C12Y - Enzymes 39

C12P - Fermentation OR Enzyme-using Processes TO Synthesise A Desired Chemical Compound OR Composition OR TO Separate Optical Isomers From A Racemic Mixture 29

Y02A - Technologies FOR Adaptation TO Climate Change 25

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 18

A23D - Edible Oils OR Fats, e.g. Margarines, Shortenings OR Cooking Oils 13

A23L - Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Preparation OR Treatment Thereof 11

A01H - NEW Plants OR ; NON-TRANSGENIC; Processes FOR Obtaining THEM; Plant Reproduction BY Tissue Culture Techniques 10

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 10

A23V - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages AND Lactic OR Propionic Acid Bacteria Used IN Foodstuffs OR Food Preparation 10

A23K - Fodder 8

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 8

A61Q - Specific USE OF Cosmetics OR Similar Toiletry Preparations 6

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 6

Top 15 of 30 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 Plant Science Company GmbH's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Basf Plant Science Company GmbH's lead technology class is C12N (Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media), 92.2% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C12N
Ranked #2,943 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Basf Plant Science Company GmbH against Wangs Alliance Corporation, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 49.2/100 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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