Where does Bavarian Nordic A/S rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Bavarian Nordic A/S ranks #6,739 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 Bavarian Nordic A/S hold?

Bavarian Nordic A/S holds 49 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 7 technology areas.

What is Bavarian Nordic A/S's Innovation Score?

Bavarian Nordic A/S has an Innovation Score of 36.6 out of 100 (top 46% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Bavarian Nordic A/S's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Bavarian Nordic A/S's recent grant velocity is +18% 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 Bavarian Nordic A/S's patents?

Bavarian Nordic A/S's patents average 15.7 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 Bavarian Nordic A/S 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

Bavarian Nordic A/S

Q: What technology areas does Bavarian Nordic A/S focus on?

Bavarian Nordic A/S's top technology area is C12N (Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media) with 48 patents, ranking #205 of 4,144 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 7 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 49 granted patents across 7 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, Bavarian ranks #6,739 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 49 patents across 7 technology areas.

#6,739
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 46%
by Innovation Score (36.6/100): 15.7
avg claims per patent: +18%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R6739 · Foreign Corporation #6,739 · 49 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-UP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 49 grants
UPPER-Q #6,739/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Bath & Body Works…
CPC-NARROW C12N · 7 areas
INNOV-THIN 36.6/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.7 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-UP +18% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Bath & Body Works Brand Management, 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 Bavarian’s 36.6 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 13.5 pts (37%) Velocity 4.3 pts (12%) Breadth 9.4 pts (26%) Claim depth 9.4 pts (26%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Keurig Green Mountain · near

37
Sealy Technology · near

37
Bavarian Nordic A/S · this assignee

37
Teledyne e2v… · near

37
Union Carbide… · near

37
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Bavarian's Innovation Score is 36.6/100 (top 46% 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 Bavarian?

Each dot is one of Bavarian’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). Bavarian’s own 15.7 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.

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

Where Bavarian's grants concentrate

Bavarian Nordic A/S is a focused PatentsView assignee: 7 CPC subclasses with 98% 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 2021 (10 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2019. By volume, Bavarian sits between Bobrick Washroom Equipment, Inc. and Bromium, Inc..

Bavarian's three-year grant acceleration

Bavarian Nordic A/S shows 11 grants in 2022–2024 against only 17 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.

Bobrick Washroom…

49
Bosch

49
Brose Fahrzeugtei…

49
Bath & Body Works…

49
Baxter Englewood

49
Baylis Medical

49
Bioventrix

49
Bromium

49
Bavarian Nordic A… ◀

49

What this shows Bavarian holds 49 patents at rank #6,743, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Bavarian

By rank, the assignees closest to #6,743 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C12N (Microorganisms OR Enzymes)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Bavarian, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In C12N (Microorganisms OR Enzymes), Bavarian ranks #205 of 4,144 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (37 here).

Union Carbide Chemicals & Plastics Technology LLC 37 Teledyne e2v Semiconductors SAS 37 Sealy Technology LLC 37 Keurig Green Mountain, Inc. 37

Bavarian's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

37 Top 46% higher than 54% 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.

View data table

Bavarian Nordic A/S patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	8	16.3%
2016	3	6.1%
2017	5	10.2%
2018	4	8.2%
2019	2	4.1%
2020	5	10.2%
2021	10	20.4%
2022	4	8.2%
2023	5	10.2%
2024	2	4.1%
2025partial year	1	2.0%

Which technologies does Bavarian Nordic A/S patent most?

C12N - Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media 48

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 43

A61P - Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations 38

C07K - Peptides 21

Y02A - Technologies FOR Adaptation TO Climate Change 17

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 6

C12M - Apparatus FOR Enzymology OR MICROBIOLOGY; Apparatus FOR Culturing Microorganisms FOR Producing Biomass, FOR Growing Cells OR FOR Obtaining Fermentation OR Metabolic Products, i.e. Bioreactors OR Fermenters 1

Top 7 of 7 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

Bavarian Nordic A/S's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Bavarian Nordic A/S's lead technology class is C12N (Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media), 98% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C12N
Ranked #6,739 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Bavarian Nordic A/S against Bobrick Washroom Equipment, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 36.6/100 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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