Where does Benson Hill, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Benson Hill, Inc. ranks #18,434 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 Benson Hill, Inc. hold?

Benson Hill, Inc. holds 15 US utility patents granted between 2019 and 2024, spanning 4 technology areas.

What is Benson Hill, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Benson Hill, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 30.2 out of 100 (33rd percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Benson Hill, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Benson Hill, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +1300% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Benson Hill, Inc.'s patents?

Benson Hill, Inc.'s patents average 12.8 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 Benson Hill, Inc. 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

Benson Hill, Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Benson Hill, Inc. focus on?

Benson Hill, Inc.'s top technology area is C12N (Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media) with 15 patents, ranking #709 of 4,144 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 4 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 15 granted patents across 4 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2019–2024. 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, Benson ranks #18,434 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 15 patents across 4 technology areas.

#18,434
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 33rd percentile
by Innovation Score (30.2/100): 12.8
avg claims per patent: +1300%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R18434 · US Corporation #18,434 · 15 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 15 grants
MID-PACK #18,434/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Balboa Water Group
CPC-NARROW C12N · 4 areas
INNOV-THIN 30.2/100
CLAIMS-RICH 12.8 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +1300% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Balboa Water Group, LLC (±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 Benson’s 30.2 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 9.6 pts (32%) Velocity 5.8 pts (19%) Breadth 7.1 pts (24%) Claim depth 7.7 pts (25%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Benson Hill · this assignee

30
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Benson's Innovation Score is 30.2/100 (33rd percentile 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 Benson?

Each dot is one of Benson’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). Benson’s own 12.8 claims/patent is ABOVE the 4.1 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Benson's grants concentrate

Benson Hill, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 4 CPC subclasses with 100% 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 (4 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2019. By volume, Benson sits between Balboa Water Group, LLC and BioLite, Inc..

Benson's three-year grant acceleration

Benson Hill, Inc. shows 7 grants in 2022–2024 against only 8 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.

Balboa Water Group

15
Bay City Flower

15
Beijing Universit…

15
Bellicon

15
Best Brands Consu…

15
Binggrae

15
Bioapplications

15
Biolite

15
Benson Hill ◀

15

What this shows Benson holds 15 patents at rank #18,444, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Benson

By rank, the assignees closest to #18,444 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C12N (Microorganisms OR Enzymes)

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

Benson's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

30 33rd percentile higher than 33% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2019–2024

Grants by year

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

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Benson Hill, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2019	1	6.7%
2020	3	20.0%
2021	4	26.7%
2022	4	26.7%
2023	2	13.3%
2024	1	6.7%

Which technologies does Benson Hill, Inc. patent most?

C12N - Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media 15

Y02A - Technologies FOR Adaptation TO Climate Change 12

C07K - Peptides 12

C12Y - Enzymes 5

Top 4 of 4 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

Benson Hill, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Benson Hill, Inc.'s lead technology class is C12N (Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media), 100% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C12N
Ranked #18,434 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Benson Hill, Inc. against Balboa Water Group, LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 30.2/100 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

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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