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

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Benson Hill Seeds, Inc. ranks #6,875 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 Seeds, Inc. hold?

Benson Hill Seeds, Inc. holds 48 US utility patents granted between 2020 and 2025, spanning 1 technology areas.

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

Benson Hill Seeds, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 33.9 out of 100 (46th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

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

Insufficient historical data is available to calculate a velocity trend for Benson Hill Seeds, Inc..

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

Benson Hill Seeds, Inc.'s patents average 23.8 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 Seeds, 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 Seeds, Inc.

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

Benson Hill Seeds, Inc.'s top technology area is A01H (NEW Plants OR ; NON-TRANSGENIC; Processes FOR Obtaining THEM; Plant Reproduction BY Tissue Culture Techniques) with 48 patents, ranking #22 of 285 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 1 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 48 granted patents across 1 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2020–2025. 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, Benson ranks #6,875 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 48 patents across 1 technology areas.

#6,875
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 46th percentile
by Innovation Score (33.9/100): 23.8
avg claims per patent

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R6875 · US Corporation #6,875 · 48 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-USCORP · SPAN-YRS · BOOK-RICH

GRANTS-SMALL 48 grants
UPPER-Q #6,875/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Beijing Jiaotong…
CPC-NARROW A01H · 1 areas
INNOV-THIN 33.9/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 23.8 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
SPAN-YRS 2020–2025 · 6y
BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Beijing Jiaotong University (±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 33.9 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 13.4 pts (40%) Velocity 2.6 pts (8%) Breadth 3.5 pts (10%) Claim depth 14.3 pts (42%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Alphabet Energy · near

34
Benson Hill Seeds · this assignee

34
Corvia Medical · near

34
Phytogen Seed · near

34
Shenzhen Ivps… · near

34
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Benson's Innovation Score is 33.9/100 (46th 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 23.8 claims/patent is ABOVE the 14.1 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 Seeds, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 1 CPC subclasses with 100% 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 (32 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2020. By volume, Benson sits between Bioneer Corporation and Custom Accessories Inc..

Benson's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Benson Hill Seeds, Inc. moved from 33 to 13 grants (0.39x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Bioneer

48
Blade Dynamics

48
Buck Institute FO…

48
Beijing Jiaotong…

48
Brumate

48
Cadillac Jack

48
Cognizant Technol…

48
Custom Accessories

48
Benson Hill Seeds ◀

48

What this shows Benson holds 48 patents at rank #6,878, 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 #6,878 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A01H (NEW Plants OR)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Benson, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A01H (NEW Plants OR), Benson ranks #22 of 285 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (34 here).

Shenzhen Ivps Technology Co. Ltd. 34 Phytogen Seed Company, LLC 34 Corvia Medical, Inc. 34 Alphabet Energy, Inc. 34

Benson's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

34 46th percentile higher than 46% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2020–2025

Grants by year

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

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Benson Hill Seeds, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2020	1	2.1%
2021	32	66.7%
2022	4	8.3%
2023	7	14.6%
2024	2	4.2%
2025partial year	2	4.2%

Which technologies does Benson Hill Seeds, Inc. patent most?

A01H - NEW Plants OR ; NON-TRANSGENIC; Processes FOR Obtaining THEM; Plant Reproduction BY Tissue Culture Techniques 48

Top 1 of 1 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 Seeds, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Benson Hill Seeds, Inc.'s lead technology class is A01H (NEW Plants OR ; NON-TRANSGENIC; Processes FOR Obtaining THEM; Plant Reproduction BY Tissue Culture Techniques), 100% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A01H
Ranked #6,875 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Benson Hill Seeds, Inc. against Bioneer Corporation, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 33.9/100 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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