Where does Board OF Trustees OF Michigan State University rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Board OF Trustees OF Michigan State University ranks #881 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 Board OF Trustees OF Michigan State University hold?

Board OF Trustees OF Michigan State University holds 515 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 221 technology areas.

What is Board OF Trustees OF Michigan State University's Innovation Score?

Board OF Trustees OF Michigan State University has an Innovation Score of 65.5 out of 100 (top 1% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Board OF Trustees OF Michigan State University's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Board OF Trustees OF Michigan State University's recent grant velocity is +13% 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 Board OF Trustees OF Michigan State University's patents?

Board OF Trustees OF Michigan State University's patents average 20.7 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.

USPTO 2015–2025 USPTO PatentsView US Corporation

Board OF Trustees OF Michigan State University

Q: What technology areas does Board OF Trustees OF Michigan State University focus on?

Board OF Trustees OF Michigan State University's top technology area is C12N (Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media) with 86 patents, ranking #109 of 4,144 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 221 CPC subclasses total.

Q: How is the Board OF Trustees OF Michigan State University 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 PatentsView assignee record - 515 granted patents across 221 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).

Compiled by PlainPatent · May 15, 2026

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Board ranks #881 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 515 patents across 221 technology areas.

#881
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 1%
by Innovation Score (65.5/100): 20.7
avg claims per patent: +13%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R881 · US Corporation #881 · 515 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-BROAD · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-UP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 515 grants
TOP-DECILE #881/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Cfph
CPC-BROAD C12N · 221 areas
INNOV-STRONG 65.5/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 20.7 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-UP +13% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Cfph, LLC (±1 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 Board’s 65.5 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 21.6 pts (33%) Velocity 6.5 pts (10%) Breadth 25.0 pts (38%) Claim depth 12.4 pts (19%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Pure Storage · near

66
AT&T Mobility II · near

66
Board OF Trustees… · this assignee

66
Darwin Precisions · near

66
Cypress Semiconductor · near

66
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Board's Innovation Score is 65.5/100 (top 1% 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 Board?

Each dot is one of Board’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). Board’s own 20.7 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.

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

How Board's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Board OF Trustees OF Michigan State University received 249 grants versus 221 in 2015–2019 (+13% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2019 at 62 grants and bottomed in 2018 at 36. Lead class C12N accounts for 16.7% of the portfolio across 221 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Xi'an Zhongxing NEW Software Co., Ltd. (#877) and Emory University (#885).

Board's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Board OF Trustees OF Michigan State University moved from 157 to 154 grants (0.98x 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 #1,230. See the growth leaderboard.

Xi'an Zhongxing N…

517
Dish Network L L C

516
Graphic Packaging…

516
Oticon A/S

516
Board OF Trustees… ◀

515
Cfph

514
Bayer Intellectua…

513
Dish L L C

512
Emory University

512

What this shows Board holds 515 patents at rank #881, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Board

By rank, the assignees closest to #881 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C12N (Microorganisms OR Enzymes)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Board, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In C12N (Microorganisms OR Enzymes), Board ranks #109 of 4,144 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (66 here).

AT&T Mobility II LLC 66 Darwin Precisions Corporation 66 Cypress Semiconductor Corporation 66 Pure Storage, Inc. 66

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (20.7 here).

Sanofi Pasteur, Inc. 20.7 avg E.R. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. 20.7 avg Avago Technologies General IP (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. 20.7 avg Gambro Lundia AB 20.7 avg

Board's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

66 Top 1% higher than 99% 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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Board OF Trustees OF Michigan State University patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	38	7.4%
2016	44	8.5%
2017	41	8.0%
2018	36	7.0%
2019	62	12.0%
2020	54	10.5%
2021	41	8.0%
2022	49	9.5%
2023	46	8.9%
2024	59	11.5%
2025partial year	45	8.7%

Which technologies does Board OF Trustees OF Michigan State University patent most?

C12N - Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media 86

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 68

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 58

C07K - Peptides 44

C12P - Fermentation OR Enzyme-using Processes TO Synthesise A Desired Chemical Compound OR Composition OR TO Separate Optical Isomers From A Racemic Mixture 44

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 39

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 38

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 34

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 33

C12Y - Enzymes 27

A61P - Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations 25

Y02A - Technologies FOR Adaptation TO Climate Change 25

H01J - Electric Discharge Tubes OR Discharge Lamps 20

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 20

C07D - Heterocyclic Compounds 20

Top 15 of 221 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

Board OF Trustees OF Michigan State University's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Board OF Trustees OF Michigan State University's lead technology class is C12N (Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media), 16.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C12N
Ranked #881 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Board OF Trustees OF Michigan State University against Xi'an Zhongxing NEW Software Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 65.5/100 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

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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