Where does Boyce Thompson Institute FOR Plant Research, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Boyce Thompson Institute FOR Plant Research, Inc. ranks #13,333 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 Boyce Thompson Institute FOR Plant Research, Inc. hold?

Boyce Thompson Institute FOR Plant Research, Inc. holds 22 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 13 technology areas.

What is Boyce Thompson Institute FOR Plant Research, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Boyce Thompson Institute FOR Plant Research, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 42.7 out of 100 (top 30% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Boyce Thompson Institute FOR Plant Research, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Boyce Thompson Institute FOR Plant Research, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -18% 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 Boyce Thompson Institute FOR Plant Research, Inc.'s patents?

Boyce Thompson Institute FOR Plant Research, Inc.'s patents average 18.6 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

Boyce Thompson Institute FOR Plant Research, Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Boyce Thompson Institute FOR Plant Research, Inc. focus on?

Boyce Thompson Institute FOR Plant Research, Inc.'s top technology area is A01N (Preservation OF Bodies OF Humans OR Animals OR Plants OR Parts Thereof ; Biocides, e.g. AS Disinfectants, AS Pesticides OR AS Herbicides ; Pest Repellants OR ATTRACTANTS; Plant Growth Regulators) with 13 patents, ranking #93 of 1,216 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 13 CPC subclasses total.

Q: How is the Boyce Thompson Institute FOR Plant Research, 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 PatentsView assignee record - 22 granted patents across 13 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: A01N (Preservation OF Bodies OF Humans OR Animals OR Plants OR Parts Thereof ; Biocides, e.g. AS Disinfectants, AS Pesticides OR AS Herbicides ; Pest Repellants OR ATTRACTANTS; Plant Growth Regulators).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Boyce ranks #13,333 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 22 patents across 13 technology areas.

#13,333
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 30%
by Innovation Score (42.7/100): 18.6
avg claims per patent: -18%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R13333 · US Corporation #13,333 · 22 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 22 grants
MID-PACK #13,333/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH BabyBjörn AB
CPC-FOCUS A01N · 13 areas
INNOV-PAR 42.7/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.6 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DOWN -18% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: BabyBjörn AB (±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 Boyce’s 42.7 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 10.8 pts (25%) Velocity 8.0 pts (19%) Breadth 12.7 pts (30%) Claim depth 11.1 pts (26%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Boyce Thompson… · this assignee

43
Hello · near

43
Sulzer Chemtech · near

43
T2 Biosystems · near

43
Tighitco · near

43
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Boyce's Innovation Score is 42.7/100 (top 30% 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 Boyce?

Each dot is one of Boyce’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). Boyce’s own 18.6 claims/patent is ABOVE the 16.8 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Boyce's grants concentrate

Boyce Thompson Institute FOR Plant Research, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 13 CPC subclasses with 59.1% of grants classified under A01N (Preservation OF Bodies OF Humans OR Animals OR Plants OR Parts Thereof ; Biocides, e.g. AS Disinfectants, AS Pesticides OR AS Herbicides ; Pest Repellants OR ATTRACTANTS; Plant Growth Regulators). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (3 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2017. By volume, Boyce sits between Biodlogics, LLC and Basilea Pharmaceutica AG.

Boyce's three-year grant acceleration

Boyce Thompson Institute FOR Plant Research, Inc. shows 6 grants in 2022–2024 against only 5 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.

Biodlogics

22
Blancco Technolog…

22
Bloodworks

22
Bodor Laboratories

22
BPW Bergische Ach…

22
Broadcom Europe

22
Babybjörn AB

22
Basilea Pharmaceu…

22
Boyce Thompson In… ◀

22

What this shows Boyce holds 22 patents at rank #13,323, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Boyce

By rank, the assignees closest to #13,323 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A01N (Preservation OF Bodies OF Humans OR Animals OR Plants OR…)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Boyce, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A01N (Preservation OF Bodies OF Humans OR Animals OR Plants OR…), Boyce ranks #93 of 1,216 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (43 here).

T2 Biosystems, Inc. 43 Sulzer Chemtech AG 43 Hello Inc. 43 Tighitco, Inc. 43

Boyce's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

43 Top 30% higher than 70% 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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Boyce Thompson Institute FOR Plant Research, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	3	13.6%
2016	2	9.1%
2017	1	4.5%
2018	3	13.6%
2019	2	9.1%
2020	1	4.5%
2021	2	9.1%
2022	1	4.5%
2023	2	9.1%
2024	3	13.6%
2025partial year	2	9.1%

Which technologies does Boyce Thompson Institute FOR Plant Research, Inc. patent most?

A01N - Preservation OF Bodies OF Humans OR Animals OR Plants OR Parts Thereof ; Biocides, e.g. AS Disinfectants, AS Pesticides OR AS Herbicides ; Pest Repellants OR ATTRACTANTS; Plant Growth Regulators 13

C12N - Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media 11

A61P - Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations 10

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 10

C07H - SUGARS; Derivatives THEREOF; NUCLEOSIDES; NUCLEOTIDES; Nucleic Acids 9

C07D - Heterocyclic Compounds 7

A01H - NEW Plants OR ; NON-TRANSGENIC; Processes FOR Obtaining THEM; Plant Reproduction BY Tissue Culture Techniques 5

C07K - Peptides 5

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 3

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 2

Y02A - Technologies FOR Adaptation TO Climate Change 2

A01P - Biocidal, Pest Repellant, Pest Attractant OR Plant Growth Regulatory Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Preparations 1

C12Y - Enzymes 1

Top 13 of 13 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

Boyce Thompson Institute FOR Plant Research, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Boyce Thompson Institute FOR Plant Research, Inc.'s lead technology class is A01N (Preservation OF Bodies OF Humans OR Animals OR Plants OR Parts Thereof ; Biocides, e.g. AS Disinfectants, AS Pesticides OR AS Herbicides ; Pest Repellants OR ATTRACTANTS; Plant Growth Regulators), 59.1% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A01N
Ranked #13,333 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Boyce Thompson Institute FOR Plant Research, Inc. against Biodlogics, LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 42.7/100 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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