Where does Butamax Advanced Biofuels LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Butamax Advanced Biofuels LLC ranks #3,834 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 Butamax Advanced Biofuels LLC hold?

Butamax Advanced Biofuels LLC holds 94 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2020, spanning 28 technology areas.

What is Butamax Advanced Biofuels LLC's Innovation Score?

Butamax Advanced Biofuels LLC has an Innovation Score of 43.5 out of 100 (top 28% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Butamax Advanced Biofuels LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Butamax Advanced Biofuels LLC's recent grant velocity is -99% 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 Butamax Advanced Biofuels LLC's patents?

Butamax Advanced Biofuels LLC's patents average 15.0 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 Butamax Advanced Biofuels LLC 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

Butamax Advanced Biofuels LLC

Q: What technology areas does Butamax Advanced Biofuels LLC focus on?

Butamax Advanced Biofuels LLC's top technology area is C12P (Fermentation OR Enzyme-using Processes TO Synthesise A Desired Chemical Compound OR Composition OR TO Separate Optical Isomers From A Racemic Mixture) with 77 patents, ranking #14 of 1,268 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 28 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 94 granted patents across 28 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2020. 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: C12P (Fermentation OR Enzyme-using Processes TO Synthesise A Desired Chemical Compound OR Composition OR TO Separate Optical Isomers From A Racemic Mixture).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Butamax ranks #3,834 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 94 patents across 28 technology areas.

#3,834
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 28%
by Innovation Score (43.5/100): 15.0
avg claims per patent: -99%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R3834 · US Corporation #3,834 · 94 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 94 grants
TOP-DECILE #3,834/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Adesto
CPC-FOCUS C12P · 28 areas
INNOV-PAR 43.5/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.0 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -99% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Adesto Technologies Corporation (±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 Butamax’s 43.5 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 15.7 pts (36%) Velocity 0.0 pts (0%) Breadth 18.7 pts (43%) Claim depth 9.0 pts (21%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Bitdefender IPR… · near

43
Brio Water Technology · near

43
Butamax Advanced… · this assignee

43
Juki · near

43
W Schonbek · near

43
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Butamax's Innovation Score is 43.5/100 (top 28% 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 Butamax?

Each dot is one of Butamax’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). Butamax’s own 15.0 claims/patent is at or below the 16.6 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Butamax's grants concentrate

Butamax Advanced Biofuels LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 28 CPC subclasses with 81.9% of grants classified under C12P (Fermentation OR Enzyme-using Processes TO Synthesise A Desired Chemical Compound OR Composition OR TO Separate Optical Isomers From A Racemic Mixture). Peak complete grant year is 2016 (30 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2020. By volume, Butamax sits between u-blox AG and East China University of Science and Technology.

u-blox

95
Arbor Networks

94
Adesto

94
Bertec

94
Cygames

94
Dematic

94
Dicerna Pharmaceu…

94
East China Univer…

94
Butamax Advanced… ◀

94

What this shows Butamax holds 94 patents at rank #3,834, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Butamax

By rank, the assignees closest to #3,834 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C12P (Fermentation OR Enzyme-using Processes TO Synthesise A De…)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Butamax, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In C12P (Fermentation OR Enzyme-using Processes TO Synthesise A De…), Butamax ranks #14 of 1,268 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (43 here).

Bitdefender IPR Management Ltd. 43 Brio Water Technology, Inc. 43 Juki Corporation 43 W Schonbek LLC 43

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (15.0 here).

LG CNS Co., Ltd. 15.0 avg Indian Institute OF Science 15.0 avg Dignity Health 15.0 avg Signode Industrial Group LLC 15.0 avg

Butamax's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

43 Top 28% higher than 72% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2020

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2015–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Butamax Advanced Biofuels LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	27	28.7%
2016	30	31.9%
2017	17	18.1%
2018	10	10.6%
2019	9	9.6%
2020	1	1.1%

Which technologies does Butamax Advanced Biofuels LLC patent most?

C12P - Fermentation OR Enzyme-using Processes TO Synthesise A Desired Chemical Compound OR Composition OR TO Separate Optical Isomers From A Racemic Mixture 77

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 77

C12N - Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media 64

C12Y - Enzymes 46

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 41

C10L - Fuels NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Natural GAS; Synthetic Natural GAS Obtained BY Processes NOT Covered BY Subclasses C10g OR C10K; Liquified Petroleum GAS; USE OF Additives TO Fuels OR FIRES; Fire-lighters 16

C07C - Acyclic OR Carbocyclic Compounds 14

C10G - Cracking Hydrocarbon OILS; Production OF Liquid Hydrocarbon Mixtures, e.g. BY Destructive Hydrogenation, Oligomerisation, Polymerisation ; Recovery OF Hydrocarbon Oils From Oil-shale, Oil-sand, OR GASES; Refining Mixtures Mainly Consisting OF HYDROCARBONS; Reforming OF NAPHTHA; Mineral Waxes 10

B01D - Separation 10

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 9

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 9

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 7

C07K - Peptides 7

C11B - Producing, e.g. BY Pressing RAW Materials OR BY Extraction From Waste Materials, Refining OR Preserving Fats, Fatty Substances, e.g. Lanolin, Fatty Oils OR WAXES; Essential OILS; Perfumes 5

A23K - Fodder 5

Top 15 of 28 technology areas

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Data Source

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What to do with this data

Butamax Advanced Biofuels LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Butamax Advanced Biofuels LLC's lead technology class is C12P (Fermentation OR Enzyme-using Processes TO Synthesise A Desired Chemical Compound OR Composition OR TO Separate Optical Isomers From A Racemic Mixture), 81.9% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C12P
Ranked #3,834 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Butamax Advanced Biofuels LLC against u-blox AG, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 43.5/100 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

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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

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