Where does Cambridge Glycoscience Ltd rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Cambridge Glycoscience Ltd ranks #28,327 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 Cambridge Glycoscience Ltd hold?

Cambridge Glycoscience Ltd holds 9 US utility patents granted between 2021 and 2025, spanning 10 technology areas.

What is Cambridge Glycoscience Ltd's Innovation Score?

Cambridge Glycoscience Ltd has an Innovation Score of 52.1 out of 100 (top 10% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Cambridge Glycoscience Ltd's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Insufficient historical data is available to calculate a velocity trend for Cambridge Glycoscience Ltd.

What does claim depth mean for Cambridge Glycoscience Ltd's patents?

Cambridge Glycoscience Ltd's patents average 21.7 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.

How is the Cambridge Glycoscience Ltd 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 Foreign Corporation

Cambridge Glycoscience Ltd

Q: What technology areas does Cambridge Glycoscience Ltd focus on?

Cambridge Glycoscience Ltd's top technology area is A23L (Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Preparation OR Treatment Thereof) with 8 patents. Grants appear in 10 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 9 granted patents across 10 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2021–2025. 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: A23L (Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Preparation OR Treatment Thereof).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Cambridge ranks #28,327 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 9 patents across 10 technology areas.

#28,327
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 10%
by Innovation Score (52.1/100): 21.7
avg claims per patent

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R28327 · Foreign Corporation #28,327 · 9 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-FRNCORP · SPAN-YRS · BOOK-RICH

GRANTS-MICRO 9 grants
MID-PACK #28,327/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH C2Sense
CPC-FOCUS A23L · 10 areas
INNOV-PAR 52.1/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 21.7 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
SPAN-YRS 2021–2025 · 5y
BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: C2Sense, Inc. (±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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
BenQ Materials · near

52
Cambridge Glycoscience · this assignee

52
Makinarocks · near

52
Rapiscan Systems · near

52
Shin-etsu Handotai · near

52
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Cambridge's Innovation Score is 52.1/100 (top 10% 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.

Where Cambridge's grants concentrate

Cambridge Glycoscience Ltd is a focused PatentsView assignee: 10 CPC subclasses with 88.9% of grants classified under A23L (Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Preparation OR Treatment Thereof). Peak complete grant year is 2022 (2 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2021. By volume, Cambridge sits between C.M.C. S.p.A. and Capartis AG.

Cambridge's three-year grant acceleration

Cambridge Glycoscience Ltd shows 6 grants in 2022–2024 against only 1 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.

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What this shows Cambridge holds 9 patents at rank #28,321, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Cambridge

By rank, the assignees closest to #28,321 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A23L (Foods)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Cambridge, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above).

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (52 here).

Makinarocks Co., Ltd. 52 BenQ Materials Corporation 52 Rapiscan Systems, Inc. 52 Shin-etsu Handotai Co., Ltd. 52

Cambridge's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

52 Top 10% higher than 90% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2021–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2021–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Cambridge Glycoscience Ltd patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2021	1	11.1%
2022	2	22.2%
2023	2	22.2%
2024	2	22.2%
2025partial year	2	22.2%

Which technologies does Cambridge Glycoscience Ltd patent most?

A23L - Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Preparation OR Treatment Thereof 8

C12P - Fermentation OR Enzyme-using Processes TO Synthesise A Desired Chemical Compound OR Composition OR TO Separate Optical Isomers From A Racemic Mixture 7

A23V - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages AND Lactic OR Propionic Acid Bacteria Used IN Foodstuffs OR Food Preparation 7

C08B - POLYSACCHARIDES; Derivatives Thereof 6

C08H - Derivatives OF Natural Macromolecular Compounds 6

C08L - Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds 6

A21D - Treatment OF Flour OR Dough FOR Baking, e.g. BY Addition OF MATERIALS; BAKING; Bakery Products 2

A23G - COCOA; Cocoa Products, e.g. CHOCOLATE; Substitutes FOR Cocoa OR Cocoa PRODUCTS; CONFECTIONERY; Chewing GUM; ICE-CREAM; Preparation Thereof 1

C12Y - Enzymes 1

C07H - SUGARS; Derivatives THEREOF; NUCLEOSIDES; NUCLEOTIDES; Nucleic Acids 1

Top 10 of 10 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#28,327

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

52.1 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

Cambridge Glycoscience Ltd's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Cambridge Glycoscience Ltd's lead technology class is A23L (Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Preparation OR Treatment Thereof), 88.9% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A23L
Ranked #28,327 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Cambridge Glycoscience Ltd against C.M.C. S.p.A., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 52.1/100 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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