Where does Caribou Biosciences, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Caribou Biosciences, Inc. ranks #6,009 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 Caribou Biosciences, Inc. hold?

Caribou Biosciences, Inc. holds 56 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2025, spanning 8 technology areas.

What is Caribou Biosciences, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Caribou Biosciences, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 38.0 out of 100 (top 42% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Caribou Biosciences, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Caribou Biosciences, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -31% 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 Caribou Biosciences, Inc.'s patents?

Caribou Biosciences, Inc.'s patents average 17.3 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 Caribou Biosciences, 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

Caribou Biosciences, Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Caribou Biosciences, Inc. focus on?

Caribou Biosciences, Inc.'s top technology area is C12N (Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media) with 54 patents, ranking #186 of 4,144 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 8 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 56 granted patents across 8 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2025. 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).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Caribou ranks #6,009 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 56 patents across 8 technology areas.

#6,009
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 42%
by Innovation Score (38.0/100): 17.3
avg claims per patent: -31%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R6009 · US Corporation #6,009 · 56 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 56 grants
UPPER-Q #6,009/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH BRP US
CPC-NARROW C12N · 8 areas
INNOV-THIN 38.0/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.3 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DOWN -31% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: BRP US 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.

How Caribou’s 38.0 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 14.0 pts (37%) Velocity 3.7 pts (10%) Breadth 10.0 pts (26%) Claim depth 10.4 pts (27%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Akebia Therapeutics · near

38
Caribou Biosciences · this assignee

38
Fractilia · near

38
Opel Solar · near

38
CKnapp Sales · near

38
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Caribou's Innovation Score is 38.0/100 (top 42% 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 Caribou?

Each dot is one of Caribou’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). Caribou’s own 17.3 claims/patent is at or below the 18.6 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Caribou's grants concentrate

Caribou Biosciences, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 8 CPC subclasses with 96.4% of grants classified under C12N (Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media). Peak complete grant year is 2018 (14 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2023. By volume, Caribou sits between BRP US Inc. and Dongguan Powerme Plastic MFG. Co., Ltd..

Caribou's three-year grant acceleration

Caribou Biosciences, Inc. shows 10 grants in 2022–2024 against only 18 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.

BRP US

56
Clover Network

56
CSL Behring

56
Cyberlink

56
Certusview

56
Check Point Softw…

56
DK Crown Holdings

56
Dongguan Powerme…

56
Caribou Bioscienc… ◀

56

What this shows Caribou holds 56 patents at rank #6,012, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Caribou

By rank, the assignees closest to #6,012 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C12N (Microorganisms OR Enzymes)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Caribou, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In C12N (Microorganisms OR Enzymes), Caribou ranks #186 of 4,144 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (38 here).

Opel Solar, Inc. 38 Akebia Therapeutics, Inc. 38 Fractilia, LLC 38 CKnapp Sales, Inc. 38

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (17.3 here).

Staton Techiya LLC 17.3 avg Smith & Nephew PLC 17.3 avg Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc. 17.3 avg Advanced Semiconductor Engineering, Inc. 17.3 avg

Caribou's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

38 Top 42% higher than 58% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2016–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Caribou Biosciences, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	2	3.6%
2017	10	17.9%
2018	14	25.0%
2019	6	10.7%
2020	4	7.1%
2021	8	14.3%
2022	7	12.5%
2023	1	1.8%
2024	2	3.6%
2025partial year	2	3.6%

Which technologies does Caribou Biosciences, Inc. patent most?

C12N - Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media 54

C07K - Peptides 20

A61P - Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations 19

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 19

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 12

C12Y - Enzymes 9

Y02A - Technologies FOR Adaptation TO Climate Change 7

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

Top 8 of 8 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

Caribou Biosciences, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Caribou Biosciences, Inc.'s lead technology class is C12N (Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media), 96.4% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C12N
Ranked #6,009 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Caribou Biosciences, Inc. against BRP US Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 38.0/100 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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