Where does Ceres, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Ceres, Inc. ranks #3,005 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 Ceres, Inc. hold?

Ceres, Inc. holds 126 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 16 technology areas.

What is Ceres, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Ceres, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 45.4 out of 100 (top 23% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

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

Ceres, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +103% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Ceres, Inc.'s patents?

Ceres, Inc.'s patents average 11.6 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.

How is the Ceres, 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

Ceres, Inc.

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

Ceres, Inc.'s top technology area is C12N (Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media) with 124 patents, ranking #69 of 4,144 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 16 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 126 granted patents across 16 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).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Ceres ranks #3,005 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 126 patents across 16 technology areas.

#3,005
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 23%
by Innovation Score (45.4/100): 11.6
avg claims per patent: +103%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R3005 · US Corporation #3,005 · 126 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-PAR · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 126 grants
TOP-DECILE #3,005/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Abb Vie Deutschland…
CPC-FOCUS C12N · 16 areas
INNOV-PAR 45.4/100
CLAIMS-PAR 11.6 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +103% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Abb Vie Deutschland Gmbh & Co. KG (±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 Ceres’s 45.4 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 16.7 pts (37%) Velocity 7.6 pts (17%) Breadth 14.1 pts (31%) Claim depth 6.9 pts (15%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Broan-NuTone · near

45
Ceres · this assignee

45
Good Tree Internatio… · near

45
PureCircle Sdn Bhd · near

45
Restful Pump · near

45
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Ceres's Innovation Score is 45.4/100 (top 23% 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 Ceres?

Each dot is one of Ceres’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). Ceres’s own 11.6 claims/patent is at or below the 17.3 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Ceres's grants concentrate

Ceres, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 16 CPC subclasses with 98.4% 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 2023 (24 grants) versus a trough of 3 in 2016. By volume, Ceres sits between Whitehead Institute For Biomedical Research and Deutsche Post AG.

Ceres's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Ceres, Inc. moved from 42 to 48 grants (1.14x 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 #883. See the growth leaderboard.

Whitehead Institu…

127
Wyeth

127
Abb Vie Deutschla…

126
Chatsworth Produc…

126
Cobra Golf Incorp…

126
Dexin

126
Dena

126
Deutsche Post

126
Ceres ◀

126

What this shows Ceres holds 126 patents at rank #3,006, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Ceres

By rank, the assignees closest to #3,006 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C12N (Microorganisms OR Enzymes)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Ceres, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In C12N (Microorganisms OR Enzymes), Ceres ranks #69 of 4,144 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (45 here).

Broan-NuTone LLC 45 PureCircle Sdn Bhd 45 Good Tree International, Inc. 45 Restful Pump, Inc. 45

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (11.6 here).

Fondazione Istituto Italiano DI Tecnologia 11.6 avg Medacta International SA 11.6 avg Mie Fujitsu Semiconductor Limited 11.6 avg Alaxala Networks Corporation 11.6 avg

Ceres's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

45 Top 23% higher than 77% 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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Ceres, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	7	5.6%
2016	3	2.4%
2017	9	7.1%
2018	9	7.1%
2019	11	8.7%
2020	14	11.1%
2021	17	13.5%
2022	12	9.5%
2023	24	19.0%
2024	12	9.5%
2025partial year	8	6.3%

Which technologies does Ceres, Inc. patent most?

C12N - Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media 124

C07K - Peptides 108

Y02A - Technologies FOR Adaptation TO Climate Change 89

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 32

A23L - Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Preparation OR Treatment Thereof 24

A23K - Fodder 19

A23V - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages AND Lactic OR Propionic Acid Bacteria Used IN Foodstuffs OR Food Preparation 19

C12Y - Enzymes 17

A01H - NEW Plants OR ; NON-TRANSGENIC; Processes FOR Obtaining THEM; Plant Reproduction BY Tissue Culture Techniques 14

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 11

C40B - Combinatorial CHEMISTRY; Libraries, e.g. Chemical Libraries 5

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 3

G16B - Bioinformatics, i.e. Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Genetic OR Protein-related Data Processing IN Computational Molecular Biology 1

G16C - Computational CHEMISTRY; CHEMOINFORMATICS; Computational Materials Science 1

F26B - Drying Solid Materials OR Objects BY Removing Liquid Therefrom 1

Top 15 of 16 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

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

Ceres, Inc.'s lead technology class is C12N (Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media), 98.4% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C12N
Ranked #3,005 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Ceres, Inc. against Whitehead Institute For Biomedical Research, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 45.4/100 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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