Where does Chr. Hansen Natural Colors A/S rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Chr. Hansen Natural Colors A/S ranks #34,742 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 Chr. Hansen Natural Colors A/S hold?

Chr. Hansen Natural Colors A/S holds 7 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 12 technology areas.

What is Chr. Hansen Natural Colors A/S's Innovation Score?

Chr. Hansen Natural Colors A/S has an Innovation Score of 30.7 out of 100 (35th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Chr. Hansen Natural Colors A/S's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Chr. Hansen Natural Colors A/S's recent grant velocity is -50% 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 Chr. Hansen Natural Colors A/S's patents?

Chr. Hansen Natural Colors A/S's patents average 15.1 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 Chr. Hansen Natural Colors A/S 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

Chr. Hansen Natural Colors A/S

Q: What technology areas does Chr. Hansen Natural Colors A/S focus on?

Chr. Hansen Natural Colors A/S's top technology area is A23L (Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Preparation OR Treatment Thereof) with 6 patents, ranking #278 of 1,325 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 12 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 7 granted patents across 12 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: 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, Chr. ranks #34,742 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 7 patents across 12 technology areas.

#34,742
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 35th percentile
by Innovation Score (30.7/100): 15.1
avg claims per patent: -50%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R34742 · Foreign Corporation #34,742 · 7 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 7 grants
MID-PACK #34,742/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH ChemPartner
CPC-FOCUS A23L · 12 areas
INNOV-THIN 30.7/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.1 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -50% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: ChemPartner 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 Chr.’s 30.7 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 7.2 pts (23%) Velocity 2.2 pts (7%) Breadth 12.2 pts (40%) Claim depth 9.1 pts (30%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Beijing Sogou… · near

31
Chr Hansen Natural… · this assignee

31
Siegfried · near

31
LED Smart · near

31
Schillinger Genetics · near

31
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Chr.'s Innovation Score is 30.7/100 (35th percentile 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 Chr.?

Each dot is one of Chr.’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). Chr.’s own 15.1 claims/patent is at or below the 17.9 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Chr.'s grants concentrate

Chr. Hansen Natural Colors A/S is a focused PatentsView assignee: 12 CPC subclasses with 85.7% of grants classified under A23L (Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Preparation OR Treatment Thereof). Peak complete grant year is 2019 (2 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2015. By volume, Chr. sits between ChemPartner Corporation and Chyi Liou Enterprise Co., Ltd..

Chr.'s three-year grant acceleration

Chr. Hansen Natural Colors A/S shows 1 grants in 2022–2024 against only 3 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.

Chempartner

7
Chemspeed

7
Chilldyne

7
Chip Solutions

7
Chromation

7
Chuandong Magnetic

7
Chums

7
Chyi Liou Enterpr…

7
Chr Hansen Natura… ◀

7

What this shows Chr. holds 7 patents at rank #34,820, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Chr

By rank, the assignees closest to #34,820 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A23L (Foods)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Chr, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A23L (Foods), Chr ranks #278 of 1,325 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (31 here).

Siegfried AG 31 LED Smart Inc. 31 Schillinger Genetics, Inc. 31 Beijing Sogou Technology Development Co., Ltd. 31

Chr.'s Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

31 35th percentile higher than 35% 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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Chr. Hansen Natural Colors A/S patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1	14.3%
2016	1	14.3%
2019	2	28.6%
2020	1	14.3%
2022	1	14.3%
2025partial year	1	14.3%

Which technologies does Chr. Hansen Natural Colors A/S patent most?

A23L - Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Preparation OR Treatment Thereof 6

C09B - Organic Dyes OR Closely-related Compounds FOR Producing Dyes ; , e.g. PIGMENTS; MORDANTS; Lakes 3

A23G - COCOA; Cocoa Products, e.g. CHOCOLATE; Substitutes FOR Cocoa OR Cocoa PRODUCTS; CONFECTIONERY; Chewing GUM; ICE-CREAM; Preparation Thereof 2

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 2

C12N - Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media 1

C12Y - Enzymes 1

C40B - Combinatorial CHEMISTRY; Libraries, e.g. Chemical Libraries 1

C12P - Fermentation OR Enzyme-using Processes TO Synthesise A Desired Chemical Compound OR Composition OR TO Separate Optical Isomers From A Racemic Mixture 1

A61Q - Specific USE OF Cosmetics OR Similar Toiletry Preparations 1

A23C - Dairy Products, e.g. Milk, Butter OR CHEESE; Milk OR Cheese SUBSTITUTES; Making OR Treatment Thereof 1

A23V - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages AND Lactic OR Propionic Acid Bacteria Used IN Foodstuffs OR Food Preparation 1

A23D - Edible Oils OR Fats, e.g. Margarines, Shortenings OR Cooking Oils 1

Top 12 of 12 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

Chr. Hansen Natural Colors A/S's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Chr. Hansen Natural Colors A/S's lead technology class is A23L (Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Preparation OR Treatment Thereof), 85.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A23L
Ranked #34,742 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Chr. Hansen Natural Colors A/S against ChemPartner Corporation, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 30.7/100 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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