Where does Cibus Europe B.v. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Cibus Europe B.v. ranks #20,927 of 50,000 assignees by granted-patent volume, the same sort as the companies listing and top-holders ranking. See /methodology/#corpus-placement.

How many patents does Cibus Europe B.v. hold?

Cibus Europe B.v. holds 13 US utility patents granted between 2017 and 2025, spanning 3 technology areas.

What is Cibus Europe B.v.'s Innovation Score?

Cibus Europe B.v. has an Innovation Score of 30.6 out of 100 (top 65% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Cibus Europe B.v.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Cibus Europe B.v.'s recent grant velocity is +200% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Cibus Europe B.v.'s patents?

Cibus Europe B.v.'s patents average 14.5 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 Cibus Europe B.v. 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

Cibus Europe B.v.

Q: What technology areas does Cibus Europe B.v. focus on?

Cibus Europe B.v.'s top technology area is C12N (MICROORGANISMS OR ENZYMES; COMPOSITIONS THEREOF; PROPAGATING, PRESERVING, OR MAINTAINING MICROORGANISMS; MUTATION OR GENETIC ENGINEERING; CULTURE MEDIA) with 13 patents. Grants appear in 3 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 13 granted patents across 3 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2017–2025. 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, Cibus ranks #20,927 of 50,000 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 13 patents across 3 technology areas.

#20,927
of 50,000 US assignees by volume: Top 65%
by Innovation Score (30.6/100): 14.5
avg claims per patent: +200%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R20927 · Foreign Corporation #20,927 · 13 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 13 grants
MID-PACK #20,927/50,000
PHOTO-FINISH CHORDATE MEDICAL AB
CPC-NARROW C12N · 3 areas
INNOV-THIN 30.6/100
CLAIMS-RICH 14.5 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +200% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Chordate Medical AB (±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
Cibus Europe B v · this assignee

31
3D Lighting Innovati… · lowest

7

What this shows Cibus's Innovation Score is 30.6/100 (top 65% 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 Cibus's grants concentrate

Cibus Europe B.v. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 3 CPC subclasses with 100% 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 2022 (3 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2017. By volume, Cibus sits between Chordate Medical AB and Clarcor Inc..

Chordate Medical…

13
Chubu University…

13
Chugai RO

13
CI Systems (Israe…

13
Cirocomm Technolo…

13
Civco Medical Ins…

13
CLAM

13
Clarcor

13
Cibus Europe B V ◀

13

What this shows Cibus holds 13 patents at rank #20,906, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Cibus

By rank, the assignees closest to #20,906 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C12N (Microorganisms OR Enzymes)

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

Cibus's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

31 Top 65% higher than 35% of 50,000 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2017–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2017–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Cibus Europe B.v. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2017	1	7.7%
2018	1	7.7%
2019	1	7.7%
2020	2	15.4%
2021	2	15.4%
2022	3	23.1%
2023	2	15.4%
2025partial year	1	7.7%

Which technologies does Cibus Europe B.v. patent most?

C12N - MICROORGANISMS OR ENZYMES; COMPOSITIONS THEREOF; PROPAGATING, PRESERVING, OR MAINTAINING MICROORGANISMS; MUTATION OR GENETIC ENGINEERING; CULTURE MEDIA 13

C07K - PEPTIDES 1

C12Y - ENZYMES 1

Top 3 of 3 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#20,927

of 50,000 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

30.6 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

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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