Where does Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory ranks #6,128 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 Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory hold?

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory holds 55 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 21 technology areas.

What is Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory's Innovation Score?

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory has an Innovation Score of 43.6 out of 100 (top 28% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory's recent grant velocity is -19% 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 Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory's patents?

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory's patents average 16.4 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 Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory 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

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Q: What technology areas does Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory focus on?

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory's top technology area is C12N (Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media) with 37 patents, ranking #283 of 4,144 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 21 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 55 granted patents across 21 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, Cold ranks #6,128 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 55 patents across 21 technology areas.

#6,128
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 28%
by Innovation Score (43.6/100): 16.4
avg claims per patent: -19%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R6128 · US Corporation #6,128 · 55 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 55 grants
UPPER-Q #6,128/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Cardinal IG
CPC-FOCUS C12N · 21 areas
INNOV-PAR 43.6/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.4 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DOWN -19% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Cardinal IG Company (±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 Cold’s 43.6 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 13.9 pts (32%) Velocity 3.7 pts (8%) Breadth 16.2 pts (37%) Claim depth 9.8 pts (22%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Active-Semi · near

44
Inscape Data · near

44
Cold Spring Harbor… · this assignee

44
Foshan Eahison… · near

44
GSI Helmholtzzentrum… · near

44
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Cold's Innovation Score is 43.6/100 (top 28% 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 Cold?

Each dot is one of Cold’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). Cold’s own 16.4 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.

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

Where Cold's grants concentrate

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory is a focused PatentsView assignee: 21 CPC subclasses with 67.3% 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 2021 (9 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2018. By volume, Cold sits between Cardinal IG Company and Dental Imaging Technologies Corporation.

Cold's three-year grant acceleration

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory 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.

Cardinal IG

55
Caterpillar Trimb…

55
China Agricultura…

55
Clevx

55
Covestro (Netherl…

55
Curevac SE

55
Custom Molded Pro…

55
Dental Imaging

55
Cold Spring Harbo… ◀

55

What this shows Cold holds 55 patents at rank #6,129, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Cold

By rank, the assignees closest to #6,129 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C12N (Microorganisms OR Enzymes)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Cold, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In C12N (Microorganisms OR Enzymes), Cold ranks #283 of 4,144 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (44 here).

GSI Helmholtzzentrum fuer Schwerionenforschung GmbH 44 Foshan Eahison Communication Co., Ltd. 44 Inscape Data, Inc. 44 Active-Semi, Inc. 44

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (16.4 here).

ITT Italia S.r.l. 16.4 avg Fingerprint Cards Anacatum IP AB 16.4 avg Thomson Reuters Enterprise Centre GmbH 16.4 avg Covestro LLC 16.4 avg

Cold's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

44 Top 28% higher than 72% 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.

View data table

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	4	7.3%
2016	7	12.7%
2017	8	14.5%
2018	2	3.6%
2019	6	10.9%
2020	3	5.5%
2021	9	16.4%
2022	3	5.5%
2023	5	9.1%
2024	2	3.6%
2025partial year	6	10.9%

Which technologies does Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory patent most?

C12N - Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media 37

A61P - Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations 24

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 23

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 20

C07K - Peptides 10

A01K - Animal HUSBANDRY; AVICULTURE; APICULTURE; PISCICULTURE; FISHING; Rearing OR Breeding Animals, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; NEW Breeds OF Animals 8

Y02A - Technologies FOR Adaptation TO Climate Change 8

G16B - Bioinformatics, i.e. Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Genetic OR Protein-related Data Processing IN Computational Molecular Biology 6

C12Y - Enzymes 5

C40B - Combinatorial CHEMISTRY; Libraries, e.g. Chemical Libraries 3

C07D - Heterocyclic Compounds 3

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 3

G09B - Educational OR Demonstration APPLIANCES; Appliances FOR Teaching, OR Communicating With, THE Blind, Deaf OR MUTE; MODELS; PLANETARIA; GLOBES; MAPS; Diagrams 3

G16H - Healthcare Informatics, i.e. Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR THE Handling OR Processing OF Medical OR Healthcare Data 3

C07J - Steroids 3

Top 15 of 21 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

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory's lead technology class is C12N (Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media), 67.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C12N
Ranked #6,128 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory against Cardinal IG Company, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 43.6/100 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

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