Where does Conagen Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Conagen Inc. ranks #5,829 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 Conagen Inc. hold?

Conagen Inc. holds 58 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2025, spanning 16 technology areas.

What is Conagen Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Conagen Inc. has an Innovation Score of 40.2 out of 100 (top 36% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

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

Conagen Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +38% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). The company is maintaining or growing its granted-patent output.

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

Conagen Inc.'s patents average 14.6 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 Conagen 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

Conagen Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Conagen Inc. focus on?

Conagen Inc.'s top technology area is C12N (Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media) with 55 patents, ranking #185 of 4,144 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 16 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 58 granted patents across 16 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, Conagen ranks #5,829 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 58 patents across 16 technology areas.

#5,829
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 36%
by Innovation Score (40.2/100): 14.6
avg claims per patent: +38%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R5829 · US Corporation #5,829 · 58 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 58 grants
UPPER-Q #5,829/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Carlisle Fluid
CPC-FOCUS C12N · 16 areas
INNOV-PAR 40.2/100
CLAIMS-RICH 14.6 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-UP +38% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Carlisle Fluid Technologies, LLC (±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 Conagen’s 40.2 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 14.1 pts (35%) Velocity 3.2 pts (8%) Breadth 14.1 pts (35%) Claim depth 8.8 pts (22%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Ai Cure · near

40
Conagen · this assignee

40
Tarana Wireless · near

40
Vision RT · near

40
Wangsu Science AND… · near

40
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Conagen's Innovation Score is 40.2/100 (top 36% 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 Conagen?

Each dot is one of Conagen’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). Conagen’s own 14.6 claims/patent is ABOVE the 13.0 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Conagen's grants concentrate

Conagen Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 16 CPC subclasses with 94.8% 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 2020 (15 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2016. By volume, Conagen sits between Collateral Opportunities, LLC and Duquesne University of the Holy Spirit.

Conagen's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Conagen Inc. moved from 27 to 13 grants (0.48x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Collateral Opport…

58
Carlisle Fluid

58
Carlson Pet Produ…

58
Compagnie Gervais…

58
Contec

58
Dfine

58
Dongbu Hitek

58
Duquesne Universi…

58
Conagen ◀

58

What this shows Conagen holds 58 patents at rank #5,829, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Conagen

By rank, the assignees closest to #5,829 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C12N (Microorganisms OR Enzymes)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Conagen, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In C12N (Microorganisms OR Enzymes), Conagen ranks #185 of 4,144 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (40 here).

Vision RT Limited 40 Wangsu Science AND Technology Co., Ltd. 40 Ai Cure Technologies LLC 40 Tarana Wireless, Inc. 40

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (14.6 here).

ESS Tech, Inc. 14.6 avg Johnson Electric International AG 14.6 avg Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. 14.6 avg Whirlpool Corporation 14.6 avg

Conagen's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

40 Top 36% higher than 64% 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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Conagen Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	2	3.4%
2017	5	8.6%
2018	10	17.2%
2019	7	12.1%
2020	15	25.9%
2021	5	8.6%
2022	7	12.1%
2023	2	3.4%
2024	4	6.9%
2025partial year	1	1.7%

Which technologies does Conagen Inc. patent most?

C12N - Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media 55

C12P - Fermentation OR Enzyme-using Processes TO Synthesise A Desired Chemical Compound OR Composition OR TO Separate Optical Isomers From A Racemic Mixture 53

C12Y - Enzymes 48

C07H - SUGARS; Derivatives THEREOF; NUCLEOSIDES; NUCLEOTIDES; Nucleic Acids 35

A23L - Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Preparation OR Treatment Thereof 35

C07K - Peptides 33

A23V - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages AND Lactic OR Propionic Acid Bacteria Used IN Foodstuffs OR Food Preparation 29

A23G - COCOA; Cocoa Products, e.g. CHOCOLATE; Substitutes FOR Cocoa OR Cocoa PRODUCTS; CONFECTIONERY; Chewing GUM; ICE-CREAM; Preparation Thereof 6

A21D - Treatment OF Flour OR Dough FOR Baking, e.g. BY Addition OF MATERIALS; BAKING; Bakery Products 6

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 5

C07C - Acyclic OR Carbocyclic Compounds 3

A61P - Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations 3

A23K - Fodder 3

A61Q - Specific USE OF Cosmetics OR Similar Toiletry Preparations 2

C07D - Heterocyclic Compounds 2

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

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

Conagen Inc.'s lead technology class is C12N (Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media), 94.8% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C12N
Ranked #5,829 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Conagen Inc. against Collateral Opportunities, LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 40.2/100 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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