Where does Corbion Biotech, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Corbion Biotech, Inc. ranks #8,002 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 Corbion Biotech, Inc. hold?

Corbion Biotech, Inc. holds 40 US utility patents granted between 2018 and 2025, spanning 33 technology areas.

What is Corbion Biotech, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Corbion Biotech, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 45.3 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 Corbion Biotech, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Corbion Biotech, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -35% 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 Corbion Biotech, Inc.'s patents?

Corbion Biotech, Inc.'s patents average 15.9 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 Corbion Biotech, 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

Corbion Biotech, Inc.

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

Corbion Biotech, Inc.'s top technology area is C12N (Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media) with 28 patents. Grants appear in 33 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 40 granted patents across 33 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2018–2025. 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, Corbion ranks #8,002 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 40 patents across 33 technology areas.

#8,002
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 23%
by Innovation Score (45.3/100): 15.9
avg claims per patent: -35%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R8002 · US Corporation #8,002 · 40 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 40 grants
UPPER-Q #8,002/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Centre of Excellence…
CPC-FOCUS C12N · 33 areas
INNOV-PAR 45.3/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.9 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DOWN -35% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Centre of Excellence in Wireless Technology (±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
Corbion Biotech · this assignee

45
Erema Engineering… · near

45
Medtrum · near

45
TRW Airbag Systems · near

45
Tamron · near

45
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Corbion's Innovation Score is 45.3/100 (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.

Where Corbion's grants concentrate

Corbion Biotech, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 33 CPC subclasses with 70% 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 2019 (13 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2024. By volume, Corbion sits between Centre of Excellence in Wireless Technology and Darfon Electronics (SUZHOU) Co., Ltd..

Corbion's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Corbion Biotech, Inc. moved from 20 to 8 grants (0.40x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Centre of Excelle…

40
Cephalon

40
Cloudminds Roboti…

40
Club Car

40
Coriant Operations

40
Credence Medsyste…

40
Danfoss Power Sol…

40
Darfon (Suzhou)

40
Corbion Biotech ◀

40

What this shows Corbion holds 40 patents at rank #8,003, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Corbion

By rank, the assignees closest to #8,003 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C12N (Microorganisms OR Enzymes)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Corbion, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above).

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (45 here).

TRW Airbag Systems GMBH 45 Erema Engineering Recycling Maschinen UND Anlagen Gesellschaft, M.B.H. 45 Medtrum Technologies Inc. 45 Tamron Co., Ltd. 45

Corbion'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 · 2018–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2018–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Corbion Biotech, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2018	10	25.0%
2019	13	32.5%
2020	5	12.5%
2021	2	5.0%
2022	4	10.0%
2023	3	7.5%
2024	1	2.5%
2025partial year	2	5.0%

Which technologies does Corbion Biotech, Inc. patent most?

C12N - Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media 28

C12P - Fermentation OR Enzyme-using Processes TO Synthesise A Desired Chemical Compound OR Composition OR TO Separate Optical Isomers From A Racemic Mixture 24

C12Y - Enzymes 18

C11B - Producing, e.g. BY Pressing RAW Materials OR BY Extraction From Waste Materials, Refining OR Preserving Fats, Fatty Substances, e.g. Lanolin, Fatty Oils OR WAXES; Essential OILS; Perfumes 9

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 9

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 8

A23D - Edible Oils OR Fats, e.g. Margarines, Shortenings OR Cooking Oils 8

A23L - Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Preparation OR Treatment Thereof 7

A23K - Fodder 6

C07C - Acyclic OR Carbocyclic Compounds 6

C11C - Fatty Acids From Fats, Oils OR WAXES; CANDLES; Fats, Oils OR Fatty Acids BY Chemical Modification OF Fats, Oils, OR Fatty Acids Obtained Therefrom 5

C12R - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses C12c - C12q, Relating TO Microorganisms 5

A23V - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages AND Lactic OR Propionic Acid Bacteria Used IN Foodstuffs OR Food Preparation 5

C07K - Peptides 4

C07J - Steroids 4

Top 15 of 33 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#8,002

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

45.3 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

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

Corbion Biotech, Inc.'s lead technology class is C12N (Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media), 70% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C12N
Ranked #8,002 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Corbion Biotech, Inc. against Centre of Excellence in Wireless Technology, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 45.3/100 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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