Where does Danisco US Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Danisco US Inc. ranks #1,886 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 Danisco US Inc. hold?

Danisco US Inc. holds 213 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 50 technology areas.

What is Danisco US Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Danisco US Inc. has an Innovation Score of 59.3 out of 100 (top 4% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

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

Danisco US Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -46% 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 Danisco US Inc.'s patents?

Danisco US 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 Danisco US 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

Danisco US Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Danisco US Inc. focus on?

Danisco US Inc.'s top technology area is C12N (Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media) with 191 patents. Grants appear in 50 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 213 granted patents across 50 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, Danisco ranks #1,886 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 213 patents across 50 technology areas.

#1,886
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 4%
by Innovation Score (59.3/100): 15.9
avg claims per patent: -46%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1886 · US Corporation #1,886 · 213 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 213 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,886/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Brown University
CPC-WIDE C12N · 50 areas
INNOV-PAR 59.3/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.9 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -46% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Brown University (±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
8ME Nova · near

59
Danisco US · this assignee

59
Nidec Motor · near

59
Andreas Stihl & KG · near

59
Nabtesco · near

59
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Danisco's Innovation Score is 59.3/100 (top 4% 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.

How Danisco's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Danisco US Inc. received 69 grants versus 128 in 2015–2019 (-46% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2015 at 39 grants and bottomed in 2023 at 5. Lead class C12N accounts for 89.7% of the portfolio across 50 subclasses. Volume neighbours: St-ericsson SA (#1,882) and MTD Products Inc (#1,890).

Danisco's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Danisco US Inc. moved from 45 to 42 grants (0.93x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). Among 3,296 tracked assignees with ≥100 grants and ≥20 prior-period grants, that multiple ranks #1,378. See the growth leaderboard.

St-ericsson

214
Tosoh

214
Brown University

213
Clariant Internat…

213
Intelligrated Hea…

213
Korea Atomic Ener…

213
LOS Alamos Nation…

213
MTD Products

213
Danisco US ◀

213

What this shows Danisco holds 213 patents at rank #1,886, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Danisco

By rank, the assignees closest to #1,886 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C12N (Microorganisms OR Enzymes)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

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

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (59 here).

Nidec Motor Corporation 59 8ME Nova, LLC 59 Nabtesco Corporation 59 Andreas Stihl AG & Co. KG 59

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (15.9 here).

Thermo King LLC 15.9 avg Sensata Technologies, Inc. 15.9 avg Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc. 15.9 avg Rohm Co., Ltd. 15.9 avg

Danisco's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

59 Top 4% higher than 96% 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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Danisco US Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	39	18.3%
2016	28	13.1%
2017	19	8.9%
2018	24	11.3%
2019	18	8.5%
2020	17	8.0%
2021	10	4.7%
2022	15	7.0%
2023	5	2.3%
2024	22	10.3%
2025partial year	16	7.5%

Which technologies does Danisco US Inc. patent most?

C12N - Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media 191

C12Y - Enzymes 144

C12P - Fermentation OR Enzyme-using Processes TO Synthesise A Desired Chemical Compound OR Composition OR TO Separate Optical Isomers From A Racemic Mixture 116

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 71

C11D - Detergent COMPOSITIONS; USE OF Single Substances AS DETERGENTS; Soap OR SOAP-MAKING; Resin SOAPS; Recovery OF Glycerol 57

C07K - Peptides 31

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 16

A23K - Fodder 12

A21D - Treatment OF Flour OR Dough FOR Baking, e.g. BY Addition OF MATERIALS; BAKING; Bakery Products 10

B01D - Separation 8

C12R - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses C12c - C12q, Relating TO Microorganisms 8

C12C - BEER; Preparation OF Beer BY Fermentation ; Preparation OF Malt FOR Making BEER; Preparation OF Hops FOR Making Beer 7

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

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 5

C07C - Acyclic OR Carbocyclic Compounds 5

Top 15 of 50 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#1,886

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

59.3 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

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

Danisco US Inc.'s lead technology class is C12N (Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media), 89.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C12N
Ranked #1,886 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Danisco US Inc. against St-ericsson SA, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 59.3/100 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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