Where does DOW Agrosciences LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), DOW Agrosciences LLC ranks #631 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 DOW Agrosciences LLC hold?

DOW Agrosciences LLC holds 704 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2024, spanning 76 technology areas.

What is DOW Agrosciences LLC's Innovation Score?

DOW Agrosciences LLC has an Innovation Score of 58.2 out of 100 (top 5% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is DOW Agrosciences LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

DOW Agrosciences LLC's recent grant velocity is -84% 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 DOW Agrosciences LLC's patents?

DOW Agrosciences LLC's patents average 16.9 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 DOW Agrosciences LLC 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

DOW Agrosciences LLC

Q: What technology areas does DOW Agrosciences LLC focus on?

DOW Agrosciences LLC's top technology area is A01N (Preservation OF Bodies OF Humans OR Animals OR Plants OR Parts Thereof ; Biocides, e.g. AS Disinfectants, AS Pesticides OR AS Herbicides ; Pest Repellants OR ATTRACTANTS; Plant Growth Regulators) with 360 patents. Grants appear in 76 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 704 granted patents across 76 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2024. 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: A01N (Preservation OF Bodies OF Humans OR Animals OR Plants OR Parts Thereof ; Biocides, e.g. AS Disinfectants, AS Pesticides OR AS Herbicides ; Pest Repellants OR ATTRACTANTS; Plant Growth Regulators).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, DOW ranks #631 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 704 patents across 76 technology areas.

#631
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 5%
by Innovation Score (58.2/100): 16.9
avg claims per patent: -84%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R631 · US Corporation #631 · 704 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 704 grants
TOP-DECILE #631/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Toppan Printing
CPC-WIDE A01N · 76 areas
INNOV-PAR 58.2/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.9 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -84% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Toppan Printing Co., Ltd. (±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
Beijing Zhigu RUI… · near

58
DOW Agrosciences · this assignee

58
Primax · near

58
Technische Universit… · near

58
Sensor Technology · near

58
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows DOW's Innovation Score is 58.2/100 (top 5% 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 DOW's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, DOW Agrosciences LLC received 99 grants versus 605 in 2015–2019 (-84% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2017 at 150 grants and bottomed in 2024 at 2. Lead class A01N accounts for 51.1% of the portfolio across 76 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Allegro MicroSystems, LLC (#627) and Osaka University (#635).

DOW's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, DOW Agrosciences LLC moved from 184 to 11 grants (0.06x 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 #3,222. See the growth leaderboard.

Allegro Microsyst…

708
Dexcom

708
Krones

708
Arista Networks

706
Toppan Printing

704
DOW Agrosciences ◀

704
Rakuten Group

703
Alarm com Incorpo…

702
Osaka University

702

What this shows DOW holds 704 patents at rank #631, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near DOW

By rank, the assignees closest to #631 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A01N (Preservation OF Bodies OF Humans OR Animals OR Plants OR…)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

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

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (58 here).

Primax Electronics Ltd. 58 Beijing Zhigu RUI TUO Tech Co., Ltd. 58 Technische Universitaet Dresden 58 Sensor Electronic Technology, Inc. 58

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (16.9 here).

Scania CV AB 16.9 avg Flipboard, Inc. 16.9 avg Ion Beam Applications 16.9 avg HangZhou HaiCun Information Technology Co., Ltd. 16.9 avg

DOW's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

58 Top 5% higher than 95% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2024

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2015–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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DOW Agrosciences LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	138	19.6%
2016	123	17.5%
2017	150	21.3%
2018	98	13.9%
2019	96	13.6%
2020	58	8.2%
2021	30	4.3%
2022	5	0.7%
2023	4	0.6%
2024	2	0.3%

Which technologies does DOW Agrosciences LLC patent most?

A01N - Preservation OF Bodies OF Humans OR Animals OR Plants OR Parts Thereof ; Biocides, e.g. AS Disinfectants, AS Pesticides OR AS Herbicides ; Pest Repellants OR ATTRACTANTS; Plant Growth Regulators 360

C07D - Heterocyclic Compounds 244

C12N - Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media 236

Y02A - Technologies FOR Adaptation TO Climate Change 156

C07K - Peptides 82

C07C - Acyclic OR Carbocyclic Compounds 77

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 62

A61P - Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations 54

C12Y - Enzymes 52

A01H - NEW Plants OR ; NON-TRANSGENIC; Processes FOR Obtaining THEM; Plant Reproduction BY Tissue Culture Techniques 46

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 31

A01M - Catching, Trapping OR Scaring OF Animals ; Apparatus FOR THE Destruction OF Noxious Animals OR Noxious Plants 29

C07F - Acyclic, Carbocyclic OR Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium OR Tellurium 28

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 18

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

Top 15 of 76 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#631

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

58.2 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

DOW Agrosciences LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

DOW Agrosciences LLC's lead technology class is A01N (Preservation OF Bodies OF Humans OR Animals OR Plants OR Parts Thereof ; Biocides, e.g. AS Disinfectants, AS Pesticides OR AS Herbicides ; Pest Repellants OR ATTRACTANTS; Plant Growth Regulators), 51.1% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A01N
Ranked #631 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare DOW Agrosciences LLC against Allegro MicroSystems, LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 58.2/100 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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