Where does Ecovative Design LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Ecovative Design LLC ranks #10,311 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 Ecovative Design LLC hold?

Ecovative Design LLC holds 30 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2024, spanning 27 technology areas.

What is Ecovative Design LLC's Innovation Score?

Ecovative Design LLC has an Innovation Score of 47.9 out of 100 (top 18% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Ecovative Design LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Ecovative Design LLC's recent grant velocity is -24% 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 Ecovative Design LLC's patents?

Ecovative Design LLC's patents average 12.8 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 Ecovative Design 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

Ecovative Design LLC

Q: What technology areas does Ecovative Design LLC focus on?

Ecovative Design LLC's top technology area is C12N (Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media) with 25 patents, ranking #432 of 4,144 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 27 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 30 granted patents across 27 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: 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, Ecovative ranks #10,311 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 30 patents across 27 technology areas.

#10,311
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 18%
by Innovation Score (47.9/100): 12.8
avg claims per patent: -24%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R10311 · US Corporation #10,311 · 30 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 30 grants
UPPER-Q #10,311/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Dart Neuroscience…
CPC-FOCUS C12N · 27 areas
INNOV-PAR 47.9/100
CLAIMS-RICH 12.8 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DOWN -24% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Dart Neuroscience, (Cayman) 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.

How Ecovative’s 47.9 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 11.9 pts (25%) Velocity 10.0 pts (21%) Breadth 18.4 pts (38%) Claim depth 7.7 pts (16%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Ecovative Design · this assignee

48
QD Vision · near

48
SST Systems · near

48
Thin Film ASA · near

48
Uniwersytet… · near

48
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Ecovative's Innovation Score is 47.9/100 (top 18% 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 Ecovative?

Each dot is one of Ecovative’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). Ecovative’s own 12.8 claims/patent is at or below the 18.1 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Ecovative's grants concentrate

Ecovative Design LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 27 CPC subclasses with 83.3% 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 2022 (7 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2015. By volume, Ecovative sits between Dart Neuroscience, (Cayman) Ltd. and Everseen Limited.

Ecovative's three-year grant acceleration

Ecovative Design LLC shows 9 grants in 2022–2024 against only 6 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.

Dart Neuroscience…

30
Desprez

30
Distalmotion

30
Echogen Power Sys…

30
Edda Technology

30
Eoflow

30
Epicentrx

30
Everseen

30
Ecovative Design ◀

30

What this shows Ecovative holds 30 patents at rank #10,311, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Ecovative

By rank, the assignees closest to #10,311 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C12N (Microorganisms OR Enzymes)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Ecovative, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In C12N (Microorganisms OR Enzymes), Ecovative ranks #432 of 4,144 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (48 here).

SST Systems, Inc 48 QD Vision, Inc. 48 Thin Film Electronics ASA 48 Uniwersytet Jagiellonski 48

Ecovative's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

48 Top 18% higher than 82% 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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Ecovative Design LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1	3.3%
2016	4	13.3%
2017	5	16.7%
2018	5	16.7%
2019	2	6.7%
2020	4	13.3%
2022	7	23.3%
2024	2	6.7%

Which technologies does Ecovative Design LLC patent most?

C12N - Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media 25

A01G - HORTICULTURE; Cultivation OF Vegetables, Flowers, Rice, Fruit, Vines, Hops OR SEAWEED; FORESTRY; Watering 16

C05D - Inorganic Fertilisers NOT Covered BY Subclasses C05b, C05C; Fertilisers Producing Carbon Dioxide 8

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 8

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 7

C12P - Fermentation OR Enzyme-using Processes TO Synthesise A Desired Chemical Compound OR Composition OR TO Separate Optical Isomers From A Racemic Mixture 3

C12M - Apparatus FOR Enzymology OR MICROBIOLOGY; Apparatus FOR Culturing Microorganisms FOR Producing Biomass, FOR Growing Cells OR FOR Obtaining Fermentation OR Metabolic Products, i.e. Bioreactors OR Fermenters 3

C08L - Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds 3

B29C - Shaping OR Joining OF PLASTICS; Shaping OF Material IN A Plastic State, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; After-treatment OF THE Shaped Products, e.g. Repairing 2

B27N - Manufacture BY DRY Processes OF Articles, With OR Without Organic Binding Agents, Made From Particles OR Fibres Consisting OF Wood OR Other Lignocellulosic OR Like Organic Material 2

B29K - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses B29b, B29c OR B29d, Relating TO Moulding Materials OR TO Materials FOR ; Moulds, ; Reinforcements, Fillers OR Preformed Parts, e.g. Inserts 2

B01J - Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus 2

A01H - NEW Plants OR ; NON-TRANSGENIC; Processes FOR Obtaining THEM; Plant Reproduction BY Tissue Culture Techniques 1

C08K - Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances as compounding ingredients 1

C08H - Derivatives OF Natural Macromolecular Compounds 1

Top 15 of 27 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

Ecovative Design LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Ecovative Design LLC's lead technology class is C12N (Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media), 83.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C12N
Ranked #10,311 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Ecovative Design LLC against Dart Neuroscience, (Cayman) Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 47.9/100 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.

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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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