Where does E.I. DU Pont DE Nemours AND Company rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), E.I. DU Pont DE Nemours AND Company ranks #511 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 E.I. DU Pont DE Nemours AND Company hold?

E.I. DU Pont DE Nemours AND Company holds 882 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 184 technology areas.

What is E.I. DU Pont DE Nemours AND Company's Innovation Score?

E.I. DU Pont DE Nemours AND Company has an Innovation Score of 57.8 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 E.I. DU Pont DE Nemours AND Company's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

E.I. DU Pont DE Nemours AND Company's recent grant velocity is -91% 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 E.I. DU Pont DE Nemours AND Company's patents?

E.I. DU Pont DE Nemours AND Company's patents average 13.6 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 E.I. DU Pont DE Nemours AND Company 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

E.I. DU Pont DE Nemours AND Company

Q: What technology areas does E.I. DU Pont DE Nemours AND Company focus on?

E.I. DU Pont DE Nemours AND Company's top technology area is C12N (Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media) with 207 patents, ranking #31 of 4,144 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 184 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 882 granted patents across 184 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, E.i. ranks #511 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 882 patents across 184 technology areas.

#511
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 5%
by Innovation Score (57.8/100): 13.6
avg claims per patent: -91%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R511 · US Corporation #511 · 882 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 882 grants
TOP-DECILE #511/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Furukawa Electric
CPC-WIDE C12N · 184 areas
INNOV-PAR 57.8/100
CLAIMS-RICH 13.6 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -91% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd. (±1 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 E.i.’s 57.8 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 23.4 pts (40%) Velocity 1.2 pts (2%) Breadth 25.0 pts (43%) Claim depth 8.2 pts (14%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

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NTN · near

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Eaton · near

58
HCL · near

58
Solvay Specialty… · near

58
3D Lighting… · lowest

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What this shows E.i.'s Innovation Score is 57.8/100 (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.

Does more volume mean deeper claims for E.i.?

Each dot is one of E.i.’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). E.i.’s own 13.6 claims/patent is ABOVE the 12.2 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How E.i.'s grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, E.I. DU Pont DE Nemours AND Company received 74 grants versus 807 in 2015–2019 (-91% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2015 at 297 grants and bottomed in 2024 at 1. Lead class C12N accounts for 23.5% of the portfolio across 184 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Societe des Produits Nestle S.A. (#507) and Amgen Inc. (#515).

E.i.'s three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, E.I. DU Pont DE Nemours AND Company moved from 121 to 22 grants (0.18x 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 #3,115. See the growth leaderboard.

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Weatherford Techn…

886
Toyota Boshoku

885
Furukawa Electric

883
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882
Charter Communica…

878
Harry Winston

876
Imec VZW

876
Amgen

875

What this shows E.I. holds 882 patents at rank #511, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near EI

By rank, the assignees closest to #511 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C12N (Microorganisms OR Enzymes)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for EI, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In C12N (Microorganisms OR Enzymes), EI ranks #31 of 4,144 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (58 here).

NTN Corporation 58 Eaton Corporation 58 Solvay Specialty Polymers Italy S.P.A. 58 HCL Technologies Limited 58

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (13.6 here).

Institut National de la Sante et de la Recherche Medicale (INSERM) 13.6 avg Konica Minolta, Inc. 13.6 avg Bull SAS 13.6 avg Universite De Montpellier 13.6 avg

E.i.'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 · 2015–2025

Grants by year

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

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E.I. DU Pont DE Nemours AND Company patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	297	33.7%
2016	182	20.6%
2017	151	17.1%
2018	108	12.2%
2019	69	7.8%
2020	31	3.5%
2021	21	2.4%
2022	16	1.8%
2023	5	0.6%
2024	1	0.1%
2025partial year	1	0.1%

Which technologies does E.I. DU Pont DE Nemours AND Company patent most?

C12N - Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media 207

C08L - Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds 121

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 109

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 101

C09D - Coating Compositions, e.g. Paints, Varnishes OR LACQUERS; Filling PASTES; Chemical Paint OR INK REMOVERS; INKS; Correcting FLUIDS; WOODSTAINS; Pastes OR Solids FOR Colouring OR PRINTING; USE OF Materials Therefor 100

H01B - CABLES; CONDUCTORS; INSULATORS; Selection OF Materials FOR Their Conductive, Insulating OR Dielectric Properties 95

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 93

C08K - Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances as compounding ingredients 91

C07D - Heterocyclic Compounds 85

C07K - Peptides 78

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 76

C08G - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than BY Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds 75

C07C - Acyclic OR Carbocyclic Compounds 74

Y02A - Technologies FOR Adaptation TO Climate Change 71

H10F - Inorganic Semiconductor Devices Sensitive TO Infrared Radiation, Light, Electromagnetic Radiation OF Shorter Wavelength OR Corpuscular Radiation 67

Top 15 of 184 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

E.I. DU Pont DE Nemours AND Company's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

E.I. DU Pont DE Nemours AND Company's lead technology class is C12N (Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media), 23.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C12N
Ranked #511 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare E.I. DU Pont DE Nemours AND Company against Societe des Produits Nestle S.A., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 57.8/100 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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