Where does Enza Zaden Beheer B.V. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Enza Zaden Beheer B.V. ranks #3,370 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 Enza Zaden Beheer B.V. hold?

Enza Zaden Beheer B.V. holds 110 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 6 technology areas.

What is Enza Zaden Beheer B.V.'s Innovation Score?

Enza Zaden Beheer B.V. has an Innovation Score of 41.5 out of 100 (top 33% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Enza Zaden Beheer B.V.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Enza Zaden Beheer B.V.'s recent grant velocity is -19% 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 Enza Zaden Beheer B.V.'s patents?

Enza Zaden Beheer B.V.'s patents average 14.0 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 Enza Zaden Beheer B.V. 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 Foreign Corporation

Enza Zaden Beheer B.V.

Q: What technology areas does Enza Zaden Beheer B.V. focus on?

Enza Zaden Beheer B.V.'s top technology area is A01H (NEW Plants OR ; NON-TRANSGENIC; Processes FOR Obtaining THEM; Plant Reproduction BY Tissue Culture Techniques) with 99 patents, ranking #13 of 285 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 6 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 110 granted patents across 6 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: A01H (NEW Plants OR ; NON-TRANSGENIC; Processes FOR Obtaining THEM; Plant Reproduction BY Tissue Culture Techniques).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Enza ranks #3,370 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 110 patents across 6 technology areas.

#3,370
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 33%
by Innovation Score (41.5/100): 14.0
avg claims per patent: -19%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R3370 · Foreign Corporation #3,370 · 110 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 110 grants
TOP-DECILE #3,370/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Boston Scientific
CPC-NARROW A01H · 6 areas
INNOV-PAR 41.5/100
CLAIMS-RICH 14.0 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -19% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Boston Scientific Limited (±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 Enza’s 41.5 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 16.3 pts (39%) Velocity 8.2 pts (20%) Breadth 8.7 pts (21%) Claim depth 8.4 pts (20%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Blackship Development · near

42
Enza Zaden Beheer B V · this assignee

42
Illumio · near

42
Limagrain Europe · near

42
Syncrude Canada in… · near

42
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Enza's Innovation Score is 41.5/100 (top 33% 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 Enza?

Each dot is one of Enza’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). Enza’s own 14.0 claims/patent is at or below the 16.9 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Enza's grants concentrate

Enza Zaden Beheer B.V. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 6 CPC subclasses with 90% of grants classified under A01H (NEW Plants OR ; NON-TRANSGENIC; Processes FOR Obtaining THEM; Plant Reproduction BY Tissue Culture Techniques). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (19 grants) versus a trough of 7 in 2021. By volume, Enza sits between Boston Scientific Limited and G.D S.P.A..

Enza's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Enza Zaden Beheer B.V. moved from 26 to 32 grants (1.23x 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 #733. See the growth leaderboard.

Boston Scientific

110
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110
Cepheid

110
Educational Testi…

110
Experian Informat…

110
Flowserve Managem…

110
Fuelcell Energy

110
G D S P A

110
Enza Zaden Beheer… ◀

110

What this shows Enza holds 110 patents at rank #3,370, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Enza

By rank, the assignees closest to #3,370 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A01H (NEW Plants OR)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Enza, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A01H (NEW Plants OR), Enza ranks #13 of 285 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (42 here).

Illumio, Inc. 42 Limagrain Europe S.A. 42 Syncrude Canada Ltd. in trust for the owners of the Syncrude Project as such owners exist now and in the future 42 Blackship Technologies Development LLC 42

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (14.0 here).

Valmet Technologies Oy 14.0 avg tesa SE 14.0 avg Spraying Systems Co. 14.0 avg I.M.A. Industria Macchine Automatiche S.P.A. 14.0 avg

Enza's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

42 Top 33% higher than 67% 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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Enza Zaden Beheer B.V. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	19	17.3%
2016	11	10.0%
2017	10	9.1%
2018	9	8.2%
2019	10	9.1%
2020	9	8.2%
2021	7	6.4%
2022	12	10.9%
2023	9	8.2%
2024	11	10.0%
2025partial year	3	2.7%

Which technologies does Enza Zaden Beheer B.V. patent most?

A01H - NEW Plants OR ; NON-TRANSGENIC; Processes FOR Obtaining THEM; Plant Reproduction BY Tissue Culture Techniques 99

C12N - Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media 23

C07K - Peptides 14

C12Y - Enzymes 7

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 7

Y02A - Technologies FOR Adaptation TO Climate Change 3

Top 6 of 6 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

Enza Zaden Beheer B.V.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Enza Zaden Beheer B.V.'s lead technology class is A01H (NEW Plants OR ; NON-TRANSGENIC; Processes FOR Obtaining THEM; Plant Reproduction BY Tissue Culture Techniques), 90% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A01H
Ranked #3,370 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Enza Zaden Beheer B.V. against Boston Scientific Limited, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 41.5/100 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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