Where does Firmenich Incorporated rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Firmenich Incorporated ranks #13,423 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 Firmenich Incorporated hold?

Firmenich Incorporated holds 22 US utility patents granted between 2019 and 2025, spanning 20 technology areas.

What is Firmenich Incorporated's Innovation Score?

Firmenich Incorporated has an Innovation Score of 41.1 out of 100 (top 34% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Firmenich Incorporated's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Firmenich Incorporated's recent grant velocity is +650% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Firmenich Incorporated's patents?

Firmenich Incorporated's patents average 18.1 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 Firmenich Incorporated 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

Firmenich Incorporated

Q: What technology areas does Firmenich Incorporated focus on?

Firmenich Incorporated's top technology area is A23L (Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Preparation OR Treatment Thereof) with 16 patents, ranking #86 of 1,325 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 20 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 22 granted patents across 20 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2019–2025. 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: A23L (Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Preparation OR Treatment Thereof).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Firmenich ranks #13,423 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 22 patents across 20 technology areas.

#13,423
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 34%
by Innovation Score (41.1/100): 18.1
avg claims per patent: +650%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R13423 · US Corporation #13,423 · 22 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 22 grants
MID-PACK #13,423/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Falconstor
CPC-FOCUS A23L · 20 areas
INNOV-PAR 41.1/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.1 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +650% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Falconstor, Inc. (±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 Firmenich’s 41.1 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 10.8 pts (26%) Velocity 3.6 pts (9%) Breadth 15.8 pts (39%) Claim depth 10.8 pts (26%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Firmenich Incorporated · this assignee

41
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Firmenich's Innovation Score is 41.1/100 (top 34% 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 Firmenich?

Each dot is one of Firmenich’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). Firmenich’s own 18.1 claims/patent is ABOVE the 14.2 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Firmenich's grants concentrate

Firmenich Incorporated is a focused PatentsView assignee: 20 CPC subclasses with 72.7% of grants classified under A23L (Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Preparation OR Treatment Thereof). Peak complete grant year is 2020 (6 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2023. By volume, Firmenich sits between Falconstor, Inc. and France Reducteurs.

Firmenich's three-year grant acceleration

Firmenich Incorporated shows 6 grants in 2022–2024 against only 11 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.

Falconstor

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Fitipower Integra…

22
Flowbelow Aero

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22
France Reducteurs

22
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22

What this shows Firmenich holds 22 patents at rank #13,419, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Firmenich

By rank, the assignees closest to #13,419 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A23L (Foods)

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

Firmenich's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

41 Top 34% higher than 66% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2019–2025

Grants by year

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

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Firmenich Incorporated patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2019	2	9.1%
2020	6	27.3%
2021	3	13.6%
2022	3	13.6%
2023	1	4.5%
2024	2	9.1%
2025partial year	5	22.7%

Which technologies does Firmenich Incorporated patent most?

A23L - Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Preparation OR Treatment Thereof 16

A23V - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages AND Lactic OR Propionic Acid Bacteria Used IN Foodstuffs OR Food Preparation 12

C07D - Heterocyclic Compounds 10

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 6

C07C - Acyclic OR Carbocyclic Compounds 6

C07J - Steroids 5

C07K - Peptides 4

A61P - Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations 4

C12P - Fermentation OR Enzyme-using Processes TO Synthesise A Desired Chemical Compound OR Composition OR TO Separate Optical Isomers From A Racemic Mixture 4

C12Y - Enzymes 4

C12N - Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media 4

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 3

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 2

C07F - Acyclic, Carbocyclic OR Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium OR Tellurium 2

A23P - Shaping OR Working OF Foodstuffs, NOT Fully Covered BY A Single Other Subclass 2

Top 15 of 20 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

Firmenich Incorporated's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Firmenich Incorporated's lead technology class is A23L (Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Preparation OR Treatment Thereof), 72.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A23L
Ranked #13,423 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Firmenich Incorporated against Falconstor, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 41.1/100 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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