Where does Ginkgo Bioworks, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Ginkgo Bioworks, Inc. ranks #9,502 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 Ginkgo Bioworks, Inc. hold?

Ginkgo Bioworks, Inc. holds 33 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2025, spanning 20 technology areas.

What is Ginkgo Bioworks, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Ginkgo Bioworks, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 58.8 out of 100 (top 4% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Ginkgo Bioworks, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Ginkgo Bioworks, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +420% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Ginkgo Bioworks, Inc.'s patents?

Ginkgo Bioworks, Inc.'s patents average 17.9 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 Ginkgo Bioworks, Inc. 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

Ginkgo Bioworks, Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Ginkgo Bioworks, Inc. focus on?

Ginkgo Bioworks, Inc.'s top technology area is C12N (Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media) with 33 patents, ranking #322 of 4,144 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 20 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 33 granted patents across 20 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2025. 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, Ginkgo ranks #9,502 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 33 patents across 20 technology areas.

#9,502
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 4%
by Innovation Score (58.8/100): 17.9
avg claims per patent: +420%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R9502 · US Corporation #9,502 · 33 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 33 grants
UPPER-Q #9,502/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH FEV Group
CPC-FOCUS C12N · 20 areas
INNOV-PAR 58.8/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.9 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +420% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: FEV Group GmbH (±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 Ginkgo’s 58.8 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 12.2 pts (21%) Velocity 20.0 pts (34%) Breadth 15.8 pts (27%) Claim depth 10.8 pts (18%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
P-tech · near

59
Ginkgo Bioworks · this assignee

59
Milliken & · near

59
Hyperloop · near

59
Shenzhen University · near

59
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Ginkgo's Innovation Score is 58.8/100 (top 4% 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 Ginkgo?

Each dot is one of Ginkgo’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). Ginkgo’s own 17.9 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.0 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Ginkgo's grants concentrate

Ginkgo Bioworks, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 20 CPC subclasses with 100% 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 (9 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2016. By volume, Ginkgo sits between FEV Group GmbH and Guangdong Sirui Optical Co., Ltd..

Ginkgo's three-year grant acceleration

Ginkgo Bioworks, Inc. shows 22 grants in 2022–2024 against only 5 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.

FEV Group

33
Financialforce com

33
Generalplus Techn…

33
Gulfstream Servic…

33
Good Technology H…

33
Greenworks (Jiang…

33
Growpath

33
Guangdong Sirui O…

33
Ginkgo Bioworks ◀

33

What this shows Ginkgo holds 33 patents at rank #9,503, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Ginkgo

By rank, the assignees closest to #9,503 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C12N (Microorganisms OR Enzymes)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Ginkgo, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In C12N (Microorganisms OR Enzymes), Ginkgo ranks #322 of 4,144 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (59 here).

Milliken & Company 59 Hyperloop Technologies, Inc. 59 Shenzhen University 59 P-tech Co., Ltd. 59

Ginkgo's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

59 Top 4% higher than 96% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2016–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Ginkgo Bioworks, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	1	3.0%
2017	1	3.0%
2018	2	6.1%
2019	1	3.0%
2020	1	3.0%
2021	3	9.1%
2022	9	27.3%
2023	5	15.2%
2024	8	24.2%
2025partial year	2	6.1%

Which technologies does Ginkgo Bioworks, Inc. patent most?

C12N - Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media 33

C12P - Fermentation OR Enzyme-using Processes TO Synthesise A Desired Chemical Compound OR Composition OR TO Separate Optical Isomers From A Racemic Mixture 20

C12Y - Enzymes 17

C07K - Peptides 13

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 9

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 9

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 3

C11B - Producing, e.g. BY Pressing RAW Materials OR BY Extraction From Waste Materials, Refining OR Preserving Fats, Fatty Substances, e.g. Lanolin, Fatty Oils OR WAXES; Essential OILS; Perfumes 3

C40B - Combinatorial CHEMISTRY; Libraries, e.g. Chemical Libraries 3

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 2

A61P - Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations 2

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

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 1

C12R - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses C12c - C12q, Relating TO Microorganisms 1

A23L - Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Preparation OR Treatment Thereof 1

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

Ginkgo Bioworks, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Ginkgo Bioworks, Inc.'s lead technology class is C12N (Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media), 100% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C12N
Ranked #9,502 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Ginkgo Bioworks, Inc. against FEV Group GmbH, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 58.8/100 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.

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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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