Where does Glykos Finland OY rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Glykos Finland OY ranks #14,011 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 Glykos Finland OY hold?

Glykos Finland OY holds 21 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2023, spanning 13 technology areas.

What is Glykos Finland OY's Innovation Score?

Glykos Finland OY has an Innovation Score of 32.9 out of 100 (43rd percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Glykos Finland OY's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Glykos Finland OY's recent grant velocity is -9% 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 Glykos Finland OY's patents?

Glykos Finland OY's patents average 13.7 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 Glykos Finland OY 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

Glykos Finland OY

Q: What technology areas does Glykos Finland OY focus on?

Glykos Finland OY's top technology area is C12N (Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media) with 15 patents, ranking #709 of 4,144 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 13 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 21 granted patents across 13 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2023. 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, Glykos ranks #14,011 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 21 patents across 13 technology areas.

#14,011
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 43rd percentile
by Innovation Score (32.9/100): 13.7
avg claims per patent: -9%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R14011 · Foreign Corporation #14,011 · 21 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-FLAT · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 21 grants
MID-PACK #14,011/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH GIESECKE+DEVRIENT…
CPC-FOCUS C12N · 13 areas
INNOV-THIN 32.9/100
CLAIMS-RICH 13.7 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-FLAT -9% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: GIESECKE+DEVRIENT Epayments 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 Glykos’s 32.9 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 10.7 pts (33%) Velocity 1.2 pts (4%) Breadth 12.7 pts (39%) Claim depth 8.2 pts (25%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Glykos Finland OY · this assignee

33
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Glykos's Innovation Score is 32.9/100 (43rd percentile 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 Glykos?

Each dot is one of Glykos’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). Glykos’s own 13.7 claims/patent is ABOVE the 12.1 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Glykos's grants concentrate

Glykos Finland OY is a focused PatentsView assignee: 13 CPC subclasses with 71.4% 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 2016 (5 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2018. By volume, Glykos sits between GIESECKE+DEVRIENT Epayments GMBH and Greenleaf Nursery Co..

Glykos's three-year grant acceleration

Glykos Finland OY shows 2 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.

Giesecke+Devrient…

21
Giftedness AND Cr…

21
Globegou WZ

21
Glycomimetics

21
GM Global Operati…

21
Grant Prideco

21
Gravitron

21
Greenleaf Nursery

21
Glykos Finland OY ◀

21

What this shows Glykos holds 21 patents at rank #14,004, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Glykos

By rank, the assignees closest to #14,004 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C12N (Microorganisms OR Enzymes)

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

Glykos's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

33 43rd percentile higher than 43% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2023

Grants by year

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

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Glykos Finland OY patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	5	23.8%
2017	2	9.5%
2018	1	4.8%
2019	3	14.3%
2020	4	19.0%
2021	4	19.0%
2023	2	9.5%

Which technologies does Glykos Finland OY patent most?

C12N - Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media 15

C12P - Fermentation OR Enzyme-using Processes TO Synthesise A Desired Chemical Compound OR Composition OR TO Separate Optical Isomers From A Racemic Mixture 12

C07K - Peptides 10

C12Y - Enzymes 7

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 5

A61P - Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations 5

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 5

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

Y10S - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former Uspc Cross-reference ART Collections [XRACs] AND Digests 2

C08B - POLYSACCHARIDES; Derivatives Thereof 2

Y02A - Technologies FOR Adaptation TO Climate Change 2

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

A23K - Fodder 1

Top 13 of 13 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

Glykos Finland OY's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Glykos Finland OY's lead technology class is C12N (Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media), 71.4% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C12N
Ranked #14,011 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Glykos Finland OY against GIESECKE+DEVRIENT Epayments GMBH, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 32.9/100 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.

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

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