Where does Hyglos Invest GMBH rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Hyglos Invest GMBH ranks #29,024 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 Hyglos Invest GMBH hold?

Hyglos Invest GMBH holds 9 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2020, spanning 12 technology areas.

What is Hyglos Invest GMBH's Innovation Score?

Hyglos Invest GMBH has an Innovation Score of 28.1 out of 100 (26th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Hyglos Invest GMBH's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Hyglos Invest GMBH's recent grant velocity is -71% 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 Hyglos Invest GMBH's patents?

Hyglos Invest GMBH's patents average 13.2 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 Hyglos Invest GMBH 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

Hyglos Invest GMBH

Q: What technology areas does Hyglos Invest GMBH focus on?

Hyglos Invest GMBH's top technology area is C12N (Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media) with 7 patents, ranking #1,382 of 4,144 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 12 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 9 granted patents across 12 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2020. 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, Hyglos ranks #29,024 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 9 patents across 12 technology areas.

#29,024
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 26th percentile
by Innovation Score (28.1/100): 13.2
avg claims per patent: -71%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R29024 · Foreign Corporation #29,024 · 9 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 9 grants
MID-PACK #29,024/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Hamlet Protein A/S
CPC-FOCUS C12N · 12 areas
INNOV-THIN 28.1/100
CLAIMS-RICH 13.2 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -71% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Hamlet Protein A/S (±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 Hyglos’s 28.1 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 8.0 pts (28%) Velocity 0.0 pts (0%) Breadth 12.2 pts (43%) Claim depth 7.9 pts (28%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Hyglos Invest · this assignee

28
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Hyglos's Innovation Score is 28.1/100 (26th 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 Hyglos?

Each dot is one of Hyglos’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). Hyglos’s own 13.2 claims/patent is ABOVE the 11.3 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Hyglos's grants concentrate

Hyglos Invest GMBH is a focused PatentsView assignee: 12 CPC subclasses with 77.8% 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 2015 (3 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2017. By volume, Hyglos sits between Hunter's Specialties, Inc. and Hangzhou Timing Security Technologies Co., Ltd..

Hunter's Specialt…

9
Husky Liners

9
Hybrid Razor

9
Hydac Filter Syst…

9
Hyundai Powertech

9
Hamlet Protein A/S

9
Hangzhou Jindoute…

9
Hangzhou Timing S…

9
Hyglos Invest ◀

9

What this shows Hyglos holds 9 patents at rank #28,962, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Hyglos

By rank, the assignees closest to #28,962 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C12N (Microorganisms OR Enzymes)

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

Hyglos's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

28 26th percentile higher than 26% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2020

Grants by year

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

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Hyglos Invest GMBH patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	3	33.3%
2016	2	22.2%
2017	1	11.1%
2019	1	11.1%
2020	2	22.2%

Which technologies does Hyglos Invest GMBH patent most?

C12N - Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media 7

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

C07K - Peptides 5

C12Y - Enzymes 4

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 1

C40B - Combinatorial CHEMISTRY; Libraries, e.g. Chemical Libraries 1

B01D - Separation 1

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 1

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 1

Y10S - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former Uspc Cross-reference ART Collections [XRACs] AND Digests 1

Y02A - Technologies FOR Adaptation TO Climate Change 1

Top 12 of 12 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

Hyglos Invest GMBH's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Hyglos Invest GMBH's lead technology class is C12N (Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media), 77.8% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C12N
Ranked #29,024 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Hyglos Invest GMBH against Hunter's Specialties, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 28.1/100 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

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