Where does Inovio Pharmaceuticals, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Inovio Pharmaceuticals, Inc. ranks #4,246 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 Inovio Pharmaceuticals, Inc. hold?

Inovio Pharmaceuticals, Inc. holds 84 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 18 technology areas.

What is Inovio Pharmaceuticals, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Inovio Pharmaceuticals, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 50.1 out of 100 (top 14% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Inovio Pharmaceuticals, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Inovio Pharmaceuticals, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +176% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Inovio Pharmaceuticals, Inc.'s patents?

Inovio Pharmaceuticals, Inc.'s patents average 16.0 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 Inovio Pharmaceuticals, 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

Inovio Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Inovio Pharmaceuticals, Inc. focus on?

Inovio Pharmaceuticals, Inc.'s top technology area is A61K (Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes) with 70 patents. Grants appear in 18 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 84 granted patents across 18 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: A61K (Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Inovio ranks #4,246 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 84 patents across 18 technology areas.

#4,246
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 14%
by Innovation Score (50.1/100): 16.0
avg claims per patent: +176%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R4246 · US Corporation #4,246 · 84 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 84 grants
TOP-DECILE #4,246/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Galapagos
CPC-FOCUS A61K · 18 areas
INNOV-PAR 50.1/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.0 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +176% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Galapagos NV (±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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
American Honda Motor · near

50
Bourns · near

50
GIESECKE+DEVRIENT… · near

50
Inovio Pharmaceuticals · this assignee

50
Spiber · near

50
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Inovio's Innovation Score is 50.1/100 (top 14% 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.

Where Inovio's grants concentrate

Inovio Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 18 CPC subclasses with 83.3% of grants classified under A61K (Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes). Peak complete grant year is 2021 (17 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2017. By volume, Inovio sits between Galapagos NV and Mallinckrodt Hospital Products IP Unlimited Company.

Inovio's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Inovio Pharmaceuticals, Inc. moved from 25 to 38 grants (1.52x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Galapagos

84
Ignite USA

84
Imra America

84
Inmar Clearing

84
Jtekt Europe

84
Kitagawa Industri…

84
M Technique

84
Mallinckrodt Hosp…

84
Inovio Pharmaceut… ◀

84

What this shows Inovio holds 84 patents at rank #4,246, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Inovio

By rank, the assignees closest to #4,246 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A61K (Preparations FOR Medical)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Inovio, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above).

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (50 here).

GIESECKE+DEVRIENT Mobile Security GMBH 50 Bourns, Inc. 50 Spiber Inc. 50 American Honda Motor Co., Inc. 50

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (16.0 here).

Veolia Water Solutions & Technologies Support 16.0 avg U.S. Well Services, LLC 16.0 avg Simpson Strong-Tie Company, Inc. 16.0 avg Swoop IP Holdings LLC 16.0 avg

Inovio's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

50 Top 14% higher than 86% 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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Inovio Pharmaceuticals, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	5	6.0%
2016	3	3.6%
2017	1	1.2%
2018	7	8.3%
2019	5	6.0%
2020	3	3.6%
2021	17	20.2%
2022	10	11.9%
2023	12	14.3%
2024	16	19.0%
2025partial year	5	6.0%

Which technologies does Inovio Pharmaceuticals, Inc. patent most?

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 70

C07K - Peptides 58

C12N - Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media 58

A61P - Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations 55

Y02A - Technologies FOR Adaptation TO Climate Change 32

A61N - ELECTROTHERAPY; MAGNETOTHERAPY; Radiation THERAPY; Ultrasound Therapy 31

A61M - Devices FOR Introducing Media Into, OR Onto, THE Body ; Devices FOR Transducing Body Media OR FOR Taking Media From THE Body ; Devices FOR Producing OR Ending Sleep OR Stupor 18

C12Y - Enzymes 8

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 6

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 5

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 4

C12P - Fermentation OR Enzyme-using Processes TO Synthesise A Desired Chemical Compound OR Composition OR TO Separate Optical Isomers From A Racemic Mixture 1

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

A61J - Containers Specially Adapted FOR Medical OR Pharmaceutical PURPOSES; Devices OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Bringing Pharmaceutical Products Into Particular Physical OR Administering FORMS; Devices FOR Administering Food OR Medicines ORALLY; Baby COMFORTERS; Devices FOR Receiving Spittle 1

G16B - Bioinformatics, i.e. Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Genetic OR Protein-related Data Processing IN Computational Molecular Biology 1

Top 15 of 18 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#4,246

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

50.1 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

Inovio Pharmaceuticals, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Inovio Pharmaceuticals, Inc.'s lead technology class is A61K (Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes), 83.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A61K
Ranked #4,246 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Inovio Pharmaceuticals, Inc. against Galapagos NV, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 50.1/100 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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