Where does KOCH Biological Solutions, Llc rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), KOCH Biological Solutions, Llc ranks #24,654 of 50,000 assignees by granted-patent volume, the same sort as the companies listing and top-holders ranking. See /methodology/#corpus-placement.

How many patents does KOCH Biological Solutions, Llc hold?

KOCH Biological Solutions, Llc holds 11 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2019, spanning 7 technology areas.

What is KOCH Biological Solutions, Llc's Innovation Score?

KOCH Biological Solutions, Llc has an Innovation Score of 24.9 out of 100 (top 84% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is KOCH Biological Solutions, Llc's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

KOCH Biological Solutions, Llc's recent grant velocity is -100% 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 KOCH Biological Solutions, Llc's patents?

KOCH Biological Solutions, Llc's patents average 11.6 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 KOCH Biological Solutions, Llc 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

KOCH Biological Solutions, Llc

Q: What technology areas does KOCH Biological Solutions, Llc focus on?

KOCH Biological Solutions, Llc's top technology area is C12N (MICROORGANISMS OR ENZYMES; COMPOSITIONS THEREOF; PROPAGATING, PRESERVING, OR MAINTAINING MICROORGANISMS; MUTATION OR GENETIC ENGINEERING; CULTURE MEDIA) with 10 patents. Grants appear in 7 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 11 granted patents across 7 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2019. 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, KOCH ranks #24,654 of 50,000 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 11 patents across 7 technology areas.

#24,654
of 50,000 US assignees by volume: Top 84%
by Innovation Score (24.9/100): 11.6
avg claims per patent: -100%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R24654 · US Corporation #24,654 · 11 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-PAR · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 11 grants
MID-PACK #24,654/50,000
PHOTO-FINISH KLATU Networks
CPC-NARROW C12N · 7 areas
INNOV-THIN 24.9/100
CLAIMS-PAR 11.6 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -100% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Klatu Networks, 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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
KOCH Biological Solu… · this assignee

25
3D Lighting Innovati… · lowest

7

What this shows KOCH's Innovation Score is 24.9/100 (top 84% 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 KOCH's grants concentrate

KOCH Biological Solutions, Llc is a focused PatentsView assignee: 7 CPC subclasses with 90.9% 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 2019 (5 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2016. By volume, KOCH sits between Klatu Networks, Inc. and KONI B.v..

Klatu Networks

11
KMC Chain Industr…

11
KNO2

11
KNOW Systems

11
Kojima Press Indu…

11
Komico

11
Kongju National U…

11
KONI B V

11
KOCH Biological S… ◀

11

What this shows KOCH holds 11 patents at rank #24,632, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near KOCH

By rank, the assignees closest to #24,632 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C12N (Microorganisms OR Enzymes)

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

KOCH's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

25 Top 84% higher than 16% of 50,000 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2019

Grants by year

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

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KOCH Biological Solutions, Llc patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	1	9.1%
2017	2	18.2%
2018	3	27.3%
2019	5	45.5%

Which technologies does KOCH Biological Solutions, Llc patent most?

C12N - MICROORGANISMS OR ENZYMES; COMPOSITIONS THEREOF; PROPAGATING, PRESERVING, OR MAINTAINING MICROORGANISMS; MUTATION OR GENETIC ENGINEERING; CULTURE MEDIA 10

C07K - PEPTIDES 9

Y02A - TECHNOLOGIES FOR ADAPTATION TO CLIMATE CHANGE 5

A01H - NEW PLANTS OR ; NON-TRANSGENIC; PROCESSES FOR OBTAINING THEM; PLANT REPRODUCTION BY TISSUE CULTURE TECHNIQUES 1

G01N - INVESTIGATING OR ANALYSING MATERIALS BY DETERMINING THEIR CHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL PROPERTIES 1

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 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

Top 7 of 7 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#24,654

of 50,000 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

24.9 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

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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