Where does KWS Saat SE & Co. KGaA rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), KWS Saat SE & Co. KGaA ranks #4,342 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 KWS Saat SE & Co. KGaA hold?

KWS Saat SE & Co. KGaA holds 82 US utility patents granted between 2020 and 2025, spanning 17 technology areas.

What is KWS Saat SE & Co. KGaA's Innovation Score?

KWS Saat SE & Co. KGaA has an Innovation Score of 63.3 out of 100 (top 2% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is KWS Saat SE & Co. KGaA's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Insufficient historical data is available to calculate a velocity trend for KWS Saat SE & Co. KGaA.

What does claim depth mean for KWS Saat SE & Co. KGaA's patents?

KWS Saat SE & Co. KGaA's patents average 22.4 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 KWS Saat SE & Co. KGaA 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

KWS Saat SE & Co. KGaA

Q: What technology areas does KWS Saat SE & Co. KGaA focus on?

KWS Saat SE & Co. KGaA's top technology area is A01H (NEW Plants OR ; NON-TRANSGENIC; Processes FOR Obtaining THEM; Plant Reproduction BY Tissue Culture Techniques) with 60 patents, ranking #18 of 285 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 17 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 82 granted patents across 17 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2020–2025. 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: A01H (NEW Plants OR ; NON-TRANSGENIC; Processes FOR Obtaining THEM; Plant Reproduction BY Tissue Culture Techniques).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, KWS ranks #4,342 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 82 patents across 17 technology areas.

#4,342
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 2%
by Innovation Score (63.3/100): 22.4
avg claims per patent

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R4342 · Foreign Corporation #4,342 · 82 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-FRNCORP · SPAN-YRS · BOOK-RICH

GRANTS-SMALL 82 grants
TOP-DECILE #4,342/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Innovex Downhole…
CPC-FOCUS A01H · 17 areas
INNOV-STRONG 63.3/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 22.4 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
SPAN-YRS 2020–2025 · 6y
BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Innovex Downhole Solutions, 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.

How KWS’s 63.3 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 15.3 pts (24%) Velocity 20.0 pts (32%) Breadth 14.6 pts (23%) Claim depth 13.4 pts (21%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Entegris · near

63
Illuscio · near

63
KWS Saat SE & KGaA · this assignee

63
Kohler · near

63
Sprint Communications · near

63
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows KWS's Innovation Score is 63.3/100 (top 2% 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 KWS?

Each dot is one of KWS’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). KWS’s own 22.4 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.5 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where KWS's grants concentrate

KWS Saat SE & Co. KGaA is a focused PatentsView assignee: 17 CPC subclasses with 73.2% of grants classified under A01H (NEW Plants OR ; NON-TRANSGENIC; Processes FOR Obtaining THEM; Plant Reproduction BY Tissue Culture Techniques). Peak complete grant year is 2024 (27 grants) versus a trough of 8 in 2020. By volume, KWS sits between Innovex Downhole Solutions, Inc. and Nova Measuring Instruments Inc..

KWS's three-year grant acceleration

KWS Saat SE & Co. KGaA shows 59 grants in 2022–2024 against only 17 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.

Innovex Downhole…

82
Institut Mines Te…

82
Institut National…

82
Institute For Bas…

82
Lufthansa Technik

82
Lund Motion Produ…

82
Magneti Marelli S…

82
Nova Measuring In…

82
KWS Saat SE & Kgaa ◀

82

What this shows KWS holds 82 patents at rank #4,340, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near KWS

By rank, the assignees closest to #4,340 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A01H (NEW Plants OR)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for KWS, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A01H (NEW Plants OR), KWS ranks #18 of 285 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (63 here).

Illuscio, Inc. 63 Entegris, Inc. 63 Sprint Communications Company, L.P. 63 Kohler Co. 63

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (22.4 here).

Barracuda Networks, Inc. 22.4 avg TAE Technologies, Inc. 22.4 avg Subsea 7 Limited 22.4 avg Pelican Imaging Corporation 22.4 avg

KWS's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

63 Top 2% higher than 98% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2020–2025

Grants by year

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

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KWS Saat SE & Co. KGaA patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2020	8	9.8%
2021	9	11.0%
2022	20	24.4%
2023	12	14.6%
2024	27	32.9%
2025partial year	6	7.3%

Which technologies does KWS Saat SE & Co. KGaA patent most?

A01H - NEW Plants OR ; NON-TRANSGENIC; Processes FOR Obtaining THEM; Plant Reproduction BY Tissue Culture Techniques 60

C12N - Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media 38

C07K - Peptides 21

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 14

Y02A - Technologies FOR Adaptation TO Climate Change 10

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

C12Y - Enzymes 4

C12R - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses C12c - C12q, Relating TO Microorganisms 2

C12P - Fermentation OR Enzyme-using Processes TO Synthesise A Desired Chemical Compound OR Composition OR TO Separate Optical Isomers From A Racemic Mixture 2

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 2

A23N - Machines OR Apparatus FOR Treating Harvested Fruit, Vegetables OR Flower Bulbs IN Bulk, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Peeling Vegetables OR Fruit IN BULK; Apparatus FOR Preparing Animal Feeding- Stuffs 1

A23K - Fodder 1

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 1

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 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 17 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

KWS Saat SE & Co. KGaA's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

KWS Saat SE & Co. KGaA's lead technology class is A01H (NEW Plants OR ; NON-TRANSGENIC; Processes FOR Obtaining THEM; Plant Reproduction BY Tissue Culture Techniques), 73.2% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A01H
Ranked #4,342 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare KWS Saat SE & Co. KGaA against Innovex Downhole Solutions, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 63.3/100 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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