Where does LanzaTech New Zealand Limited rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), LanzaTech New Zealand Limited ranks #6,455 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 LanzaTech New Zealand Limited hold?

LanzaTech New Zealand Limited holds 52 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2022, spanning 18 technology areas.

What is LanzaTech New Zealand Limited's Innovation Score?

LanzaTech New Zealand Limited has an Innovation Score of 38.4 out of 100 (top 41% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is LanzaTech New Zealand Limited's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

LanzaTech New Zealand Limited's recent grant velocity is -76% 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 LanzaTech New Zealand Limited's patents?

LanzaTech New Zealand Limited's patents average 15.4 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 LanzaTech New Zealand Limited 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

LanzaTech New Zealand Limited

Q: What technology areas does LanzaTech New Zealand Limited focus on?

LanzaTech New Zealand Limited's top technology area is C12P (Fermentation OR Enzyme-using Processes TO Synthesise A Desired Chemical Compound OR Composition OR TO Separate Optical Isomers From A Racemic Mixture) with 45 patents, ranking #28 of 1,268 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 18 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 52 granted patents across 18 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2022. 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: C12P (Fermentation OR Enzyme-using Processes TO Synthesise A Desired Chemical Compound OR Composition OR TO Separate Optical Isomers From A Racemic Mixture).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Lanzatech ranks #6,455 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 52 patents across 18 technology areas.

#6,455
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 41%
by Innovation Score (38.4/100): 15.4
avg claims per patent: -76%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R6455 · US Corporation #6,455 · 52 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 52 grants
UPPER-Q #6,455/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Kala Pharmaceuticals
CPC-FOCUS C12P · 18 areas
INNOV-THIN 38.4/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.4 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -76% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Kala Pharmaceuticals, 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 Lanzatech’s 38.4 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 13.7 pts (36%) Velocity 0.4 pts (1%) Breadth 15.0 pts (39%) Claim depth 9.2 pts (24%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Freudenberg-NOK… · near

38
Ipex · near

38
LanzaTech New Zealand · this assignee

38
NL Giken Incorporated · near

38
Obrist Closures… · near

38
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Lanzatech's Innovation Score is 38.4/100 (top 41% 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 Lanzatech?

Each dot is one of Lanzatech’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). Lanzatech’s own 15.4 claims/patent is ABOVE the 10.3 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Lanzatech's grants concentrate

LanzaTech New Zealand Limited is a focused PatentsView assignee: 18 CPC subclasses with 86.5% of grants classified under C12P (Fermentation OR Enzyme-using Processes TO Synthesise A Desired Chemical Compound OR Composition OR TO Separate Optical Isomers From A Racemic Mixture). Peak complete grant year is 2016 (11 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2022. By volume, Lanzatech sits between Kyowa Hakko BIO Co., Ltd. and MAN Diesel & Turbo SE.

Lanzatech's three-year grant acceleration

LanzaTech New Zealand Limited shows 1 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.

Kyowa Hakko BIO

52
Kyushu University

52
Kala Pharmaceutic…

52
King Furniture Au…

52
Limagrain Europe

52
Lumson S p A

52
M31 Technology

52
MAN Diesel & Turb…

52
Lanzatech New Zea… ◀

52

What this shows LanzaTech holds 52 patents at rank #6,455, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near LanzaTech

By rank, the assignees closest to #6,455 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C12P (Fermentation OR Enzyme-using Processes TO Synthesise A De…)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for LanzaTech, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In C12P (Fermentation OR Enzyme-using Processes TO Synthesise A De…), LanzaTech ranks #28 of 1,268 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (38 here).

Ipex Technologies Inc. 38 Obrist Closures Switzerland GMBH 38 Freudenberg-NOK General Partnership 38 NL Giken Incorporated 38

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (15.4 here).

Manitowoc Crane Group France 15.4 avg Micro Focus Software Inc. 15.4 avg OUR United Corporation 15.4 avg Research Foundation OF THE City University OF NEW York 15.4 avg

Lanzatech's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

38 Top 41% higher than 59% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2022

Grants by year

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

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LanzaTech New Zealand Limited patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	4	7.7%
2016	11	21.2%
2017	11	21.2%
2018	8	15.4%
2019	8	15.4%
2020	5	9.6%
2021	4	7.7%
2022	1	1.9%

Which technologies does LanzaTech New Zealand Limited patent most?

C12P - Fermentation OR Enzyme-using Processes TO Synthesise A Desired Chemical Compound OR Composition OR TO Separate Optical Isomers From A Racemic Mixture 45

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 45

C12N - Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media 32

C12Y - Enzymes 21

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 16

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 9

C01B - Non-metallic ELEMENTS; Compounds THEREOF; ; Metalloids OR Compounds Thereof NOT Covered BY Subclass C01c 4

Y02A - Technologies FOR Adaptation TO Climate Change 4

C12R - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses C12c - C12q, Relating TO Microorganisms 3

Y02W - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Wastewater Treatment OR Waste Management 3

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 2

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 2

B01D - Separation 2

B01F - Mixing, e.g. Dissolving, Emulsifying OR Dispersing 1

C25B - Electrolytic OR Electrophoretic Processes FOR THE Production OF Compounds OR NON-METALS; Apparatus Therefor 1

Top 15 of 18 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

LanzaTech New Zealand Limited's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

LanzaTech New Zealand Limited's lead technology class is C12P (Fermentation OR Enzyme-using Processes TO Synthesise A Desired Chemical Compound OR Composition OR TO Separate Optical Isomers From A Racemic Mixture), 86.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C12P
Ranked #6,455 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare LanzaTech New Zealand Limited against Kyowa Hakko BIO Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 38.4/100 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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