Where does Limagrain Europe S.A. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Limagrain Europe S.A. ranks #6,456 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 Limagrain Europe S.A. hold?

Limagrain Europe S.A. holds 52 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 5 technology areas.

What is Limagrain Europe S.A.'s Innovation Score?

Limagrain Europe S.A. has an Innovation Score of 41.5 out of 100 (top 33% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Limagrain Europe S.A.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Limagrain Europe S.A.'s recent grant velocity is +13% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). The company is maintaining or growing its granted-patent output.

What does claim depth mean for Limagrain Europe S.A.'s patents?

Limagrain Europe S.A.'s patents average 31.1 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 Limagrain Europe S.A. 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

Limagrain Europe S.A.

Q: What technology areas does Limagrain Europe S.A. focus on?

Limagrain Europe S.A.'s top technology area is A01H (NEW Plants OR ; NON-TRANSGENIC; Processes FOR Obtaining THEM; Plant Reproduction BY Tissue Culture Techniques) with 51 patents, ranking #21 of 285 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 5 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 52 granted patents across 5 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: 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, Limagrain ranks #6,456 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 52 patents across 5 technology areas.

#6,456
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 33%
by Innovation Score (41.5/100): 31.1
avg claims per patent: +13%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R6456 · Foreign Corporation #6,456 · 52 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-UP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 52 grants
UPPER-Q #6,456/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Kala Pharmaceuticals
CPC-NARROW A01H · 5 areas
INNOV-PAR 41.5/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 31.1 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-UP +13% 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 Limagrain’s 41.5 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 (33%) Velocity 4.9 pts (12%) Breadth 7.9 pts (19%) Claim depth 15.0 pts (36%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Blackship Development · near

42
Enza Zaden Beheer B V · near

42
Illumio · near

42
Limagrain Europe · this assignee

42
Syncrude Canada in… · near

42
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Limagrain's Innovation Score is 41.5/100 (top 33% 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 Limagrain?

Each dot is one of Limagrain’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). Limagrain’s own 31.1 claims/patent is ABOVE the 12.1 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Limagrain's grants concentrate

Limagrain Europe S.A. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 5 CPC subclasses with 98.1% 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 2020 (9 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2023. By volume, Limagrain sits between Kyushu University and Maquet GMBH.

Limagrain's three-year grant acceleration

Limagrain Europe S.A. shows 14 grants in 2022–2024 against only 19 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.

Kyushu University

52
Kala Pharmaceutic…

52
King Furniture Au…

52
Lanzatech New Zea…

52
Lumson S p A

52
M31 Technology

52
MAN Diesel & Turb…

52
Maquet

52
Limagrain Europe ◀

52

What this shows Limagrain holds 52 patents at rank #6,456, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Limagrain

By rank, the assignees closest to #6,456 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A01H (NEW Plants OR)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Limagrain, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A01H (NEW Plants OR), Limagrain ranks #21 of 285 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (42 here).

Illumio, Inc. 42 Enza Zaden Beheer B.V. 42 Syncrude Canada Ltd. in trust for the owners of the Syncrude Project as such owners exist now and in the future 42 Blackship Technologies Development LLC 42

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (31.1 here).

Foamix Pharamaceuticals Ltd. 31.2 avg Kardium Inc. 31.0 avg Cooledge Lighting Inc. 30.9 avg Ultratec, Inc. 30.8 avg

Limagrain's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

42 Top 33% higher than 67% 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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Limagrain Europe S.A. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	6	11.5%
2016	4	7.7%
2017	3	5.8%
2018	5	9.6%
2019	6	11.5%
2020	9	17.3%
2021	4	7.7%
2022	6	11.5%
2023	2	3.8%
2024	6	11.5%
2025partial year	1	1.9%

Which technologies does Limagrain Europe S.A. patent most?

A01H - NEW Plants OR ; NON-TRANSGENIC; Processes FOR Obtaining THEM; Plant Reproduction BY Tissue Culture Techniques 51

C12N - Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media 11

A23L - Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Preparation OR Treatment Thereof 3

C08B - POLYSACCHARIDES; Derivatives Thereof 1

C11B - Producing, e.g. BY Pressing RAW Materials OR BY Extraction From Waste Materials, Refining OR Preserving Fats, Fatty Substances, e.g. Lanolin, Fatty Oils OR WAXES; Essential OILS; Perfumes 1

Top 5 of 5 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

Limagrain Europe S.A.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Limagrain Europe S.A.'s lead technology class is A01H (NEW Plants OR ; NON-TRANSGENIC; Processes FOR Obtaining THEM; Plant Reproduction BY Tissue Culture Techniques), 98.1% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A01H
Ranked #6,456 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Limagrain Europe S.A. against Kyushu University, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 41.5/100 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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