Where does Lonza Ltd rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Lonza Ltd ranks #2,544 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 Lonza Ltd hold?

Lonza Ltd holds 153 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 61 technology areas.

What is Lonza Ltd's Innovation Score?

Lonza Ltd has an Innovation Score of 58.4 out of 100 (top 4% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Lonza Ltd's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Lonza Ltd's recent grant velocity is -10% 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 Lonza Ltd's patents?

Lonza Ltd's patents average 17.1 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 Lonza Ltd 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

Lonza Ltd

Q: What technology areas does Lonza Ltd focus on?

Lonza Ltd's top technology area is C12N (Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media) with 34 patents. Grants appear in 61 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 153 granted patents across 61 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: 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, Lonza ranks #2,544 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 153 patents across 61 technology areas.

#2,544
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 4%
by Innovation Score (58.4/100): 17.1
avg claims per patent: -10%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2544 · Foreign Corporation #2,544 · 153 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-FLAT · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 153 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,544/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Flex
CPC-WIDE C12N · 61 areas
INNOV-PAR 58.4/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.1 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-FLAT -10% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Flex Ltd. (±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
Airbus Defence AND… · near

58
Bigo Technology PTE · near

58
Lonza · this assignee

58
NEW York Society… · near

58
Sagemcom Broadband SAS · near

58
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Lonza's Innovation Score is 58.4/100 (top 4% 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.

How Lonza's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Lonza Ltd received 70 grants versus 78 in 2015–2019 (-10% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2015 at 26 grants and bottomed in 2018 at 11. Lead class C12N accounts for 22.2% of the portfolio across 61 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Flex Ltd. (#2,540) and Sensata Technologies, Inc. (#2,548).

Lonza's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Lonza Ltd moved from 44 to 38 grants (0.86x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). Among 3,296 tracked assignees with ≥100 grants and ≥20 prior-period grants, that multiple ranks #1,614. See the growth leaderboard.

Flex

153
Gogoro

153
Kwangwoon Univers…

153
Korea Institute O…

153
Motherson Innovat…

153
Runway Blue

153
Safran Electrical…

153
Sensata

153
Lonza ◀

153

What this shows Lonza holds 153 patents at rank #2,544, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Lonza

By rank, the assignees closest to #2,544 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C12N (Microorganisms OR Enzymes)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

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

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (58 here).

Sagemcom Broadband SAS 58 Airbus Defence AND Space SAS 58 Bigo Technology PTE. Ltd. 58 NEW York Society FOR THE Relief OF THE Ruptured AND Crippled, Maintaining THE Hospital FOR Special Surgery 58

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (17.1 here).

Lely Patent N.V. 17.1 avg Airbus Helicopters Deutschland GMBH 17.1 avg Cummins IP, Inc. 17.1 avg The University Court of the University of Glasgow 17.1 avg

Lonza's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

58 Top 4% higher than 96% 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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Lonza Ltd patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	26	17.0%
2016	17	11.1%
2017	12	7.8%
2018	11	7.2%
2019	12	7.8%
2020	16	10.5%
2021	16	10.5%
2022	14	9.2%
2023	12	7.8%
2024	12	7.8%
2025partial year	5	3.3%

Which technologies does Lonza Ltd patent most?

C12N - Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media 34

C12P - Fermentation OR Enzyme-using Processes TO Synthesise A Desired Chemical Compound OR Composition OR TO Separate Optical Isomers From A Racemic Mixture 29

C07K - Peptides 29

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 29

C07C - Acyclic OR Carbocyclic Compounds 21

C07D - Heterocyclic Compounds 21

A61P - Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations 20

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 19

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 15

B01J - Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus 13

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 12

C12Y - Enzymes 8

B01D - Separation 7

C11D - Detergent COMPOSITIONS; USE OF Single Substances AS DETERGENTS; Soap OR SOAP-MAKING; Resin SOAPS; Recovery OF Glycerol 7

G01M - Testing Static OR Dynamic Balance OF Machines OR STRUCTURES; Testing OF Structures OR Apparatus, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 6

Top 15 of 61 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#2,544

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

58.4 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

Lonza Ltd's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Lonza Ltd's lead technology class is C12N (Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media), 22.2% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C12N
Ranked #2,544 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Lonza Ltd against Flex Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 58.4/100 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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