Where does Lonza Walkersville, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Lonza Walkersville, Inc. ranks #13,031 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 Walkersville, Inc. hold?

Lonza Walkersville, Inc. holds 23 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2025, spanning 13 technology areas.

What is Lonza Walkersville, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Lonza Walkersville, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 54.0 out of 100 (top 8% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Lonza Walkersville, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Lonza Walkersville, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +180% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Lonza Walkersville, Inc.'s patents?

Lonza Walkersville, Inc.'s patents average 17.0 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 Walkersville, Inc. 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

Lonza Walkersville, Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Lonza Walkersville, Inc. focus on?

Lonza Walkersville, Inc.'s top technology area is C12N (Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media) with 17 patents, ranking #632 of 4,144 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 13 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 23 granted patents across 13 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2025. 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 #13,031 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 23 patents across 13 technology areas.

#13,031
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 8%
by Innovation Score (54.0/100): 17.0
avg claims per patent: +180%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R13031 · US Corporation #13,031 · 23 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 23 grants
MID-PACK #13,031/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Lakeshore Equipment
CPC-FOCUS C12N · 13 areas
INNOV-PAR 54.0/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.0 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +180% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Lakeshore Equipment Company (±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 Lonza’s 54.0 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 11.0 pts (20%) Velocity 20.0 pts (37%) Breadth 12.7 pts (24%) Claim depth 10.2 pts (19%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Lonza Walkersville · this assignee

54
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Lonza's Innovation Score is 54.0/100 (top 8% 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 Lonza?

Each dot is one of Lonza’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). Lonza’s own 17.0 claims/patent is ABOVE the 10.1 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Lonza's grants concentrate

Lonza Walkersville, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 13 CPC subclasses with 73.9% 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 2023 (7 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2016. By volume, Lonza sits between Lanzhou Institute OF Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy OF Sciences and Lankenau Institute for Medical Research.

Lonza's three-year grant acceleration

Lonza Walkersville, Inc. shows 13 grants in 2022–2024 against only 3 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.

Lanzhou Institute…

23
Leeno Industrial

23
Loma Linda Univer…

23
Lontium Semicondu…

23
Luminator Holding

23
Luxury Goods Inte…

23
Lakeshore Equipme…

23
Lankenau Institut…

23
Lonza Walkersville ◀

23

What this shows Lonza holds 23 patents at rank #13,017, 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 #13,017 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C12N (Microorganisms OR Enzymes)

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

Lonza's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

54 Top 8% higher than 92% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2025

Grants by year

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

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Lonza Walkersville, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	1	4.3%
2018	2	8.7%
2019	2	8.7%
2021	1	4.3%
2022	2	8.7%
2023	7	30.4%
2024	4	17.4%
2025partial year	4	17.4%

Which technologies does Lonza Walkersville, Inc. patent most?

C12N - Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media 17

C07K - Peptides 9

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 9

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 7

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 5

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 4

C08L - Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds 1

C08K - Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances as compounding ingredients 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

Y02A - Technologies FOR Adaptation TO Climate Change 1

B01L - Chemical OR Physical Laboratory Apparatus FOR General USE 1

B01D - Separation 1

A61P - Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations 1

Top 13 of 13 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

Lonza Walkersville, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Lonza Walkersville, Inc.'s lead technology class is C12N (Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media), 73.9% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C12N
Ranked #13,031 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Lonza Walkersville, Inc. against Lanzhou Institute OF Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy OF Sciences, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 54.0/100 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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