Where does Monsanto Technology LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Monsanto Technology LLC ranks #91 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 Monsanto Technology LLC hold?

Monsanto Technology LLC holds 3,956 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 99 technology areas.

What is Monsanto Technology LLC's Innovation Score?

Monsanto Technology LLC has an Innovation Score of 70.0 out of 100 (top 1% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Monsanto Technology LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Monsanto Technology LLC's recent grant velocity is -32% 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 Monsanto Technology LLC's patents?

Monsanto Technology LLC's patents average 19.8 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 Monsanto Technology LLC 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

Monsanto Technology LLC

Q: What technology areas does Monsanto Technology LLC focus on?

Monsanto Technology LLC's top technology area is A01H (NEW Plants OR ; NON-TRANSGENIC; Processes FOR Obtaining THEM; Plant Reproduction BY Tissue Culture Techniques) with 3,234 patents, ranking #1 of 285 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 99 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 3,956 granted patents across 99 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, Monsanto ranks #91 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 3,956 patents across 99 technology areas.

#91
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 1%
by Innovation Score (70.0/100): 19.8
avg claims per patent: -32%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R91 · US Corporation #91 · 3,956 grants

GRANTS-LARGE · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-LARGE 4.0K grants
TOP-DECILE #91/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH BlackBerry
CPC-WIDE A01H · 99 areas
INNOV-STRONG 70.0/100
CLAIMS-RICH 19.8 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DOWN -32% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: BlackBerry Limited (±3 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 Monsanto’s 70.0 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 28.6 pts (41%) Velocity 4.5 pts (6%) Breadth 25.0 pts (36%) Claim depth 11.9 pts (17%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Deere & · near

70
Rockwell Automation · near

70
Samsara · near

70
Monsanto Technology · this assignee

70
Sandisk · near

70
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Monsanto's Innovation Score is 70.0/100 (top 1% 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 Monsanto?

Each dot is one of Monsanto’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). Monsanto’s own 19.8 claims/patent is ABOVE the 13.4 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How Monsanto's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Monsanto Technology LLC received 1,489 grants versus 2,183 in 2015–2019 (-32% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2016 at 463 grants and bottomed in 2023 at 165. Lead class A01H accounts for 81.7% of the portfolio across 99 subclasses. Volume neighbours: United Microelectronics Corp. (#87) and Fanuc Corporation (#95).

Monsanto's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Monsanto Technology LLC moved from 1,144 to 777 grants (0.68x 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 #2,214. See the growth leaderboard.

United Microelect…

4,034
HON HAI Precision…

4,005
Western Digital

3,986
LG Innotek

3,977
Monsanto Technolo… ◀

3,956
Blackberry

3,953
Deere &

3,926
Renesas

3,882
Fanuc

3,797

What this shows Monsanto holds 3,956 patents at rank #91, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Monsanto

By rank, the assignees closest to #91 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A01H (NEW Plants OR)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Monsanto, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A01H (NEW Plants OR), Monsanto ranks #1 of 285 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (70 here).

Sandisk Technologies, Inc. 70 Deere & Company 70 Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc. 70 Samsara Inc. 70

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (19.8 here).

Tableau Software, Inc. 19.8 avg Databricks, Inc. 19.8 avg NetApp, Inc. 19.9 avg SRI International 19.9 avg

Monsanto's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

70 Top 1% higher than 99% 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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Monsanto Technology LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	443	11.2%
2016	463	11.7%
2017	438	11.1%
2018	407	10.3%
2019	432	10.9%
2020	432	10.9%
2021	280	7.1%
2022	331	8.4%
2023	165	4.2%
2024	281	7.1%
2025partial year	284	7.2%

Which technologies does Monsanto Technology LLC patent most?

A01H - NEW Plants OR ; NON-TRANSGENIC; Processes FOR Obtaining THEM; Plant Reproduction BY Tissue Culture Techniques 3,234

C12N - Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media 1,335

Y02A - Technologies FOR Adaptation TO Climate Change 369

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 284

C07K - Peptides 202

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 194

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 105

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 74

A23D - Edible Oils OR Fats, e.g. Margarines, Shortenings OR Cooking Oils 71

C12Y - Enzymes 59

A23L - Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Preparation OR Treatment Thereof 58

A01C - PLANTING; SOWING; Fertilising 41

C12R - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses C12c - C12q, Relating TO Microorganisms 37

C07D - Heterocyclic Compounds 30

A01G - HORTICULTURE; Cultivation OF Vegetables, Flowers, Rice, Fruit, Vines, Hops OR SEAWEED; FORESTRY; Watering 25

Top 15 of 99 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

Monsanto Technology LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Monsanto Technology LLC's lead technology class is A01H (NEW Plants OR ; NON-TRANSGENIC; Processes FOR Obtaining THEM; Plant Reproduction BY Tissue Culture Techniques), 81.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A01H
Ranked #91 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Monsanto Technology LLC against United Microelectronics Corp., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 70.0/100 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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