Where does Neogen Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Neogen Corporation ranks #11,019 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 Neogen Corporation hold?

Neogen Corporation holds 28 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2024, spanning 19 technology areas.

What is Neogen Corporation's Innovation Score?

Neogen Corporation has an Innovation Score of 37.8 out of 100 (top 43% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Neogen Corporation focus on?

Neogen Corporation's top technology area is G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties) with 11 patents, ranking #1,329 of 7,863 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 19 CPC subclasses total.

Is Neogen Corporation's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Neogen Corporation's recent grant velocity is -35% 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 Neogen Corporation's patents?

Neogen Corporation's patents average 11.7 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 Neogen Corporation 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

Neogen Corporation

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 28 granted patents across 19 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2024. 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: G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Neogen ranks #11,019 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 28 patents across 19 technology areas.

#11,019
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 43%
by Innovation Score (37.8/100): 11.7
avg claims per patent: -35%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R11019 · US Corporation #11,019 · 28 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 28 grants
UPPER-Q #11,019/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Mux
CPC-FOCUS G01N · 19 areas
INNOV-THIN 37.8/100
CLAIMS-PAR 11.7 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DOWN -35% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Mux, 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 Neogen’s 37.8 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 11.6 pts (31%) Velocity 3.7 pts (10%) Breadth 15.4 pts (41%) Claim depth 7.0 pts (19%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Barclays Execution… · near

38
Coherex Medical · near

38
FD IP & Licensing · near

38
Neogen · this assignee

38
Wellfine Silicone… · near

38
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Neogen's Innovation Score is 37.8/100 (top 43% 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 Neogen?

Each dot is one of Neogen’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). Neogen’s own 11.7 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.

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

Where Neogen's grants concentrate

Neogen Corporation is a focused PatentsView assignee: 19 CPC subclasses with 39.3% of grants classified under G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties). Peak complete grant year is 2017 (5 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2021. By volume, Neogen sits between Mux, Inc. and Nissin Chemical Industry Co., Ltd..

Neogen's three-year grant acceleration

Neogen Corporation shows 5 grants in 2022–2024 against only 9 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.

Mux

28
Mylan Laboratories

28
Nanjing Forestry…

28
National Christma…

28
NEW World Medical

28
Nexter Munitions

28
Nippon Filcon

28
Nissin Chemical I…

28
Neogen ◀

28

What this shows Neogen holds 28 patents at rank #11,014, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Neogen

By rank, the assignees closest to #11,014 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their…)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Neogen, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their…), Neogen ranks #1,329 of 7,863 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (38 here).

Barclays Execution Services Limited 38 Coherex Medical, Inc. 38 FD IP & Licensing LLC 38 Wellfine Silicone Products Co., Ltd. 38

Neogen's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

38 Top 43% higher than 57% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2024

Grants by year

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

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Neogen Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	3	10.7%
2016	2	7.1%
2017	5	17.9%
2018	4	14.3%
2019	3	10.7%
2020	5	17.9%
2021	1	3.6%
2023	3	10.7%
2024	2	7.1%

Which technologies does Neogen Corporation patent most?

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 11

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 5

B01L - Chemical OR Physical Laboratory Apparatus FOR General USE 4

A61M - Devices FOR Introducing Media Into, OR Onto, THE Body ; Devices FOR Transducing Body Media OR FOR Taking Media From THE Body ; Devices FOR Producing OR Ending Sleep OR Stupor 3

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 2

B05B - Spraying APPARATUS; Atomising APPARATUS; Nozzles 2

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 2

B05C - Apparatus FOR Applying Fluent Materials TO Surfaces, IN General 2

B65D - Containers FOR Storage OR Transport OF Articles OR Materials, e.g. Bags, Barrels, Bottles, Boxes, Cans, Cartons, Crates, Drums, Jars, Tanks, Hoppers, Forwarding CONTAINERS; Accessories, Closures, OR Fittings THEREFOR; Packaging ELEMENTS; Packages 2

A23L - Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Preparation OR Treatment Thereof 2

A23V - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages AND Lactic OR Propionic Acid Bacteria Used IN Foodstuffs OR Food Preparation 2

A61D - Veterinary Instruments, Implements, Tools, OR Methods 2

A01M - Catching, Trapping OR Scaring OF Animals ; Apparatus FOR THE Destruction OF Noxious Animals OR Noxious Plants 1

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 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

Top 15 of 19 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

Neogen Corporation's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Neogen Corporation's lead technology class is G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties), 39.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G01N
Ranked #11,019 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Neogen Corporation against Mux, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 37.8/100 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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