Where does Novozymes Biologicals Limited rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Novozymes Biologicals Limited ranks #14,177 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 Novozymes Biologicals Limited hold?

Novozymes Biologicals Limited holds 21 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2024, spanning 13 technology areas.

What is Novozymes Biologicals Limited's Innovation Score?

Novozymes Biologicals Limited has an Innovation Score of 34.7 out of 100 (48th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Novozymes Biologicals Limited's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Novozymes Biologicals Limited's recent grant velocity is -76% 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 Novozymes Biologicals Limited's patents?

Novozymes Biologicals Limited's patents average 16.6 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 Novozymes Biologicals Limited 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

Novozymes Biologicals Limited

Q: What technology areas does Novozymes Biologicals Limited focus on?

Novozymes Biologicals Limited's top technology area is 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) with 12 patents, ranking #105 of 1,216 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 13 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 21 granted patents across 13 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: 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).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Novozymes ranks #14,177 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 21 patents across 13 technology areas.

#14,177
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 48th percentile
by Innovation Score (34.7/100): 16.6
avg claims per patent: -76%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R14177 · Foreign Corporation #14,177 · 21 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 21 grants
MID-PACK #14,177/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Namiki Seimitsu…
CPC-FOCUS A01N · 13 areas
INNOV-THIN 34.7/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.6 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -76% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Namiki Seimitsu Houseki Kabushiki Kaisha (±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 Novozymes’s 34.7 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 10.7 pts (31%) Velocity 1.3 pts (4%) Breadth 12.7 pts (37%) Claim depth 9.9 pts (29%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Novozymes Biologicals · this assignee

35
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Novozymes's Innovation Score is 34.7/100 (48th percentile 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 Novozymes?

Each dot is one of Novozymes’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). Novozymes’s own 16.6 claims/patent is ABOVE the 8.6 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Novozymes's grants concentrate

Novozymes Biologicals Limited is a focused PatentsView assignee: 13 CPC subclasses with 57.1% of grants classified under 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). Peak complete grant year is 2016 (5 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2020. By volume, Novozymes sits between Nisshinbo Chemical Inc. and Neptun Light, Inc..

Novozymes's three-year grant acceleration

Novozymes Biologicals Limited shows 1 grants in 2022–2024 against only 5 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.

Nisshinbo Chemical

21
Njoy

21
Nohms

21
Novembal USA

21
NPS Public Furnit…

21
Nubilus B V

21
Namiki Seimitsu H…

21
Neptun Light

21
Novozymes Biologi… ◀

21

What this shows Novozymes holds 21 patents at rank #14,166, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Novozymes

By rank, the assignees closest to #14,166 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A01N (Preservation OF Bodies OF Humans OR Animals OR Plants OR…)

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

Novozymes's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

35 48th percentile higher than 48% 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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Novozymes Biologicals Limited patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	3	14.3%
2016	5	23.8%
2017	3	14.3%
2018	4	19.0%
2019	2	9.5%
2020	1	4.8%
2021	2	9.5%
2024	1	4.8%

Which technologies does Novozymes Biologicals Limited patent most?

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 12

C12N - Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media 10

C05F - Organic Fertilisers NOT Covered BY Subclasses C05b, C05c, e.g. Fertilisers From Waste OR Refuse 10

C12R - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses C12c - C12q, Relating TO Microorganisms 9

A01C - PLANTING; SOWING; Fertilising 7

C05B - Phosphatic Fertilisers 7

C11D - Detergent COMPOSITIONS; USE OF Single Substances AS DETERGENTS; Soap OR SOAP-MAKING; Resin SOAPS; Recovery OF Glycerol 6

A61L - Methods OR Apparatus FOR Sterilising Materials OR Objects IN GENERAL; Disinfection, Sterilisation OR Deodorisation OF AIR; Chemical Aspects OF Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads OR Surgical ARTICLES; Materials FOR Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads OR Surgical Articles 5

D06F - Laundering, Drying, Ironing, Pressing OR Folding Textile Articles 5

C02F - Treatment OF Water, Waste Water, Sewage, OR Sludge 4

Y02W - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Wastewater Treatment OR Waste Management 2

Y02A - Technologies FOR Adaptation TO Climate Change 1

A01K - Animal HUSBANDRY; AVICULTURE; APICULTURE; PISCICULTURE; FISHING; Rearing OR Breeding Animals, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; NEW Breeds OF Animals 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

Novozymes Biologicals Limited's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Novozymes Biologicals Limited's lead technology class is 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), 57.1% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A01N
Ranked #14,177 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Novozymes Biologicals Limited against Nisshinbo Chemical Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 34.7/100 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

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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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