Where does Novozymes North America Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Novozymes North America Inc. ranks #9,575 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 North America Inc. hold?

Novozymes North America Inc. holds 33 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 21 technology areas.

What is Novozymes North America Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Novozymes North America Inc. has an Innovation Score of 38.3 out of 100 (top 41% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Novozymes North America Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Novozymes North America Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -75% 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 North America Inc.'s patents?

Novozymes North America Inc.'s patents average 15.1 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 Novozymes North America 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

Novozymes North America Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Novozymes North America Inc. focus on?

Novozymes North America Inc.'s top technology area is C12P (Fermentation OR Enzyme-using Processes TO Synthesise A Desired Chemical Compound OR Composition OR TO Separate Optical Isomers From A Racemic Mixture) with 27 patents, ranking #65 of 1,268 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 21 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 33 granted patents across 21 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: C12P (Fermentation OR Enzyme-using Processes TO Synthesise A Desired Chemical Compound OR Composition OR TO Separate Optical Isomers From A Racemic Mixture).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Novozymes ranks #9,575 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 33 patents across 21 technology areas.

#9,575
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 41%
by Innovation Score (38.3/100): 15.1
avg claims per patent: -75%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R9575 · US Corporation #9,575 · 33 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 33 grants
UPPER-Q #9,575/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH National Institutes…
CPC-FOCUS C12P · 21 areas
INNOV-THIN 38.3/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.1 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -75% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology (±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 38.3 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 12.2 pts (32%) Velocity 0.8 pts (2%) Breadth 16.2 pts (42%) Claim depth 9.1 pts (24%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

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Mitsubishi Jidosha… · near

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Brose Fahrzeugteile… · near

38
Novozymes North… · this assignee

38
The Procter &… · near

38
FibroGen · near

38
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Novozymes's Innovation Score is 38.3/100 (top 41% 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 15.1 claims/patent is ABOVE the 14.3 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 North America Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 21 CPC subclasses with 81.8% of grants classified under C12P (Fermentation OR Enzyme-using Processes TO Synthesise A Desired Chemical Compound OR Composition OR TO Separate Optical Isomers From A Racemic Mixture). Peak complete grant year is 2017 (8 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2023. By volume, Novozymes sits between National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology and Otoy Inc..

Novozymes's three-year grant acceleration

Novozymes North America Inc. shows 1 grants in 2022–2024 against only 8 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.

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Osaka City Univer…

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Otoy

33
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33

What this shows Novozymes holds 33 patents at rank #9,574, 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 #9,574 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C12P (Fermentation OR Enzyme-using Processes TO Synthesise A De…)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Novozymes, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In C12P (Fermentation OR Enzyme-using Processes TO Synthesise A De…), Novozymes ranks #65 of 1,268 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (38 here).

Brose Fahrzeugteile GmbH & Co. Kommanditgesellschaft, Hallstadt 38 The Procter & Gamble Plaza 38 Mitsubishi Jidosha Engineering Kabushiki Kaisha 38 FibroGen, Inc. 38

Novozymes's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

38 Top 41% higher than 59% 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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Novozymes North America Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	4	12.1%
2016	6	18.2%
2017	8	24.2%
2018	3	9.1%
2019	3	9.1%
2020	3	9.1%
2021	2	6.1%
2023	1	3.0%
2025partial year	3	9.1%

Which technologies does Novozymes North America Inc. patent most?

C12P - Fermentation OR Enzyme-using Processes TO Synthesise A Desired Chemical Compound OR Composition OR TO Separate Optical Isomers From A Racemic Mixture 27

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 27

C12Y - Enzymes 20

C12N - Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media 20

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

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 5

C07K - Peptides 5

D21C - Production OF Cellulose BY Removing Non-cellulose Substances From Cellulose-containing MATERIALS; Regeneration OF Pulping LIQUORS; Apparatus Therefor 2

H10K - Organic Electric Solid-state Devices 2

C07D - Heterocyclic Compounds 2

Y02C - Capture, Storage, Sequestration OR Disposal OF Greenhouse Gases [GHG] 2

Y02A - Technologies FOR Adaptation TO Climate Change 2

B01D - Separation 2

A21D - Treatment OF Flour OR Dough FOR Baking, e.g. BY Addition OF MATERIALS; BAKING; Bakery Products 1

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 1

Top 15 of 21 technology areas

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Data Source

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What to do with this data

Novozymes North America Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Novozymes North America Inc.'s lead technology class is C12P (Fermentation OR Enzyme-using Processes TO Synthesise A Desired Chemical Compound OR Composition OR TO Separate Optical Isomers From A Racemic Mixture), 81.8% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C12P
Ranked #9,575 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Novozymes North America Inc. against National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 38.3/100 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

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