Where does Plant Bioscience Limited rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Plant Bioscience Limited ranks #13,621 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 Plant Bioscience Limited hold?

Plant Bioscience Limited holds 22 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 14 technology areas.

What is Plant Bioscience Limited's Innovation Score?

Plant Bioscience Limited has an Innovation Score of 35.8 out of 100 (top 48% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Plant Bioscience Limited's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Plant Bioscience Limited's recent grant velocity is -58% 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 Plant Bioscience Limited's patents?

Plant Bioscience Limited's patents average 18.0 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 Plant Bioscience 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

Plant Bioscience Limited

Q: What technology areas does Plant Bioscience Limited focus on?

Plant Bioscience Limited's top technology area is C12N (Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media) with 19 patents, ranking #578 of 4,144 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 14 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 22 granted patents across 14 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: 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, Plant ranks #13,621 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 22 patents across 14 technology areas.

#13,621
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 48%
by Innovation Score (35.8/100): 18.0
avg claims per patent: -58%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R13621 · Foreign Corporation #13,621 · 22 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 22 grants
MID-PACK #13,621/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Oxford Instruments…
CPC-FOCUS C12N · 14 areas
INNOV-THIN 35.8/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.0 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -58% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Oxford Instruments Asylum Research, 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 Plant’s 35.8 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 10.8 pts (30%) Velocity 1.0 pts (3%) Breadth 13.2 pts (37%) Claim depth 10.8 pts (30%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Plant Bioscience · this assignee

36
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Plant's Innovation Score is 35.8/100 (top 48% 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 Plant?

Each dot is one of Plant’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). Plant’s own 18.0 claims/patent is ABOVE the 14.9 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Plant's grants concentrate

Plant Bioscience Limited is a focused PatentsView assignee: 14 CPC subclasses with 86.4% 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 2017 (6 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2016. By volume, Plant sits between Oxford Instruments Asylum Research, Inc. and Proprio, Inc..

Plant's three-year grant acceleration

Plant Bioscience Limited shows 1 grants in 2022–2024 against only 7 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.

Oxford Instrument…

22
PA Cotte

22
Paragon Semicondu…

22
Phoenix Electric

22
Plug Power

22
Precitec Optronik

22
Prophesee

22
Proprio

22
Plant Bioscience ◀

22

What this shows Plant holds 22 patents at rank #13,611, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Plant

By rank, the assignees closest to #13,611 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C12N (Microorganisms OR Enzymes)

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

Plant's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

36 Top 48% higher than 52% 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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Plant Bioscience Limited patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	2	9.1%
2016	1	4.5%
2017	6	27.3%
2019	3	13.6%
2020	1	4.5%
2021	3	13.6%
2022	1	4.5%
2025partial year	5	22.7%

Which technologies does Plant Bioscience Limited patent most?

C12N - Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media 19

Y02A - Technologies FOR Adaptation TO Climate Change 10

C07K - Peptides 7

C12Y - Enzymes 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

A01H - NEW Plants OR ; NON-TRANSGENIC; Processes FOR Obtaining THEM; Plant Reproduction BY Tissue Culture Techniques 4

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 4

C12P - Fermentation OR Enzyme-using Processes TO Synthesise A Desired Chemical Compound OR Composition OR TO Separate Optical Isomers From A Racemic Mixture 2

A61P - Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations 2

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

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 1

A23K - Fodder 1

A23C - Dairy Products, e.g. Milk, Butter OR CHEESE; Milk OR Cheese SUBSTITUTES; Making OR Treatment Thereof 1

A23V - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages AND Lactic OR Propionic Acid Bacteria Used IN Foodstuffs OR Food Preparation 1

Top 14 of 14 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

Plant Bioscience Limited's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Plant Bioscience Limited's lead technology class is C12N (Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media), 86.4% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C12N
Ranked #13,621 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Plant Bioscience Limited against Oxford Instruments Asylum Research, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 35.8/100 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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