Where does President and Fellows of Harvard College rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), President and Fellows of Harvard College ranks #222 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 President and Fellows of Harvard College hold?

President and Fellows of Harvard College holds 1,824 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 246 technology areas.

What is President and Fellows of Harvard College's Innovation Score?

President and Fellows of Harvard College has an Innovation Score of 69.5 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 President and Fellows of Harvard College's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

President and Fellows of Harvard College's recent grant velocity is +19% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). The company is maintaining or growing its granted-patent output.

What does claim depth mean for President and Fellows of Harvard College's patents?

President and Fellows of Harvard College's patents average 20.8 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 President and Fellows of Harvard College 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

President and Fellows of Harvard College

Q: What technology areas does President and Fellows of Harvard College focus on?

President and Fellows of Harvard College's top technology area is C12N (Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media) with 594 patents, ranking #6 of 4,144 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 246 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 1,824 granted patents across 246 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, President ranks #222 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 1,824 patents across 246 technology areas.

#222
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 1%
by Innovation Score (69.5/100): 20.8
avg claims per patent: +19%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R222 · US Corporation #222 · 1,824 grants

GRANTS-LARGE · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-BROAD · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-UP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-LARGE 1.8K grants
TOP-DECILE #222/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Haier US Appliance…
CPC-BROAD C12N · 246 areas
INNOV-STRONG 69.5/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 20.8 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-UP +19% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Haier US Appliance Solutions, Inc. (±5 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 President’s 69.5 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 25.9 pts (37%) Velocity 6.0 pts (9%) Breadth 25.0 pts (36%) Claim depth 12.5 pts (18%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Prince Mohammad BIN… · near

69
UNIVERSITÉ Paris CITÉ · near

69
AUO · near

69
President and… · this assignee

69
ZF Automotive Germany · near

69
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows President's Innovation Score is 69.5/100 (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 President?

Each dot is one of President’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). President’s own 20.8 claims/patent is ABOVE the 16.9 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How President's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, President and Fellows of Harvard College received 922 grants versus 777 in 2015–2019 (+19% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2021 at 205 grants and bottomed in 2015 at 123. Lead class C12N accounts for 32.6% of the portfolio across 246 subclasses. Volume neighbours: The Nielsen Company (US), LLC (#218) and Citrix Systems, Inc. (#226).

President's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, President and Fellows of Harvard College moved from 581 to 526 grants (0.91x 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 #1,457. See the growth leaderboard.

The Nielsen (US)

1,844
California Instit…

1,842
Dr Ing h c F Pors…

1,841
Haier US Applianc…

1,829
President and Fel… ◀

1,824
Intel IP

1,818
Delta

1,815
Safran Aircraft E…

1,805
Citrix Systems

1,793

What this shows President holds 1,824 patents at rank #222, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near President

By rank, the assignees closest to #222 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C12N (Microorganisms OR Enzymes)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for President, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In C12N (Microorganisms OR Enzymes), President ranks #6 of 4,144 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (69 here).

AUO Corporation 69 ZF Automotive Germany GmbH 69 UNIVERSITÉ Paris CITÉ 69 Prince Mohammad BIN Fahd University 69

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (20.8 here).

University of British Columbia 20.8 avg Infoblox Inc. 20.8 avg Ideal Industries Lighting LLC 20.8 avg Innovium, Inc. 20.8 avg

President's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

69 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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President and Fellows of Harvard College patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	123	6.7%
2016	132	7.2%
2017	181	9.9%
2018	156	8.6%
2019	185	10.1%
2020	191	10.5%
2021	205	11.2%
2022	178	9.8%
2023	185	10.1%
2024	163	8.9%
2025partial year	125	6.9%

Which technologies does President and Fellows of Harvard College patent most?

C12N - Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media 594

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 520

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 464

A61P - Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations 455

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 387

C07K - Peptides 327

B01L - Chemical OR Physical Laboratory Apparatus FOR General USE 165

C12Y - Enzymes 153

C07D - Heterocyclic Compounds 131

Y02A - Technologies FOR Adaptation TO Climate Change 129

B82Y - Specific Uses OR Applications OF NANOSTRUCTURES; Measurement OR Analysis OF NANOSTRUCTURES; Manufacture OR Treatment OF Nanostructures 109

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 97

C12P - Fermentation OR Enzyme-using Processes TO Synthesise A Desired Chemical Compound OR Composition OR TO Separate Optical Isomers From A Racemic Mixture 91

B01J - Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus 90

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 88

Top 15 of 246 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

President and Fellows of Harvard College's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

President and Fellows of Harvard College's lead technology class is C12N (Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media), 32.6% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C12N
Ranked #222 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare President and Fellows of Harvard College against The Nielsen Company (US), LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 69.5/100 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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