Where does Principia Biopharma Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Principia Biopharma Inc. ranks #6,828 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 Principia Biopharma Inc. hold?

Principia Biopharma Inc. holds 49 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 7 technology areas.

What is Principia Biopharma Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Principia Biopharma Inc. has an Innovation Score of 37.3 out of 100 (top 44% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Principia Biopharma Inc. focus on?

Principia Biopharma Inc.'s top technology area is A61P (Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations) with 41 patents, ranking #446 of 6,058 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 7 CPC subclasses total.

Is Principia Biopharma Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Principia Biopharma Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +0% 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 Principia Biopharma Inc.'s patents?

Principia Biopharma Inc.'s patents average 15.3 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 Principia Biopharma 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

Principia Biopharma Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 49 granted patents across 7 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: A61P (Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Principia ranks #6,828 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 49 patents across 7 technology areas.

#6,828
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 44%
by Innovation Score (37.3/100): 15.3
avg claims per patent: +0%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R6828 · US Corporation #6,828 · 49 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 49 grants
UPPER-Q #6,828/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Oerlikon Textile & KG
CPC-NARROW A61P · 7 areas
INNOV-THIN 37.3/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.3 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-FLAT +0% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Oerlikon Textile GmbH & Co. KG (±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 Principia’s 37.3 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 13.5 pts (36%) Velocity 5.2 pts (14%) Breadth 9.4 pts (25%) Claim depth 9.2 pts (25%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Principia Biopharma · this assignee

37
Airspan Networks · near

37
Asana BioSciences · near

37
Kuroda Precision… · near

37
NEC Energy Devices · near

37
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Principia's Innovation Score is 37.3/100 (top 44% 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 Principia?

Each dot is one of Principia’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). Principia’s own 15.3 claims/patent is ABOVE the 13.9 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Principia's grants concentrate

Principia Biopharma Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 7 CPC subclasses with 83.7% of grants classified under A61P (Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (7 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2016. By volume, Principia sits between Oerlikon Textile GmbH & Co. KG and Rimowa GmbH.

Principia's three-year grant acceleration

Principia Biopharma Inc. shows 11 grants in 2022–2024 against only 14 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.

Oerlikon Textile…

49
Pelco

49
Pixelworks

49
Picarro

49
Pulmonx

49
Qliktech Internat…

49
Reata Pharmaceuti…

49
Rimowa

49
Principia Biophar… ◀

49

What this shows Principia holds 49 patents at rank #6,828, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Principia

By rank, the assignees closest to #6,828 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A61P (Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Me…)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Principia, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A61P (Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Me…), Principia ranks #446 of 6,058 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (37 here).

NEC Energy Devices, Ltd. 37 Asana BioSciences, LLC 37 Kuroda Precision Industries Ltd. 37 Airspan Networks Inc. 37

Principia's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

37 Top 44% higher than 56% 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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Principia Biopharma Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	7	14.3%
2016	2	4.1%
2017	7	14.3%
2018	3	6.1%
2019	3	6.1%
2020	5	10.2%
2021	6	12.2%
2022	2	4.1%
2023	5	10.2%
2024	4	8.2%
2025partial year	5	10.2%

Which technologies does Principia Biopharma Inc. patent most?

A61P - Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations 41

C07D - Heterocyclic Compounds 37

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 31

C07B - General Methods OF Organic CHEMISTRY; Apparatus Therefor 7

C07F - Acyclic, Carbocyclic OR Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium OR Tellurium 5

C07C - Acyclic OR Carbocyclic Compounds 1

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 1

Top 7 of 7 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

Principia Biopharma Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Principia Biopharma Inc.'s lead technology class is A61P (Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations), 83.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A61P
Ranked #6,828 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Principia Biopharma Inc. against Oerlikon Textile GmbH & Co. KG, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 37.3/100 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

Compiled by PlainPatent, US Patent Intelligence Editorial Process · May 15, 2026

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