Where does Purac Biochem BV rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Purac Biochem BV ranks #3,123 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 Purac Biochem BV hold?

Purac Biochem BV holds 121 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 57 technology areas.

What is Purac Biochem BV's Innovation Score?

Purac Biochem BV has an Innovation Score of 55.9 out of 100 (top 6% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Purac Biochem BV's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Purac Biochem BV's recent grant velocity is -7% 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 Purac Biochem BV's patents?

Purac Biochem BV's patents average 16.7 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 Purac Biochem BV 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

Purac Biochem BV

Q: What technology areas does Purac Biochem BV focus on?

Purac Biochem BV'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 46 patents, ranking #27 of 1,268 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 57 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 121 granted patents across 57 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).

Compiled by PlainPatent · May 15, 2026

RSS updates for this company

Explore the portfolio See the ranking

The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Purac ranks #3,123 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 121 patents across 57 technology areas.

#3,123
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 6%
by Innovation Score (55.9/100): 16.7
avg claims per patent: -7%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R3123 · Foreign Corporation #3,123 · 121 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-FLAT · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 121 grants
TOP-DECILE #3,123/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH GlaxoSmithKline
CPC-WIDE C12P · 57 areas
INNOV-PAR 55.9/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.7 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-FLAT -7% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: GlaxoSmithKline LLC (±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 Purac’s 55.9 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 16.6 pts (30%) Velocity 4.3 pts (8%) Breadth 25.0 pts (45%) Claim depth 10.0 pts (18%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Ndsu Research… · near

56
NOK · near

56
Purac Biochem BV · this assignee

56
UNIVERSITÉ D'aix-mar… · near

56
Hyundai Steel · near

56
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Purac's Innovation Score is 55.9/100 (top 6% 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 Purac?

Each dot is one of Purac’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). Purac’s own 16.7 claims/patent is ABOVE the 11.1 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How Purac's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Purac Biochem BV received 57 grants versus 61 in 2015–2019 (-7% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2018 at 21 grants and bottomed in 2023 at 4. Lead class C12P accounts for 38% of the portfolio across 57 subclasses. Volume neighbours: GlaxoSmithKline LLC (#3,119) and Shutterfly, LLC (#3,127).

Purac's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Purac Biochem BV moved from 42 to 27 grants (0.64x 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 #2,328. See the growth leaderboard.

Glaxosmithkline

121
Hefei BOE Display…

121
Institute of Auto…

121
Landscape Forms

121
Shinkawa

121
Sunrise Memory

121
Shukla Medical

121
Shutterfly

121
Purac Biochem BV ◀

121

What this shows Purac holds 121 patents at rank #3,123, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Purac

By rank, the assignees closest to #3,123 in granted patent volume.

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

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Purac, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In C12P (Fermentation OR Enzyme-using Processes TO Synthesise A De…), Purac ranks #27 of 1,268 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (56 here).

UNIVERSITÉ D'aix-marseille 56 Ndsu Research Foundation 56 NOK Corporation 56 Hyundai Steel Company 56

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (16.7 here).

Fontem Holdings 1 B.V. 16.7 avg Inalfa Roof Systems Group B.V. 16.7 avg Conversant Intellectual Property Management Inc. 16.7 avg Sealed Air Corporation (US) 16.7 avg

Purac's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

56 Top 6% higher than 94% of 49,997 US assignees

Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more US assignees. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.

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.

View data table

Purac Biochem BV patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	6	5.0%
2016	9	7.4%
2017	13	10.7%
2018	21	17.4%
2019	12	9.9%
2020	19	15.7%
2021	11	9.1%
2022	13	10.7%
2023	4	3.3%
2024	10	8.3%
2025partial year	3	2.5%

Which technologies does Purac Biochem BV 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 46

C07C - Acyclic OR Carbocyclic Compounds 37

A23B - Preservation OF Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic BEVERAGES; Chemical Ripening OF Fruit OR Vegetables 16

A23V - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages AND Lactic OR Propionic Acid Bacteria Used IN Foodstuffs OR Food Preparation 16

C01F - Compounds OF THE Metals Beryllium, Magnesium, Aluminium, Calcium, Strontium, Barium, Radium, Thorium, OR OF THE Rare-earth Metals 16

C01B - Non-metallic ELEMENTS; Compounds THEREOF; ; Metalloids OR Compounds Thereof NOT Covered BY Subclass C01c 15

C12N - Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media 13

C07D - Heterocyclic Compounds 13

C08G - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than BY Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds 13

A23L - Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Preparation OR Treatment Thereof 13

B01D - Separation 9

C08L - Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds 9

C07K - Peptides 8

C09J - ADHESIVES; Non-mechanical Aspects OF Adhesive Processes IN GENERAL; Adhesive Processes NOT Provided FOR ELSEWHERE; USE OF Materials AS Adhesives 7

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 7

Top 15 of 57 technology areas

More on this record

Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

View all rankings → How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

Purac Biochem BV's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Purac Biochem BV'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), 38% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C12P
Ranked #3,123 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Purac Biochem BV against GlaxoSmithKline LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 55.9/100 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

Every figure on PlainPatent is rendered directly from USPTO source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on USPTO source data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 2026.