Where does Sakata Seed Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Sakata Seed Corporation ranks #3,544 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 Sakata Seed Corporation hold?

Sakata Seed Corporation holds 104 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 9 technology areas.

What is Sakata Seed Corporation's Innovation Score?

Sakata Seed Corporation has an Innovation Score of 38.4 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 Sakata Seed Corporation's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Sakata Seed Corporation's recent grant velocity is -43% 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 Sakata Seed Corporation's patents?

Sakata Seed Corporation's patents average 10.9 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 Sakata Seed Corporation 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

Sakata Seed Corporation

Q: What technology areas does Sakata Seed Corporation focus on?

Sakata Seed Corporation's top technology area is A01H (NEW Plants OR ; NON-TRANSGENIC; Processes FOR Obtaining THEM; Plant Reproduction BY Tissue Culture Techniques) with 61 patents. Grants appear in 9 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 104 granted patents across 9 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: A01H (NEW Plants OR ; NON-TRANSGENIC; Processes FOR Obtaining THEM; Plant Reproduction BY Tissue Culture Techniques).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Sakata ranks #3,544 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 104 patents across 9 technology areas.

#3,544
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 41%
by Innovation Score (38.4/100): 10.9
avg claims per patent: -43%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R3544 · Foreign Corporation #3,544 · 104 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-PAR · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 104 grants
TOP-DECILE #3,544/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Sarepta Therapeutics
CPC-NARROW A01H · 9 areas
INNOV-THIN 38.4/100
CLAIMS-PAR 10.9 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -43% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Sarepta Therapeutics, 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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Chips & Media · near

38
Cleversafe · near

38
NSE Products · near

38
Optex · near

38
Sakata Seed · this assignee

38
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Sakata's Innovation Score is 38.4/100 (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.

Where Sakata's grants concentrate

Sakata Seed Corporation is a focused PatentsView assignee: 9 CPC subclasses with 58.7% of grants classified under A01H (NEW Plants OR ; NON-TRANSGENIC; Processes FOR Obtaining THEM; Plant Reproduction BY Tissue Culture Techniques). Peak complete grant year is 2019 (21 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2024. By volume, Sakata sits between Shaanxi University OF Science AND Technology and Video Gaming Technologies, Inc..

Sakata's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Sakata Seed Corporation moved from 32 to 25 grants (0.78x 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 #1,893. See the growth leaderboard.

Shaanxi Universit…

104
Stamicarbon B V

104
Sunonwealth Elect…

104
Synamedia

104
Sarepta Therapeut…

104
Sensel

104
Skorpios

104
Video Gaming

104
Sakata Seed ◀

104

What this shows Sakata holds 104 patents at rank #3,549, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Sakata

By rank, the assignees closest to #3,549 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A01H (NEW Plants OR)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Sakata, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above).

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (38 here).

Cleversafe, Inc. 38 Optex Co., Ltd. 38 Chips & Media, Inc 38 NSE Products, Inc. 38

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (10.9 here).

Seco Tools AB 10.9 avg Oatey Co. 10.9 avg Komatsu Ltd. 10.9 avg Shanghai Huahong Grace Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation 10.8 avg

Sakata'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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Sakata Seed Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	4	3.8%
2016	14	13.5%
2017	18	17.3%
2018	6	5.8%
2019	21	20.2%
2020	8	7.7%
2021	3	2.9%
2022	11	10.6%
2023	12	11.5%
2024	2	1.9%
2025partial year	5	4.8%

Which technologies does Sakata Seed Corporation patent most?

A01H - NEW Plants OR ; NON-TRANSGENIC; Processes FOR Obtaining THEM; Plant Reproduction BY Tissue Culture Techniques 61

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 9

C12N - Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media 4

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 1

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

Y02A - Technologies FOR Adaptation TO Climate Change 1

A01G - HORTICULTURE; Cultivation OF Vegetables, Flowers, Rice, Fruit, Vines, Hops OR SEAWEED; FORESTRY; Watering 1

A01K - Animal HUSBANDRY; AVICULTURE; APICULTURE; PISCICULTURE; FISHING; Rearing OR Breeding Animals, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; NEW Breeds OF Animals 1

C07K - Peptides 1

Top 9 of 9 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#3,544

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

38.4 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

Sakata Seed Corporation's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Sakata Seed Corporation's lead technology class is A01H (NEW Plants OR ; NON-TRANSGENIC; Processes FOR Obtaining THEM; Plant Reproduction BY Tissue Culture Techniques), 58.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A01H
Ranked #3,544 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Sakata Seed Corporation against Shaanxi University OF Science AND Technology, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 38.4/100 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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