Where does Seminis Vegetable Seeds, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Seminis Vegetable Seeds, Inc. ranks #603 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 Seminis Vegetable Seeds, Inc. hold?

Seminis Vegetable Seeds, Inc. holds 735 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 14 technology areas.

What is Seminis Vegetable Seeds, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Seminis Vegetable Seeds, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 54.1 out of 100 (top 8% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Seminis Vegetable Seeds, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Seminis Vegetable Seeds, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -17% 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 Seminis Vegetable Seeds, Inc.'s patents?

Seminis Vegetable Seeds, Inc.'s patents average 22.6 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 Seminis Vegetable Seeds, 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

Seminis Vegetable Seeds, Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Seminis Vegetable Seeds, Inc. focus on?

Seminis Vegetable Seeds, Inc.'s top technology area is A01H (NEW Plants OR ; NON-TRANSGENIC; Processes FOR Obtaining THEM; Plant Reproduction BY Tissue Culture Techniques) with 727 patents, ranking #3 of 285 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 14 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 735 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: 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, Seminis ranks #603 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 735 patents across 14 technology areas.

#603
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 8%
by Innovation Score (54.1/100): 22.6
avg claims per patent: -17%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R603 · US Corporation #603 · 735 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 735 grants
TOP-DECILE #603/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Toyota Research…
CPC-FOCUS A01H · 14 areas
INNOV-PAR 54.1/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 22.6 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DOWN -17% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Toyota Research Institute, 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 Seminis’s 54.1 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 22.8 pts (42%) Velocity 4.6 pts (9%) Breadth 13.2 pts (24%) Claim depth 13.5 pts (25%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Flowserve Management · near

54
Korea Institute OF… · near

54
Oxford Nanopore · near

54
Seminis Vegetable… · this assignee

54
Sumitomo Osaka Cement · near

54
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Seminis's Innovation Score is 54.1/100 (top 8% 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 Seminis?

Each dot is one of Seminis’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). Seminis’s own 22.6 claims/patent is ABOVE the 12.6 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Seminis's grants concentrate

Seminis Vegetable Seeds, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 14 CPC subclasses with 98.9% 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 2017 (94 grants) versus a trough of 46 in 2024. By volume, Seminis sits between Zoll Medical Corporation and SMC Corporation.

Seminis's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Seminis Vegetable Seeds, Inc. moved from 241 to 166 grants (0.69x 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 #2,187. See the growth leaderboard.

Zoll Medical

740
Lexmark Internati…

737
Denso Internation…

736
Husqvarna AB

736
Toyota Research I…

735
Seminis Vegetable… ◀

735
Logitech Europe

731
Michelin Recherch…

729
SMC

728

What this shows Seminis holds 735 patents at rank #603, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Seminis

By rank, the assignees closest to #603 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A01H (NEW Plants OR)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Seminis, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A01H (NEW Plants OR), Seminis ranks #3 of 285 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (54 here).

Korea Institute OF Energy Research 54 Sumitomo Osaka Cement Co., Ltd. 54 Oxford Nanopore Technologies PLC 54 Flowserve Management Company 54

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (22.6 here).

Magnolia Medical Technologies, Inc. 22.6 avg AbbVie Biotechnology Ltd. 22.6 avg Grail, Inc. 22.6 avg The Mitre Corporation 22.5 avg

Seminis's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

54 Top 8% higher than 92% 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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Seminis Vegetable Seeds, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	57	7.8%
2016	75	10.2%
2017	94	12.8%
2018	59	8.0%
2019	94	12.8%
2020	78	10.6%
2021	69	9.4%
2022	53	7.2%
2023	67	9.1%
2024	46	6.3%
2025partial year	43	5.9%

Which technologies does Seminis Vegetable Seeds, Inc. patent most?

A01H - NEW Plants OR ; NON-TRANSGENIC; Processes FOR Obtaining THEM; Plant Reproduction BY Tissue Culture Techniques 727

C12N - Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media 156

A01G - HORTICULTURE; Cultivation OF Vegetables, Flowers, Rice, Fruit, Vines, Hops OR SEAWEED; FORESTRY; Watering 82

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 74

A23L - Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Preparation OR Treatment Thereof 7

A01N - Preservation OF Bodies OF Humans OR Animals OR Plants OR Parts Thereof ; Biocides, e.g. AS Disinfectants, AS Pesticides OR AS Herbicides ; Pest Repellants OR ATTRACTANTS; Plant Growth Regulators 6

C12Y - Enzymes 5

A23B - Preservation OF Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic BEVERAGES; Chemical Ripening OF Fruit OR Vegetables 5

A01D - HARVESTING; Mowing 3

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 2

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 2

C07K - Peptides 1

Y02A - Technologies FOR Adaptation TO Climate Change 1

A01C - PLANTING; SOWING; Fertilising 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

Seminis Vegetable Seeds, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Seminis Vegetable Seeds, Inc.'s lead technology class is A01H (NEW Plants OR ; NON-TRANSGENIC; Processes FOR Obtaining THEM; Plant Reproduction BY Tissue Culture Techniques), 98.9% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A01H
Ranked #603 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Seminis Vegetable Seeds, Inc. against Zoll Medical Corporation, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 54.1/100 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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