Where does Seres Therapeutics, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Seres Therapeutics, Inc. ranks #11,429 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 Seres Therapeutics, Inc. hold?

Seres Therapeutics, Inc. holds 27 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 8 technology areas.

What is Seres Therapeutics, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Seres Therapeutics, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 44.4 out of 100 (top 26% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Seres Therapeutics, Inc. focus on?

Seres Therapeutics, Inc.'s top technology area is A61K (Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes) with 27 patents, ranking #847 of 7,163 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 8 CPC subclasses total.

Is Seres Therapeutics, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Seres Therapeutics, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +50% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Seres Therapeutics, Inc.'s patents?

Seres Therapeutics, Inc.'s patents average 19.7 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 Seres Therapeutics, 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

Seres Therapeutics, Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 27 granted patents across 8 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: A61K (Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Seres ranks #11,429 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 27 patents across 8 technology areas.

#11,429
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 26%
by Innovation Score (44.4/100): 19.7
avg claims per patent: +50%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R11429 · US Corporation #11,429 · 27 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 27 grants
UPPER-Q #11,429/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Sarong Societa' Per…
CPC-NARROW A61K · 8 areas
INNOV-PAR 44.4/100
CLAIMS-RICH 19.7 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +50% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Sarong Societa' Per Azioni (±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 Seres’s 44.4 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 11.5 pts (26%) Velocity 11.1 pts (25%) Breadth 10.0 pts (23%) Claim depth 11.8 pts (27%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
National Chain · near

44
Nuevolution A/S · near

44
Sunnybrook Health… · near

44
Seres Therapeutics · this assignee

44
Taikisha · near

44
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Seres's Innovation Score is 44.4/100 (top 26% 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 Seres?

Each dot is one of Seres’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). Seres’s own 19.7 claims/patent is ABOVE the 13.4 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Seres's grants concentrate

Seres Therapeutics, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 8 CPC subclasses with 100% of grants classified under A61K (Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes). Peak complete grant year is 2018 (5 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2015. By volume, Seres sits between Sarong Societa' Per Azioni and Simple Living Solutions, LLC.

Seres's three-year grant acceleration

Seres Therapeutics, Inc. shows 10 grants in 2022–2024 against only 6 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.

Sarong Societa' P…

27
Savage Arms

27
Scuola Superiore…

27
Seaspine

27
Series Internatio…

27
Siemens Canada

27
Siliconch Systems…

27
Simple Living Sol…

27
Seres Therapeutics ◀

27

What this shows Seres holds 27 patents at rank #11,440, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Seres

By rank, the assignees closest to #11,440 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A61K (Preparations FOR Medical)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Seres, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A61K (Preparations FOR Medical), Seres ranks #847 of 7,163 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (44 here).

Taikisha Ltd. 44 Nuevolution A/S 44 Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre 44 National Chain Company 44

Seres's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

44 Top 26% higher than 74% 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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Seres Therapeutics, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1	3.7%
2016	1	3.7%
2017	2	7.4%
2018	5	18.5%
2019	1	3.7%
2020	1	3.7%
2021	4	14.8%
2022	5	18.5%
2023	3	11.1%
2024	2	7.4%
2025partial year	2	7.4%

Which technologies does Seres Therapeutics, Inc. patent most?

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 27

Y02A - Technologies FOR Adaptation TO Climate Change 23

A61P - Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations 20

C12N - Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media 14

A23L - Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Preparation OR Treatment Thereof 12

A23V - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages AND Lactic OR Propionic Acid Bacteria Used IN Foodstuffs OR Food Preparation 8

A23P - Shaping OR Working OF Foodstuffs, NOT Fully Covered BY A Single Other Subclass 7

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

Top 8 of 8 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

Seres Therapeutics, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Seres Therapeutics, Inc.'s lead technology class is A61K (Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes), 100% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A61K
Ranked #11,429 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Seres Therapeutics, Inc. against Sarong Societa' Per Azioni, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 44.4/100 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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