Where does Spring Meadow Nursery Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Spring Meadow Nursery Inc. ranks #1,695 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 Spring Meadow Nursery Inc. hold?

Spring Meadow Nursery Inc. holds 243 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 2 technology areas.

What is Spring Meadow Nursery Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Spring Meadow Nursery Inc. has an Innovation Score of 28.2 out of 100 (26th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Spring Meadow Nursery Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Spring Meadow Nursery Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -30% 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 Spring Meadow Nursery Inc.'s patents?

Spring Meadow Nursery Inc.'s patents average 1.1 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 Spring Meadow Nursery 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

Spring Meadow Nursery Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Spring Meadow Nursery Inc. focus on?

Spring Meadow Nursery Inc.'s top technology area is A01H (NEW Plants OR ; NON-TRANSGENIC; Processes FOR Obtaining THEM; Plant Reproduction BY Tissue Culture Techniques) with 1 patents, ranking #214 of 285 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 2 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 243 granted patents across 2 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, Spring ranks #1,695 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 243 patents across 2 technology areas.

#1,695
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 26th percentile
by Innovation Score (28.2/100): 1.1
avg claims per patent: -30%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1695 · US Corporation #1,695 · 243 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-SPARSE · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 243 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,695/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Anpec
CPC-NARROW A01H · 2 areas
INNOV-THIN 28.2/100
CLAIMS-SPARSE 1.1 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DOWN -30% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Anpec Electronics Corporation (±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 Spring’s 28.2 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 19.0 pts (68%) Velocity 3.5 pts (12%) Breadth 5.0 pts (18%) Claim depth 0.6 pts (2%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
DNA · near

28
Honshu Chemical… · near

28
M Alphabet 3 · near

28
Nextremity Solutions · near

28
Spring Meadow Nursery · this assignee

28
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Spring's Innovation Score is 28.2/100 (26th percentile 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 Spring?

Each dot is one of Spring’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). Spring’s own 1.1 claims/patent is at or below the 11.9 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Spring's grants concentrate

Spring Meadow Nursery Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 2 CPC subclasses with 0.4% 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 2016 (35 grants) versus a trough of 10 in 2023. By volume, Spring sits between Walgreen Co. and Shindengen Electric Manufacturing Co., Ltd..

Spring's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Spring Meadow Nursery Inc. moved from 83 to 44 grants (0.53x 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 #2,621. See the growth leaderboard.

Walgreen

244
Anpec

243
Delphi IP

243
Korea Institute O…

243
Stora Enso OYJ

243
Spring Meadow Nur… ◀

243
Canon Finetech Ni…

242
Foxconn (Kunshan)…

242
Shindengen Electr…

242

What this shows Spring holds 243 patents at rank #1,695, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Spring

By rank, the assignees closest to #1,695 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A01H (NEW Plants OR)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Spring, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A01H (NEW Plants OR), Spring ranks #214 of 285 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (28 here).

Nextremity Solutions, Inc. 28 Honshu Chemical Industry Co., Ltd. 28 DNA Electronics, Inc. 28 M. Alphabet 3, LLC 28

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (1.1 here).

EIS GmbH 1.1 avg L&F Plastics, Co., Ltd. 1.1 avg BLU DOT Design & Manufacturing, Inc. 1.1 avg THE Conard Pyle Company 1.0 avg

Spring's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

28 26th percentile higher than 26% 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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Spring Meadow Nursery Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	17	7.0%
2016	35	14.4%
2017	30	12.3%
2018	24	9.9%
2019	31	12.8%
2020	33	13.6%
2021	19	7.8%
2022	17	7.0%
2023	10	4.1%
2024	17	7.0%
2025partial year	10	4.1%

Which technologies does Spring Meadow Nursery Inc. patent most?

A01H - NEW Plants OR ; NON-TRANSGENIC; Processes FOR Obtaining THEM; Plant Reproduction BY Tissue Culture Techniques 1

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 1

Top 2 of 2 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

Spring Meadow Nursery Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Spring Meadow Nursery Inc.'s lead technology class is A01H (NEW Plants OR ; NON-TRANSGENIC; Processes FOR Obtaining THEM; Plant Reproduction BY Tissue Culture Techniques), 0.4% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A01H
Ranked #1,695 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Spring Meadow Nursery Inc. against Walgreen Co., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 28.2/100 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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