Where does Stine Seed Farm, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Stine Seed Farm, Inc. ranks #1,631 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 Stine Seed Farm, Inc. hold?

Stine Seed Farm, Inc. holds 253 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 6 technology areas.

What is Stine Seed Farm, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Stine Seed Farm, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 45.8 out of 100 (top 22% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Stine Seed Farm, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Stine Seed Farm, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -15% 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 Stine Seed Farm, Inc.'s patents?

Stine Seed Farm, Inc.'s patents average 19.8 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 Stine Seed Farm, 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

Stine Seed Farm, Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Stine Seed Farm, Inc. focus on?

Stine Seed Farm, Inc.'s top technology area is A01H (NEW Plants OR ; NON-TRANSGENIC; Processes FOR Obtaining THEM; Plant Reproduction BY Tissue Culture Techniques) with 253 patents, ranking #8 of 285 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 6 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 253 granted patents across 6 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, Stine ranks #1,631 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 253 patents across 6 technology areas.

#1,631
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 22%
by Innovation Score (45.8/100): 19.8
avg claims per patent: -15%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1631 · US Corporation #1,631 · 253 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 253 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,631/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Heidelberger…
CPC-NARROW A01H · 6 areas
INNOV-PAR 45.8/100
CLAIMS-RICH 19.8 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DOWN -15% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG (±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 Stine’s 45.8 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 19.1 pts (42%) Velocity 6.1 pts (13%) Breadth 8.7 pts (19%) Claim depth 11.9 pts (26%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Parsons Xtreme Golf · near

46
Ingenico · near

46
Keihin · near

46
Phosphorus Free… · near

46
Stine Seed Farm · this assignee

46
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Stine's Innovation Score is 45.8/100 (top 22% 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 Stine?

Each dot is one of Stine’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). Stine’s own 19.8 claims/patent is ABOVE the 10.4 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Stine's grants concentrate

Stine Seed Farm, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 6 CPC subclasses with 100% 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 2015 (42 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2021. By volume, Stine sits between Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG and Topgolf Callaway Brands Corp..

Stine's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Stine Seed Farm, Inc. moved from 64 to 59 grants (0.92x 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 #1,407. See the growth leaderboard.

Heidelberger Druc…

253
Home Depot Produc…

253
Illumina Cambridge

253
Reebok Internatio…

253
Stine Seed Farm ◀

253
Aurora Operations

252
Garrett Transport…

252
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252
Topgolf Callaway…

252

What this shows Stine holds 253 patents at rank #1,631, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Stine

By rank, the assignees closest to #1,631 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A01H (NEW Plants OR)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Stine, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A01H (NEW Plants OR), Stine ranks #8 of 285 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (46 here).

Keihin Corporation 46 Ingenico Inc. 46 Phosphorus Free Water Solutions, LLC 46 Parsons Xtreme Golf, LLC 46

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (19.8 here).

Open Invention Network LLC NC 19.8 avg Microchip Technology Incorporated 19.8 avg Infineon Technologies Austria AG 19.8 avg Navitas Semiconductor Limited 19.8 avg

Stine's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

46 Top 22% higher than 78% 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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Stine Seed Farm, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	42	16.6%
2016	20	7.9%
2017	18	7.1%
2018	19	7.5%
2019	21	8.3%
2020	42	16.6%
2021	1	0.4%
2022	32	12.6%
2023	25	9.9%
2024	2	0.8%
2025partial year	31	12.3%

Which technologies does Stine Seed Farm, Inc. patent most?

A01H - NEW Plants OR ; NON-TRANSGENIC; Processes FOR Obtaining THEM; Plant Reproduction BY Tissue Culture Techniques 253

C12N - Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media 70

A23L - Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Preparation OR Treatment Thereof 2

A23D - Edible Oils OR Fats, e.g. Margarines, Shortenings OR Cooking Oils 2

C11B - Producing, e.g. BY Pressing RAW Materials OR BY Extraction From Waste Materials, Refining OR Preserving Fats, Fatty Substances, e.g. Lanolin, Fatty Oils OR WAXES; Essential OILS; Perfumes 2

A23J - Protein Compositions FOR FOODSTUFFS; Working-up Proteins FOR FOODSTUFFS; Phosphatide Compositions FOR Foodstuffs 1

Top 6 of 6 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

Stine Seed Farm, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Stine Seed Farm, Inc.'s lead technology class is A01H (NEW Plants OR ; NON-TRANSGENIC; Processes FOR Obtaining THEM; Plant Reproduction BY Tissue Culture Techniques), 100% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A01H
Ranked #1,631 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Stine Seed Farm, Inc. against Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 45.8/100 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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