Where does Syngenta Participations AG rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Syngenta Participations AG ranks #375 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 Syngenta Participations AG hold?

Syngenta Participations AG holds 1,167 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 57 technology areas.

What is Syngenta Participations AG's Innovation Score?

Syngenta Participations AG has an Innovation Score of 59.6 out of 100 (top 4% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Syngenta Participations AG's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Syngenta Participations AG's recent grant velocity is -66% 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 Syngenta Participations AG's patents?

Syngenta Participations AG's patents average 12.6 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 Syngenta Participations AG 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

Syngenta Participations AG

Q: What technology areas does Syngenta Participations AG focus on?

Syngenta Participations AG's top technology area is A01H (NEW Plants OR ; NON-TRANSGENIC; Processes FOR Obtaining THEM; Plant Reproduction BY Tissue Culture Techniques) with 434 patents. Grants appear in 57 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 1,167 granted patents across 57 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, Syngenta ranks #375 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 1,167 patents across 57 technology areas.

#375
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 4%
by Innovation Score (59.6/100): 12.6
avg claims per patent: -66%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R375 · Foreign Corporation #375 · 1,167 grants

GRANTS-LARGE · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-LARGE 1.2K grants
TOP-DECILE #375/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Sprint Spectrum
CPC-WIDE A01H · 57 areas
INNOV-PAR 59.6/100
CLAIMS-RICH 12.6 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -66% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Sprint Spectrum LLC (±1 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
Harman Becker… · near

60
Palo Alto Networks · near

60
Preformed Line… · near

60
Syngenta Participati… · this assignee

60
TPK Advanced Solutions · near

60
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Syngenta's Innovation Score is 59.6/100 (top 4% 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.

How Syngenta's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Syngenta Participations AG received 295 grants versus 869 in 2015–2019 (-66% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2018 at 208 grants and bottomed in 2024 at 19. Lead class A01H accounts for 37.2% of the portfolio across 57 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Kla-tencor Corporation (#371) and BorgWarner Inc. (#379).

Syngenta's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Syngenta Participations AG moved from 329 to 128 grants (0.39x 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 #2,899. See the growth leaderboard.

Kla-tencor

1,173
Smith & Nephew

1,172
Quanta Computer

1,171
Volvo Truck

1,171
Syngenta Particip… ◀

1,167
Sprint Spectrum

1,166
Dai Nippon Printi…

1,164
Disco

1,157
Borgwarner

1,156

What this shows Syngenta holds 1,167 patents at rank #375, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Syngenta

By rank, the assignees closest to #375 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A01H (NEW Plants OR)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

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

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (60 here).

Palo Alto Networks, Inc. 60 Harman Becker Automotive Systems GMBH 60 TPK Advanced Solutions Inc. 60 Preformed Line Products Co. 60

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (12.6 here).

Chicony Power Technology Co., Ltd. 12.6 avg Csmc Technologies Fab2 Co., Ltd. 12.6 avg Safran Transmission Systems 12.6 avg Wyatt Technology, LLC 12.6 avg

Syngenta's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

60 Top 4% higher than 96% 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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Syngenta Participations AG patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	147	12.6%
2016	147	12.6%
2017	205	17.6%
2018	208	17.8%
2019	162	13.9%
2020	85	7.3%
2021	82	7.0%
2022	65	5.6%
2023	44	3.8%
2024	19	1.6%
2025partial year	3	0.3%

Which technologies does Syngenta Participations AG patent most?

A01H - NEW Plants OR ; NON-TRANSGENIC; Processes FOR Obtaining THEM; Plant Reproduction BY Tissue Culture Techniques 434

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 393

C12N - Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media 296

C07D - Heterocyclic Compounds 268

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 172

Y02A - Technologies FOR Adaptation TO Climate Change 81

C07K - Peptides 65

A61P - Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations 57

C07C - Acyclic OR Carbocyclic Compounds 44

C12Y - Enzymes 28

A01G - HORTICULTURE; Cultivation OF Vegetables, Flowers, Rice, Fruit, Vines, Hops OR SEAWEED; FORESTRY; Watering 23

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 15

C07F - Acyclic, Carbocyclic OR Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium OR Tellurium 13

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 13

A01C - PLANTING; SOWING; Fertilising 12

Top 15 of 57 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#375

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

59.6 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

Syngenta Participations AG's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Syngenta Participations AG's lead technology class is A01H (NEW Plants OR ; NON-TRANSGENIC; Processes FOR Obtaining THEM; Plant Reproduction BY Tissue Culture Techniques), 37.2% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A01H
Ranked #375 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Syngenta Participations AG against Kla-tencor Corporation, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 59.6/100 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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