Where does The Andersons Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), The Andersons Inc. ranks #19,239 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 The Andersons Inc. hold?

The Andersons Inc. holds 15 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2023, spanning 10 technology areas.

What is The Andersons Inc.'s Innovation Score?

The Andersons Inc. has an Innovation Score of 38.7 out of 100 (top 40% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is The Andersons Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

The Andersons Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -64% 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 The Andersons Inc.'s patents?

The Andersons Inc.'s patents average 18.7 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 The Andersons 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

The Andersons Inc.

Q: What technology areas does The Andersons Inc. focus on?

The Andersons Inc.'s top technology area is C05G (Mixtures OF Fertilisers Covered Individually BY Different Subclasses OF Class C05; Mixtures OF ONE OR More Fertilisers With Materials NOT Having A Specific Fertilising Activity, e.g. Pesticides, Soil-conditioners, Wetting Agents ; Fertilisers Characterised BY Their Form) with 11 patents, ranking #10 of 140 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 10 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 15 granted patents across 10 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2023. 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: C05G (Mixtures OF Fertilisers Covered Individually BY Different Subclasses OF Class C05; Mixtures OF ONE OR More Fertilisers With Materials NOT Having A Specific Fertilising Activity, e.g. Pesticides, Soil-).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, The ranks #19,239 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 15 patents across 10 technology areas.

#19,239
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 40%
by Innovation Score (38.7/100): 18.7
avg claims per patent: -64%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R19239 · US Corporation #19,239 · 15 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 15 grants
MID-PACK #19,239/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Teledyne Flir
CPC-FOCUS C05G · 10 areas
INNOV-THIN 38.7/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.7 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -64% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Teledyne Flir, LLC (±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 The’s 38.7 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 9.6 pts (25%) Velocity 6.7 pts (17%) Breadth 11.2 pts (29%) Claim depth 11.2 pts (29%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

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The Andersons · this assignee

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3D Lighting… · lowest

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What this shows The's Innovation Score is 38.7/100 (top 40% 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 The?

Each dot is one of The’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). The’s own 18.7 claims/patent is at or below the 19.5 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where The's grants concentrate

The Andersons Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 10 CPC subclasses with 73.3% of grants classified under C05G (Mixtures OF Fertilisers Covered Individually BY Different Subclasses OF Class C05; Mixtures OF ONE OR More Fertilisers With Materials NOT Having A Specific Fertilising Activity, e.g. Pesticides, Soil-). Peak complete grant year is 2017 (4 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2016. By volume, The sits between Teledyne Flir, LLC and The University of Mississippi Medical Center.

The's three-year grant acceleration

The Andersons Inc. shows 2 grants in 2022–2024 against only 2 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.

Teledyne Flir

15
Teleflex Innovati…

15
Temperpack

15
Terawatt Technolo…

15
The Kingstar

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The Research Foun…

15
The Sloan

15
The University of…

15
The Andersons ◀

15

What this shows The holds 15 patents at rank #19,261, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near The

By rank, the assignees closest to #19,261 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C05G (Mixtures OF Fertilisers Covered Individually BY Different…)

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

The's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

39 Top 40% higher than 60% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2023

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2015–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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The Andersons Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	3	20.0%
2016	1	6.7%
2017	4	26.7%
2018	3	20.0%
2021	2	13.3%
2022	1	6.7%
2023	1	6.7%

Which technologies does The Andersons Inc. patent most?

C05G - Mixtures OF Fertilisers Covered Individually BY Different Subclasses OF Class C05; Mixtures OF ONE OR More Fertilisers With Materials NOT Having A Specific Fertilising Activity, e.g. Pesticides, Soil-conditioners, Wetting Agents ; Fertilisers Characterised BY Their Form 11

C05F - Organic Fertilisers NOT Covered BY Subclasses C05b, C05c, e.g. Fertilisers From Waste OR Refuse 6

C05C - Nitrogenous Fertilisers 5

C05B - Phosphatic Fertilisers 4

C05D - Inorganic Fertilisers NOT Covered BY Subclasses C05b, C05C; Fertilisers Producing Carbon Dioxide 4

A01K - Animal HUSBANDRY; AVICULTURE; APICULTURE; PISCICULTURE; FISHING; Rearing OR Breeding Animals, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; NEW Breeds OF Animals 3

C09K - Materials FOR Miscellaneous Applications, NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere 3

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 3

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 1

Y02A - Technologies FOR Adaptation TO Climate Change 1

Top 10 of 10 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

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The Andersons Inc.'s lead technology class is C05G (Mixtures OF Fertilisers Covered Individually BY Different Subclasses OF Class C05; Mixtures OF ONE OR More Fertilisers With Materials NOT Having A Specific Fertilising Activity, e.g. Pesticides, Soil-), 73.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C05G
Ranked #19,239 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare The Andersons Inc. against Teledyne Flir, LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 38.7/100 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

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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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