Where does The Broad Institute, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), The Broad Institute, Inc. ranks #1,055 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 Broad Institute, Inc. hold?

The Broad Institute, Inc. holds 410 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 43 technology areas.

What is The Broad Institute, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

The Broad Institute, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 67.3 out of 100 (top 1% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is The Broad Institute, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

The Broad Institute, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +229% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for The Broad Institute, Inc.'s patents?

The Broad Institute, Inc.'s patents average 20.6 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 The Broad Institute, 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 Broad Institute, Inc.

Q: What technology areas does The Broad Institute, Inc. focus on?

The Broad Institute, Inc.'s top technology area is C12N (Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media) with 222 patents, ranking #27 of 4,144 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 43 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 410 granted patents across 43 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: C12N (Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, The ranks #1,055 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 410 patents across 43 technology areas.

#1,055
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 1%
by Innovation Score (67.3/100): 20.6
avg claims per patent: +229%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1055 · US Corporation #1,055 · 410 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 410 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,055/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Seoul Semiconductor
CPC-WIDE C12N · 43 areas
INNOV-STRONG 67.3/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 20.6 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +229% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Seoul Semiconductor Co., Ltd. (±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 67.3 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 20.8 pts (31%) Velocity 11.0 pts (16%) Breadth 23.2 pts (34%) Claim depth 12.3 pts (18%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Ut-battelle · near

67
NXP USA · near

67
The Broad Institute · this assignee

67
Knowles · near

67
The Government of… · near

67
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows The's Innovation Score is 67.3/100 (top 1% 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 20.6 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.9 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where The's grants concentrate

The Broad Institute, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 43 CPC subclasses with 54.1% of grants classified under C12N (Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media). Peak complete grant year is 2023 (62 grants) versus a trough of 7 in 2015. By volume, The sits between A9.com, Inc. and Electrolux Appliances Aktiebolag.

The's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, The Broad Institute, Inc. moved from 103 to 170 grants (1.65x 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 #344. See the growth leaderboard.

A9 com

411
Asahi Glass

411
Gigaphoton

411
Seoul Semiconduct…

410
The Broad Institu… ◀

410
Assa Abloy AB

408
Fluke

408
Brainlab

407
Electrolux Applia…

407

What this shows The holds 410 patents at rank #1,055, 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 #1,055 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C12N (Microorganisms OR Enzymes)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for The, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In C12N (Microorganisms OR Enzymes), The ranks #27 of 4,144 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (67 here).

Knowles Electronics, LLC 67 NXP USA, Inc. 67 The Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Homeland Security 67 Ut-battelle, LLC 67

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (20.6 here).

Navico Holding AS 20.6 avg H.B. Fuller Company 20.6 avg Nyse Holdings LLC 20.6 avg Gracenote, Inc. 20.6 avg

The's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

67 Top 1% higher than 99% 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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The Broad Institute, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	7	1.7%
2016	11	2.7%
2017	16	3.9%
2018	23	5.6%
2019	20	4.9%
2020	36	8.8%
2021	47	11.5%
2022	48	11.7%
2023	62	15.1%
2024	60	14.6%
2025partial year	80	19.5%

Which technologies does The Broad Institute, Inc. patent most?

C12N - Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media 222

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 177

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 169

A61P - Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations 149

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 93

C07D - Heterocyclic Compounds 91

C07K - Peptides 85

C12Y - Enzymes 48

Y02A - Technologies FOR Adaptation TO Climate Change 46

G16B - Bioinformatics, i.e. Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Genetic OR Protein-related Data Processing IN Computational Molecular Biology 44

A01K - Animal HUSBANDRY; AVICULTURE; APICULTURE; PISCICULTURE; FISHING; Rearing OR Breeding Animals, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; NEW Breeds OF Animals 20

C07C - Acyclic OR Carbocyclic Compounds 19

B01L - Chemical OR Physical Laboratory Apparatus FOR General USE 16

C40B - Combinatorial CHEMISTRY; Libraries, e.g. Chemical Libraries 12

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 8

Top 15 of 43 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

The Broad Institute, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

The Broad Institute, Inc.'s lead technology class is C12N (Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media), 54.1% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C12N
Ranked #1,055 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare The Broad Institute, Inc. against A9.com, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 67.3/100 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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