Where does Toolgen Incorporated rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Toolgen Incorporated ranks #18,204 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 Toolgen Incorporated hold?

Toolgen Incorporated holds 16 US utility patents granted between 2017 and 2025, spanning 11 technology areas.

What is Toolgen Incorporated's Innovation Score?

Toolgen Incorporated has an Innovation Score of 47.4 out of 100 (top 19% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Toolgen Incorporated's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Toolgen Incorporated's recent grant velocity is +350% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Toolgen Incorporated's patents?

Toolgen Incorporated's patents average 9.8 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 Toolgen Incorporated 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

Toolgen Incorporated

Q: What technology areas does Toolgen Incorporated focus on?

Toolgen Incorporated's top technology area is C12N (Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media) with 16 patents, ranking #665 of 4,144 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 11 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 16 granted patents across 11 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2017–2025. 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, Toolgen ranks #18,204 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 16 patents across 11 technology areas.

#18,204
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 19%
by Innovation Score (47.4/100): 9.8
avg claims per patent: +350%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R18204 · Foreign Corporation #18,204 · 16 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-PAR · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 16 grants
MID-PACK #18,204/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH TM4
CPC-FOCUS C12N · 11 areas
INNOV-PAR 47.4/100
CLAIMS-PAR 9.8 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +350% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: TM4 Inc. (±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 Toolgen’s 47.4 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 9.8 pts (21%) Velocity 20.0 pts (42%) Breadth 11.7 pts (25%) Claim depth 5.9 pts (12%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Toolgen Incorporated · this assignee

47
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Toolgen's Innovation Score is 47.4/100 (top 19% 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 Toolgen?

Each dot is one of Toolgen’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). Toolgen’s own 9.8 claims/patent is ABOVE the 6.6 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Toolgen's grants concentrate

Toolgen Incorporated is a focused PatentsView assignee: 11 CPC subclasses with 100% 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 2024 (4 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2017. By volume, Toolgen sits between TM4 Inc. and Town & Country Linen Corp..

Toolgen's three-year grant acceleration

Toolgen Incorporated shows 8 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.

TM4

16
Tokai Carbon

16
Tokyo Cosmos Elec…

16
Tokyo Marui

16
Topray Mems

16
Topre

16
Total GYM Global

16
Town & Country Li…

16
Toolgen Incorpora… ◀

16

What this shows Toolgen holds 16 patents at rank #18,180, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Toolgen

By rank, the assignees closest to #18,180 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C12N (Microorganisms OR Enzymes)

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

Toolgen's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

47 Top 19% higher than 81% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2017–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2017–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Toolgen Incorporated patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2017	1	6.3%
2019	1	6.3%
2020	1	6.3%
2022	1	6.3%
2023	3	18.8%
2024	4	25.0%
2025partial year	5	31.3%

Which technologies does Toolgen Incorporated patent most?

C12N - Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media 16

C07K - Peptides 8

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 7

A61P - Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations 4

Y02A - Technologies FOR Adaptation TO Climate Change 4

C12Y - Enzymes 4

A01K - Animal HUSBANDRY; AVICULTURE; APICULTURE; PISCICULTURE; FISHING; Rearing OR Breeding Animals, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; NEW Breeds OF Animals 2

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 2

C12R - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses C12c - C12q, Relating TO Microorganisms 1

G16B - Bioinformatics, i.e. Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Genetic OR Protein-related Data Processing IN Computational Molecular Biology 1

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 1

Top 11 of 11 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

Toolgen Incorporated's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Toolgen Incorporated's lead technology class is C12N (Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media), 100% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C12N
Ranked #18,204 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Toolgen Incorporated against TM4 Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 47.4/100 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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