Where does UEA Enterprises Ltd rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), UEA Enterprises Ltd ranks #21,965 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 UEA Enterprises Ltd hold?

UEA Enterprises Ltd holds 13 US utility patents granted between 2019 and 2025, spanning 27 technology areas.

What is UEA Enterprises Ltd's Innovation Score?

UEA Enterprises Ltd has an Innovation Score of 43.5 out of 100 (top 28% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is UEA Enterprises Ltd's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

UEA Enterprises Ltd's recent grant velocity is +400% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for UEA Enterprises Ltd's patents?

UEA Enterprises Ltd's patents average 15.5 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 UEA Enterprises Ltd 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

UEA Enterprises Ltd

Q: What technology areas does UEA Enterprises Ltd focus on?

UEA Enterprises Ltd's top technology area is C12N (Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media) with 6 patents, ranking #1,557 of 4,144 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 27 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 13 granted patents across 27 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2019–2025. 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, UEA ranks #21,965 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 13 patents across 27 technology areas.

#21,965
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 28%
by Innovation Score (43.5/100): 15.5
avg claims per patent: +400%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R21965 · Foreign Corporation #21,965 · 13 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 13 grants
MID-PACK #21,965/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Tyco Holdings…
CPC-FOCUS C12N · 27 areas
INNOV-PAR 43.5/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.5 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +400% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Tyco Electronics Holdings (Bermuda) No. 7 Limited (±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 UEA’s 43.5 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 9.1 pts (21%) Velocity 6.7 pts (15%) Breadth 18.4 pts (42%) Claim depth 9.3 pts (21%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
AngioDynamics · near

43
AZ Materials… · near

43
Bromine Compounds · near

43
The AES · near

43
UEA Enterprises · this assignee

43
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows UEA's Innovation Score is 43.5/100 (top 28% 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 UEA?

Each dot is one of UEA’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). UEA’s own 15.5 claims/patent is ABOVE the 10.1 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where UEA's grants concentrate

UEA Enterprises Ltd is a focused PatentsView assignee: 27 CPC subclasses with 46.2% 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 (2 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2019. By volume, UEA sits between Tyco Electronics Holdings (Bermuda) No. 7 Limited and Universidad DE Zaragoza.

UEA's three-year grant acceleration

UEA Enterprises Ltd shows 3 grants in 2022–2024 against only 3 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.

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U S Pole

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Ubic

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Unick

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United Orthopedic

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Universidad DE Gr…

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Universidad DE Za…

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UEA Enterprises ◀

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What this shows UEA holds 13 patents at rank #21,962, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near UEA

By rank, the assignees closest to #21,962 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C12N (Microorganisms OR Enzymes)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for UEA, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In C12N (Microorganisms OR Enzymes), UEA ranks #1,557 of 4,144 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (43 here).

The AES Corporation 43 Bromine Compounds Ltd. 43 AZ Electronic Materials (Luxembourg) S.A.R.L. 43 AngioDynamics, Inc. 43

UEA's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

43 Top 28% higher than 72% of 49,997 US assignees

Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more US assignees. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.

Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2019–2025

Grants by year

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

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UEA Enterprises Ltd patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2019	1	7.7%
2020	1	7.7%
2021	1	7.7%
2022	1	7.7%
2024	2	15.4%
2025partial year	7	53.8%

Which technologies does UEA Enterprises Ltd patent most?

C12N - Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media 6

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 3

C07F - Acyclic, Carbocyclic OR Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium OR Tellurium 2

C12Y - Enzymes 2

C12P - Fermentation OR Enzyme-using Processes TO Synthesise A Desired Chemical Compound OR Composition OR TO Separate Optical Isomers From A Racemic Mixture 2

C07K - Peptides 2

A61P - Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations 2

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 2

Y02A - Technologies FOR Adaptation TO Climate Change 2

H01M - Processes OR Means, e.g. Batteries, FOR THE Direct Conversion OF Chemical Energy Into Electrical Energy 2

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 2

C09K - Materials FOR Miscellaneous Applications, NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere 1

H10K - Organic Electric Solid-state Devices 1

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 1

G01J - Measurement OF Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase OR Pulse Characteristics OF Infrared, Visible OR Ultraviolet LIGHT; COLORIMETRY; Radiation Pyrometry 1

Top 15 of 27 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

UEA Enterprises Ltd's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

UEA Enterprises Ltd's lead technology class is C12N (Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media), 46.2% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C12N
Ranked #21,965 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare UEA Enterprises Ltd against Tyco Electronics Holdings (Bermuda) No. 7 Limited, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 43.5/100 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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