Yeast Chassis Pathway Balancing Patents: Leaders & White Space 2026
Yeast Chassis Pathway Balancing Patents: Who Leads and Where the Claim Space Is Still Open
35.6% concentration. The top 5 of 100 ranked assignees hold 134 of the 376 records in scope — a dense cluster at the top with a long tail below. Filings ran at 22 in 2017, rose to a peak of 37 in 2020, dipped to 9 in 2021, then climbed back to 27 by 2024 — a +200% increase over that three-year span. 2025 and 2026 figures are still filling in due to publication lag and should not be read as a decline.
- 1AMYRIS INC36
- 2DANMARKS TEKNISKE UNIV30
- 3RGT UNIV OF CALIFORNIA24
- 4MASSACHUSETTS INST OF TECH22
- 5MELT&MARBLE AB22
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Common questions about this landscape
How many patents cover yeast chassis pathway balancing?
This dataset contains 376 published records classified under C12N15/81, C12N1/16 or C12Q1/68 that also match search terms for engineered yeast hosts and metabolic flux control. The count includes applications and granted patents from 2015 through the 2026-07-31 data cut-off. Because publication lags filing by roughly 18 months, the true number of filings from 2024 onward is higher than what is currently published and searchable.
Who are the leading patent filers in yeast metabolic engineering?
The ranked assignee list covers 100 companies and institutions counted by patent family, with the leader holding 36 records and a steep drop to 22 at fifth place and 10 at tenth place. The top 5 assignees combined hold 35.6% of all 376 records, and the top 10 hold 53.2%. That leaves close to half the field distributed among a long tail of smaller filers, which is common in a technology area still being actively defined.
Is the yeast chassis engineering patent field growing or slowing down?
Filing activity peaked at 37 records in 2020, dropped to 9 in 2021, and then rebuilt to 27 by 2024 — a documented +200% increase over that three-year span. It would be a mistake to read 2025 or 2026 figures as a slowdown, since publication lag means recent years are still being backfilled with records that were filed but not yet published. The 2021-to-2024 trend is the most reliable recent signal of momentum.
Disclaimer. This analysis is based on Patsnap Eureka data drawn from a limited snapshot of global patent records and is provided for general information and reference only. Patent data carries inherent limitations — recent filings are under-counted because of publication lag, counts may be on a record or family basis, classification and applicant-name data may contain errors or duplicates, and the underlying search query defines the scope shown — so the analysis may be incomplete or inaccurate and may not reflect the full technology landscape.
Nothing here is an exhaustive prior-art, novelty, freedom-to-operate or validity search, nor does it constitute legal, financial or professional advice, and it should not be relied upon as such. Verify independently and review with qualified patent and legal professionals before acting on it.
Method: Filing trend and technology composition. Derived from a Patsnap search on Yeast Chassis Pathway Balancing covering 2015–2026, data cut-off 2026-07-31. Counts reflect published records only and shift as new filings publish. Every share divides by all records in scope. Data: Patsnap Eureka. See the full landscape report.