Patents
US patents through Dec 31, 2025 · PatentsView, from the USPTO’s Open Data Portal · read Oct 27, 2026
34 patents granted to the 2 names below, as the owner printed on each patent when it was granted. A later sale, a lapse or an expiry is not read, so this is what was granted to Ginkgo Bioworks Holdings, Inc.’s names, not what it holds today.
Patents granted
34
34 utility, 1976 to Dec 31, 2025
Granted in 2025
2
Against 8 in 2024 and 5 in 2023
Applications published
75
9 of them in 2025
Names they are printed under
2
a subsidiary
By yearGrantedApplications published
'12'13'15'16'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25
Each pair is one calendar year. Applications are published about eighteen months after filing, so the newest years read low.
What they are aboutgrants since 2021
Biotechnology24
Pharmaceuticals1
Organic fine chemistry1
Basic materials chemistry1
The main technology area of each patent, in the World Intellectual Property Organization’s 35 fields.
Under which name2 counted
Ginkgo Bioworks, Inc. a subsidiary
US, as the owner printed on each patent
34 granted
42 publishedGinkgo Bioworks, Inc. a subsidiary
named as the applicant on its applications, in US
0 granted
33 published
Newest grantseach row opens the USPTO’s own copy
| Granted | Patent | Title | Field | Owner as printed |
|---|
| Mar 4, 2025 | 12,239,137 | Compositions and methods for controlling plant pests and improving plant health | Basic materials chemistry | Ginkgo Bioworks, Inc. |
| Feb 25, 2025 | 12,234,464 | Biosynthesis of mogrosides | Biotechnology | Ginkgo Bioworks, Inc. |
| Oct 15, 2024 | 12,116,384 | Virus vectors for targeting ophthalmic tissues | Biotechnology | Ginkgo Bioworks, Inc. |
| Sep 17, 2024 | 12,091,435 | Antibody-evading virus vectors | Biotechnology | Ginkgo Bioworks, Inc. |
| Sep 3, 2024 | 12,077,799 | Chimeric terpene synthases | Organic fine chemistry | Ginkgo Bioworks, Inc. |
| Aug 13, 2024 | 12,060,390 | Antibody-evading virus vectors | Biotechnology | Ginkgo Bioworks, Inc. |
| May 14, 2024 | 11,981,914 | Recombinant adeno-associated virus vectors | Biotechnology | Ginkgo Bioworks, Inc. |
| May 7, 2024 | 11,976,096 | Antibody-evading virus vectors | Pharmaceuticals | Ginkgo Bioworks, Inc. |
| Feb 20, 2024 | 11,905,523 | Adeno-associated viral vectors for treatment of Niemann-Pick Disease type-C | Biotechnology | Ginkgo Bioworks, Inc. |
| Jan 2, 2024 | 11,859,189 | Recombinant bacteria engineered to treat diseases associated with methionine metabolism and methods of use thereof | Biotechnology | Ginkgo Bioworks, Inc. |
Newest applications publishedan application is a clue, never a plan
| Published | Application | Title | Field | Owner as printed |
|---|
| Nov 13, 2025 | 2025/0347709 | SCALABLE, MOBILE, AND RECONFIGURABLE MODULES FOR PROCESSING BIOLOGICAL AND CHEMICAL MATERIALS | Measurement | Ginkgo Bioworks, Inc. |
| Oct 23, 2025 | 2025/0327058 | ENGINEERED PHENYLALANINE AMMONIA LYASE AND TYROSINE AMMONIA LYASE ENZYMES FOR PRODUCING AROMATIC COMPOUNDS | Biotechnology | Ginkgo Bioworks, Inc. |
| Sep 11, 2025 | 2025/0283122 | BIOSYNTHESIS OF CANNABINOIDS AND CANNABINOID PRECURSORS | Biotechnology | Ginkgo Bioworks, Inc. |
| Jun 26, 2025 | 2025/0207142 | BIOSYNTHESIS OF CANNABINOIDS AND CANNABINOID PRECURSORS | Biotechnology | Ginkgo Bioworks, Inc. |
| Jun 5, 2025 | 2025/0176558 | COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR CONTROLLING PLANT PESTS AND IMPROVING PLANT HEALTH | Basic materials chemistry | Ginkgo Bioworks, Inc. |
| May 8, 2025 | 2025/0144245 | GENE THERAPY FOR ARRHYTHMOGENIC CARDIOMYOPATHY | Pharmaceuticals | Ginkgo Bioworks, Inc. |
| Mar 20, 2025 | 2025/0092095 | ANTIBODY-EVADING VIRUS VECTORS | Biotechnology | Ginkgo Bioworks, Inc. |
| Mar 6, 2025 | 2025/0075243 | BIOSYNTHESIS OF OXYGENATED HYDROCARBONS | Biotechnology | Ginkgo Bioworks, Inc. |
| Jan 23, 2025 | 2025/0027070 | ENGINEERED SESQUITERPENE SYNTHASES | Biotechnology | Ginkgo Bioworks, Inc. |
| Dec 26, 2024 | 2024/0425841 | ENGINEERED PHENYLALANINE AMMONIA LYASE ENZYMES | Biotechnology | Ginkgo Bioworks, Inc. |
What it applied for, 2024 to 2025: Biotechnology 25 · Pharmaceuticals 2 · Basic materials chemistry 1 · Measurement 1.
A patent is counted where the owner printed on it when it was granted carries the company’s own name, a former name, the name of a subsidiary its annual report lists, or its own name with a patent-holding phrase (Technology Licensing, Intellectual Property and the like), once the legal form, case and punctuation are set aside, and prints a country that name counts in. PatentsView’s data are published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. Source: PatentsView's granted patents and pre-grant publications, disambiguated, from the USPTO's Open Data Portal, through Dec 31, 2025, read Oct 27, 2026.