Abstract: The paper aims to obtain a comprehensive study of the compost-related patents globally, for it is one of the important resource utilization ways to solve the pollution caused by the livestock and poultry breeding wastes at present. Based on the Innography analysis platform, we analyzed patents applications, patents layout, inventor locations, organizations distribution, and IPC technology category, also further discussed the source areas and technical topics of core patents. The results showed that: there was a sharp increasing for the total amounts of compost-related patents since 2010; China had the most patents in the field, while the vast majority of core patents were mastered by the United States (64.8%); the DowDuPont Inc. from the United States and Hitachi Ltd. from Japan showed strong comprehensive strength and technological innovation ability meantime; the hot topics of core patents were organic materials, waste materials, wastewater, and carbon dioxide; as to the situation in China, the top five organizations with the most patents was Tianjing Normal University, Zhejiang University, Chinese Agricultural University, Nanjing Agricultural University and Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences; among them, Tianjin Normal University had a strong comprehensive strength and technological innovation capability and was quite ahead of other peers in intellectual property protection; the hot topics of Chinese patents included organic fertilizer, raw materials, heavy metals, compound fertilizers and edible fungi. This study could provide references for the comprehensive understanding of compost-related development and the formulation of industrial development policies.