Where does Cambridge Consultants Limited rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Cambridge Consultants Limited ranks #22,333 of 50,000 assignees by granted-patent volume, the same sort as the companies listing and top-holders ranking. See /methodology/#corpus-placement.

How many patents does Cambridge Consultants Limited hold?

Cambridge Consultants Limited holds 12 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2023, spanning 15 technology areas.

What is Cambridge Consultants Limited's Innovation Score?

Cambridge Consultants Limited has an Innovation Score of 37.4 out of 100 (top 44% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Cambridge Consultants Limited's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Cambridge Consultants Limited's recent grant velocity is +40% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). The company is maintaining or growing its granted-patent output.

What does claim depth mean for Cambridge Consultants Limited's patents?

Cambridge Consultants Limited's patents average 21.1 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 Cambridge Consultants Limited 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

Cambridge Consultants Limited

Q: What technology areas does Cambridge Consultants Limited focus on?

Cambridge Consultants Limited's top technology area is G06Q (INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY [ICT] SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL OR SUPERVISORY PURPOSES; SYSTEMS OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL OR SUPERVISORY PURPOSES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR) with 3 patents. Grants appear in 15 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 12 granted patents across 15 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2023. 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: G06Q (INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY [ICT] SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL OR SUPERVISORY PURPOSES; SYSTEMS OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE,).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Cambridge ranks #22,333 of 50,000 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 12 patents across 15 technology areas.

#22,333
of 50,000 US assignees by volume: Top 44%
by Innovation Score (37.4/100): 21.1
avg claims per patent: +40%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R22333 · Foreign Corporation #22,333 · 12 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-UP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 12 grants
MID-PACK #22,333/50,000
PHOTO-FINISH C Cretors &
CPC-FOCUS G06Q · 15 areas
INNOV-THIN 37.4/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 21.1 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-UP +40% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: C. Cretors & Company (±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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Cambridge Consultants · this assignee

37
Cedes · near

37
Diebold · near

37
OPKO Ireland Global… · near

37
Virnetx · near

37
3D Lighting Innovati… · lowest

7

What this shows Cambridge's Innovation Score is 37.4/100 (top 44% 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.

Where Cambridge's grants concentrate

Cambridge Consultants Limited is a focused PatentsView assignee: 15 CPC subclasses with 25% of grants classified under G06Q (INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY [ICT] SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL OR SUPERVISORY PURPOSES; SYSTEMS OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE,). Peak complete grant year is 2020 (5 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2016. By volume, Cambridge sits between C-motive Technologies, Inc. and Caremed Supply Inc..

C-motive

12
C Cretors &

12
CA

12
Calzoni S R L

12
Canny Systems

12
Carbonxt

12
Cardiac Success

12
Caremed Supply

12
Cambridge Consult… ◀

12

What this shows Cambridge holds 12 patents at rank #22,331, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Cambridge

By rank, the assignees closest to #22,331 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G06Q (Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially…)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Cambridge, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above).

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (37 here).

Diebold, Inc. 37 OPKO Ireland Global Holdings, Ltd. 37 Cedes Ag 37 Virnetx, Inc. 37

Cambridge's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

37 Top 44% higher than 56% of 50,000 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2023

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2016–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Cambridge Consultants Limited patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	1	8.3%
2017	2	16.7%
2018	1	8.3%
2019	1	8.3%
2020	5	41.7%
2022	1	8.3%
2023	1	8.3%

Which technologies does Cambridge Consultants Limited patent most?

G06Q - INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY [ICT] SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL OR SUPERVISORY PURPOSES; SYSTEMS OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL OR SUPERVISORY PURPOSES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR 3

H04W - WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS 3

G07C - TIME OR ATTENDANCE REGISTERS; REGISTERING OR INDICATING THE WORKING OF MACHINES; GENERATING RANDOM NUMBERS; VOTING OR LOTTERY APPARATUS; ARRANGEMENTS, SYSTEMS OR APPARATUS FOR CHECKING NOT PROVIDED FOR ELSEWHERE 3

G06F - ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING 3

H04B - TRANSMISSION 3

H03M - CODING; DECODING; CODE CONVERSION IN GENERAL 2

Y02D - CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION TECHNOLOGIES IN INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES [ICT], I.E. INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES AIMING AT THE REDUCTION OF THEIR OWN ENERGY USE 2

A61N - ELECTROTHERAPY; MAGNETOTHERAPY; RADIATION THERAPY; ULTRASOUND THERAPY 2

H01Q - ANTENNAS, i.e. RADIO AERIALS 2

Y02B - CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION TECHNOLOGIES RELATED TO BUILDINGS, e.g. HOUSING, HOUSE APPLIANCES OR RELATED END-USER APPLICATIONS 1

G01S - RADIO DIRECTION-FINDING; RADIO NAVIGATION; DETERMINING DISTANCE OR VELOCITY BY USE OF RADIO WAVES; LOCATING OR PRESENCE-DETECTING BY USE OF THE REFLECTION OR RERADIATION OF RADIO WAVES; ANALOGOUS ARRANGEMENTS USING OTHER WAVES 1

Y02A - TECHNOLOGIES FOR ADAPTATION TO CLIMATE CHANGE 1

B05B - SPRAYING APPARATUS; ATOMISING APPARATUS; NOZZLES 1

B65D - CONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS, e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES, DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKAGES 1

H03F - AMPLIFIERS 1

Top 15 of 15 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#22,333

of 50,000 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

37.4 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

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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