Where does Cambridge Enterprise Limited rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Cambridge Enterprise Limited ranks #1,663 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 Cambridge Enterprise Limited hold?

Cambridge Enterprise Limited holds 247 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 129 technology areas.

What is Cambridge Enterprise Limited's Innovation Score?

Cambridge Enterprise Limited has an Innovation Score of 61.0 out of 100 (top 3% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Cambridge Enterprise Limited focus on?

Cambridge Enterprise Limited's top technology area is G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties) with 50 patents, ranking #289 of 7,863 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 129 CPC subclasses total.

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

Cambridge Enterprise Limited's recent grant velocity is -15% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). Grant activity has slowed relative to earlier years.

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

Cambridge Enterprise Limited's patents average 17.8 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 Enterprise 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 Enterprise Limited

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 247 granted patents across 129 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2025. 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: G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties).

Compiled by PlainPatent · May 15, 2026

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Cambridge ranks #1,663 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 247 patents across 129 technology areas.

#1,663
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 3%
by Innovation Score (61.0/100): 17.8
avg claims per patent: -15%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1663 · Foreign Corporation #1,663 · 247 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 247 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,663/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Biogen MA
CPC-WIDE G01N · 129 areas
INNOV-STRONG 61.0/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.8 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -15% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Biogen MA Inc. (±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 Cambridge’s 61.0 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 19.0 pts (31%) Velocity 6.3 pts (10%) Breadth 25.0 pts (41%) Claim depth 10.7 pts (18%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Cambridge Enterprise · this assignee

61
FMR · near

61
GS Yuasa International · near

61
Nanotronics Imaging · near

61
UNIST(ULSAN… · near

61
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Cambridge's Innovation Score is 61.0/100 (top 3% 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 Cambridge?

Each dot is one of Cambridge’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). Cambridge’s own 17.8 claims/patent is ABOVE the 14.4 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How Cambridge's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Cambridge Enterprise Limited received 105 grants versus 124 in 2015–2019 (-15% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2016 at 29 grants and bottomed in 2024 at 17. Lead class G01N accounts for 20.2% of the portfolio across 129 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Richemont International SA (#1,659) and Nice Ltd. (#1,667).

Cambridge's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Cambridge Enterprise Limited moved from 66 to 62 grants (0.94x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). Among 3,296 tracked assignees with ≥100 grants and ≥20 prior-period grants, that multiple ranks #1,362. See the growth leaderboard.

Richemont Interna…

248
Teradata US

248
Water Pik

248
Biogen MA

247
H LEE Moffitt Can…

247
Honeywell Federal…

247
J Choo

247
Nice

247
Cambridge Enterpr… ◀

247

What this shows Cambridge holds 247 patents at rank #1,663, 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 #1,663 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their…)

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). In G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their…), Cambridge ranks #289 of 7,863 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (61 here).

FMR LLC 61 GS Yuasa International Ltd. 61 Nanotronics Imaging, Inc. 61 UNIST(ULSAN National Institute OF Science AND TECHNOLOGY) 61

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (17.8 here).

Infinera Corp. 17.8 avg Vivint LLC 17.8 avg GAS Technology Institute 17.8 avg The University of Bristol 17.8 avg

Cambridge's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

61 Top 3% higher than 97% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2015–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

View data table

Cambridge Enterprise Limited patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	26	10.5%
2016	29	11.7%
2017	25	10.1%
2018	21	8.5%
2019	23	9.3%
2020	22	8.9%
2021	21	8.5%
2022	27	10.9%
2023	18	7.3%
2024	17	6.9%
2025partial year	18	7.3%

Which technologies does Cambridge Enterprise Limited patent most?

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 50

A61P - Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations 36

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 33

C12N - Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media 30

H10K - Organic Electric Solid-state Devices 24

B82Y - Specific Uses OR Applications OF NANOSTRUCTURES; Measurement OR Analysis OF NANOSTRUCTURES; Manufacture OR Treatment OF Nanostructures 21

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 21

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 18

G02F - Optical Devices OR Arrangements FOR THE Control OF Light BY Modification OF THE Optical Properties OF THE Media OF THE Elements Involved THEREIN; Non-linear OPTICS; Frequency-changing OF LIGHT; Optical Logic ELEMENTS; Optical ANALOGUE/DIGITAL Converters 16

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 14

C07K - Peptides 14

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 13

C09K - Materials FOR Miscellaneous Applications, NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere 13

B01L - Chemical OR Physical Laboratory Apparatus FOR General USE 12

H10D - Inorganic Electric Semiconductor Devices 11

Top 15 of 129 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

Cambridge Enterprise Limited's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Cambridge Enterprise Limited's lead technology class is G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties), 20.2% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G01N
Ranked #1,663 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Cambridge Enterprise Limited against Richemont International SA, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 61.0/100 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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