Where does Capstone Plants, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Capstone Plants, Inc. ranks #7,821 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 Capstone Plants, Inc. hold?

Capstone Plants, Inc. holds 41 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 0 technology areas.

What is Capstone Plants, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Capstone Plants, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 22.2 out of 100 (10th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Capstone Plants, Inc. focus on?

Capstone Plants, Inc. holds grants across 0 technology areas classified under the Cooperative Patent Classification system.

Is Capstone Plants, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Capstone Plants, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -19% 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 Capstone Plants, Inc.'s patents?

Capstone Plants, Inc.'s patents average 1.0 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 Capstone Plants, Inc. 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 US Corporation

Capstone Plants, Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 41 granted patents across 0 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.

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Capstone ranks #7,821 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 41 patents across 0 technology areas.

#7,821
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 10th percentile
by Innovation Score (22.2/100): 1.0
avg claims per patent: -19%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R7821 · US Corporation #7,821 · 41 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-UNK · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-SPARSE · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-RICH

GRANTS-SMALL 41 grants
UPPER-Q #7,821/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Canon Virginia
CPC-UNK CPC blank
INNOV-THIN 22.2/100
CLAIMS-SPARSE 1.0 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DOWN -19% vel
BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Canon Virginia, 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 Capstone’s 22.2 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 12.9 pts (58%) Velocity 8.7 pts (39%) Breadth 0.0 pts (0%) Claim depth 0.6 pts (3%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Suphatchatwong… · near

22
Texas Thorium · near

22
Capstone Plants · this assignee

22
Shenzhen Skyworth-rgb · near

22
Graff Faucets · near

22
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Capstone's Innovation Score is 22.2/100 (10th percentile 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 Capstone?

Each dot is one of Capstone’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). Capstone’s own 1.0 claims/patent is at or below the 14.5 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Capstone's grants concentrate

Capstone Plants, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 0 CPC subclasses . Peak complete grant year is 2022 (7 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2020. By volume, Capstone sits between Chang'an University and Cirtec Medical Corporation.

Capstone's three-year grant acceleration

Capstone Plants, Inc. shows 13 grants in 2022–2024 against only 10 in 2019–2021. That prior window is too thin for a growth multiple (rename and spin-out assignees look artificially high when the baseline is near zero), so PlainPatent withholds a ranked acceleration claim here.

Chang'an Universi…

41
Cibt America

41
Clear LAM Packagi…

41
Canon Virginia

41
Cathworks

41
Cirkul

41
Cirrus Logic Inte…

41
Cirtec Medical

41
Capstone Plants ◀

41

What this shows Capstone holds 41 patents at rank #7,827, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Capstone

By rank, the assignees closest to #7,827 in granted patent volume.

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

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

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (22 here).

Shenzhen Skyworth-rgb Electronics Co., Ltd. 22 Graff Faucets 22 Suphatchatwong Innovation Co., Ltd. 22 Texas Thorium LLC 22

Capstone's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

22 10th percentile higher than 10% 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

Capstone Plants, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	4	9.8%
2016	4	9.8%
2017	3	7.3%
2018	4	9.8%
2019	6	14.6%
2020	1	2.4%
2021	3	7.3%
2022	7	17.1%
2023	4	9.8%
2024	2	4.9%
2025partial year	3	7.3%

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

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What to do with this data

Capstone Plants, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Ranked #7,821 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Capstone Plants, Inc. against Chang'an University, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 22.2/100 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

Every figure on PlainPatent is rendered directly from USPTO source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on USPTO source data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 2026.