Where does Carbo Ceramics, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Carbo Ceramics, Inc. ranks #4,033 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 Carbo Ceramics, Inc. hold?

Carbo Ceramics, Inc. holds 89 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 25 technology areas.

What is Carbo Ceramics, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Carbo Ceramics, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 49.5 out of 100 (top 15% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Carbo Ceramics, Inc. focus on?

Carbo Ceramics, Inc.'s top technology area is C09K (Materials FOR Miscellaneous Applications, NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere) with 57 patents, ranking #49 of 1,605 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 25 CPC subclasses total.

Is Carbo Ceramics, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Carbo Ceramics, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +36% 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 Carbo Ceramics, Inc.'s patents?

Carbo Ceramics, Inc.'s patents average 19.0 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 Carbo Ceramics, 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

Carbo Ceramics, Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 89 granted patents across 25 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: C09K (Materials FOR Miscellaneous Applications, NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Carbo ranks #4,033 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 89 patents across 25 technology areas.

#4,033
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 15%
by Innovation Score (49.5/100): 19.0
avg claims per patent: +36%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R4033 · US Corporation #4,033 · 89 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-UP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 89 grants
TOP-DECILE #4,033/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH B-K Medical APS
CPC-FOCUS C09K · 25 areas
INNOV-PAR 49.5/100
CLAIMS-RICH 19.0 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-UP +36% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: B-K Medical APS (±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 Carbo’s 49.5 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 15.5 pts (31%) Velocity 4.9 pts (10%) Breadth 17.7 pts (36%) Claim depth 11.4 pts (23%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Bastian Solutions · near

50
Hyosung TNS · near

50
TTI (MACAO Commercia… · near

50
Carbo Ceramics · this assignee

49
LandScan · near

49
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Carbo's Innovation Score is 49.5/100 (top 15% 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 Carbo?

Each dot is one of Carbo’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). Carbo’s own 19.0 claims/patent is ABOVE the 9.7 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Carbo's grants concentrate

Carbo Ceramics, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 25 CPC subclasses with 64% of grants classified under C09K (Materials FOR Miscellaneous Applications, NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere). Peak complete grant year is 2019 (15 grants) versus a trough of 3 in 2015. By volume, Carbo sits between B-K Medical APS and DeRoyal Industries, Inc..

Carbo's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Carbo Ceramics, Inc. moved from 37 to 27 grants (0.73x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

B-K Medical APS

89
BGC Partners

89
Birkenstock IP

89
Bushnell

89
Collins Engine No…

89
Columbia Sportswe…

89
Duelight

89
Deroyal Industries

89
Carbo Ceramics ◀

89

What this shows Carbo holds 89 patents at rank #4,033, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Carbo

By rank, the assignees closest to #4,033 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C09K (Materials FOR Miscellaneous Applications)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Carbo, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In C09K (Materials FOR Miscellaneous Applications), Carbo ranks #49 of 1,605 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (49 here).

LandScan LLC 49 Hyosung TNS Inc. 50 TTI (MACAO Commercial OFFSHORE) Limited 50 Bastian Solutions, LLC 50

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (19.0 here).

Suncoke Technology AND Development LLC 19.0 avg Veeva Systems Inc. 19.0 avg Medicalip Co., Ltd. 19.0 avg Intersil Americas LLC 19.0 avg

Carbo's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

49 Top 15% higher than 85% 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.

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Carbo Ceramics, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	3	3.4%
2016	3	3.4%
2017	3	3.4%
2018	12	13.5%
2019	15	16.9%
2020	9	10.1%
2021	13	14.6%
2022	6	6.7%
2023	12	13.5%
2024	9	10.1%
2025partial year	4	4.5%

Which technologies does Carbo Ceramics, Inc. patent most?

C09K - Materials FOR Miscellaneous Applications, NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere 57

E21B - Earth OR Rock DRILLING; Obtaining OIL, GAS, Water, Soluble OR Meltable Materials OR A Slurry OF Minerals From Wells 57

G01V - GEOPHYSICS; Gravitational MEASUREMENTS; Detecting Masses OR OBJECTS; Tags 21

C04B - Lime, MAGNESIA; SLAG; CEMENTS; Compositions Thereof, e.g. Mortars, Concrete OR Like Building MATERIALS; Artificial Stone ; Ceramics ; REFRACTORIES; Treatment OF Natural Stone 18

C23C - Coating Metallic MATERIAL; Coating Material With Metallic MATERIAL; Surface Treatment OF Metallic Material BY Diffusion Into THE Surface, BY Chemical Conversion OR SUBSTITUTION; Coating BY Vacuum Evaporation, BY Sputtering, BY ION Implantation OR BY Chemical Vapour Deposition, IN General 10

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 6

B01J - Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus 5

C01P - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Structural AND Physical Aspects OF Solid Inorganic Compounds 4

F24S - Solar Heat COLLECTORS; Solar Heat Systems 4

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 4

B22C - Foundry Moulding 3

G01D - Measuring NOT Specially Adapted FOR A Specific VARIABLE; Arrangements FOR Measuring TWO OR More Variables NOT Covered IN A Single Other SUBCLASS; Tariff Metering APPARATUS; Measuring OR Testing NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 2

B05D - Processes FOR Applying Fluent Materials TO Surfaces, IN General 2

H01B - CABLES; CONDUCTORS; INSULATORS; Selection OF Materials FOR Their Conductive, Insulating OR Dielectric Properties 2

C10B - Destructive Distillation OF Carbonaceous Materials FOR Production OF GAS, Coke, TAR, OR Similar Materials 2

Top 15 of 25 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

Carbo Ceramics, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Carbo Ceramics, Inc.'s lead technology class is C09K (Materials FOR Miscellaneous Applications, NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere), 64% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C09K
Ranked #4,033 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Carbo Ceramics, Inc. against B-K Medical APS, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 49.5/100 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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