Where does Carbon Energy Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Carbon Energy Inc. ranks #39,325 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 Carbon Energy Inc. hold?

Carbon Energy Inc. holds 6 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2025, spanning 5 technology areas.

What is Carbon Energy Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Carbon Energy Inc. has an Innovation Score of 27.6 out of 100 (24th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Carbon Energy Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Carbon Energy Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -75% 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 Carbon Energy Inc.'s patents?

Carbon Energy Inc.'s patents average 10.5 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 Carbon Energy 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 Foreign Corporation

Carbon Energy Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Carbon Energy Inc. focus on?

Carbon Energy Inc.'s top technology area is E21B (Earth OR Rock DRILLING; Obtaining OIL, GAS, Water, Soluble OR Meltable Materials OR A Slurry OF Minerals From Wells) with 4 patents, ranking #774 of 1,363 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 5 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 6 granted patents across 5 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2025. 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: E21B (Earth OR Rock DRILLING; Obtaining OIL, GAS, Water, Soluble OR Meltable Materials OR A Slurry OF Minerals From Wells).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Carbon ranks #39,325 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 6 patents across 5 technology areas.

#39,325
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 24th percentile
by Innovation Score (27.6/100): 10.5
avg claims per patent: -75%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R39325 · Foreign Corporation #39,325 · 6 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · LOWER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-PAR · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 6 grants
LOWER-Q #39,325/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Candy House
CPC-NARROW E21B · 5 areas
INNOV-THIN 27.6/100
CLAIMS-PAR 10.5 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -75% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Candy House 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 Carbon’s 27.6 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 6.7 pts (24%) Velocity 6.7 pts (24%) Breadth 7.9 pts (29%) Claim depth 6.3 pts (23%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Carbon Energy · this assignee

28
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Carbon's Innovation Score is 27.6/100 (24th 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 Carbon?

Each dot is one of Carbon’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). Carbon’s own 10.5 claims/patent is at or below the 14.7 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Carbon's grants concentrate

Carbon Energy Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 5 CPC subclasses with 66.7% of grants classified under E21B (Earth OR Rock DRILLING; Obtaining OIL, GAS, Water, Soluble OR Meltable Materials OR A Slurry OF Minerals From Wells). Peak complete grant year is 2016 (2 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2024. By volume, Carbon sits between Candy House Inc. and Cargo Cube Systems, LLC.

Carbon's three-year grant acceleration

Carbon Energy Inc. shows 1 grants in 2022–2024 against only 0 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.

Candy House

6
Canimguide Therap…

6
Carbon AIR

6
Carbon Clean Solu…

6
Carbonfree Chemic…

6
Carboshield

6
Cardioprolific

6
Cargo Cube Systems

6
Carbon Energy ◀

6

What this shows Carbon holds 6 patents at rank #39,308, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Carbon

By rank, the assignees closest to #39,308 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in E21B (Earth OR Rock Drilling)

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

Carbon's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

28 24th percentile higher than 24% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2025

Grants by year

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

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Carbon Energy Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	2	33.3%
2018	2	33.3%
2024	1	16.7%
2025partial year	1	16.7%

Which technologies does Carbon Energy Inc. patent most?

E21B - Earth OR Rock DRILLING; Obtaining OIL, GAS, Water, Soluble OR Meltable Materials OR A Slurry OF Minerals From Wells 4

C25B - Electrolytic OR Electrophoretic Processes FOR THE Production OF Compounds OR NON-METALS; Apparatus Therefor 2

H01M - Processes OR Means, e.g. Batteries, FOR THE Direct Conversion OF Chemical Energy Into Electrical Energy 2

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 2

B01D - Separation 2

Top 5 of 5 technology areas

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

View all rankings → How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

Carbon Energy Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Carbon Energy Inc.'s lead technology class is E21B (Earth OR Rock DRILLING; Obtaining OIL, GAS, Water, Soluble OR Meltable Materials OR A Slurry OF Minerals From Wells), 66.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore E21B
Ranked #39,325 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Carbon Energy Inc. against Candy House Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 27.6/100 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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