Where does Cardinal IG Company rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Cardinal IG Company ranks #6,121 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 Cardinal IG Company hold?

Cardinal IG Company holds 55 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 32 technology areas.

What is Cardinal IG Company's Innovation Score?

Cardinal IG Company has an Innovation Score of 53.0 out of 100 (top 9% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Cardinal IG Company's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Cardinal IG Company's recent grant velocity is +63% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Cardinal IG Company's patents?

Cardinal IG Company's patents average 20.1 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 Cardinal IG Company 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

Cardinal IG Company

Q: What technology areas does Cardinal IG Company focus on?

Cardinal IG Company's top technology area is E06B (Fixed OR Movable Closures FOR Openings IN Buildings, Vehicles, Fences OR Like Enclosures IN General, e.g. Doors, Windows, Blinds, Gates) with 41 patents, ranking #18 of 637 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 32 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 55 granted patents across 32 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: E06B (Fixed OR Movable Closures FOR Openings IN Buildings, Vehicles, Fences OR Like Enclosures IN General, e.g. Doors, Windows, Blinds, Gates).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Cardinal ranks #6,121 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 55 patents across 32 technology areas.

#6,121
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 9%
by Innovation Score (53.0/100): 20.1
avg claims per patent: +63%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R6121 · US Corporation #6,121 · 55 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 55 grants
UPPER-Q #6,121/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH CaaStle
CPC-FOCUS E06B · 32 areas
INNOV-PAR 53.0/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 20.1 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +63% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: CaaStle, 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 Cardinal’s 53.0 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 13.9 pts (26%) Velocity 7.1 pts (13%) Breadth 20.0 pts (38%) Claim depth 12.0 pts (23%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Cardinal IG · this assignee

53
TiVo Solutions · near

53
Nippon Pillar Packing · near

53
Nortek Security &… · near

53
PassiveLogic · near

53
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Cardinal's Innovation Score is 53.0/100 (top 9% 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 Cardinal?

Each dot is one of Cardinal’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). Cardinal’s own 20.1 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.5 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Cardinal's grants concentrate

Cardinal IG Company is a focused PatentsView assignee: 32 CPC subclasses with 74.5% of grants classified under E06B (Fixed OR Movable Closures FOR Openings IN Buildings, Vehicles, Fences OR Like Enclosures IN General, e.g. Doors, Windows, Blinds, Gates). Peak complete grant year is 2021 (8 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2016. By volume, Cardinal sits between China Tobacco Hunan Industrial Co., Ltd. and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.

Cardinal's three-year grant acceleration

Cardinal IG Company shows 18 grants in 2022–2024 against only 17 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.

China Tobacco Hun…

55
China Tobacco Yun…

55
Crocus Technology

55
Caastle

55
Caterpillar Trimb…

55
China Agricultura…

55
Clevx

55
Cold Spring Harbo…

55
Cardinal IG ◀

55

What this shows Cardinal holds 55 patents at rank #6,125, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Cardinal

By rank, the assignees closest to #6,125 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in E06B (Fixed OR Movable Closures FOR Openings IN Buildings)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Cardinal, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In E06B (Fixed OR Movable Closures FOR Openings IN Buildings), Cardinal ranks #18 of 637 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (53 here).

TiVo Solutions Inc. 53 Nortek Security & Control 53 PassiveLogic, Inc. 53 Nippon Pillar Packing Co., Ltd. 53

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (20.1 here).

Applied Micro Circuits Corporation 20.1 avg Rainbow Medical Ltd. 20.1 avg Tactotek OY 20.1 avg VID Scale, Inc. 20.1 avg

Cardinal's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

53 Top 9% higher than 91% 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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Cardinal IG Company patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	3	5.5%
2016	2	3.6%
2017	7	12.7%
2018	3	5.5%
2019	4	7.3%
2020	5	9.1%
2021	8	14.5%
2022	8	14.5%
2023	6	10.9%
2024	4	7.3%
2025partial year	5	9.1%

Which technologies does Cardinal IG Company patent most?

E06B - Fixed OR Movable Closures FOR Openings IN Buildings, Vehicles, Fences OR Like Enclosures IN General, e.g. Doors, Windows, Blinds, Gates 41

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 38

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 30

C03C - Chemical Composition OF Glasses, Glazes OR Vitreous ENAMELS; Surface Treatment OF GLASS; Surface Treatment OF Fibres OR Filaments Made From Glass, Minerals OR SLAGS; Joining Glass TO Glass OR Other Materials 6

Y02A - Technologies FOR Adaptation TO Climate Change 6

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 6

Y02B - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Buildings, e.g. Housing, House Appliances OR Related End-user Applications 5

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 4

B29C - Shaping OR Joining OF PLASTICS; Shaping OF Material IN A Plastic State, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; After-treatment OF THE Shaped Products, e.g. Repairing 4

G09G - Arrangements OR Circuits FOR Control OF Indicating Devices Using Static Means TO Present Variable Information 4

B65G - Transport OR Storage Devices, e.g. Conveyors FOR Loading OR Tipping, Shop Conveyor Systems OR Pneumatic Tube Conveyors 4

B26D - CUTTING; Details Common TO Machines FOR Perforating, Punching, Cutting-out, Stamping-out OR Severing 4

G01R - Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables 3

B23P - Metal-working NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Combined OPERATIONS; Universal Machine Tools 3

B24B - Machines, Devices, OR Processes FOR Grinding OR Polishing ; Dressing OR Conditioning OF Abrading SURFACES; Feeding OF Grinding, Polishing, OR Lapping Agents 2

Top 15 of 32 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

Cardinal IG Company's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Cardinal IG Company's lead technology class is E06B (Fixed OR Movable Closures FOR Openings IN Buildings, Vehicles, Fences OR Like Enclosures IN General, e.g. Doors, Windows, Blinds, Gates), 74.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore E06B
Ranked #6,121 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Cardinal IG Company against China Tobacco Hunan Industrial Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 53.0/100 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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