Where does Carter Fabricating Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Carter Fabricating Inc. ranks #39,345 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 Carter Fabricating Inc. hold?

Carter Fabricating Inc. holds 6 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2018, spanning 1 technology areas.

What is Carter Fabricating Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Carter Fabricating Inc. has an Innovation Score of 12.7 out of 100 (2nd percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Carter Fabricating Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Carter Fabricating Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -100% 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 Carter Fabricating Inc.'s patents?

Carter Fabricating Inc.'s patents average 4.0 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 Carter Fabricating 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

Carter Fabricating Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Carter Fabricating Inc. focus on?

Carter Fabricating Inc.'s top technology area is B21D (Working OR Processing OF Sheet Metal OR Metal Tubes, Rods OR Profiles Without Essentially Removing MATERIAL; Punching Metal) with 1 patents, ranking #462 of 818 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 1 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 6 granted patents across 1 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2018. 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: B21D (Working OR Processing OF Sheet Metal OR Metal Tubes, Rods OR Profiles Without Essentially Removing MATERIAL; Punching Metal).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Carter ranks #39,345 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 6 patents across 1 technology areas.

#39,345
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 2nd percentile
by Innovation Score (12.7/100): 4.0
avg claims per patent: -100%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R39345 · Foreign Corporation #39,345 · 6 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 6 grants
LOWER-Q #39,345/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Cariflex PTE
CPC-NARROW B21D · 1 areas
INNOV-LOW 12.7/100
CLAIMS-SPARSE 4.0 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -100% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Cariflex PTE. Ltd. (±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 Carter’s 12.7 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 (53%) Velocity 0.0 pts (0%) Breadth 3.5 pts (28%) Claim depth 2.4 pts (19%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

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Carter Fabricating · this assignee

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What this shows Carter's Innovation Score is 12.7/100 (2nd 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 Carter?

Each dot is one of Carter’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). Carter’s own 4.0 claims/patent is at or below the 12.3 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Carter's grants concentrate

Carter Fabricating Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 1 CPC subclasses with 16.7% of grants classified under B21D (Working OR Processing OF Sheet Metal OR Metal Tubes, Rods OR Profiles Without Essentially Removing MATERIAL; Punching Metal). Peak complete grant year is 2016 (4 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2017. By volume, Carter sits between Cariflex PTE. Ltd. and CB Interests Inc..

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Carter Fabricating ◀

6

What this shows Carter holds 6 patents at rank #39,318, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Carter

By rank, the assignees closest to #39,318 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B21D (Working OR Processing OF Sheet Metal OR Metal Tubes)

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

Carter's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

13 2nd percentile higher than 2% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2018

Grants by year

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

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Carter Fabricating Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	4	66.7%
2017	1	16.7%
2018	1	16.7%

Which technologies does Carter Fabricating Inc. patent most?

B21D - Working OR Processing OF Sheet Metal OR Metal Tubes, Rods OR Profiles Without Essentially Removing MATERIAL; Punching Metal 1

Top 1 of 1 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

Carter Fabricating Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Carter Fabricating Inc.'s lead technology class is B21D (Working OR Processing OF Sheet Metal OR Metal Tubes, Rods OR Profiles Without Essentially Removing MATERIAL; Punching Metal), 16.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B21D
Ranked #39,345 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Carter Fabricating Inc. against Cariflex PTE. Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 12.7/100 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.