Where does Cateye Co., Ltd. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Cateye Co., Ltd. ranks #9,223 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 Cateye Co., Ltd. hold?

Cateye Co., Ltd. holds 34 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2024, spanning 7 technology areas.

What is Cateye Co., Ltd.'s Innovation Score?

Cateye Co., Ltd. has an Innovation Score of 25.9 out of 100 (19th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Cateye Co., Ltd.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Cateye Co., Ltd.'s recent grant velocity is -21% 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 Cateye Co., Ltd.'s patents?

Cateye Co., Ltd.'s patents average 1.5 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 Cateye Co., Ltd. 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

Cateye Co., Ltd.

Q: What technology areas does Cateye Co., Ltd. focus on?

Cateye Co., Ltd.'s top technology area is B62J (Cycle Saddles OR SEATS; Auxiliary Devices OR Accessories Specially Adapted TO Cycles AND NOT Otherwise Provided FOR, e.g. Article Carriers OR Cycle Protectors) with 3 patents, ranking #98 of 298 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 7 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 34 granted patents across 7 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2024. 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: B62J (Cycle Saddles OR SEATS; Auxiliary Devices OR Accessories Specially Adapted TO Cycles AND NOT Otherwise Provided FOR, e.g. Article Carriers OR Cycle Protectors).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Cateye ranks #9,223 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 34 patents across 7 technology areas.

#9,223
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 19th percentile
by Innovation Score (25.9/100): 1.5
avg claims per patent: -21%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R9223 · Foreign Corporation #9,223 · 34 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-SPARSE · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 34 grants
UPPER-Q #9,223/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Caffitaly System S P A
CPC-NARROW B62J · 7 areas
INNOV-THIN 25.9/100
CLAIMS-SPARSE 1.5 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -21% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Caffitaly System S.P.A. (±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 Cateye’s 25.9 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 12.3 pts (47%) Velocity 3.3 pts (13%) Breadth 9.4 pts (36%) Claim depth 0.9 pts (3%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Cateye · this assignee

26
Github · near

26
ProPhotonix · near

26
Bonvi Water · near

26
Anchor Packaging · near

26
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Cateye's Innovation Score is 25.9/100 (19th 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 Cateye?

Each dot is one of Cateye’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). Cateye’s own 1.5 claims/patent is at or below the 9.8 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Cateye's grants concentrate

Cateye Co., Ltd. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 7 CPC subclasses with 8.8% of grants classified under B62J (Cycle Saddles OR SEATS; Auxiliary Devices OR Accessories Specially Adapted TO Cycles AND NOT Otherwise Provided FOR, e.g. Article Carriers OR Cycle Protectors). Peak complete grant year is 2016 (7 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2024. By volume, Cateye sits between Caffitaly System S.P.A. and Ceragem Co., Ltd..

Cateye's three-year grant acceleration

Cateye Co., Ltd. shows 6 grants in 2022–2024 against only 12 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.

Caffitaly System…

34
Callwave Communic…

34
CAO Group

34
Casco Signal

34
CCS Technology

34
Ceat

34
Centaurus Biophar…

34
Ceragem

34
Cateye ◀

34

What this shows Cateye holds 34 patents at rank #9,217, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Cateye

By rank, the assignees closest to #9,217 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B62J (Cycle Saddles OR Seats)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Cateye, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B62J (Cycle Saddles OR Seats), Cateye ranks #98 of 298 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (26 here).

Github, Inc. 26 ProPhotonix Limited 26 Bonvi Water, Inc. 26 Anchor Packaging, LLC 26

Cateye's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

26 19th percentile higher than 19% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2024

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2015–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Cateye Co., Ltd. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	2	5.9%
2016	7	20.6%
2017	5	14.7%
2018	2	5.9%
2019	3	8.8%
2020	4	11.8%
2021	5	14.7%
2022	3	8.8%
2023	2	5.9%
2024	1	2.9%

Which technologies does Cateye Co., Ltd. patent most?

B62J - Cycle Saddles OR SEATS; Auxiliary Devices OR Accessories Specially Adapted TO Cycles AND NOT Otherwise Provided FOR, e.g. Article Carriers OR Cycle Protectors 3

F21V - Functional Features OR Details OF Lighting Devices OR Systems THEREOF; Structural Combinations OF Lighting Devices With Other Articles, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 2

F21S - Non-portable Lighting DEVICES; Systems THEREOF; Vehicle Lighting Devices Specially Adapted FOR Vehicle Exteriors 1

G01C - Measuring Distances, Levels OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; Gyroscopic INSTRUMENTS; Photogrammetry OR Videogrammetry 1

H04B - Transmission 1

F21Y - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses F21k, F21l, F21s and F21v, Relating TO THE Form OR THE Kind OF THE Light Sources OR OF THE Colour OF THE Light Emitted 1

F21L - Lighting Devices OR Systems Thereof, Being Portable OR Specially Adapted FOR Transportation 1

Top 7 of 7 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

Cateye Co., Ltd.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Cateye Co., Ltd.'s lead technology class is B62J (Cycle Saddles OR SEATS; Auxiliary Devices OR Accessories Specially Adapted TO Cycles AND NOT Otherwise Provided FOR, e.g. Article Carriers OR Cycle Protectors), 8.8% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B62J
Ranked #9,223 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Cateye Co., Ltd. against Caffitaly System S.P.A., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 25.9/100 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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