Where does Cathay R&D Center Co., Ltd rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Cathay R&D Center Co., Ltd ranks #25,960 of 50,000 assignees by granted-patent volume, the same sort as the companies listing and top-holders ranking. See /methodology/#corpus-placement.

How many patents does Cathay R&D Center Co., Ltd hold?

Cathay R&D Center Co., Ltd holds 10 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2019, spanning 7 technology areas.

What is Cathay R&D Center Co., Ltd's Innovation Score?

Cathay R&D Center Co., Ltd has an Innovation Score of 26.1 out of 100 (top 81% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Cathay R&D Center Co., Ltd focus on?

Cathay R&D Center Co., Ltd's top technology area is C07C (ACYCLIC OR CARBOCYCLIC COMPOUNDS) with 8 patents. Grants appear in 7 CPC subclasses total.

Is Cathay R&D Center Co., Ltd's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Cathay R&D Center Co., Ltd'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 Cathay R&D Center Co., Ltd's patents?

Cathay R&D Center Co., Ltd's patents average 14.1 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 Cathay R&D Center 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

Cathay R&D Center Co., Ltd

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 10 granted patents across 7 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2019. 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: C07C (ACYCLIC OR CARBOCYCLIC COMPOUNDS).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Cathay ranks #25,960 of 50,000 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 10 patents across 7 technology areas.

#25,960
of 50,000 US assignees by volume: Top 81%
by Innovation Score (26.1/100): 14.1
avg claims per patent: -100%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R25960 · Foreign Corporation #25,960 · 10 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 10 grants
MID-PACK #25,960/50,000
PHOTO-FINISH CARBON CAPTURE
CPC-NARROW C07C · 7 areas
INNOV-THIN 26.1/100
CLAIMS-RICH 14.1 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -100% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Carbon Capture 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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Antennas Direct · near

26
Cathay R&D Center · this assignee

26
Country VIEW Medical… · near

26
Intelligent Imaging… · near

26
Hysonic · near

26
3D Lighting Innovati… · lowest

7

What this shows Cathay's Innovation Score is 26.1/100 (top 81% 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.

Where Cathay's grants concentrate

Cathay R&D Center Co., Ltd is a focused PatentsView assignee: 7 CPC subclasses with 80% of grants classified under C07C (ACYCLIC OR CARBOCYCLIC COMPOUNDS). Peak complete grant year is 2017 (3 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2016. By volume, Cathay sits between Carbon Capture Inc. and CDF Corporation.

Carbon Capture

10
Carewear

10
Carrier IQ

10
Cassy Holdings

10
Catry Internation…

10
Causam Exchange

10
CCDI Composites

10
CDF

10
Cathay R&D Center ◀

10

What this shows Cathay holds 10 patents at rank #25,949, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Cathay

By rank, the assignees closest to #25,949 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C07C (Acyclic OR Carbocyclic Compounds)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Cathay, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above).

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (26 here).

Intelligent Imaging Systems, Inc. 26 Country VIEW Medical Center 26 Antennas Direct, Inc. 26 Hysonic. Co., Ltd. 26

Cathay's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

26 Top 81% higher than 19% of 50,000 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2019

Grants by year

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

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Cathay R&D Center Co., Ltd patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	2	20.0%
2017	3	30.0%
2018	3	30.0%
2019	2	20.0%

Which technologies does Cathay R&D Center Co., Ltd patent most?

C07C - ACYCLIC OR CARBOCYCLIC COMPOUNDS 8

C12P - FERMENTATION OR ENZYME-USING PROCESSES TO SYNTHESISE A DESIRED CHEMICAL COMPOUND OR COMPOSITION OR TO SEPARATE OPTICAL ISOMERS FROM A RACEMIC MIXTURE 6

C12N - MICROORGANISMS OR ENZYMES; COMPOSITIONS THEREOF; PROPAGATING, PRESERVING, OR MAINTAINING MICROORGANISMS; MUTATION OR GENETIC ENGINEERING; CULTURE MEDIA 4

C12Y - ENZYMES 2

C08G - MACROMOLECULAR COMPOUNDS OBTAINED OTHERWISE THAN BY REACTIONS ONLY INVOLVING UNSATURATED CARBON-TO-CARBON BONDS 2

C12R - INDEXING SCHEME ASSOCIATED WITH SUBCLASSES C12C - C12Q, RELATING TO MICROORGANISMS 1

C07K - PEPTIDES 1

Top 7 of 7 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#25,960

of 50,000 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

26.1 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

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

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