Where does Cattron North America, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Cattron North America, Inc. ranks #7,386 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 Cattron North America, Inc. hold?

Cattron North America, Inc. holds 44 US utility patents granted between 2020 and 2025, spanning 33 technology areas.

What is Cattron North America, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Cattron North America, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 57.0 out of 100 (top 6% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Cattron North America, Inc. focus on?

Cattron North America, Inc.'s top technology area is B61L (Guiding Railway TRAFFIC; Ensuring THE Safety OF Railway Traffic) with 20 patents, ranking #15 of 195 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 33 CPC subclasses total.

Is Cattron North America, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Insufficient historical data is available to calculate a velocity trend for Cattron North America, Inc..

What does claim depth mean for Cattron North America, Inc.'s patents?

Cattron North America, Inc.'s patents average 21.0 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 Cattron North America, 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 US Corporation

Cattron North America, Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 44 granted patents across 33 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2020–2025. 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: B61L (Guiding Railway TRAFFIC; Ensuring THE Safety OF Railway Traffic).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Cattron ranks #7,386 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 44 patents across 33 technology areas.

#7,386
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 6%
by Innovation Score (57.0/100): 21.0
avg claims per patent

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R7386 · US Corporation #7,386 · 44 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-USCORP · SPAN-YRS · BOOK-RICH

GRANTS-SMALL 44 grants
UPPER-Q #7,386/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Cardinal Health…
CPC-FOCUS B61L · 33 areas
INNOV-PAR 57.0/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 21.0 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
SPAN-YRS 2020–2025 · 6y
BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Cardinal Health Switzerland 515 GMBH (±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 Cattron’s 57.0 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 13.1 pts (23%) Velocity 11.0 pts (19%) Breadth 20.3 pts (36%) Claim depth 12.6 pts (22%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Beijing Wodong… · near

57
Cattron North America · this assignee

57
Exact Sciences · near

57
ImmunityBio · near

57
Politecnico DI Torino · near

57
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Cattron's Innovation Score is 57.0/100 (top 6% 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 Cattron?

Each dot is one of Cattron’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). Cattron’s own 21.0 claims/patent is ABOVE the 13.6 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Cattron's grants concentrate

Cattron North America, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 33 CPC subclasses with 45.5% of grants classified under B61L (Guiding Railway TRAFFIC; Ensuring THE Safety OF Railway Traffic). Peak complete grant year is 2022 (9 grants) versus a trough of 6 in 2020. By volume, Cattron sits between Cardinal Health Switzerland 515 GMBH and CommScope Connectivity Spain, S.L..

Cattron's three-year grant acceleration

Cattron North America, Inc. shows 23 grants in 2022–2024 against only 14 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.

Cardinal Health S…

44
Catholic Universi…

44
Consolidated Edis…

44
Coretech System

44
Celera

44
Celgene CAR

44
Certainteed Ceili…

44
Commscope Connect…

44
Cattron North Ame… ◀

44

What this shows Cattron holds 44 patents at rank #7,388, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Cattron

By rank, the assignees closest to #7,388 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B61L (Guiding Railway Traffic)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Cattron, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B61L (Guiding Railway Traffic), Cattron ranks #15 of 195 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (57 here).

Beijing Wodong Tianjun Information Technology Co., Ltd. 57 ImmunityBio, Inc. 57 Politecnico DI Torino 57 Exact Sciences Corporation 57

Cattron's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

57 Top 6% higher than 94% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2020–2025

Grants by year

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

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Cattron North America, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2020	6	13.6%
2021	8	18.2%
2022	9	20.5%
2023	8	18.2%
2024	6	13.6%
2025partial year	7	15.9%

Which technologies does Cattron North America, Inc. patent most?

B61L - Guiding Railway TRAFFIC; Ensuring THE Safety OF Railway Traffic 20

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 8

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 7

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 7

B61C - LOCOMOTIVES; Motor Railcars 6

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 5

B66C - CRANES; Load-engaging Elements OR Devices FOR Cranes, Capstans, Winches, OR Tackles 5

H02J - Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy 4

G09B - Educational OR Demonstration APPLIANCES; Appliances FOR Teaching, OR Communicating With, THE Blind, Deaf OR MUTE; MODELS; PLANETARIA; GLOBES; MAPS; Diagrams 3

B60T - Vehicle Brake Control Systems OR Parts THEREOF; Brake Control Systems OR Parts Thereof, IN General ; Arrangement OF Braking Elements ON Vehicles IN GENERAL; Portable Devices FOR Preventing Unwanted Movement OF VEHICLES; Vehicle Modifications TO Facilitate Cooling OF Brakes 3

G06K - Graphical Data Reading ; Presentation OF DATA; Record CARRIERS; Handling Record Carriers 3

F02N - Starting OF Combustion ENGINES; Starting Aids FOR Such Engines, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 3

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 3

G08C - Transmission Systems FOR Measured Values, Control OR Similar Signals 2

G05D - Systems FOR Controlling OR Regulating Non-electric Variables 2

Top 15 of 33 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

Cattron North America, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Cattron North America, Inc.'s lead technology class is B61L (Guiding Railway TRAFFIC; Ensuring THE Safety OF Railway Traffic), 45.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B61L
Ranked #7,386 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Cattron North America, Inc. against Cardinal Health Switzerland 515 GMBH, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 57.0/100 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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