Where does CBS Interactive Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), CBS Interactive Inc. ranks #4,324 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 CBS Interactive Inc. hold?

CBS Interactive Inc. holds 82 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 15 technology areas.

What is CBS Interactive Inc.'s Innovation Score?

CBS Interactive Inc. has an Innovation Score of 43.1 out of 100 (top 29% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does CBS Interactive Inc. focus on?

CBS Interactive Inc.'s top technology area is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing) with 52 patents. Grants appear in 15 CPC subclasses total.

Is CBS Interactive Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

CBS Interactive Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -69% 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 CBS Interactive Inc.'s patents?

CBS Interactive Inc.'s patents average 19.7 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 CBS Interactive 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

CBS Interactive Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 82 granted patents across 15 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: G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, CBS ranks #4,324 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 82 patents across 15 technology areas.

#4,324
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 29%
by Innovation Score (43.1/100): 19.7
avg claims per patent: -69%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R4324 · US Corporation #4,324 · 82 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 82 grants
TOP-DECILE #4,324/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Antares Pharma
CPC-FOCUS G06F · 15 areas
INNOV-PAR 43.1/100
CLAIMS-RICH 19.7 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -69% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Antares Pharma, 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
CBS Interactive · this assignee

43
E Mishan & Sons · near

43
Hangzhou Ruisheng… · near

43
Pierce Biotechnology · near

43
Wisol · near

43
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows CBS's Innovation Score is 43.1/100 (top 29% 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 CBS's grants concentrate

CBS Interactive Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 15 CPC subclasses with 63.4% of grants classified under G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (22 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2022. By volume, CBS sits between Antares Pharma, Inc. and Element Six Technologies Limited.

CBS's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, CBS Interactive Inc. moved from 20 to 7 grants (0.35x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Antares Pharma

82
Balluff

82
Byk-chemie

82
Bedgear

82
Citizen Machinery

82
Driv Automotive

82
Eisenmann SE

82
Element Six

82
CBS Interactive ◀

82

What this shows CBS holds 82 patents at rank #4,323, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near CBS

By rank, the assignees closest to #4,323 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

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

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (43 here).

E. Mishan & Sons, Inc. 43 Pierce Biotechnology, Inc. 43 Wisol Co., Ltd. 43 Hangzhou Ruisheng Software Co., Ltd. 43

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (19.7 here).

Capital One Financial Corporation 19.7 avg Alderbio Holdings LLC 19.7 avg ASM International N.V. 19.7 avg Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC 19.7 avg

CBS's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

43 Top 29% higher than 71% 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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CBS Interactive Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	22	26.8%
2016	15	18.3%
2017	5	6.1%
2018	12	14.6%
2019	8	9.8%
2020	7	8.5%
2021	5	6.1%
2022	2	2.4%
2023	2	2.4%
2024	3	3.7%
2025partial year	1	1.2%

Which technologies does CBS Interactive Inc. patent most?

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 52

G06Q - Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory Purposes, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 30

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 20

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 19

A63F - Card, Board, OR Roulette GAMES; Indoor Games Using Small Moving Playing BODIES; Video GAMES; Games NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 7

Y10S - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former Uspc Cross-reference ART Collections [XRACs] AND Digests 5

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 3

G11B - Information Storage Based ON Relative Movement Between Record Carrier AND Transducer 3

H04H - Broadcast Communication 2

A63B - Apparatus FOR Physical Training, Gymnastics, Swimming, Climbing, OR FENCING; Ball GAMES; Training Equipment 2

G10H - Electrophonic Musical INSTRUMENTS; Instruments IN Which THE Tones ARE Generated BY Electromechanical Means OR Electronic Generators, OR IN Which THE Tones ARE Synthesised From A Data Store 2

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 2

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 2

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 1

G10L - Speech Analysis Techniques OR Speech SYNTHESIS; Speech RECOGNITION; Speech OR Voice Processing TECHNIQUES; Speech OR Audio Coding OR Decoding 1

Top 15 of 15 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#4,324

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

43.1 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

CBS Interactive Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

CBS Interactive Inc.'s lead technology class is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), 63.4% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06F
Ranked #4,324 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare CBS Interactive Inc. against Antares Pharma, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 43.1/100 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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