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Center Rock Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 10 granted patents across 3 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2017–2025. 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: E21B (Earth OR Rock DRILLING; Obtaining OIL, GAS, Water, Soluble OR Meltable Materials OR A Slurry OF Minerals From Wells).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Center ranks #25,974 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 10 patents across 3 technology areas.

#25,974
of 49,997 US assignees by volume
13th percentile
by Innovation Score (23.9/100)
15.8
avg claims per patent
+0%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R25974 · US Corporation #25,974 · 10 grants

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

  • GRANTS-MICRO 10 grants
  • MID-PACK #25,974/49,997
  • PHOTO-FINISH Casabella Holdings…
  • CPC-NARROW E21B · 3 areas
  • INNOV-THIN 23.9/100
  • CLAIMS-RICH 15.8 claims/avg
  • TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
  • VEL-FLAT +0% vel
  • BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Casabella Holdings, L.L.C. (±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 Center’s 23.9 Innovation Score adds up

The same four weighted components behind every Innovation Score on PlainPatent: portfolio volume, grant velocity, technology breadth, and claim depth.

Innovation-score neighbourhood around Center

Lowest and highest poles plus nearest Innovation Score peers, not a full corpus board reprint.

score

What this shows Center's Innovation Score is 23.9/100 (13th 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.

Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score As of 2015–2025

Does more volume mean deeper claims for Center?

Each dot is one of Center’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). Center’s own 15.8 claims/patent is ABOVE the 13.7 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

Center vs its 8 nearest volume peers: granted patents vs average claims per patent. Source: USPTO PatentsView. 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 9 entities by Granted patents (volume) (X) and Avg claims / patent (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. Volume + depthSelective & thoroughVolume over depthLean filer 9.99.91010.1 51015202530 Granted patents (volume) Avg claims / patent Casabella Holdings, L.L.C. - 10, 13.7Casabella Holding…Cave Consulting Group, Inc. - 10, 27.9Cave Consulting G…CeMM—Forschungszentrum für Molekulare Medizin GmbH - 10, 21.3Cemm—Forschungsze…CelluComp Limited - 10, 12.9CellucompCentro De Investigación En Alimentación Y Desarrollo, A.C. (CIAD) - 10, 6.2Centro De Investi…Cerebral Assessment Systems, LLC - 10, 18.4Cerebral Assessme…Ceregate GmbH - 10, 22CeregateCerro Wire LLC - 10, 10.9Cerro WireCenter Rock Inc. - 10, 15.8Center Rock
Center vs its 8 nearest volume peers: granted patents vs average claims per patent. Source: USPTO PatentsView.

Where Center's grants concentrate

Center Rock Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 3 CPC subclasses with 80% of grants classified under E21B (Earth OR Rock DRILLING; Obtaining OIL, GAS, Water, Soluble OR Meltable Materials OR A Slurry OF Minerals From Wells). Peak complete grant year is 2018 (3 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2017. By volume, Center sits between Casabella Holdings, L.L.C. and Cerro Wire LLC.

Who files at Center's volume?

Granted US patents 2015–2025 versus its nearest-ranked assignees by volume, this company marked ◀

patents

What this shows Center holds 10 patents at rank #26,024, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Source USPTO PatentsView, granted utility patents As of 2015–2025

Companies ranked near Center

By rank, the assignees closest to #26,024 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in E21B (Earth OR Rock Drilling)

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

Center's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

24 13th percentile higher than 13% of 49,997 US assignees

This assignee 0 100 every tracked assignee, bucketed by value

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

0.511.522.533.5 20172018202020212025 2
USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2017–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2017–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Center Rock Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year Patents Granted Share of Period
2017 1 10.0%
2018 3 30.0%
2020 3 30.0%
2021 1 10.0%
2025partial year 2 20.0%

Which technologies does Center Rock Inc. patent most?

Top 3 of 3 technology areas

More on this record

Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

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What to do with this data

Center Rock Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

  • Center Rock Inc.'s lead technology class is E21B (Earth OR Rock DRILLING; Obtaining OIL, GAS, Water, Soluble OR Meltable Materials OR A Slurry OF Minerals From Wells), 80% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore E21B
  • Ranked #25,974 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
  • Compare Center Rock Inc. against Casabella Holdings, L.L.C., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
  • Innovation Score of 23.9/100 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

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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

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.