Where does Ceres Intellectual Property Company Limited rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Ceres Intellectual Property Company Limited ranks #9,732 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 Ceres Intellectual Property Company Limited hold?

Ceres Intellectual Property Company Limited holds 32 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 20 technology areas.

What is Ceres Intellectual Property Company Limited's Innovation Score?

Ceres Intellectual Property Company Limited has an Innovation Score of 48.4 out of 100 (top 17% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Ceres Intellectual Property Company Limited's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Ceres Intellectual Property Company Limited's recent grant velocity is +64% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Ceres Intellectual Property Company Limited's patents?

Ceres Intellectual Property Company Limited's patents average 17.5 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.

USPTO 2015–2025 USPTO PatentsView Foreign Corporation

Ceres Intellectual Property Company Limited

Q: What technology areas does Ceres Intellectual Property Company Limited focus on?

Ceres Intellectual Property Company Limited's top technology area is H01M (Processes OR Means, e.g. Batteries, FOR THE Direct Conversion OF Chemical Energy Into Electrical Energy) with 31 patents, ranking #222 of 2,332 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 20 CPC subclasses total.

Q: How is the Ceres Intellectual Property Company Limited 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 PatentsView assignee record - 32 granted patents across 20 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: H01M (Processes OR Means, e.g. Batteries, FOR THE Direct Conversion OF Chemical Energy Into Electrical Energy).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Ceres ranks #9,732 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 32 patents across 20 technology areas.

#9,732
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 17%
by Innovation Score (48.4/100): 17.5
avg claims per patent: +64%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R9732 · Foreign Corporation #9,732 · 32 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 32 grants
UPPER-Q #9,732/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Canrig Drilling…
CPC-FOCUS H01M · 20 areas
INNOV-PAR 48.4/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.5 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +64% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Canrig Drilling Technology Ltd. (±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 Ceres’s 48.4 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 12.1 pts (25%) Velocity 10.0 pts (21%) Breadth 15.8 pts (33%) Claim depth 10.5 pts (22%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Ceres Intellectual… · this assignee

48
Children's Healthcar… · near

48
ERP Power · near

48
Octet Medical · near

48
Vilnius University · near

48
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Ceres's Innovation Score is 48.4/100 (top 17% 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 Ceres?

Each dot is one of Ceres’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). Ceres’s own 17.5 claims/patent is ABOVE the 13.3 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Ceres's grants concentrate

Ceres Intellectual Property Company Limited is a focused PatentsView assignee: 20 CPC subclasses with 96.9% of grants classified under H01M (Processes OR Means, e.g. Batteries, FOR THE Direct Conversion OF Chemical Energy Into Electrical Energy). Peak complete grant year is 2022 (7 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2015. By volume, Ceres sits between Continental Structural Plastics, Inc. and Coflex S.A. de C.V..

Ceres's three-year grant acceleration

Ceres Intellectual Property Company Limited shows 12 grants in 2022–2024 against only 8 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.

Continental Struc…

32
CPI Card Group-co…

32
Canrig Drilling T…

32
Canyon Bicycles

32
Chang Gung Memori…

32
Chime Financial

32
Chipmos

32
Coflex de C V

32
Ceres Intellectua… ◀

32

What this shows Ceres holds 32 patents at rank #9,738, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Ceres

By rank, the assignees closest to #9,738 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H01M (Processes OR Means)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Ceres, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H01M (Processes OR Means), Ceres ranks #222 of 2,332 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (48 here).

Vilnius University 48 ERP Power, LLC 48 Children's Healthcare of Atlanta 48 Octet Medical, Inc. 48

Ceres's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

48 Top 17% higher than 83% 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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Ceres Intellectual Property Company Limited patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1	3.1%
2016	2	6.3%
2017	2	6.3%
2018	4	12.5%
2019	2	6.3%
2020	3	9.4%
2021	3	9.4%
2022	7	21.9%
2023	2	6.3%
2024	3	9.4%
2025partial year	3	9.4%

Which technologies does Ceres Intellectual Property Company Limited patent most?

H01M - Processes OR Means, e.g. Batteries, FOR THE Direct Conversion OF Chemical Energy Into Electrical Energy 31

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 30

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 11

C23C - Coating Metallic MATERIAL; Coating Material With Metallic MATERIAL; Surface Treatment OF Metallic Material BY Diffusion Into THE Surface, BY Chemical Conversion OR SUBSTITUTION; Coating BY Vacuum Evaporation, BY Sputtering, BY ION Implantation OR BY Chemical Vapour Deposition, IN General 5

C25B - Electrolytic OR Electrophoretic Processes FOR THE Production OF Compounds OR NON-METALS; Apparatus Therefor 2

C04B - Lime, MAGNESIA; SLAG; CEMENTS; Compositions Thereof, e.g. Mortars, Concrete OR Like Building MATERIALS; Artificial Stone ; Ceramics ; REFRACTORIES; Treatment OF Natural Stone 2

F23D - Burners 2

F23C - Methods OR Apparatus FOR Combustion Using Fluid Fuel OR Solid Fuel Suspended IN ; A Carrier GAS OR; AIR 2

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 1

B01F - Mixing, e.g. Dissolving, Emulsifying OR Dispersing 1

C01P - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Structural AND Physical Aspects OF Solid Inorganic Compounds 1

C01G - Compounds Containing Metals NOT Covered BY Subclasses C01d OR C01f 1

G01K - Measuring TEMPERATURE; Measuring Quantity OF HEAT; Thermally-sensitive Elements NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1

F23G - Cremation FURNACES; Consuming Waste Products BY Combustion 1

F24H - Fluid Heaters, e.g. Water OR AIR Heaters, Having Heat-generating Means, e.g. Heat Pumps, IN General 1

Top 15 of 20 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

Ceres Intellectual Property Company Limited's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Ceres Intellectual Property Company Limited's lead technology class is H01M (Processes OR Means, e.g. Batteries, FOR THE Direct Conversion OF Chemical Energy Into Electrical Energy), 96.9% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H01M
Ranked #9,732 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Ceres Intellectual Property Company Limited against Continental Structural Plastics, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 48.4/100 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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