Where does Certus Technologies rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Certus Technologies ranks #39,395 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 Certus Technologies hold?

Certus Technologies holds 6 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2025, spanning 2 technology areas.

What is Certus Technologies's Innovation Score?

Certus Technologies has an Innovation Score of 25.7 out of 100 (18th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Certus Technologies focus on?

Certus Technologies's top technology area is G07F (Coin-freed OR Like Apparatus) with 6 patents, ranking #294 of 1,075 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 2 CPC subclasses total.

Is Certus Technologies's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Certus Technologies's recent grant velocity is -33% 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 Certus Technologies's patents?

Certus Technologies's patents average 17.7 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 Certus Technologies 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

Certus Technologies

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 6 granted patents across 2 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2025. 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: G07F (Coin-freed OR Like Apparatus).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Certus ranks #39,395 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 6 patents across 2 technology areas.

#39,395
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 18th percentile
by Innovation Score (25.7/100): 17.7
avg claims per patent: -33%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R39395 · Foreign Corporation #39,395 · 6 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · LOWER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 6 grants
LOWER-Q #39,395/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Cerasina
CPC-NARROW G07F · 2 areas
INNOV-THIN 25.7/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.7 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -33% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Cerasina 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 Certus’s 25.7 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 6.7 pts (26%) Velocity 3.3 pts (13%) Breadth 5.0 pts (20%) Claim depth 10.6 pts (41%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Certus · this assignee

26
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Certus's Innovation Score is 25.7/100 (18th 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.

Does more volume mean deeper claims for Certus?

Each dot is one of Certus’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). Certus’s own 17.7 claims/patent is ABOVE the 6.8 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Certus's grants concentrate

Certus Technologies is a focused PatentsView assignee: 2 CPC subclasses with 100% of grants classified under G07F (Coin-freed OR Like Apparatus). By volume, Certus sits between Cerasina GmbH and Charis & Doxa, Inc..

Certus's three-year grant acceleration

Certus Technologies shows 1 grants in 2022–2024 against only 2 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.

Cerasina

6
Cerebrotech Medic…

6
Ceres

6
Cern

6
Changchun Univers…

6
Changjiang River…

6
Changzhou Huada K…

6
Charis & Doxa

6
Certus ◀

6

What this shows Certus holds 6 patents at rank #39,536, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Certus

By rank, the assignees closest to #39,536 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G07F (Coin-freed OR Like Apparatus)

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

Certus's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

26 18th percentile higher than 18% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2025

Grants by year

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

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Certus Technologies patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	1	16.7%
2018	1	16.7%
2019	1	16.7%
2021	1	16.7%
2023	1	16.7%
2025partial year	1	16.7%

Which technologies does Certus Technologies patent most?

G07F - Coin-freed OR Like Apparatus 6

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 6

Top 2 of 2 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

Certus Technologies's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Certus Technologies's lead technology class is G07F (Coin-freed OR Like Apparatus), 100% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G07F
Ranked #39,395 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Certus Technologies against Cerasina GmbH, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 25.7/100 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

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.