Where does Cfph, LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Cfph, LLC ranks #882 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 Cfph, LLC hold?

Cfph, LLC holds 514 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 22 technology areas.

What is Cfph, LLC's Innovation Score?

Cfph, LLC has an Innovation Score of 53.9 out of 100 (top 8% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Cfph, LLC focus on?

Cfph, LLC's top technology area is G07F (Coin-freed OR Like Apparatus) with 350 patents, ranking #5 of 1,075 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 22 CPC subclasses total.

Is Cfph, LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Cfph, LLC's recent grant velocity is +47% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). The company is maintaining or growing its granted-patent output.

What does claim depth mean for Cfph, LLC's patents?

Cfph, LLC's patents average 17.6 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 Cfph, LLC 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

Cfph, LLC

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 514 granted patents across 22 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: G07F (Coin-freed OR Like Apparatus).

Compiled by PlainPatent · May 15, 2026

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Cfph ranks #882 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 514 patents across 22 technology areas.

#882
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 8%
by Innovation Score (53.9/100): 17.6
avg claims per patent: +47%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R882 · US Corporation #882 · 514 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 514 grants
TOP-DECILE #882/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Bayer Intellectual…
CPC-FOCUS G07F · 22 areas
INNOV-PAR 53.9/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.6 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-UP +47% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Bayer Intellectual Property GmbH (±1 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 Cfph’s 53.9 Innovation Score adds up

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

Volume 21.6 pts (40%) Velocity 5.2 pts (10%) Breadth 16.6 pts (31%) Claim depth 10.6 pts (20%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Cfph · this assignee

54
John Mezzalingua… · near

54
ABB · near

54
Asensus Surgical US · near

54
Behr Process · near

54
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Cfph's Innovation Score is 53.9/100 (top 8% 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 Cfph?

Each dot is one of Cfph’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). Cfph’s own 17.6 claims/patent is at or below the 17.8 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Cfph's grants concentrate

Cfph, LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 22 CPC subclasses with 68.1% of grants classified under G07F (Coin-freed OR Like Apparatus). Peak complete grant year is 2021 (73 grants) versus a trough of 20 in 2015. By volume, Cfph sits between Dish Network L.L.C. and Kennametal Inc..

Cfph's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Cfph, LLC moved from 199 to 155 grants (0.78x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). Among 3,296 tracked assignees with ≥100 grants and ≥20 prior-period grants, that multiple ranks #1,899. See the growth leaderboard.

Dish Network L L C

516
Graphic Packaging…

516
Oticon A/S

516
Board OF Trustees…

515
Cfph ◀

514
Bayer Intellectua…

513
Dish L L C

512
Emory University

512
Kennametal

512

What this shows Cfph holds 514 patents at rank #882, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Cfph

By rank, the assignees closest to #882 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G07F (Coin-freed OR Like Apparatus)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Cfph, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G07F (Coin-freed OR Like Apparatus), Cfph ranks #5 of 1,075 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (54 here).

John Mezzalingua Associates, LLC 54 Behr Process Corporation 54 ABB AG 54 Asensus Surgical US, Inc. 54

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (17.6 here).

NEW York University 17.6 avg Janssen Biotech, Inc. 17.6 avg VIA Technologies, Inc. 17.6 avg Fastly, Inc. 17.6 avg

Cfph's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

54 Top 8% higher than 92% 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.

View data table

Cfph, LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	20	3.9%
2016	25	4.9%
2017	32	6.2%
2018	44	8.6%
2019	71	13.8%
2020	55	10.7%
2021	73	14.2%
2022	34	6.6%
2023	64	12.5%
2024	57	11.1%
2025partial year	39	7.6%

Which technologies does Cfph, LLC patent most?

G07F - Coin-freed OR Like Apparatus 350

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 194

A63F - Card, Board, OR Roulette GAMES; Indoor Games Using Small Moving Playing BODIES; Video GAMES; Games NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 124

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 76

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 41

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 11

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 9

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 8

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 8

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 6

G09C - Ciphering OR Deciphering Apparatus FOR Cryptographic OR Other Purposes Involving THE Need FOR Secrecy 6

F02P - Ignition, Other Than Compression Ignition, FOR Internal-combustion ENGINES; Testing OF Ignition Timing IN Compression-ignition Engines 5

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 5

H04M - Telephonic Communication 5

G01G - Weighing 4

Top 15 of 22 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

Cfph, LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Cfph, LLC's lead technology class is G07F (Coin-freed OR Like Apparatus), 68.1% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G07F
Ranked #882 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Cfph, LLC against Dish Network L.L.C., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 53.9/100 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

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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