Where does CFS Concrete Forming Systems Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), CFS Concrete Forming Systems Inc. ranks #9,997 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 CFS Concrete Forming Systems Inc. hold?

CFS Concrete Forming Systems Inc. holds 31 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2024, spanning 12 technology areas.

What is CFS Concrete Forming Systems Inc.'s Innovation Score?

CFS Concrete Forming Systems Inc. has an Innovation Score of 47.5 out of 100 (top 19% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is CFS Concrete Forming Systems Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

CFS Concrete Forming Systems Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -37% 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 CFS Concrete Forming Systems Inc.'s patents?

CFS Concrete Forming Systems Inc.'s patents average 23.9 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 CFS Concrete Forming Systems 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 Foreign Corporation

CFS Concrete Forming Systems Inc.

Q: What technology areas does CFS Concrete Forming Systems Inc. focus on?

CFS Concrete Forming Systems Inc.'s top technology area is E04G (SCAFFOLDING; FORMS; SHUTTERING; Building Implements OR Aids, OR Their USE; Handling Building Materials ON THE SITE; Repairing, Breaking-up OR Other Work ON Existing Buildings) with 24 patents, ranking #4 of 310 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 12 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 31 granted patents across 12 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2024. 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: E04G (SCAFFOLDING; FORMS; SHUTTERING; Building Implements OR Aids, OR Their USE; Handling Building Materials ON THE SITE; Repairing, Breaking-up OR Other Work ON Existing Buildings).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, CFS ranks #9,997 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 31 patents across 12 technology areas.

#9,997
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 19%
by Innovation Score (47.5/100): 23.9
avg claims per patent: -37%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R9997 · Foreign Corporation #9,997 · 31 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 31 grants
UPPER-Q #9,997/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Capacitor Sciences…
CPC-FOCUS E04G · 12 areas
INNOV-PAR 47.5/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 23.9 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -37% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Capacitor Sciences Incorporated (±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 CFS’s 47.5 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 12.0 pts (25%) Velocity 8.9 pts (19%) Breadth 12.2 pts (26%) Claim depth 14.3 pts (30%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Alitheon · near

47
CFS Concrete… · this assignee

47
Daiwa CAN · near

47
Kepco Engineering &… · near

47
Yaskawa America · near

47
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows CFS's Innovation Score is 47.5/100 (top 19% 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 CFS?

Each dot is one of CFS’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). CFS’s own 23.9 claims/patent is ABOVE the 17.3 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where CFS's grants concentrate

CFS Concrete Forming Systems Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 12 CPC subclasses with 77.4% of grants classified under E04G (SCAFFOLDING; FORMS; SHUTTERING; Building Implements OR Aids, OR Their USE; Handling Building Materials ON THE SITE; Repairing, Breaking-up OR Other Work ON Existing Buildings). Peak complete grant year is 2016 (6 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2019. By volume, CFS sits between Capacitor Sciences Incorporated and Cold Chain Technologies, LLC.

CFS's three-year grant acceleration

CFS Concrete Forming Systems Inc. shows 8 grants in 2022–2024 against only 6 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.

Capacitor Science…

31
Cellular Research

31
Centre Hospitalie…

31
Centre Hospitalie…

31
Chicagoland Grows

31
Circlesx

31
Cloud & Stream Ge…

31
Cold Chain

31
CFS Concrete Form… ◀

31

What this shows CFS holds 31 patents at rank #9,993, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near CFS

By rank, the assignees closest to #9,993 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in E04G (Scaffolding)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for CFS, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In E04G (Scaffolding), CFS ranks #4 of 310 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (47 here).

Yaskawa America, Inc. 47 Kepco Engineering & Construction Company Inc. 47 Daiwa CAN Company 47 Alitheon, Inc. 47

CFS's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

47 Top 19% higher than 81% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2024

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2015–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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CFS Concrete Forming Systems Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	3	9.7%
2016	6	19.4%
2017	4	12.9%
2018	4	12.9%
2019	2	6.5%
2020	2	6.5%
2021	2	6.5%
2022	3	9.7%
2023	3	9.7%
2024	2	6.5%

Which technologies does CFS Concrete Forming Systems Inc. patent most?

E04G - SCAFFOLDING; FORMS; SHUTTERING; Building Implements OR Aids, OR Their USE; Handling Building Materials ON THE SITE; Repairing, Breaking-up OR Other Work ON Existing Buildings 24

E04B - General Building CONSTRUCTIONS; Walls, e.g. PARTITIONS; ROOFS; FLOORS; CEILINGS; Insulation OR Other Protection OF Buildings 20

E04C - Structural ELEMENTS; Building Materials 10

E04F - Finishing Work ON Buildings, e.g. Stairs, Floors 9

E02D - FOUNDATIONS; EXCAVATIONS; Embankments ; Underground OR Underwater Structures 7

B25B - Tools OR Bench Devices NOT Otherwise Provided FOR, FOR Fastening, Connecting, Disengaging OR Holding 3

B29C - Shaping OR Joining OF PLASTICS; Shaping OF Material IN A Plastic State, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; After-treatment OF THE Shaped Products, e.g. Repairing 3

B26B - Hand-held Cutting Tools NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 3

B28B - Shaping Clay OR Other Ceramic COMPOSITIONS; Shaping SLAG; Shaping Mixtures Containing Cementitious Material, e.g. Plaster 3

E04H - Buildings OR Like Structures FOR Particular PURPOSES; Swimming OR Splash Baths OR POOLS; MASTS; FENCING; Tents OR Canopies, IN General 2

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 2

B23P - Metal-working NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Combined OPERATIONS; Universal Machine Tools 1

Top 12 of 12 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

CFS Concrete Forming Systems Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

CFS Concrete Forming Systems Inc.'s lead technology class is E04G (SCAFFOLDING; FORMS; SHUTTERING; Building Implements OR Aids, OR Their USE; Handling Building Materials ON THE SITE; Repairing, Breaking-up OR Other Work ON Existing Buildings), 77.4% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore E04G
Ranked #9,997 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare CFS Concrete Forming Systems Inc. against Capacitor Sciences Incorporated, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 47.5/100 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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