Where does Charlotte's Web, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Charlotte's Web, Inc. ranks #18,478 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 Charlotte's Web, Inc. hold?

Charlotte's Web, Inc. holds 15 US utility patents granted between 2020 and 2025, spanning 7 technology areas.

What is Charlotte's Web, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Charlotte's Web, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 32.6 out of 100 (42nd percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Charlotte's Web, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Insufficient historical data is available to calculate a velocity trend for Charlotte's Web, Inc..

What does claim depth mean for Charlotte's Web, Inc.'s patents?

Charlotte's Web, Inc.'s patents average 18.3 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 Charlotte's Web, 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 US Corporation

Charlotte's Web, Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Charlotte's Web, Inc. focus on?

Charlotte's Web, Inc.'s top technology area is A01H (NEW Plants OR ; NON-TRANSGENIC; Processes FOR Obtaining THEM; Plant Reproduction BY Tissue Culture Techniques) with 7 patents, ranking #79 of 285 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 7 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 15 granted patents across 7 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2020–2025. 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: A01H (NEW Plants OR ; NON-TRANSGENIC; Processes FOR Obtaining THEM; Plant Reproduction BY Tissue Culture Techniques).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Charlotte's ranks #18,478 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 15 patents across 7 technology areas.

#18,478
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 42nd percentile
by Innovation Score (32.6/100): 18.3
avg claims per patent

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R18478 · US Corporation #18,478 · 15 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · SPAN-YRS · BOOK-RICH

GRANTS-MICRO 15 grants
MID-PACK #18,478/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Carnegie Institution…
CPC-NARROW A01H · 7 areas
INNOV-THIN 32.6/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.3 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
SPAN-YRS 2020–2025 · 6y
BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Carnegie Institution of Washington (±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 Charlotte's’s 32.6 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 9.6 pts (29%) Velocity 2.7 pts (8%) Breadth 9.4 pts (29%) Claim depth 11.0 pts (34%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Charlotte's Web · this assignee

33
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Charlotte's's Innovation Score is 32.6/100 (42nd 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 Charlotte's?

Each dot is one of Charlotte's’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). Charlotte's’s own 18.3 claims/patent is ABOVE the 13.6 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Charlotte's's grants concentrate

Charlotte's Web, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 7 CPC subclasses with 46.7% of grants classified under A01H (NEW Plants OR ; NON-TRANSGENIC; Processes FOR Obtaining THEM; Plant Reproduction BY Tissue Culture Techniques). Peak complete grant year is 2020 (5 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2023. By volume, Charlotte's sits between Carnegie Institution of Washington and Civic Technologies, Inc..

Charlotte's's three-year grant acceleration

Charlotte's Web, Inc. shows 4 grants in 2022–2024 against only 10 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.

Carnegie Institut…

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Chanel One Holdin…

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Chant Sincere

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15
Cidara Therapeuti…

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Civic

15
Charlotte's Web ◀

15

What this shows Charlotte's holds 15 patents at rank #18,493, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Charlotte's

By rank, the assignees closest to #18,493 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A01H (NEW Plants OR)

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

Charlotte's's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

33 42nd percentile higher than 42% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2020–2025

Grants by year

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

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Charlotte's Web, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2020	5	33.3%
2021	5	33.3%
2022	3	20.0%
2023	1	6.7%
2025partial year	1	6.7%

Which technologies does Charlotte's Web, Inc. patent most?

A01H - NEW Plants OR ; NON-TRANSGENIC; Processes FOR Obtaining THEM; Plant Reproduction BY Tissue Culture Techniques 7

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 7

A23V - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages AND Lactic OR Propionic Acid Bacteria Used IN Foodstuffs OR Food Preparation 5

A23L - Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Preparation OR Treatment Thereof 5

C07D - Heterocyclic Compounds 5

C07C - Acyclic OR Carbocyclic Compounds 5

A61P - Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations 1

Top 7 of 7 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

Charlotte's Web, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Charlotte's Web, Inc.'s lead technology class is A01H (NEW Plants OR ; NON-TRANSGENIC; Processes FOR Obtaining THEM; Plant Reproduction BY Tissue Culture Techniques), 46.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A01H
Ranked #18,478 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Charlotte's Web, Inc. against Carnegie Institution of Washington, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 32.6/100 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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