Where does Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. ranks #934 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 Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. hold?

Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. holds 476 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 11 technology areas.

What is Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. has an Innovation Score of 54.7 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%).

Is Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +234% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc.'s patents?

Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc.'s patents average 21.6 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 Chicago Mercantile Exchange 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

Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. focus on?

Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc.'s top technology area is 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) with 435 patents. Grants appear in 11 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 476 granted patents across 11 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: G06Q (Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative,).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Chicago ranks #934 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 476 patents across 11 technology areas.

#934
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 8%
by Innovation Score (54.7/100): 21.6
avg claims per patent: +234%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R934 · US Corporation #934 · 476 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 476 grants
TOP-DECILE #934/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Caterpillar Paving…
CPC-FOCUS G06Q · 11 areas
INNOV-PAR 54.7/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 21.6 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +234% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Caterpillar Paving Products Inc. (±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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Nissan Chemical… · near

55
Otter Products · near

55
Chicago Mercantile… · this assignee

55
Julius Blum · near

55
Vizit Labs · near

55
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Chicago's Innovation Score is 54.7/100 (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.

Where Chicago's grants concentrate

Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 11 CPC subclasses with 91.4% of grants classified under G06Q (Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative,). Peak complete grant year is 2022 (71 grants) versus a trough of 4 in 2015. By volume, Chicago sits between The Penn State Research Foundation and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.

Chicago's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. moved from 162 to 211 grants (1.30x 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 #639. See the growth leaderboard.

The Penn State Re…

480
Aristocrat

478
United States Pos…

477
Caterpillar Pavin…

476
Nant Holdings IP

476
Stratasys

476
Chicago Mercantil… ◀

476
Landmark Graphics

474
Memorial Sloan Ke…

473

What this shows Chicago holds 476 patents at rank #934, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Chicago

By rank, the assignees closest to #934 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G06Q (Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially…)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Chicago, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above).

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (55 here).

Julius Blum GMBH 55 Vizit Labs, Inc. 55 Nissan Chemical Industries, Ltd. 55 Otter Products, LLC 55

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (21.6 here).

zSpace, Inc. 21.6 avg Irdeto B.V. 21.7 avg Pixtronix, Inc. 21.7 avg Soraa Laser Diode, Inc. 21.7 avg

Chicago's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

55 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.

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Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	4	0.8%
2016	10	2.1%
2017	14	2.9%
2018	24	5.0%
2019	46	9.7%
2020	64	13.4%
2021	52	10.9%
2022	71	14.9%
2023	71	14.9%
2024	69	14.5%
2025partial year	51	10.7%

Which technologies does Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. patent most?

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 435

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 163

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 115

H03M - CODING; DECODING; Code Conversion IN General 16

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 9

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 6

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 5

H02J - Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy 5

H04M - Telephonic Communication 4

Y04S - Systems Integrating Technologies Related TO Power Network Operation, Communication OR Information Technologies FOR Improving THE Electrical Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution, Management OR Usage, i.e. Smart Grids 1

Y02B - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Buildings, e.g. Housing, House Appliances OR Related End-user Applications 1

Top 11 of 11 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#934

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

54.7 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc.'s lead technology class is G06Q (Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative,), 91.4% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06Q
Ranked #934 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. against The Penn State Research Foundation, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 54.7/100 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

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