Where does Chicago Tag & Label, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Chicago Tag & Label, Inc. ranks #19,596 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 Tag & Label, Inc. hold?

Chicago Tag & Label, Inc. holds 14 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2023, spanning 12 technology areas.

What is Chicago Tag & Label, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Chicago Tag & Label, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 34.0 out of 100 (46th 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 Chicago Tag & Label, Inc. focus on?

Chicago Tag & Label, Inc.'s top technology area is G09F (DISPLAYING; ADVERTISING; SIGNS; Labels OR NAME-PLATES; Seals) with 12 patents, ranking #61 of 860 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 12 CPC subclasses total.

Is Chicago Tag & Label, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Chicago Tag & Label, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -60% 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 Chicago Tag & Label, Inc.'s patents?

Chicago Tag & Label, Inc.'s patents average 16.9 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 Chicago Tag & Label, 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 Tag & Label, Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 14 granted patents across 12 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2023. 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: G09F (DISPLAYING; ADVERTISING; SIGNS; Labels OR NAME-PLATES; Seals).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Chicago ranks #19,596 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 14 patents across 12 technology areas.

#19,596
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 46th percentile
by Innovation Score (34.0/100): 16.9
avg claims per patent: -60%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R19596 · US Corporation #19,596 · 14 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 14 grants
MID-PACK #19,596/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Changzhou Tronly…
CPC-FOCUS G09F · 12 areas
INNOV-THIN 34.0/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.9 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -60% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Changzhou Tronly Advanced Electronic Materials Co., Ltd. (±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 Chicago’s 34.0 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 9.4 pts (28%) Velocity 2.2 pts (6%) Breadth 12.2 pts (36%) Claim depth 10.2 pts (30%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Chicago Tag & Label · this assignee

34
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Chicago's Innovation Score is 34.0/100 (46th 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 Chicago?

Each dot is one of Chicago’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). Chicago’s own 16.9 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.

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

Where Chicago's grants concentrate

Chicago Tag & Label, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 12 CPC subclasses with 85.7% of grants classified under G09F (DISPLAYING; ADVERTISING; SIGNS; Labels OR NAME-PLATES; Seals). Peak complete grant year is 2019 (4 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2018. By volume, Chicago sits between Changzhou Tronly Advanced Electronic Materials Co., Ltd. and Clairvoyant Technology, Inc..

Chicago's three-year grant acceleration

Chicago Tag & Label, Inc. shows 2 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.

Changzhou Tronly…

14
Channell Commerci…

14
Chaparral Boats

14
Chengdu Sicore Se…

14
Children Oral Care

14
China Banknote Pr…

14
Chuango Security…

14
Clairvoyant Techn…

14
Chicago Tag & Lab… ◀

14

What this shows Chicago holds 14 patents at rank #19,620, 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 #19,620 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G09F (Displaying)

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

Chicago's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

34 46th percentile higher than 46% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2023

Grants by year

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

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Chicago Tag & Label, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	3	21.4%
2017	2	14.3%
2018	1	7.1%
2019	4	28.6%
2020	2	14.3%
2022	1	7.1%
2023	1	7.1%

Which technologies does Chicago Tag & Label, Inc. patent most?

G09F - DISPLAYING; ADVERTISING; SIGNS; Labels OR NAME-PLATES; Seals 12

B65C - Labelling OR Tagging Machines, Apparatus, OR Processes 8

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 8

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 6

B41F - Printing Machines OR Presses 2

B31D - Making Articles OF Paper, Cardboard OR Material Worked IN A Manner Analogous TO Paper, NOT Provided FOR IN Subclasses B31b OR B31c 2

B42C - Bookbinding 1

B42D - BOOKS; Book COVERS; Loose LEAVES; Printed Matter Characterised BY Identification OR Security FEATURES; Printed Matter OF Special Format OR Style NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Devices FOR USE Therewith AND NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Movable-strip Writing OR Reading Apparatus 1

C09J - ADHESIVES; Non-mechanical Aspects OF Adhesive Processes IN GENERAL; Adhesive Processes NOT Provided FOR ELSEWHERE; USE OF Materials AS Adhesives 1

B65D - Containers FOR Storage OR Transport OF Articles OR Materials, e.g. Bags, Barrels, Bottles, Boxes, Cans, Cartons, Crates, Drums, Jars, Tanks, Hoppers, Forwarding CONTAINERS; Accessories, Closures, OR Fittings THEREFOR; Packaging ELEMENTS; Packages 1

B41J - TYPEWRITERS; Selective Printing Mechanisms, i.e. Mechanisms Printing Otherwise Than From A FORME; Correction OF Typographical Errors 1

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 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

Chicago Tag & Label, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Chicago Tag & Label, Inc.'s lead technology class is G09F (DISPLAYING; ADVERTISING; SIGNS; Labels OR NAME-PLATES; Seals), 85.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G09F
Ranked #19,596 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Chicago Tag & Label, Inc. against Changzhou Tronly Advanced Electronic Materials Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 34.0/100 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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