Where does Cifa S.P.A. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Cifa S.P.A. ranks #14,531 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 Cifa S.P.A. hold?

Cifa S.P.A. holds 20 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2024, spanning 28 technology areas.

What is Cifa S.P.A.'s Innovation Score?

Cifa S.P.A. has an Innovation Score of 38.8 out of 100 (top 40% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Cifa S.P.A.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Cifa S.P.A.'s recent grant velocity is -57% 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 Cifa S.P.A.'s patents?

Cifa S.P.A.'s patents average 9.3 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 Cifa S.P.A. 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

Cifa S.P.A.

Q: What technology areas does Cifa S.P.A. focus on?

Cifa S.P.A.'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 10 patents, ranking #19 of 310 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 28 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 20 granted patents across 28 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, Cifa ranks #14,531 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 20 patents across 28 technology areas.

#14,531
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 40%
by Innovation Score (38.8/100): 9.3
avg claims per patent: -57%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R14531 · Foreign Corporation #14,531 · 20 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-PAR · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 20 grants
MID-PACK #14,531/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Central Research…
CPC-FOCUS E04G · 28 areas
INNOV-THIN 38.8/100
CLAIMS-PAR 9.3 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -57% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Central Research Institute OF Electric Power Industry (±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 Cifa’s 38.8 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 10.5 pts (27%) Velocity 4.0 pts (10%) Breadth 18.7 pts (48%) Claim depth 5.6 pts (14%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Cifa S P A · this assignee

39
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Cifa's Innovation Score is 38.8/100 (top 40% 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 Cifa?

Each dot is one of Cifa’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). Cifa’s own 9.3 claims/patent is at or below the 14.8 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Cifa's grants concentrate

Cifa S.P.A. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 28 CPC subclasses with 50% 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 2017 (5 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2016. By volume, Cifa sits between Central Research Institute OF Electric Power Industry and Cosmetic Warriors Limited.

Cifa's three-year grant acceleration

Cifa S.P.A. shows 3 grants in 2022–2024 against only 5 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.

Central Research…

20
Changzhou Jwei In…

20
China Technology…

20
Chudy Group

20
Comigo

20
Comsats Institute…

20
Correct Craft IP…

20
Cosmetic Warriors

20
Cifa S P A ◀

20

What this shows Cifa holds 20 patents at rank #14,518, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Cifa

By rank, the assignees closest to #14,518 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in E04G (Scaffolding)

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

Cifa's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

39 Top 40% higher than 60% 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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Cifa S.P.A. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	2	10.0%
2016	1	5.0%
2017	5	25.0%
2018	4	20.0%
2019	2	10.0%
2020	2	10.0%
2021	1	5.0%
2022	2	10.0%
2024	1	5.0%

Which technologies does Cifa S.P.A. 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 10

B66C - CRANES; Load-engaging Elements OR Devices FOR Cranes, Capstans, Winches, OR Tackles 9

B28C - Preparing CLAY; Producing Mixtures Containing Clay OR Cementitious Material, e.g. Plaster 7

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 5

B60P - Vehicles Adapted FOR Load Transportation OR TO Transport, TO Carry, OR TO Comprise Special Loads OR Objects 4

B60K - Arrangement OR Mounting OF Propulsion Units OR OF Transmissions IN VEHICLES; Arrangement OR Mounting OF Plural Diverse Prime-movers IN VEHICLES; Auxiliary Drives FOR VEHICLES; Instrumentation OR Dashboards FOR VEHICLES; Arrangements IN Connection With Cooling, AIR Intake, GAS Exhaust OR Fuel Supply 4

B60W - Conjoint Control OF Vehicle Sub-units OF Different Type OR Different FUNCTION; Control Systems Specially Adapted FOR Hybrid VEHICLES; Road Vehicle Drive Control Systems FOR Purposes NOT Related TO THE Control OF A Particular Sub-unit 3

E02F - DREDGING; Soil-shifting 3

B60L - Propulsion OF Electrically-propelled Vehicles ; Supplying Electric Power FOR Auxiliary Equipment OF Electrically-propelled Vehicles ; Electrodynamic Brake Systems FOR Vehicles IN General ; Magnetic Suspension OR Levitation FOR VEHICLES; Monitoring Operating Variables OF Electrically-propelled Vehicl 3

F15B - Systems Acting BY Means OF Fluids IN GENERAL; Fluid-pressure Actuators, e.g. SERVOMOTORS; Details OF Fluid-pressure Systems, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 3

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 2

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 2

E04C - Structural ELEMENTS; Building Materials 2

B05B - Spraying APPARATUS; Atomising APPARATUS; Nozzles 2

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 2

Top 15 of 28 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

Cifa S.P.A.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Cifa S.P.A.'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), 50% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore E04G
Ranked #14,531 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Cifa S.P.A. against Central Research Institute OF Electric Power Industry, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 38.8/100 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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