Where does City Electric Supply Company rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), City Electric Supply Company ranks #45,695 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 City Electric Supply Company hold?

City Electric Supply Company holds 5 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2022, spanning 6 technology areas.

What is City Electric Supply Company's Innovation Score?

City Electric Supply Company has an Innovation Score of 25.4 out of 100 (17th 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 City Electric Supply Company focus on?

City Electric Supply Company's top technology area is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing) with 1 patents, ranking #11,281 of 13,878 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 6 CPC subclasses total.

Is City Electric Supply Company's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

City Electric Supply Company's recent grant velocity is -75% 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 City Electric Supply Company's patents?

City Electric Supply Company's patents average 6.4 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 City Electric Supply Company 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

City Electric Supply Company

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 5 granted patents across 6 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2022. 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: G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, City ranks #45,695 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 5 patents across 6 technology areas.

#45,695
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 17th percentile
by Innovation Score (25.4/100): 6.4
avg claims per patent: -75%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R45695 · US Corporation #45,695 · 5 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · BOTTOM-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-SPARSE · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 5 grants
BOTTOM-DECILE #45,695/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Cimc Enric Investmen…
CPC-NARROW G06F · 6 areas
INNOV-THIN 25.4/100
CLAIMS-SPARSE 6.4 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -75% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Cimc Enric Investment Holdings (SHENZHEN) 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 City’s 25.4 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 6.2 pts (24%) Velocity 6.7 pts (26%) Breadth 8.7 pts (34%) Claim depth 3.8 pts (15%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

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City Electric Supply · this assignee

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3D Lighting… · lowest

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What this shows City's Innovation Score is 25.4/100 (17th 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 City?

Each dot is one of City’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). City’s own 6.4 claims/patent is at or below the 15.2 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where City's grants concentrate

City Electric Supply Company is a focused PatentsView assignee: 6 CPC subclasses with 20% of grants classified under G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing). Peak complete grant year is 2018 (3 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2015. By volume, City sits between Cimc Enric Investment Holdings (SHENZHEN) Co., Ltd. and Claas E-Systems GmbH.

City's three-year grant acceleration

City Electric Supply Company shows 1 grants in 2022–2024 against only 0 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.

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What this shows City holds 5 patents at rank #45,556, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near City

By rank, the assignees closest to #45,556 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing)

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

City's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

25 17th percentile higher than 17% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2022

Grants by year

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

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City Electric Supply Company patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1	20.0%
2018	3	60.0%
2022	1	20.0%

Which technologies does City Electric Supply Company patent most?

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 1

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 1

F21W - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses F21k, F21l, F21s and F21v, Relating TO Uses OR Applications OF Lighting Devices OR Systems 1

F21S - Non-portable Lighting DEVICES; Systems THEREOF; Vehicle Lighting Devices Specially Adapted FOR Vehicle Exteriors 1

F21Y - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses F21k, F21l, F21s and F21v, Relating TO THE Form OR THE Kind OF THE Light Sources OR OF THE Colour OF THE Light Emitted 1

F21V - Functional Features OR Details OF Lighting Devices OR Systems THEREOF; Structural Combinations OF Lighting Devices With Other Articles, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1

Top 6 of 6 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

City Electric Supply Company's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

City Electric Supply Company's lead technology class is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), 20% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06F
Ranked #45,695 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare City Electric Supply Company against Cimc Enric Investment Holdings (SHENZHEN) Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 25.4/100 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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