Where does Civilized Cycles Incorporated rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Civilized Cycles Incorporated ranks #24,105 of 50,000 assignees by granted-patent volume, the same sort as the companies listing and top-holders ranking. See /methodology/#corpus-placement.

How many patents does Civilized Cycles Incorporated hold?

Civilized Cycles Incorporated holds 11 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2024, spanning 13 technology areas.

What is Civilized Cycles Incorporated's Innovation Score?

Civilized Cycles Incorporated has an Innovation Score of 32.8 out of 100 (top 58% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Civilized Cycles Incorporated's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Civilized Cycles Incorporated's recent grant velocity is -62% 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 Civilized Cycles Incorporated's patents?

Civilized Cycles Incorporated'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 Civilized Cycles Incorporated 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

Civilized Cycles Incorporated

Q: What technology areas does Civilized Cycles Incorporated focus on?

Civilized Cycles Incorporated's top technology area is B62J (CYCLE SADDLES OR SEATS; AUXILIARY DEVICES OR ACCESSORIES SPECIALLY ADAPTED TO CYCLES AND NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR, e.g. ARTICLE CARRIERS OR CYCLE PROTECTORS) with 10 patents. Grants appear in 13 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 11 granted patents across 13 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: B62J (CYCLE SADDLES OR SEATS; AUXILIARY DEVICES OR ACCESSORIES SPECIALLY ADAPTED TO CYCLES AND NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR, e.g. ARTICLE CARRIERS OR CYCLE PROTECTORS).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Civilized ranks #24,105 of 50,000 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 11 patents across 13 technology areas.

#24,105
of 50,000 US assignees by volume: Top 58%
by Innovation Score (32.8/100): 16.9
avg claims per patent: -62%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R24105 · US Corporation #24,105 · 11 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 11 grants
MID-PACK #24,105/50,000
PHOTO-FINISH Chongqing Jinkang Ne…
CPC-FOCUS B62J · 13 areas
INNOV-THIN 32.8/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.9 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -62% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Chongqing Jinkang New Energy Automobile 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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Civilized Cycles Inc… · this assignee

33
3D Lighting Innovati… · lowest

7

What this shows Civilized's Innovation Score is 32.8/100 (top 58% 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 Civilized's grants concentrate

Civilized Cycles Incorporated is a focused PatentsView assignee: 13 CPC subclasses with 90.9% of grants classified under B62J (CYCLE SADDLES OR SEATS; AUXILIARY DEVICES OR ACCESSORIES SPECIALLY ADAPTED TO CYCLES AND NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR, e.g. ARTICLE CARRIERS OR CYCLE PROTECTORS). Peak complete grant year is 2019 (3 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2016. By volume, Civilized sits between Chongqing Jinkang New Energy Automobile Co., Ltd. and Click Diagnostics, Inc..

Civilized's three-year grant acceleration

Civilized Cycles Incorporated shows 1 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.

Chongqing Jinkang…

11
Cibiem

11
Circassia

11
Cirrus Design

11
Cleaning Systems

11
Clearwater Holdin…

11
Clever Devices

11
Click Diagnostics

11
Civilized Cycles… ◀

11

What this shows Civilized holds 11 patents at rank #24,137, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Civilized

By rank, the assignees closest to #24,137 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B62J (Cycle Saddles OR Seats)

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

Civilized's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

33 Top 58% higher than 42% of 50,000 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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Civilized Cycles Incorporated patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	2	18.2%
2016	1	9.1%
2017	1	9.1%
2018	1	9.1%
2019	3	27.3%
2020	2	18.2%
2024	1	9.1%

Which technologies does Civilized Cycles Incorporated patent most?

B62J - CYCLE SADDLES OR SEATS; AUXILIARY DEVICES OR ACCESSORIES SPECIALLY ADAPTED TO CYCLES AND NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR, e.g. ARTICLE CARRIERS OR CYCLE PROTECTORS 10

B62M - RIDER PROPULSION OF WHEELED VEHICLES OR SLEDGES; POWERED PROPULSION OF SLEDGES OR ; SINGLE-TRACK; CYCLES; TRANSMISSIONS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR SUCH VEHICLES 8

Y02T - CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION TECHNOLOGIES RELATED TO TRANSPORTATION 5

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 5

G01S - RADIO DIRECTION-FINDING; RADIO NAVIGATION; DETERMINING DISTANCE OR VELOCITY BY USE OF RADIO WAVES; LOCATING OR PRESENCE-DETECTING BY USE OF THE REFLECTION OR RERADIATION OF RADIO WAVES; ANALOGOUS ARRANGEMENTS USING OTHER WAVES 4

B62K - CYCLES; CYCLE FRAMES; CYCLE STEERING DEVICES; RIDER-OPERATED TERMINAL CONTROLS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR CYCLES; CYCLE AXLE SUSPENSIONS; CYCLE SIDE-CARS, FORECARS, OR THE LIKE 3

G06F - ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING 3

H04W - WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS 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

B60G - VEHICLE SUSPENSION ARRANGEMENTS 2

F16H - GEARING 2

F16D - COUPLINGS FOR TRANSMITTING ROTATION; CLUTCHES; BRAKES 2

B62L - BRAKES SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR CYCLES 1

Top 13 of 13 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#24,105

of 50,000 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

32.8 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

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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