Where does CMI Defence S.A. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), CMI Defence S.A. ranks #20,941 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 CMI Defence S.A. hold?

CMI Defence S.A. holds 13 US utility patents granted between 2017 and 2022, spanning 16 technology areas.

What is CMI Defence S.A.'s Innovation Score?

CMI Defence S.A. has an Innovation Score of 32.5 out of 100 (42nd percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is CMI Defence S.A.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

CMI Defence S.A.'s recent grant velocity is +17% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). The company is maintaining or growing its granted-patent output.

What does claim depth mean for CMI Defence S.A.'s patents?

CMI Defence S.A.'s patents average 12.7 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 CMI Defence S.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

CMI Defence S.A.

Q: What technology areas does CMI Defence S.A. focus on?

CMI Defence S.A.'s top technology area is F41A (Functional Features OR Details Common TO Both Smallarms AND Ordnance, e.g. CANNONS; Mountings FOR Smallarms OR Ordnance) with 5 patents, ranking #129 of 374 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 16 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 13 granted patents across 16 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2017–2022. 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: F41A (Functional Features OR Details Common TO Both Smallarms AND Ordnance, e.g. CANNONS; Mountings FOR Smallarms OR Ordnance).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, CMI ranks #20,941 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 13 patents across 16 technology areas.

#20,941
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 42nd percentile
by Innovation Score (32.5/100): 12.7
avg claims per patent: +17%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R20941 · Foreign Corporation #20,941 · 13 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 13 grants
MID-PACK #20,941/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Clam
CPC-FOCUS F41A · 16 areas
INNOV-THIN 32.5/100
CLAIMS-RICH 12.7 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-UP +17% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Clam Corporation (±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 CMI’s 32.5 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 9.1 pts (28%) Velocity 1.7 pts (5%) Breadth 14.1 pts (43%) Claim depth 7.6 pts (23%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Adient Engineering… · near

33
CMI Defence · this assignee

33
Freiberger Compound… · near

33
Microdose Therapeutx · near

33
Becton Dickinson… · near

33
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows CMI's Innovation Score is 32.5/100 (42nd 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 CMI?

Each dot is one of CMI’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). CMI’s own 12.7 claims/patent is at or below the 17.3 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where CMI's grants concentrate

CMI Defence S.A. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 16 CPC subclasses with 38.5% of grants classified under F41A (Functional Features OR Details Common TO Both Smallarms AND Ordnance, e.g. CANNONS; Mountings FOR Smallarms OR Ordnance). Peak complete grant year is 2019 (3 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2017. By volume, CMI sits between Clam Corporation and Coolstar Technology, Inc..

CMI's three-year grant acceleration

CMI Defence S.A. shows 2 grants in 2022–2024 against only 8 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.

Clam

13
Clarcor

13
Classys

13
Cloudcar

13
Coastal Source

13
Composites Intell…

13
Continental Power…

13
Coolstar Technolo…

13
CMI Defence ◀

13

What this shows CMI holds 13 patents at rank #20,913, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near CMI

By rank, the assignees closest to #20,913 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F41A (Functional Features OR Details Common TO Both Smallarms A…)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for CMI, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In F41A (Functional Features OR Details Common TO Both Smallarms A…), CMI ranks #129 of 374 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (33 here).

Freiberger Compound Materials GMBH 33 Microdose Therapeutx, Inc. 33 Adient Engineering and IP GmbH 33 Becton Dickinson Holdings Pte. Ltd. 33

CMI's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

33 42nd percentile higher than 42% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2017–2022

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2017–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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CMI Defence S.A. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2017	1	7.7%
2018	2	15.4%
2019	3	23.1%
2020	3	23.1%
2021	2	15.4%
2022	2	15.4%

Which technologies does CMI Defence S.A. patent most?

F41A - Functional Features OR Details Common TO Both Smallarms AND Ordnance, e.g. CANNONS; Mountings FOR Smallarms OR Ordnance 5

F41H - ARMOUR; Armoured TURRETS; Armoured OR Armed VEHICLES; Means OF Attack OR Defence, e.g. Camouflage, IN General 4

F41G - Weapon SIGHTS; Aiming 4

G01R - Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables 1

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 1

G05F - Systems FOR Regulating Electric OR Magnetic Variables 1

H02H - Emergency Protective Circuit Arrangements 1

H02J - Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy 1

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 1

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 1

G09B - Educational OR Demonstration APPLIANCES; Appliances FOR Teaching, OR Communicating With, THE Blind, Deaf OR MUTE; MODELS; PLANETARIA; GLOBES; MAPS; Diagrams 1

F16F - SPRINGS; SHOCK-ABSORBERS; Means FOR Damping Vibration 1

B61G - COUPLINGS; Draught AND Buffing Appliances 1

B64D - Equipment FOR Fitting IN OR TO AIRCRAFT; Flight SUITS; PARACHUTES; Arrangement OR Mounting OF Power Plants OR Propulsion Transmissions IN Aircraft 1

B60N - Seats Specially Adapted FOR VEHICLES; Vehicle Passenger Accommodation NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1

Top 15 of 16 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

CMI Defence S.A.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

CMI Defence S.A.'s lead technology class is F41A (Functional Features OR Details Common TO Both Smallarms AND Ordnance, e.g. CANNONS; Mountings FOR Smallarms OR Ordnance), 38.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F41A
Ranked #20,941 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare CMI Defence S.A. against Clam Corporation, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 32.5/100 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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