Where does Colorado School of Mines rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Colorado School of Mines ranks #3,473 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 Colorado School of Mines hold?

Colorado School of Mines holds 106 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 108 technology areas.

What is Colorado School of Mines's Innovation Score?

Colorado School of Mines has an Innovation Score of 58.1 out of 100 (top 5% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Colorado School of Mines's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Colorado School of Mines's recent grant velocity is +2% 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 Colorado School of Mines's patents?

Colorado School of Mines's patents average 17.1 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 Colorado School of Mines 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

Colorado School of Mines

Q: What technology areas does Colorado School of Mines focus on?

Colorado School of Mines's top technology area is Y02E (Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution) with 22 patents, ranking #672 of 5,963 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 108 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 106 granted patents across 108 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2025. 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: Y02E (Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Colorado ranks #3,473 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 106 patents across 108 technology areas.

#3,473
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 5%
by Innovation Score (58.1/100): 17.1
avg claims per patent: +2%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R3473 · US Corporation #3,473 · 106 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-FLAT · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 106 grants
TOP-DECILE #3,473/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Brookhaven Science…
CPC-WIDE Y02E · 108 areas
INNOV-PAR 58.1/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.1 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-FLAT +2% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Brookhaven Science Associates, LLC (±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 Colorado’s 58.1 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 16.1 pts (28%) Velocity 6.7 pts (12%) Breadth 25.0 pts (43%) Claim depth 10.3 pts (18%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

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Colorado School of… · this assignee

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Five AI · near

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Koenig & Bauer · near

58
Nanjing Agricultural… · near

58
Wacker Chemie · near

58
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Colorado's Innovation Score is 58.1/100 (top 5% 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 Colorado?

Each dot is one of Colorado’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). Colorado’s own 17.1 claims/patent is ABOVE the 17.0 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How Colorado's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Colorado School of Mines received 50 grants versus 49 in 2015–2019 (+2% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2016 at 15 grants and bottomed in 2015 at 6. Lead class Y02E accounts for 20.8% of the portfolio across 108 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Brookhaven Science Associates, LLC (#3,470) and Hadasit Medical Research Services AND Development Ltd. (#3,478).

Colorado's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Colorado School of Mines moved from 28 to 28 grants (1.00x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). Among 3,296 tracked assignees with ≥100 grants and ≥20 prior-period grants, that multiple ranks #1,173. See the growth leaderboard.

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FCI USA

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106
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106

What this shows Colorado holds 106 patents at rank #3,474, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Colorado

By rank, the assignees closest to #3,474 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in Y02E (Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Colorado, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In Y02E (Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions), Colorado ranks #672 of 5,963 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (58 here).

Koenig & Bauer AG 58 Wacker Chemie AG 58 Nanjing Agricultural University 58 Five AI Limited 58

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (17.1 here).

New Jersey Institute of Technology 17.1 avg Texas Tech University System 17.1 avg Mahle Metal Leve S/A 17.1 avg IGT 17.1 avg

Colorado's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

58 Top 5% higher than 95% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2025

Grants by year

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

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Colorado School of Mines patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	6	5.7%
2016	15	14.2%
2017	11	10.4%
2018	11	10.4%
2019	6	5.7%
2020	12	11.3%
2021	10	9.4%
2022	10	9.4%
2023	8	7.5%
2024	10	9.4%
2025partial year	7	6.6%

Which technologies does Colorado School of Mines patent most?

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 22

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 16

H01M - Processes OR Means, e.g. Batteries, FOR THE Direct Conversion OF Chemical Energy Into Electrical Energy 11

C01B - Non-metallic ELEMENTS; Compounds THEREOF; ; Metalloids OR Compounds Thereof NOT Covered BY Subclass C01c 11

B01D - Separation 10

B82Y - Specific Uses OR Applications OF NANOSTRUCTURES; Measurement OR Analysis OF NANOSTRUCTURES; Manufacture OR Treatment OF Nanostructures 10

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 9

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 9

B01J - Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus 9

E21B - Earth OR Rock DRILLING; Obtaining OIL, GAS, Water, Soluble OR Meltable Materials OR A Slurry OF Minerals From Wells 9

B23K - Soldering OR UNSOLDERING; WELDING; Cladding OR Plating BY Soldering OR WELDING; Cutting BY Applying Heat Locally, e.g. Flame CUTTING; Working BY Laser Beam 7

C08F - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained BY Reactions Only Involving Carbon-to-carbon Unsaturated Bonds 6

G01V - GEOPHYSICS; Gravitational MEASUREMENTS; Detecting Masses OR OBJECTS; Tags 6

B33Y - Additive Manufacturing, i.e. Manufacturing OF Three-dimensional [3-D] Objects BY Additive Deposition, Additive Agglomeration OR Additive Layering, e.g. BY 3-D Printing, Stereolithography OR Selective Laser Sintering 5

C22C - Alloys 5

Top 15 of 108 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

Colorado School of Mines's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Colorado School of Mines's lead technology class is Y02E (Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution), 20.8% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore Y02E
Ranked #3,473 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Colorado School of Mines against Brookhaven Science Associates, LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 58.1/100 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

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