Where does Columbia Cascade Company rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Columbia Cascade Company ranks #31,259 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 Columbia Cascade Company hold?

Columbia Cascade Company holds 8 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 1 technology areas.

What is Columbia Cascade Company's Innovation Score?

Columbia Cascade Company has an Innovation Score of 19.1 out of 100 (6th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Columbia Cascade Company's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Columbia Cascade Company's recent grant velocity is +100% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Columbia Cascade Company's patents?

Columbia Cascade Company's patents average 2.1 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 Columbia Cascade 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

Columbia Cascade Company

Q: What technology areas does Columbia Cascade Company focus on?

Columbia Cascade Company's top technology area is E01F (Additional Work, Such AS Equipping Roads OR THE Construction OF Platforms, Helicopter Landing Stages, Signs, Snow Fences, OR THE Like) with 1 patents, ranking #84 of 168 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 1 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 8 granted patents across 1 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: E01F (Additional Work, Such AS Equipping Roads OR THE Construction OF Platforms, Helicopter Landing Stages, Signs, Snow Fences, OR THE Like).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Columbia ranks #31,259 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 8 patents across 1 technology areas.

#31,259
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 6th percentile
by Innovation Score (19.1/100): 2.1
avg claims per patent: +100%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R31259 · US Corporation #31,259 · 8 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-LOW · CLAIMS-SPARSE · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 8 grants
MID-PACK #31,259/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Collidion
CPC-NARROW E01F · 1 areas
INNOV-LOW 19.1/100
CLAIMS-SPARSE 2.1 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +100% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Collidion, Inc. (±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 Columbia’s 19.1 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 7.6 pts (40%) Velocity 6.7 pts (35%) Breadth 3.5 pts (18%) Claim depth 1.3 pts (7%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Columbia Cascade · this assignee

19
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Columbia's Innovation Score is 19.1/100 (6th 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 Columbia?

Each dot is one of Columbia’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). Columbia’s own 2.1 claims/patent is at or below the 17.6 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Columbia's grants concentrate

Columbia Cascade Company is a focused PatentsView assignee: 1 CPC subclasses with 12.5% of grants classified under E01F (Additional Work, Such AS Equipping Roads OR THE Construction OF Platforms, Helicopter Landing Stages, Signs, Snow Fences, OR THE Like). By volume, Columbia sits between Collidion, Inc. and Compass Minerais Manitoba Inc..

Columbia's three-year grant acceleration

Columbia Cascade Company shows 2 grants in 2022–2024 against only 2 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.

Collidion

8
Colowrap

8
Color Butler

8
Colt Irrigation

8
Comissariat a l'e…

8
Commando Pressure…

8
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8
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8
Columbia Cascade ◀

8

What this shows Columbia holds 8 patents at rank #31,308, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Columbia

By rank, the assignees closest to #31,308 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in E01F (Additional Work)

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

Columbia's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

19 6th percentile higher than 6% 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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Columbia Cascade Company patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1	12.5%
2018	1	12.5%
2020	1	12.5%
2021	1	12.5%
2023	1	12.5%
2024	1	12.5%
2025partial year	2	25.0%

Which technologies does Columbia Cascade Company patent most?

E01F - Additional Work, Such AS Equipping Roads OR THE Construction OF Platforms, Helicopter Landing Stages, Signs, Snow Fences, OR THE Like 1

Top 1 of 1 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

Columbia Cascade Company's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Columbia Cascade Company's lead technology class is E01F (Additional Work, Such AS Equipping Roads OR THE Construction OF Platforms, Helicopter Landing Stages, Signs, Snow Fences, OR THE Like), 12.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore E01F
Ranked #31,259 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Columbia Cascade Company against Collidion, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 19.1/100 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

Compiled by PlainPatent , US Patent Intelligence Editorial Process · May 15, 2026

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