Where does Columbia Insurance Company rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Columbia Insurance Company ranks #1,275 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 Insurance Company hold?

Columbia Insurance Company holds 331 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 118 technology areas.

What is Columbia Insurance Company's Innovation Score?

Columbia Insurance Company has an Innovation Score of 65.4 out of 100 (top 1% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

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

Columbia Insurance Company's recent grant velocity is -22% 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 Columbia Insurance Company's patents?

Columbia Insurance Company's patents average 16.8 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 Insurance 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 Insurance Company

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

Columbia Insurance Company's top technology area is E04B (General Building CONSTRUCTIONS; Walls, e.g. PARTITIONS; ROOFS; FLOORS; CEILINGS; Insulation OR Other Protection OF Buildings) with 51 patents, ranking #8 of 849 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 118 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 331 granted patents across 118 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: E04B (General Building CONSTRUCTIONS; Walls, e.g. PARTITIONS; ROOFS; FLOORS; CEILINGS; Insulation OR Other Protection OF Buildings).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Columbia ranks #1,275 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 331 patents across 118 technology areas.

#1,275
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 1%
by Innovation Score (65.4/100): 16.8
avg claims per patent: -22%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1275 · US Corporation #1,275 · 331 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 331 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,275/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Gpcp IP Holdings
CPC-WIDE E04B · 118 areas
INNOV-STRONG 65.4/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.8 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DOWN -22% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Gpcp IP Holdings 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 Columbia’s 65.4 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 20.1 pts (31%) Velocity 10.3 pts (16%) Breadth 25.0 pts (38%) Claim depth 10.1 pts (15%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Genesys Telecommunic… · near

65
Tusimple · near

65
Columbia Insurance · this assignee

65
Donaldson · near

65
Fresenius Medical… · near

65
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Columbia's Innovation Score is 65.4/100 (top 1% 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 16.8 claims/patent is ABOVE the 10.3 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How Columbia's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Columbia Insurance Company received 133 grants versus 170 in 2015–2019 (-22% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2016 at 47 grants and bottomed in 2021 at 16. Lead class E04B accounts for 15.4% of the portfolio across 118 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Cartier International AG (#1,271) and Louis Vuitton Malletier (#1,279).

Columbia's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Columbia Insurance Company moved from 63 to 97 grants (1.54x 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 #419. See the growth leaderboard.

Cartier Internati…

332
ICU Medical

332
Soitec

332
Toyobo

332
Gpcp IP Holdings

331
Jiangsu University

331
Safran & Defense

331
Columbia Insurance ◀

331
Louis Vuitton Mal…

330

What this shows Columbia holds 331 patents at rank #1,275, 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 #1,275 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in E04B (General Building Constructions)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Columbia, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In E04B (General Building Constructions), Columbia ranks #8 of 849 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (65 here).

Donaldson Company, Inc. 65 Tusimple, Inc. 65 Genesys Telecommunications Laboratories, Inc. 65 Fresenius Medical Care Holdings, Inc. 65

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (16.8 here).

Parker-Hannifin Corporation 16.8 avg Quantcast Corporation 16.8 avg The PNC Financial Services Group, Inc. 16.8 avg Novomatic AG 16.8 avg

Columbia's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

65 Top 1% higher than 99% 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 Insurance Company patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	41	12.4%
2016	47	14.2%
2017	28	8.5%
2018	27	8.2%
2019	27	8.2%
2020	20	6.0%
2021	16	4.8%
2022	25	7.6%
2023	31	9.4%
2024	41	12.4%
2025partial year	28	8.5%

Which technologies does Columbia Insurance Company patent most?

E04B - General Building CONSTRUCTIONS; Walls, e.g. PARTITIONS; ROOFS; FLOORS; CEILINGS; Insulation OR Other Protection OF Buildings 51

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 34

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 34

E04F - Finishing Work ON Buildings, e.g. Stairs, Floors 28

C08L - Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds 26

C09D - Coating Compositions, e.g. Paints, Varnishes OR LACQUERS; Filling PASTES; Chemical Paint OR INK REMOVERS; INKS; Correcting FLUIDS; WOODSTAINS; Pastes OR Solids FOR Colouring OR PRINTING; USE OF Materials Therefor 26

D10B - Indexing Scheme Associated With Sublasses OF Section D, Relating TO Textiles 25

D05C - EMBROIDERING; Tufting 24

D06N - Wall, Floor, OR Like Covering Materials, e.g. Linoleum, Oilcloth, Artificial Leather, Roofing Felt, Consisting OF A Fibrous WEB Coated With A Layer OF Macromolecular MATERIAL; Flexible Sheet Material NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 18

C08J - WORKING-UP; General Processes OF COMPOUNDING; After-treatment NOT Covered BY Subclasses C08b, C08c, C08f, C08g or C08h 18

Y02W - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Wastewater Treatment OR Waste Management 18

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 18

B29B - Preparation OR Pretreatment OF THE Material TO BE SHAPED; Making Granules OR PREFORMS; Recovery OF Plastics OR Other Constituents OF Waste Material Containing Plastics 18

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 16

B65H - Handling Thin OR Filamentary Material, e.g. Sheets, Webs, Cables 15

Top 15 of 118 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 Insurance Company's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Columbia Insurance Company's lead technology class is E04B (General Building CONSTRUCTIONS; Walls, e.g. PARTITIONS; ROOFS; FLOORS; CEILINGS; Insulation OR Other Protection OF Buildings), 15.4% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore E04B
Ranked #1,275 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Columbia Insurance Company against Cartier International AG, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 65.4/100 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.

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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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