Where does Consiglio Nazionale Delle Ricerche rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Consiglio Nazionale Delle Ricerche ranks #3,621 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 Consiglio Nazionale Delle Ricerche hold?

Consiglio Nazionale Delle Ricerche holds 101 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 105 technology areas.

What is Consiglio Nazionale Delle Ricerche's Innovation Score?

Consiglio Nazionale Delle Ricerche has an Innovation Score of 56.2 out of 100 (top 6% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Consiglio Nazionale Delle Ricerche's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Consiglio Nazionale Delle Ricerche's recent grant velocity is -12% 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 Consiglio Nazionale Delle Ricerche's patents?

Consiglio Nazionale Delle Ricerche's patents average 14.6 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 Consiglio Nazionale Delle Ricerche 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

Consiglio Nazionale Delle Ricerche

Q: What technology areas does Consiglio Nazionale Delle Ricerche focus on?

Consiglio Nazionale Delle Ricerche's top technology area is A61K (Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes) with 27 patents. Grants appear in 105 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 101 granted patents across 105 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: A61K (Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Consiglio ranks #3,621 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 101 patents across 105 technology areas.

#3,621
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 6%
by Innovation Score (56.2/100): 14.6
avg claims per patent: -12%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R3621 · Foreign Corporation #3,621 · 101 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 101 grants
TOP-DECILE #3,621/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Bentley Motors
CPC-WIDE A61K · 105 areas
INNOV-PAR 56.2/100
CLAIMS-RICH 14.6 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -12% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Bentley Motors Limited (±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
Consiglio Nazionale… · this assignee

56
Dainichiseika Color… · near

56
Guangzhou Institute… · near

56
Institute of… · near

56
Sungrow Power Supply · near

56
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Consiglio's Innovation Score is 56.2/100 (top 6% 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.

How Consiglio's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Consiglio Nazionale Delle Ricerche received 45 grants versus 51 in 2015–2019 (-12% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2016 at 15 grants and bottomed in 2017 at 7. Lead class A61K accounts for 26.7% of the portfolio across 105 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Bentley Motors Limited (#3,617) and FCI Americas Technology LLC (#3,625).

Consiglio's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Consiglio Nazionale Delle Ricerche moved from 27 to 26 grants (0.96x 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 #1,286. See the growth leaderboard.

Bentley Motors

101
Ceraloc Innovatio…

101
Chang Chun Petroc…

101
Chimei

101
CPG

101
Curna

101
Delphi Internatio…

101
FCI Americas Tech…

101
Consiglio Naziona… ◀

101

What this shows Consiglio holds 101 patents at rank #3,621, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Consiglio

By rank, the assignees closest to #3,621 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A61K (Preparations FOR Medical)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Consiglio, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above).

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (56 here).

Dainichiseika Color & Chemicals MFG. Co., Ltd. 56 Institute of Chemistry Chinese Academy of Sciences 56 Guangzhou Institute OF Energy Conversion, Chinese Academy OF Sciences 56 Sungrow Power Supply Co., Ltd. 56

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (14.6 here).

Popsockets LLC 14.6 avg KAO Corporation 14.6 avg Pilz GmbH & Co. KG 14.6 avg Festo SE & Co. KG 14.6 avg

Consiglio's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

56 Top 6% higher than 94% 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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Consiglio Nazionale Delle Ricerche patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	13	12.9%
2016	15	14.9%
2017	7	6.9%
2018	8	7.9%
2019	8	7.9%
2020	11	10.9%
2021	8	7.9%
2022	10	9.9%
2023	9	8.9%
2024	7	6.9%
2025partial year	5	5.0%

Which technologies does Consiglio Nazionale Delle Ricerche patent most?

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 27

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 17

A61P - Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations 15

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 10

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 8

C12N - Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media 8

C07K - Peptides 6

B01J - Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus 6

G01J - Measurement OF Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase OR Pulse Characteristics OF Infrared, Visible OR Ultraviolet LIGHT; COLORIMETRY; Radiation Pyrometry 6

A61L - Methods OR Apparatus FOR Sterilising Materials OR Objects IN GENERAL; Disinfection, Sterilisation OR Deodorisation OF AIR; Chemical Aspects OF Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads OR Surgical ARTICLES; Materials FOR Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads OR Surgical Articles 5

A23L - Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Preparation OR Treatment Thereof 5

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 5

C07D - Heterocyclic Compounds 5

H01J - Electric Discharge Tubes OR Discharge Lamps 4

C07C - Acyclic OR Carbocyclic Compounds 4

Top 15 of 105 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#3,621

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

56.2 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

Consiglio Nazionale Delle Ricerche's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Consiglio Nazionale Delle Ricerche's lead technology class is A61K (Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes), 26.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A61K
Ranked #3,621 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Consiglio Nazionale Delle Ricerche against Bentley Motors Limited, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 56.2/100 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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