Where does Continental Structural Plastics, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Continental Structural Plastics, Inc. ranks #9,741 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 Continental Structural Plastics, Inc. hold?

Continental Structural Plastics, Inc. holds 32 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2022, spanning 36 technology areas.

What is Continental Structural Plastics, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Continental Structural Plastics, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 42.6 out of 100 (top 30% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Continental Structural Plastics, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Continental Structural Plastics, Inc.'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 Continental Structural Plastics, Inc.'s patents?

Continental Structural Plastics, Inc.'s patents average 13.3 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 Continental Structural Plastics, Inc. 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

Continental Structural Plastics, Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Continental Structural Plastics, Inc. focus on?

Continental Structural Plastics, Inc.'s top technology area is B29C (Shaping OR Joining OF PLASTICS; Shaping OF Material IN A Plastic State, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; After-treatment OF THE Shaped Products, e.g. Repairing) with 15 patents. Grants appear in 36 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 32 granted patents across 36 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2022. 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: B29C (Shaping OR Joining OF PLASTICS; Shaping OF Material IN A Plastic State, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; After-treatment OF THE Shaped Products, e.g. Repairing).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Continental ranks #9,741 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 32 patents across 36 technology areas.

#9,741
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 30%
by Innovation Score (42.6/100): 13.3
avg claims per patent: -12%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R9741 · US Corporation #9,741 · 32 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 32 grants
UPPER-Q #9,741/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Canrig Drilling…
CPC-FOCUS B29C · 36 areas
INNOV-PAR 42.6/100
CLAIMS-RICH 13.3 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DOWN -12% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Canrig Drilling Technology Ltd. (±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
Mueller Textil · near

43
WANdisco · near

43
BÜHLER Motor · near

43
Continental… · this assignee

43
Universita Degli… · near

43
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Continental's Innovation Score is 42.6/100 (top 30% 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.

Where Continental's grants concentrate

Continental Structural Plastics, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 36 CPC subclasses with 46.9% of grants classified under B29C (Shaping OR Joining OF PLASTICS; Shaping OF Material IN A Plastic State, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; After-treatment OF THE Shaped Products, e.g. Repairing). Peak complete grant year is 2021 (7 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2016. By volume, Continental sits between China Automotive Technology AND Research Center Co., Ltd and Ceres Intellectual Property Company Limited.

Continental's three-year grant acceleration

Continental Structural Plastics, Inc. shows 3 grants in 2022–2024 against only 15 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.

China Automotive…

32
Chongqing Konka P…

32
Circadence

32
Connectify

32
CPI Card Group-co…

32
Canrig Drilling T…

32
Canyon Bicycles

32
Ceres Intellectua…

32
Continental Struc… ◀

32

What this shows Continental holds 32 patents at rank #9,734, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Continental

By rank, the assignees closest to #9,734 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B29C (Shaping OR Joining OF Plastics)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

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

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (43 here).

BÜHLER Motor GMBH 43 Universita Degli Studi DI Firenze 43 WANdisco, Inc. 43 Mueller Textil GMBH 43

Continental's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

43 Top 30% higher than 70% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2022

Grants by year

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

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Continental Structural Plastics, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	3	9.4%
2016	2	6.3%
2017	6	18.8%
2018	3	9.4%
2019	3	9.4%
2020	5	15.6%
2021	7	21.9%
2022	3	9.4%

Which technologies does Continental Structural Plastics, Inc. patent most?

B29C - Shaping OR Joining OF PLASTICS; Shaping OF Material IN A Plastic State, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; After-treatment OF THE Shaped Products, e.g. Repairing 15

C08J - WORKING-UP; General Processes OF COMPOUNDING; After-treatment NOT Covered BY Subclasses C08b, C08c, C08f, C08g or C08h 12

B29K - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses B29b, B29c OR B29d, Relating TO Moulding Materials OR TO Materials FOR ; Moulds, ; Reinforcements, Fillers OR Preformed Parts, e.g. Inserts 10

C08K - Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances as compounding ingredients 10

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 8

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 8

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 7

C08L - Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds 7

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 5

C08G - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than BY Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds 5

D01G - Preliminary Treatment OF Fibres, e.g. FOR Spinning 5

B62D - Motor VEHICLES; Trailers 4

D02J - Finishing OR Dressing OF Filaments, Yarns, Threads, Cords, Ropes OR THE Like 4

D04H - Making Textile Fabrics, e.g. From Fibres OR Filamentary Material ; Fabrics Made BY Such Processes OR Apparatus, e.g. Felts, Non-woven FABRICS; COTTON-WOOL; Wadding ; ; Non-woven Fabrics From Staple Fibres, Filaments OR Yarns, Bonded With AT Least ONE Web-like Material During Their Consolidation 3

D06M - Treatment, NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere IN Class D06, OF Fibres, Threads, Yarns, Fabrics, Feathers OR Fibrous Goods Made From Such Materials 3

Top 15 of 36 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#9,741

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

42.6 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

Continental Structural Plastics, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Continental Structural Plastics, Inc.'s lead technology class is B29C (Shaping OR Joining OF PLASTICS; Shaping OF Material IN A Plastic State, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; After-treatment OF THE Shaped Products, e.g. Repairing), 46.9% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B29C
Ranked #9,741 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Continental Structural Plastics, Inc. against China Automotive Technology AND Research Center Co., Ltd, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 42.6/100 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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