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Contractors & Industrial Supply Company, Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 7 granted patents across 6 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2018. 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: H05B (Electric HEATING; Electric Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Circuit Arrangements FOR Electric Light Sources, IN General).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Contractors ranks #34,844 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 7 patents across 6 technology areas.

#34,844
of 49,997 US assignees by volume
13th percentile
by Innovation Score (23.8/100)
13.3
avg claims per patent
-100%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R34844 · US Corporation #34,844 · 7 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

  • GRANTS-MICRO 7 grants
  • MID-PACK #34,844/49,997
  • PHOTO-FINISH Contact Left
  • CPC-NARROW H05B · 6 areas
  • INNOV-THIN 23.8/100
  • CLAIMS-RICH 13.3 claims/avg
  • TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
  • VEL-DROP -100% vel
  • BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Contact Left, 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 Contractors’s 23.8 Innovation Score adds up

The same four weighted components behind every Innovation Score on PlainPatent: portfolio volume, grant velocity, technology breadth, and claim depth.

Innovation-score neighbourhood around Contractors

Lowest and highest poles plus nearest Innovation Score peers, not a full corpus board reprint.

score

What this shows Contractors's Innovation Score is 23.8/100 (13th 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.

Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score As of 2015–2025

Does more volume mean deeper claims for Contractors?

Each dot is one of Contractors’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). Contractors’s own 13.3 claims/patent is ABOVE the 12.6 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

Contractors vs its 8 nearest volume peers: granted patents vs average claims per patent. Source: USPTO PatentsView. 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 9 entities by Granted patents (volume) (X) and Avg claims / patent (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. Volume + depthSelective & thoroughVolume over depthLean filer 6.97.07.077.07.07.1 0510152025 Granted patents (volume) Avg claims / patent Contact Left, LLC - 7, 5.57Contact LeftContainer Graphics Corporation - 7, 16.43Container GraphicsConti Innovation Center, LLC - 7, 16.71Conti Innovation…Continental Motors, Inc. - 7, 12.57Continental MotorsConvergent Market Research, Inc. - 7, 16.86Convergent Market…Convertidora Industrial, S.A.B., DE C.V. - 7, 1Convertidora Indu…CookingPal Limited - 7, 1CookingpalCool Dry, Inc. - 7, 20.14Cool DryContractors & Industrial Supply Company, Inc. - 7, 13.29Contractors & Ind…
Contractors vs its 8 nearest volume peers: granted patents vs average claims per patent. Source: USPTO PatentsView.

Where Contractors's grants concentrate

Contractors & Industrial Supply Company, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 6 CPC subclasses with 71.4% of grants classified under H05B (Electric HEATING; Electric Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Circuit Arrangements FOR Electric Light Sources, IN General). Peak complete grant year is 2017 (3 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2016. By volume, Contractors sits between Contact Left, LLC and Cool Dry, Inc..

Who files at Contractors's volume?

Granted US patents 2015–2025 versus its nearest-ranked assignees by volume, this company marked ◀

patents

What this shows Contractors holds 7 patents at rank #34,881, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Source USPTO PatentsView, granted utility patents As of 2015–2025

Companies ranked near Contractors

By rank, the assignees closest to #34,881 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H05B (Electric Heating)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Contractors, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H05B (Electric Heating), Contractors ranks #602 of 2,247 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (24 here).

Nisshin Foods Inc. 24 Beta-Calco, Inc. 24 Shenzhen Ouli Technology Co., Ltd. 24 DG International Holdings Limited 24

Contractors's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

24 13th percentile higher than 13% of 49,997 US assignees

This assignee 0 100 every tracked assignee, bucketed by value

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

0.511.522.533.5 201620172018 3
USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2018

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2016–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Contractors & Industrial Supply Company, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year Patents Granted Share of Period
2016 1 14.3%
2017 3 42.9%
2018 3 42.9%

Which technologies does Contractors & Industrial Supply Company, Inc. patent most?

Top 6 of 6 technology areas

More on this record

Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

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What to do with this data

Contractors & Industrial Supply Company, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

  • Contractors & Industrial Supply Company, Inc.'s lead technology class is H05B (Electric HEATING; Electric Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Circuit Arrangements FOR Electric Light Sources, IN General), 71.4% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H05B
  • Ranked #34,844 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
  • Compare Contractors & Industrial Supply Company, Inc. against Contact Left, LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
  • Innovation Score of 23.8/100 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

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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

Every figure on PlainPatent is rendered directly from USPTO source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on USPTO source data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 2026.