Where does COX Engineering Company rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), COX Engineering Company ranks #45,908 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 COX Engineering Company hold?

COX Engineering Company holds 5 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2023, spanning 3 technology areas.

What is COX Engineering Company's Innovation Score?

COX Engineering Company has an Innovation Score of 29.7 out of 100 (31st percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is COX Engineering Company's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

COX Engineering Company's recent grant velocity is -33% 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 COX Engineering Company's patents?

COX Engineering Company's patents average 17.8 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 COX Engineering 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

COX Engineering Company

Q: What technology areas does COX Engineering Company focus on?

COX Engineering Company's top technology area is F16L (PIPES; Joints OR Fittings FOR PIPES; Supports FOR Pipes, Cables OR Protective TUBING; Means FOR Thermal Insulation IN General) with 3 patents, ranking #652 of 1,907 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 3 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 5 granted patents across 3 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2023. 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: F16L (PIPES; Joints OR Fittings FOR PIPES; Supports FOR Pipes, Cables OR Protective TUBING; Means FOR Thermal Insulation IN General).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, COX ranks #45,908 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 5 patents across 3 technology areas.

#45,908
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 31st percentile
by Innovation Score (29.7/100): 17.8
avg claims per patent: -33%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R45908 · US Corporation #45,908 · 5 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · BOTTOM-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 5 grants
BOTTOM-DECILE #45,908/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Council OF Scientifi…
CPC-NARROW F16L · 3 areas
INNOV-THIN 29.7/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.8 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DOWN -33% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Council OF Scientific AND Industrial Research AN Indian Registered Body Incorporated Under THE Regn. OF SOC. ACT (ACT XXI OF 1860) (±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 COX’s 29.7 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 6.2 pts (21%) Velocity 6.7 pts (23%) Breadth 6.1 pts (21%) Claim depth 10.7 pts (36%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
COX Engineering · this assignee

30
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows COX's Innovation Score is 29.7/100 (31st 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 COX?

Each dot is one of COX’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). COX’s own 17.8 claims/patent is ABOVE the 16.0 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where COX's grants concentrate

COX Engineering Company is a focused PatentsView assignee: 3 CPC subclasses with 60% of grants classified under F16L (PIPES; Joints OR Fittings FOR PIPES; Supports FOR Pipes, Cables OR Protective TUBING; Means FOR Thermal Insulation IN General). Peak complete grant year is 2017 (2 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2015. By volume, COX sits between Council OF Scientific AND Industrial Research AN Indian Registered Body Incorporated Under THE Regn. OF SOC. ACT (ACT XXI OF 1860) and CPY 2 LLC.

COX's three-year grant acceleration

COX Engineering Company shows 1 grants in 2022–2024 against only 1 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.

Council OF Scient…

5
Country View Medi…

5
Cour Pharmaceutic…

5
Coventya

5
COX Goettl Valve

5
CPI Card Group—Te…

5
CPS Products

5
CPY 2

5
COX Engineering ◀

5

What this shows COX holds 5 patents at rank #45,652, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near COX

By rank, the assignees closest to #45,652 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F16L (Pipes)

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

COX's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

30 31st percentile higher than 31% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2023

Grants by year

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

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COX Engineering Company patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1	20.0%
2017	2	40.0%
2020	1	20.0%
2023	1	20.0%

Which technologies does COX Engineering Company patent most?

F16L - PIPES; Joints OR Fittings FOR PIPES; Supports FOR Pipes, Cables OR Protective TUBING; Means FOR Thermal Insulation IN General 3

F24F - AIR-CONDITIONING; AIR-HUMIDIFICATION; VENTILATION; USE OF AIR Currents FOR Screening 2

E04D - Roof COVERINGS; SKY-LIGHTS; GUTTERS; Roof-working Tools 2

Top 3 of 3 technology areas

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

View all rankings → How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

COX Engineering Company's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

COX Engineering Company's lead technology class is F16L (PIPES; Joints OR Fittings FOR PIPES; Supports FOR Pipes, Cables OR Protective TUBING; Means FOR Thermal Insulation IN General), 60% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F16L
Ranked #45,908 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare COX Engineering Company against Council OF Scientific AND Industrial Research AN Indian Registered Body Incorporated Under THE Regn. OF SOC. ACT (ACT XXI OF 1860), an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 29.7/100 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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