Where does CR Minerals Company, LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), CR Minerals Company, LLC ranks #19,634 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 CR Minerals Company, LLC hold?

CR Minerals Company, LLC holds 14 US utility patents granted between 2017 and 2025, spanning 5 technology areas.

What is CR Minerals Company, LLC's Innovation Score?

CR Minerals Company, LLC has an Innovation Score of 33.6 out of 100 (45th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is CR Minerals Company, LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

CR Minerals Company, LLC's recent grant velocity is -14% 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 CR Minerals Company, LLC's patents?

CR Minerals Company, LLC's patents average 18.4 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 CR Minerals Company, LLC 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

CR Minerals Company, LLC

Q: What technology areas does CR Minerals Company, LLC focus on?

CR Minerals Company, LLC's top technology area is C04B (Lime, MAGNESIA; SLAG; CEMENTS; Compositions Thereof, e.g. Mortars, Concrete OR Like Building MATERIALS; Artificial Stone ; Ceramics ; REFRACTORIES; Treatment OF Natural Stone) with 13 patents, ranking #109 of 1,052 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 5 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 14 granted patents across 5 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2017–2025. 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: C04B (Lime, MAGNESIA; SLAG; CEMENTS; Compositions Thereof, e.g. Mortars, Concrete OR Like Building MATERIALS; Artificial Stone ; Ceramics ; REFRACTORIES; Treatment OF Natural Stone).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, CR ranks #19,634 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 14 patents across 5 technology areas.

#19,634
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 45th percentile
by Innovation Score (33.6/100): 18.4
avg claims per patent: -14%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R19634 · US Corporation #19,634 · 14 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 14 grants
MID-PACK #19,634/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Cooltech Applications
CPC-NARROW C04B · 5 areas
INNOV-THIN 33.6/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.4 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DOWN -14% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Cooltech Applications (±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 CR’s 33.6 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 9.4 pts (28%) Velocity 5.3 pts (16%) Breadth 7.9 pts (24%) Claim depth 11.0 pts (33%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

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CR Minerals · this assignee

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3D Lighting… · lowest

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What this shows CR's Innovation Score is 33.6/100 (45th 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 CR?

Each dot is one of CR’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). CR’s own 18.4 claims/patent is ABOVE the 13.4 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where CR's grants concentrate

CR Minerals Company, LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 5 CPC subclasses with 92.9% of grants classified under C04B (Lime, MAGNESIA; SLAG; CEMENTS; Compositions Thereof, e.g. Mortars, Concrete OR Like Building MATERIALS; Artificial Stone ; Ceramics ; REFRACTORIES; Treatment OF Natural Stone). Peak complete grant year is 2019 (3 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2023. By volume, CR sits between Cooltech Applications and Crystal Pharma, S.A.U..

CR's three-year grant acceleration

CR Minerals Company, LLC shows 4 grants in 2022–2024 against only 5 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.

Cooltech Applicat…

14
Cosmic PET

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Cotton Seed Inter…

14
CQV

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Crc-evans Pipelin…

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Crrc Nanjing Puzh…

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Crux Biomedical

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Crystal Pharma U

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14

What this shows CR holds 14 patents at rank #19,594, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near CR

By rank, the assignees closest to #19,594 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C04B (Lime)

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

CR's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

34 45th percentile higher than 45% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2017–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2017–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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CR Minerals Company, LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2017	2	14.3%
2018	2	14.3%
2019	3	21.4%
2020	2	14.3%
2022	2	14.3%
2023	1	7.1%
2024	1	7.1%
2025partial year	1	7.1%

Which technologies does CR Minerals Company, LLC patent most?

C04B - Lime, MAGNESIA; SLAG; CEMENTS; Compositions Thereof, e.g. Mortars, Concrete OR Like Building MATERIALS; Artificial Stone ; Ceramics ; REFRACTORIES; Treatment OF Natural Stone 13

Y02W - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Wastewater Treatment OR Waste Management 13

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 9

C09K - Materials FOR Miscellaneous Applications, NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere 4

C08K - Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances as compounding ingredients 1

Top 5 of 5 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

CR Minerals Company, LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

CR Minerals Company, LLC's lead technology class is C04B (Lime, MAGNESIA; SLAG; CEMENTS; Compositions Thereof, e.g. Mortars, Concrete OR Like Building MATERIALS; Artificial Stone ; Ceramics ; REFRACTORIES; Treatment OF Natural Stone), 92.9% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C04B
Ranked #19,634 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare CR Minerals Company, LLC against Cooltech Applications, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 33.6/100 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.

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

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