Where does Crane Electronics, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Crane Electronics, Inc. ranks #14,545 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 Crane Electronics, Inc. hold?

Crane Electronics, Inc. holds 20 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2022, spanning 14 technology areas.

What is Crane Electronics, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Crane Electronics, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 44.3 out of 100 (top 26% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Crane Electronics, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Crane Electronics, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -57% 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 Crane Electronics, Inc.'s patents?

Crane Electronics, Inc.'s patents average 19.4 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 Crane Electronics, 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

Crane Electronics, Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Crane Electronics, Inc. focus on?

Crane Electronics, Inc.'s top technology area is H02M (Apparatus FOR Conversion Between AC AND AC, Between AC AND DC, OR Between DC AND DC, AND FOR USE With Mains OR Similar Power Supply SYSTEMS; Conversion OF DC OR AC Input Power Into Surge Output POWER; Control OR Regulation Thereof) with 12 patents, ranking #269 of 1,541 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 14 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 20 granted patents across 14 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: H02M (Apparatus FOR Conversion Between AC AND AC, Between AC AND DC, OR Between DC AND DC, AND FOR USE With Mains OR Similar Power Supply SYSTEMS; Conversion OF DC OR AC Input Power Into Surge Output POWER;).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Crane ranks #14,545 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 20 patents across 14 technology areas.

#14,545
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 26%
by Innovation Score (44.3/100): 19.4
avg claims per patent: -57%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R14545 · US Corporation #14,545 · 20 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 20 grants
MID-PACK #14,545/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Consumer 2 0
CPC-FOCUS H02M · 14 areas
INNOV-PAR 44.3/100
CLAIMS-RICH 19.4 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -57% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Consumer 2.0 Inc. (±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 Crane’s 44.3 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 10.5 pts (24%) Velocity 8.9 pts (20%) Breadth 13.2 pts (30%) Claim depth 11.6 pts (26%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Crane · this assignee

44
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Crane's Innovation Score is 44.3/100 (top 26% 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 Crane?

Each dot is one of Crane’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). Crane’s own 19.4 claims/patent is ABOVE the 12.8 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Crane's grants concentrate

Crane Electronics, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 14 CPC subclasses with 60% of grants classified under H02M (Apparatus FOR Conversion Between AC AND AC, Between AC AND DC, OR Between DC AND DC, AND FOR USE With Mains OR Similar Power Supply SYSTEMS; Conversion OF DC OR AC Input Power Into Surge Output POWER;). Peak complete grant year is 2017 (4 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2019. By volume, Crane sits between Consumer 2.0 Inc. and Daelim Industrial Co., Ltd..

Crane's three-year grant acceleration

Crane Electronics, Inc. shows 4 grants in 2022–2024 against only 3 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.

Consumer 2 0

20
Consumerdirect

20
Coroplast Fritz M…

20
Coursera

20
Cryostar SAS

20
D-line (Europe)

20
D E Shaw Research

20
Daelim Industrial

20
Crane ◀

20

What this shows Crane holds 20 patents at rank #14,551, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Crane

By rank, the assignees closest to #14,551 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H02M (Apparatus FOR Conversion Between AC AND AC)

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

Crane's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

44 Top 26% higher than 74% 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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Crane Electronics, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	2	10.0%
2016	3	15.0%
2017	4	20.0%
2018	4	20.0%
2019	1	5.0%
2021	2	10.0%
2022	4	20.0%

Which technologies does Crane Electronics, Inc. patent most?

H02M - Apparatus FOR Conversion Between AC AND AC, Between AC AND DC, OR Between DC AND DC, AND FOR USE With Mains OR Similar Power Supply SYSTEMS; Conversion OF DC OR AC Input Power Into Surge Output POWER; Control OR Regulation Thereof 12

Y02B - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Buildings, e.g. Housing, House Appliances OR Related End-user Applications 7

H03K - Pulse Technique 4

H05K - Printed CIRCUITS; Casings OR Constructional Details OF Electric APPARATUS; Manufacture OF Assemblages OF Electrical Components 3

H02H - Emergency Protective Circuit Arrangements 3

G05F - Systems FOR Regulating Electric OR Magnetic Variables 3

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 2

H01F - MAGNETS; INDUCTANCES; TRANSFORMERS; Selection OF Materials FOR Their Magnetic Properties 2

B25B - Tools OR Bench Devices NOT Otherwise Provided FOR, FOR Fastening, Connecting, Disengaging OR Holding 1

H02J - Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy 1

B33Y - Additive Manufacturing, i.e. Manufacturing OF Three-dimensional [3-D] Objects BY Additive Deposition, Additive Agglomeration OR Additive Layering, e.g. BY 3-D Printing, Stereolithography OR Selective Laser Sintering 1

F28F - Details OF Heat-exchange AND Heat-transfer Apparatus, OF General Application 1

B22F - Working Metallic POWDER; Manufacture OF Articles From Metallic POWDER; Making Metallic Powder ; Apparatus OR Devices Specially Adapted FOR Metallic Powder 1

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 1

Top 14 of 14 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

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Crane Electronics, Inc.'s lead technology class is H02M (Apparatus FOR Conversion Between AC AND AC, Between AC AND DC, OR Between DC AND DC, AND FOR USE With Mains OR Similar Power Supply SYSTEMS; Conversion OF DC OR AC Input Power Into Surge Output POWER;), 60% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H02M
Ranked #14,545 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Crane Electronics, Inc. against Consumer 2.0 Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 44.3/100 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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