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

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Crane Payment Innovations, Inc. ranks #6,323 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 Payment Innovations, Inc. hold?

Crane Payment Innovations, Inc. holds 53 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2024, spanning 24 technology areas.

What is Crane Payment Innovations, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Crane Payment Innovations, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 45.6 out of 100 (top 23% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

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

Crane Payment Innovations, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +12% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). The company is maintaining or growing its granted-patent output.

What does claim depth mean for Crane Payment Innovations, Inc.'s patents?

Crane Payment Innovations, Inc.'s patents average 18.1 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 Payment Innovations, 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 Payment Innovations, Inc.

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

Crane Payment Innovations, Inc.'s top technology area is G07D (Handling OF Coins OR Valuable Papers, e.g. Testing, Sorting BY Denominations, Counting, Dispensing, Changing OR Depositing) with 37 patents, ranking #13 of 185 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 24 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 53 granted patents across 24 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2024. 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: G07D (Handling OF Coins OR Valuable Papers, e.g. Testing, Sorting BY Denominations, Counting, Dispensing, Changing OR Depositing).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Crane ranks #6,323 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 53 patents across 24 technology areas.

#6,323
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 23%
by Innovation Score (45.6/100): 18.1
avg claims per patent: +12%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R6323 · US Corporation #6,323 · 53 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 53 grants
UPPER-Q #6,323/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Cercacor Laboratories
CPC-FOCUS G07D · 24 areas
INNOV-PAR 45.6/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.1 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-UP +12% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Cercacor Laboratories, 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 45.6 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 13.8 pts (30%) Velocity 3.7 pts (8%) Breadth 17.3 pts (38%) Claim depth 10.9 pts (24%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
360 Yield Center · near

46
Calysta · near

46
Crane Payment… · this assignee

46
Toyo Denso · near

46
Valmet Automation OY · near

46
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Crane's Innovation Score is 45.6/100 (top 23% 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 18.1 claims/patent is ABOVE the 18.0 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 Payment Innovations, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 24 CPC subclasses with 69.8% of grants classified under G07D (Handling OF Coins OR Valuable Papers, e.g. Testing, Sorting BY Denominations, Counting, Dispensing, Changing OR Depositing). Peak complete grant year is 2017 (10 grants) versus a trough of 3 in 2019. By volume, Crane sits between Cercacor Laboratories, Inc. and E.R. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C..

Crane's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Crane Payment Innovations, Inc. moved from 20 to 11 grants (0.55x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Cercacor Laborato…

53
Chegg

53
Cognis IP Managem…

53
Complete Genomics

53
Dexin

53
Designs for Vision

53
Digi International

53
E R Squibb & Sons…

53
Crane Payment Inn… ◀

53

What this shows Crane holds 53 patents at rank #6,322, 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 #6,322 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G07D (Handling OF Coins OR Valuable Papers)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Crane, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G07D (Handling OF Coins OR Valuable Papers), Crane ranks #13 of 185 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (46 here).

Toyo Denso Kabushiki Kaisha 46 360 Yield Center, LLC 46 Calysta, Inc. 46 Valmet Automation OY 46

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (18.1 here).

Arevo, Inc. 18.1 avg LES Laboratoires Servier 18.1 avg Siemens Product Lifecycle Management Software Inc. 18.1 avg Kansas State University Research Foundation 18.1 avg

Crane's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

46 Top 23% higher than 77% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2024

Grants by year

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

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Crane Payment Innovations, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	5	9.4%
2017	10	18.9%
2018	7	13.2%
2019	3	5.7%
2020	9	17.0%
2021	8	15.1%
2022	4	7.5%
2023	3	5.7%
2024	4	7.5%

Which technologies does Crane Payment Innovations, Inc. patent most?

G07D - Handling OF Coins OR Valuable Papers, e.g. Testing, Sorting BY Denominations, Counting, Dispensing, Changing OR Depositing 37

G07F - Coin-freed OR Like Apparatus 13

B65H - Handling Thin OR Filamentary Material, e.g. Sheets, Webs, Cables 11

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 4

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 3

G07G - Registering THE Receipt OF Cash, Valuables, OR Tokens 3

B65B - Machines, Apparatus OR Devices FOR, OR Methods OF, Packaging Articles OR MATERIALS; Unpacking 3

G06Q - Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory Purposes, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 3

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 2

G06K - Graphical Data Reading ; Presentation OF DATA; Record CARRIERS; Handling Record Carriers 2

E05G - Safes OR Strong-rooms FOR VALUABLES; Bank Protection DEVICES; Safety Transaction Partitions 1

A44C - Personal Adornments, e.g. JEWELLERY; Coins 1

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 1

H03K - Pulse Technique 1

G01J - Measurement OF Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase OR Pulse Characteristics OF Infrared, Visible OR Ultraviolet LIGHT; COLORIMETRY; Radiation Pyrometry 1

Top 15 of 24 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

Crane Payment Innovations, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Crane Payment Innovations, Inc.'s lead technology class is G07D (Handling OF Coins OR Valuable Papers, e.g. Testing, Sorting BY Denominations, Counting, Dispensing, Changing OR Depositing), 69.8% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G07D
Ranked #6,323 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Crane Payment Innovations, Inc. against Cercacor Laboratories, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 45.6/100 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

Compiled by PlainPatent , US Patent Intelligence Editorial Process · May 15, 2026

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