Where does Crane Payment Solutions Limited rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Crane Payment Solutions Limited ranks #39,651 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 Solutions Limited hold?

Crane Payment Solutions Limited holds 6 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2017, spanning 1 technology areas.

What is Crane Payment Solutions Limited's Innovation Score?

Crane Payment Solutions Limited has an Innovation Score of 21.3 out of 100 (8th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Crane Payment Solutions Limited's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Crane Payment Solutions Limited's recent grant velocity is -100% 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 Payment Solutions Limited's patents?

Crane Payment Solutions Limited's patents average 18.3 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 Solutions Limited 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 Foreign Corporation

Crane Payment Solutions Limited

Q: What technology areas does Crane Payment Solutions Limited focus on?

Crane Payment Solutions Limited's top technology area is G07D (Handling OF Coins OR Valuable Papers, e.g. Testing, Sorting BY Denominations, Counting, Dispensing, Changing OR Depositing) with 6 patents. Grants appear in 1 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 6 granted patents across 1 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2017. 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 #39,651 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 6 patents across 1 technology areas.

#39,651
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 8th percentile
by Innovation Score (21.3/100): 18.3
avg claims per patent: -100%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R39651 · Foreign Corporation #39,651 · 6 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · LOWER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 6 grants
LOWER-Q #39,651/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Cplabs
CPC-NARROW G07D · 1 areas
INNOV-THIN 21.3/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.3 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -100% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Cplabs, 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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Crane Payment… · this assignee

21
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Crane's Innovation Score is 21.3/100 (8th 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.

Where Crane's grants concentrate

Crane Payment Solutions Limited is a focused PatentsView assignee: 1 CPC subclasses with 100% 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 2016 (3 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2015. By volume, Crane sits between Cplabs, Inc. and Cresyn Co., Ltd..

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6
Cppe Carbon Proce…

6
CPT Zwei

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CRC Care PTY

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Creaform

6
Credo Biomedical…

6
Cresyn

6
Crane Payment Sol… ◀

6

What this shows Crane holds 6 patents at rank #39,448, 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 #39,448 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.

Crane's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

21 8th percentile higher than 8% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2017

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 Payment Solutions Limited patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1	16.7%
2016	3	50.0%
2017	2	33.3%

Which technologies does Crane Payment Solutions Limited patent most?

G07D - Handling OF Coins OR Valuable Papers, e.g. Testing, Sorting BY Denominations, Counting, Dispensing, Changing OR Depositing 6

Top 1 of 1 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#39,651

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

21.3 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

Crane Payment Solutions Limited's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Crane Payment Solutions Limited's lead technology class is G07D (Handling OF Coins OR Valuable Papers, e.g. Testing, Sorting BY Denominations, Counting, Dispensing, Changing OR Depositing), 100% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G07D
Ranked #39,651 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Crane Payment Solutions Limited against Cplabs, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 21.3/100 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

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.