Where does Cranial Technologies, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Cranial Technologies, Inc. ranks #12,883 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 Cranial Technologies, Inc. hold?

Cranial Technologies, Inc. holds 23 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 19 technology areas.

What is Cranial Technologies, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Cranial Technologies, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 43.1 out of 100 (top 29% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Cranial Technologies, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Cranial Technologies, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +33% 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 Cranial Technologies, Inc.'s patents?

Cranial Technologies, Inc.'s patents average 21.7 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 Cranial Technologies, 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

Cranial Technologies, Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Cranial Technologies, Inc. focus on?

Cranial Technologies, Inc.'s top technology area is A61F (Filters Implantable Into Blood VESSELS; PROSTHESES; Devices Providing Patency TO, OR Preventing Collapsing OF, Tubular Structures OF THE Body, e.g. STENTS; Orthopaedic, Nursing OR Contraceptive DEVICES; FOMENTATION; Treatment OR Protection OF Eyes OR EARS; Bandages, Dressings OR Absorbent PADS; Firs) with 19 patents, ranking #347 of 3,082 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 19 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 23 granted patents across 19 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2025. 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: A61F (Filters Implantable Into Blood VESSELS; PROSTHESES; Devices Providing Patency TO, OR Preventing Collapsing OF, Tubular Structures OF THE Body, e.g. STENTS; Orthopaedic, Nursing OR Contraceptive Device).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Cranial ranks #12,883 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 23 patents across 19 technology areas.

#12,883
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 29%
by Innovation Score (43.1/100): 21.7
avg claims per patent: +33%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R12883 · US Corporation #12,883 · 23 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 23 grants
MID-PACK #12,883/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Cadwell Laboratories
CPC-FOCUS A61F · 19 areas
INNOV-PAR 43.1/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 21.7 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-UP +33% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Cadwell 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 Cranial’s 43.1 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 11.0 pts (26%) Velocity 3.7 pts (9%) Breadth 15.4 pts (36%) Claim depth 13.0 pts (30%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Cranial · this assignee

43
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Cranial's Innovation Score is 43.1/100 (top 29% 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 Cranial?

Each dot is one of Cranial’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). Cranial’s own 21.7 claims/patent is ABOVE the 13.7 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Cranial's grants concentrate

Cranial Technologies, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 19 CPC subclasses with 82.6% of grants classified under A61F (Filters Implantable Into Blood VESSELS; PROSTHESES; Devices Providing Patency TO, OR Preventing Collapsing OF, Tubular Structures OF THE Body, e.g. STENTS; Orthopaedic, Nursing OR Contraceptive Device). Peak complete grant year is 2020 (7 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2018. By volume, Cranial sits between Cobalt Robotics Inc. and Cadwell Laboratories, Inc..

Cranial's three-year grant acceleration

Cranial Technologies, Inc. shows 5 grants in 2022–2024 against only 9 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.

Cobalt Robotics

23
Cockerill Mainten…

23
College DE France

23
Consitex

23
Creighton Univers…

23
Crystal Pharmatech

23
Ctera Networks

23
Cadwell Laborator…

23
Cranial ◀

23

What this shows Cranial holds 23 patents at rank #12,865, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Cranial

By rank, the assignees closest to #12,865 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A61F (Filters Implantable Into Blood Vessels)

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

Cranial's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

43 Top 29% higher than 71% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2025

Grants by year

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

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Cranial Technologies, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	2	8.7%
2017	4	17.4%
2018	1	4.3%
2019	2	8.7%
2020	7	30.4%
2022	1	4.3%
2023	4	17.4%
2025partial year	2	8.7%

Which technologies does Cranial Technologies, Inc. patent most?

A61F - Filters Implantable Into Blood VESSELS; PROSTHESES; Devices Providing Patency TO, OR Preventing Collapsing OF, Tubular Structures OF THE Body, e.g. STENTS; Orthopaedic, Nursing OR Contraceptive DEVICES; FOMENTATION; Treatment OR Protection OF Eyes OR EARS; Bandages, Dressings OR Absorbent PADS; Firs 19

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 17

B29C - Shaping OR Joining OF PLASTICS; Shaping OF Material IN A Plastic State, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; After-treatment OF THE Shaped Products, e.g. Repairing 16

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 15

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 13

B29K - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses B29b, B29c OR B29d, Relating TO Moulding Materials OR TO Materials FOR ; Moulds, ; Reinforcements, Fillers OR Preformed Parts, e.g. Inserts 9

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 4

A42B - HATS; Head Coverings 3

A42C - Manufacturing OR Trimming Head Coverings, e.g. Hats 3

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 2

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 2

F41H - ARMOUR; Armoured TURRETS; Armoured OR Armed VEHICLES; Means OF Attack OR Defence, e.g. Camouflage, IN General 2

A63B - Apparatus FOR Physical Training, Gymnastics, Swimming, Climbing, OR FENCING; Ball GAMES; Training Equipment 2

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

A41D - OUTERWEAR; Protective GARMENTS; Accessories 1

Top 15 of 19 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

Cranial Technologies, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Cranial Technologies, Inc.'s lead technology class is A61F (Filters Implantable Into Blood VESSELS; PROSTHESES; Devices Providing Patency TO, OR Preventing Collapsing OF, Tubular Structures OF THE Body, e.g. STENTS; Orthopaedic, Nursing OR Contraceptive Device), 82.6% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A61F
Ranked #12,883 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Cranial Technologies, Inc. against Cobalt Robotics Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 43.1/100 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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