Where does Cray Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Cray Inc. ranks #6,756 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 Cray Inc. hold?

Cray Inc. holds 49 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2023, spanning 8 technology areas.

What is Cray Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Cray Inc. has an Innovation Score of 36.7 out of 100 (top 45% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Cray Inc. focus on?

Cray Inc.'s top technology area is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing) with 36 patents, ranking #1,274 of 13,878 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 8 CPC subclasses total.

Is Cray Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Cray Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -83% 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 Cray Inc.'s patents?

Cray Inc.'s patents average 19.8 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 Cray 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

Cray Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 49 granted patents across 8 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2023. 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: G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Cray ranks #6,756 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 49 patents across 8 technology areas.

#6,756
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 45%
by Innovation Score (36.7/100): 19.8
avg claims per patent: -83%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R6756 · US Corporation #6,756 · 49 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 49 grants
UPPER-Q #6,756/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Caterpillar Global…
CPC-NARROW G06F · 8 areas
INNOV-THIN 36.7/100
CLAIMS-RICH 19.8 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -83% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Caterpillar Global Mining Europe GmbH (±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 Cray’s 36.7 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 13.5 pts (37%) Velocity 1.3 pts (4%) Breadth 10.0 pts (27%) Claim depth 11.9 pts (32%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Sakti3 · near

37
Blount · near

37
Cray · this assignee

37
Oorym Optics · near

37
Westinghouse… · near

37
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Cray's Innovation Score is 36.7/100 (top 45% 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 Cray?

Each dot is one of Cray’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). Cray’s own 19.8 claims/patent is ABOVE the 18.6 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Cray's grants concentrate

Cray Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 8 CPC subclasses with 73.5% of grants classified under G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (12 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2023. By volume, Cray sits between Caterpillar Global Mining Europe GmbH and Edatanetworks Inc.

Cray's three-year grant acceleration

Cray Inc. shows 2 grants in 2022–2024 against only 10 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.

Caterpillar Globa…

49
Cerebras Systems

49
Coopersurgical

49
Corbett Lair

49
Dako Denmark A/S

49
Danfoss Power Sol…

49
Dassault Systemes…

49
Edatanetworks

49
Cray ◀

49

What this shows Cray holds 49 patents at rank #6,756, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Cray

By rank, the assignees closest to #6,756 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Cray, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), Cray ranks #1,274 of 13,878 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (37 here).

Blount, Inc. 37 Oorym Optics Ltd. 37 Westinghouse Electric Sweden AB 37 Sakti3, Inc. 37

Cray's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

37 Top 45% higher than 55% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2023

Grants by year

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

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Cray Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	12	24.5%
2016	9	18.4%
2017	8	16.3%
2018	8	16.3%
2019	5	10.2%
2020	5	10.2%
2023	2	4.1%

Which technologies does Cray Inc. patent most?

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 36

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 14

H05K - Printed CIRCUITS; Casings OR Constructional Details OF Electric APPARATUS; Manufacture OF Assemblages OF Electrical Components 11

F28D - Heat-exchange Apparatus, NOT Provided FOR IN Another Subclass, IN Which THE Heat-exchange Media DO NOT Come Into Direct Contact 3

F28F - Details OF Heat-exchange AND Heat-transfer Apparatus, OF General Application 3

Y02D - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN Information AND Communication Technologies [ICT], I.E. Information AND Communication Technologies Aiming AT THE Reduction OF Their OWN Energy USE 2

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 2

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 1

Top 8 of 8 technology areas

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

View all rankings → How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

Cray Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Cray Inc.'s lead technology class is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), 73.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06F
Ranked #6,756 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Cray Inc. against Caterpillar Global Mining Europe GmbH, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 36.7/100 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.