Where does Crc-evans Pipeline International, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Crc-evans Pipeline International, Inc. ranks #19,635 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 Crc-evans Pipeline International, Inc. hold?

Crc-evans Pipeline International, Inc. holds 14 US utility patents granted between 2017 and 2023, spanning 9 technology areas.

What is Crc-evans Pipeline International, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Crc-evans Pipeline International, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 33.7 out of 100 (45th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Crc-evans Pipeline International, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Crc-evans Pipeline International, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +150% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Crc-evans Pipeline International, Inc.'s patents?

Crc-evans Pipeline International, Inc.'s patents average 18.7 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 Crc-evans Pipeline International, 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

Crc-evans Pipeline International, Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Crc-evans Pipeline International, Inc. focus on?

Crc-evans Pipeline International, Inc.'s top technology area is B23K (Soldering OR UNSOLDERING; WELDING; Cladding OR Plating BY Soldering OR WELDING; Cutting BY Applying Heat Locally, e.g. Flame CUTTING; Working BY Laser Beam) with 13 patents, ranking #140 of 1,623 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 9 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 14 granted patents across 9 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2017–2023. 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: B23K (Soldering OR UNSOLDERING; WELDING; Cladding OR Plating BY Soldering OR WELDING; Cutting BY Applying Heat Locally, e.g. Flame CUTTING; Working BY Laser Beam).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Crc-evans ranks #19,635 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 14 patents across 9 technology areas.

#19,635
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 45th percentile
by Innovation Score (33.7/100): 18.7
avg claims per patent: +150%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R19635 · US Corporation #19,635 · 14 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 14 grants
MID-PACK #19,635/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Cable Components Group
CPC-NARROW B23K · 9 areas
INNOV-THIN 33.7/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.7 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +150% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Cable Components Group, LLC (±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 Crc-evans’s 33.7 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 9.4 pts (28%) Velocity 2.5 pts (7%) Breadth 10.6 pts (31%) Claim depth 11.2 pts (33%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Crc-evans Pipeline… · this assignee

34
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Crc-evans's Innovation Score is 33.7/100 (45th 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.

Does more volume mean deeper claims for Crc-evans?

Each dot is one of Crc-evans’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). Crc-evans’s own 18.7 claims/patent is ABOVE the 13.4 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Crc-evans's grants concentrate

Crc-evans Pipeline International, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 9 CPC subclasses with 92.9% of grants classified under B23K (Soldering OR UNSOLDERING; WELDING; Cladding OR Plating BY Soldering OR WELDING; Cutting BY Applying Heat Locally, e.g. Flame CUTTING; Working BY Laser Beam). Peak complete grant year is 2020 (5 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2017. By volume, Crc-evans sits between Cosmic PET LLC and Cable Components Group, LLC.

Crc-evans's three-year grant acceleration

Crc-evans Pipeline International, Inc. shows 3 grants in 2022–2024 against only 8 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.

Cosmic PET

14
Cotton Seed Inter…

14
CQV

14
CR Minerals

14
Crrc Nanjing Puzh…

14
Crux Biomedical

14
Crystal Pharma U

14
Cable Components…

14
Crc-evans Pipelin… ◀

14

What this shows Crc-evans holds 14 patents at rank #19,595, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Crc-evans

By rank, the assignees closest to #19,595 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B23K (Soldering OR Unsoldering)

Other assignees with the most granted patents in Crc-evans's primary technology class.

Crc-evans's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

34 45th percentile higher than 45% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2017–2023

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2017–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Crc-evans Pipeline International, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2017	1	7.1%
2018	2	14.3%
2019	1	7.1%
2020	5	35.7%
2021	2	14.3%
2022	2	14.3%
2023	1	7.1%

Which technologies does Crc-evans Pipeline International, Inc. patent most?

B23K - Soldering OR UNSOLDERING; WELDING; Cladding OR Plating BY Soldering OR WELDING; Cutting BY Applying Heat Locally, e.g. Flame CUTTING; Working BY Laser Beam 13

F16L - PIPES; Joints OR Fittings FOR PIPES; Supports FOR Pipes, Cables OR Protective TUBING; Means FOR Thermal Insulation IN General 3

F28D - Heat-exchange Apparatus, NOT Provided FOR IN Another Subclass, IN Which THE Heat-exchange Media DO NOT Come Into Direct Contact 2

F28F - Details OF Heat-exchange AND Heat-transfer Apparatus, OF General Application 2

B05B - Spraying APPARATUS; Atomising APPARATUS; Nozzles 1

B05D - Processes FOR Applying Fluent Materials TO Surfaces, IN General 1

B05C - Apparatus FOR Applying Fluent Materials TO Surfaces, IN General 1

B23D - PLANING; SLOTTING; SHEARING; BROACHING; SAWING; FILING; SCRAPING; Like Operations FOR Working Metal BY Removing Material, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1

E21B - Earth OR Rock DRILLING; Obtaining OIL, GAS, Water, Soluble OR Meltable Materials OR A Slurry OF Minerals From Wells 1

Top 9 of 9 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

Crc-evans Pipeline International, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Crc-evans Pipeline International, Inc.'s lead technology class is B23K (Soldering OR UNSOLDERING; WELDING; Cladding OR Plating BY Soldering OR WELDING; Cutting BY Applying Heat Locally, e.g. Flame CUTTING; Working BY Laser Beam), 92.9% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B23K
Ranked #19,635 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Crc-evans Pipeline International, Inc. against Cosmic PET LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 33.7/100 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

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