Where does Creator, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Creator, Inc. ranks #12,884 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 Creator, Inc. hold?

Creator, Inc. holds 23 US utility patents granted between 2018 and 2022, spanning 22 technology areas.

What is Creator, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Creator, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 40.9 out of 100 (top 34% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Creator, Inc. focus on?

Creator, Inc.'s top technology area is A23P (Shaping OR Working OF Foodstuffs, NOT Fully Covered BY A Single Other Subclass) with 10 patents, ranking #19 of 308 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 22 CPC subclasses total.

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

Creator, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +129% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Creator, Inc.'s patents?

Creator, Inc.'s patents average 19.2 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 Creator, 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

Creator, Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 23 granted patents across 22 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2018–2022. 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: A23P (Shaping OR Working OF Foodstuffs, NOT Fully Covered BY A Single Other Subclass).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Creator ranks #12,884 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 23 patents across 22 technology areas.

#12,884
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 34%
by Innovation Score (40.9/100): 19.2
avg claims per patent: +129%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R12884 · US Corporation #12,884 · 23 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 23 grants
MID-PACK #12,884/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH öperatie Avebe U A
CPC-FOCUS A23P · 22 areas
INNOV-PAR 40.9/100
CLAIMS-RICH 19.2 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +129% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Coöperatie Avebe U.A. (±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 Creator’s 40.9 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 (27%) Velocity 1.8 pts (4%) Breadth 16.6 pts (41%) Claim depth 11.5 pts (28%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Britax Römer… · near

41
Creator · this assignee

41
ExOne · near

41
NextLabs · near

41
Nissha Printing · near

41
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Creator's Innovation Score is 40.9/100 (top 34% 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 Creator?

Each dot is one of Creator’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). Creator’s own 19.2 claims/patent is ABOVE the 9.5 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Creator's grants concentrate

Creator, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 22 CPC subclasses with 43.5% of grants classified under A23P (Shaping OR Working OF Foodstuffs, NOT Fully Covered BY A Single Other Subclass). Peak complete grant year is 2021 (7 grants) versus a trough of 3 in 2019. By volume, Creator sits between Core Intellectual Properties Holdings, LLC and Dehn + SÖHNE GMBH + Co. KG.

Creator's three-year grant acceleration

Creator, Inc. shows 4 grants in 2022–2024 against only 15 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.

Core Intellectual…

23
Cornerstone CM

23
öperatie Avebe U A

23
Creator Technolog…

23
Custom Dynamics

23
Cybereason

23
DAB Pumps S P A

23
Dehn + SÖHNE + KG

23
Creator ◀

23

What this shows Creator holds 23 patents at rank #12,886, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Creator

By rank, the assignees closest to #12,886 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A23P (Shaping OR Working OF Foodstuffs)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Creator, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A23P (Shaping OR Working OF Foodstuffs), Creator ranks #19 of 308 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (41 here).

ExOne GmbH 41 Britax Römer Kindersicherheit GmbH 41 Nissha Printing Co., Ltd. 41 NextLabs, Inc. 41

Creator's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

41 Top 34% higher than 66% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2018–2022

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2018–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Creator, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2018	4	17.4%
2019	3	13.0%
2020	5	21.7%
2021	7	30.4%
2022	4	17.4%

Which technologies does Creator, Inc. patent most?

A23P - Shaping OR Working OF Foodstuffs, NOT Fully Covered BY A Single Other Subclass 10

A21C - Machines OR Equipment FOR Making OR Processing DOUGHS; Handling Baked Articles Made From Dough 9

A47J - Kitchen EQUIPMENT; Coffee MILLS; Spice MILLS; Apparatus FOR Making Beverages 5

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 4

A23L - Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Preparation OR Treatment Thereof 4

B26D - CUTTING; Details Common TO Machines FOR Perforating, Punching, Cutting-out, Stamping-out OR Severing 3

G07F - Coin-freed OR Like Apparatus 3

A22C - Processing Meat, Poultry, OR Fish 3

B65D - Containers FOR Storage OR Transport OF Articles OR Materials, e.g. Bags, Barrels, Bottles, Boxes, Cans, Cartons, Crates, Drums, Jars, Tanks, Hoppers, Forwarding CONTAINERS; Accessories, Closures, OR Fittings THEREFOR; Packaging ELEMENTS; Packages 2

H05B - Electric HEATING; Electric Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Circuit Arrangements FOR Electric Light Sources, IN General 2

B65B - Machines, Apparatus OR Devices FOR, OR Methods OF, Packaging Articles OR MATERIALS; Unpacking 2

G01K - Measuring TEMPERATURE; Measuring Quantity OF HEAT; Thermally-sensitive Elements NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 2

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 2

B65G - Transport OR Storage Devices, e.g. Conveyors FOR Loading OR Tipping, Shop Conveyor Systems OR Pneumatic Tube Conveyors 2

B02C - Crushing, Pulverising, OR Disintegrating IN GENERAL; Milling Grain 2

Top 15 of 22 technology areas

More on this record

Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

View all rankings → How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

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

Creator, Inc.'s lead technology class is A23P (Shaping OR Working OF Foodstuffs, NOT Fully Covered BY A Single Other Subclass), 43.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A23P
Ranked #12,884 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Creator, Inc. against Core Intellectual Properties Holdings, LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 40.9/100 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.