Where does Crimson Trace Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Crimson Trace Corporation ranks #4,613 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 Crimson Trace Corporation hold?

Crimson Trace Corporation holds 76 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 9 technology areas.

What is Crimson Trace Corporation's Innovation Score?

Crimson Trace Corporation has an Innovation Score of 37.2 out of 100 (top 44% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Crimson Trace Corporation focus on?

Crimson Trace Corporation's top technology area is F41G (Weapon SIGHTS; Aiming) with 21 patents, ranking #15 of 307 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 9 CPC subclasses total.

Is Crimson Trace Corporation's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Crimson Trace Corporation's recent grant velocity is -23% 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 Crimson Trace Corporation's patents?

Crimson Trace Corporation's patents average 8.9 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 Crimson Trace Corporation 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

Crimson Trace Corporation

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 76 granted patents across 9 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: F41G (Weapon SIGHTS; Aiming).

Compiled by PlainPatent · May 15, 2026

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Crimson ranks #4,613 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 76 patents across 9 technology areas.

#4,613
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 44%
by Innovation Score (37.2/100): 8.9
avg claims per patent: -23%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R4613 · US Corporation #4,613 · 76 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-PAR · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 76 grants
TOP-DECILE #4,613/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Caterpillar Global…
CPC-NARROW F41G · 9 areas
INNOV-THIN 37.2/100
CLAIMS-PAR 8.9 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DOWN -23% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Caterpillar Global Mining 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 Crimson’s 37.2 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 15.0 pts (40%) Velocity 6.3 pts (17%) Breadth 10.6 pts (28%) Claim depth 5.3 pts (14%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Crimson Trace · this assignee

37
Easton Diamond Sports · near

37
Intelligent Medical… · near

37
NETZCH-Feinmahltechnik · near

37
Think Green · near

37
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Crimson's Innovation Score is 37.2/100 (top 44% 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 Crimson?

Each dot is one of Crimson’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). Crimson’s own 8.9 claims/patent is at or below the 16.9 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Crimson's grants concentrate

Crimson Trace Corporation is a focused PatentsView assignee: 9 CPC subclasses with 27.6% of grants classified under F41G (Weapon SIGHTS; Aiming). Peak complete grant year is 2024 (12 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2023. By volume, Crimson sits between Caterpillar Global Mining LLC and DMG Mori Seiki Co., Ltd..

Crimson's three-year grant acceleration

Crimson Trace Corporation shows 17 grants in 2022–2024 against only 18 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…

76
Coherus Bioscienc…

76
Conformis

76
Cricut

76
Cytomx Therapeuti…

76
Danfoss Power Sol…

76
DMF

76
DMG Mori Seiki

76
Crimson Trace ◀

76

What this shows Crimson holds 76 patents at rank #4,613, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Crimson

By rank, the assignees closest to #4,613 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F41G (Weapon Sights)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Crimson, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In F41G (Weapon Sights), Crimson ranks #15 of 307 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (37 here).

Easton Diamond Sports, LLC 37 Think Green Limited 37 NETZCH-Feinmahltechnik GmbH 37 Intelligent Medical Objects, Inc. 37

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (8.9 here).

Patek Philippe SA Geneve 8.9 avg TaeguTec Ltd. 8.9 avg Godo Kaisha IP Bridge 1 8.9 avg Seikagaku Corporation 8.8 avg

Crimson's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

37 Top 44% higher than 56% 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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Crimson Trace Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	7	9.2%
2016	7	9.2%
2017	4	5.3%
2018	9	11.8%
2019	8	10.5%
2020	10	13.2%
2022	3	3.9%
2023	2	2.6%
2024	12	15.8%
2025partial year	14	18.4%

Which technologies does Crimson Trace Corporation patent most?

F41G - Weapon SIGHTS; Aiming 21

F41C - Smallarms, e.g. Pistols, Rifles ; Accessories Therefor 6

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 5

F41A - Functional Features OR Details Common TO Both Smallarms AND Ordnance, e.g. CANNONS; Mountings FOR Smallarms OR Ordnance 3

F41F - Apparatus FOR Launching Projectiles OR Missiles From Barrels, e.g. Cannons ; Launchers FOR Rockets OR TORPEDOES; Harpoon Guns 2

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 1

F21V - Functional Features OR Details OF Lighting Devices OR Systems THEREOF; Structural Combinations OF Lighting Devices With Other Articles, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1

F41J - TARGETS; Target RANGES; Bullet Catchers 1

A63F - Card, Board, OR Roulette GAMES; Indoor Games Using Small Moving Playing BODIES; Video GAMES; Games NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 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

Crimson Trace Corporation's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Crimson Trace Corporation's lead technology class is F41G (Weapon SIGHTS; Aiming), 27.6% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F41G
Ranked #4,613 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Crimson Trace Corporation against Caterpillar Global Mining LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 37.2/100 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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