Where does Crown Sterling Limited, LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Crown Sterling Limited, LLC ranks #39,673 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 Crown Sterling Limited, LLC hold?

Crown Sterling Limited, LLC holds 6 US utility patents granted between 2022 and 2025, spanning 3 technology areas.

What is Crown Sterling Limited, LLC's Innovation Score?

Crown Sterling Limited, LLC has an Innovation Score of 38.5 out of 100 (top 41% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Crown Sterling Limited, LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Insufficient historical data is available to calculate a velocity trend for Crown Sterling Limited, LLC.

What does claim depth mean for Crown Sterling Limited, LLC's patents?

Crown Sterling Limited, LLC's patents average 9.3 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 Crown Sterling Limited, LLC 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

Crown Sterling Limited, LLC

Q: What technology areas does Crown Sterling Limited, LLC focus on?

Crown Sterling Limited, LLC's top technology area is H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication) with 5 patents. Grants appear in 3 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 6 granted patents across 3 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2022–2025. 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: H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Crown ranks #39,673 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 6 patents across 3 technology areas.

#39,673
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 41%
by Innovation Score (38.5/100): 9.3
avg claims per patent

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R39673 · US Corporation #39,673 · 6 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · LOWER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-PAR · TYPE-USCORP · SPAN-YRS · BOOK-RICH

GRANTS-MICRO 6 grants
LOWER-Q #39,673/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Credence Engineering
CPC-NARROW H04L · 3 areas
INNOV-THIN 38.5/100
CLAIMS-PAR 9.3 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
SPAN-YRS 2022–2025 · 4y
BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Credence Engineering, 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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Amer Sports Canada · near

38
Crown Sterling · this assignee

38
Elementis Specialties · near

38
RayVio · near

38
Thermo Electron LED · near

38
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Crown's Innovation Score is 38.5/100 (top 41% 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.

Where Crown's grants concentrate

Crown Sterling Limited, LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 3 CPC subclasses with 83.3% of grants classified under H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication). By volume, Crown sits between Credence Engineering, Inc and Cruzar Medsystems, Inc..

Crown's three-year grant acceleration

Crown Sterling Limited, LLC shows 4 grants in 2022–2024 against only 0 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.

Credence Engineer…

6
Creek Wearable Te…

6
Cricket Media

6
Cristal Delivery…

6
Crucs Holdings

6
Cruiser Products

6
Crusoe Energy Sys…

6
Cruzar Medsystems

6
Crown Sterling ◀

6

What this shows Crown holds 6 patents at rank #39,693, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Crown

By rank, the assignees closest to #39,693 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Crown, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above).

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (38 here).

Elementis Specialties, Inc. 38 Thermo Electron LED GmbH 38 Amer Sports Canada Inc. 38 RayVio Corporation 38

Crown's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

38 Top 41% higher than 59% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2022–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2022–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Crown Sterling Limited, LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2022	2	33.3%
2023	2	33.3%
2025partial year	2	33.3%

Which technologies does Crown Sterling Limited, LLC patent most?

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 5

G10H - Electrophonic Musical INSTRUMENTS; Instruments IN Which THE Tones ARE Generated BY Electromechanical Means OR Electronic Generators, OR IN Which THE Tones ARE Synthesised From A Data Store 1

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 1

Top 3 of 3 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#39,673

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

38.5 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

Crown Sterling Limited, LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Crown Sterling Limited, LLC's lead technology class is H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication), 83.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04L
Ranked #39,673 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Crown Sterling Limited, LLC against Credence Engineering, Inc, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 38.5/100 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.