Where does Crucible Intellectual Property, LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Crucible Intellectual Property, LLC ranks #6,637 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 Crucible Intellectual Property, LLC hold?

Crucible Intellectual Property, LLC holds 50 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2021, spanning 43 technology areas.

What is Crucible Intellectual Property, LLC's Innovation Score?

Crucible Intellectual Property, LLC has an Innovation Score of 48.6 out of 100 (top 16% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Crucible Intellectual Property, LLC focus on?

Crucible Intellectual Property, LLC's top technology area is C22C (Alloys) with 34 patents, ranking #50 of 948 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 43 CPC subclasses total.

Is Crucible Intellectual Property, LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Crucible Intellectual Property, LLC's recent grant velocity is -94% 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 Crucible Intellectual Property, LLC's patents?

Crucible Intellectual Property, LLC's patents average 19.7 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 Crucible Intellectual Property, 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

Crucible Intellectual Property, LLC

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 50 granted patents across 43 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2021. 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: C22C (Alloys).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Crucible ranks #6,637 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 50 patents across 43 technology areas.

#6,637
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 16%
by Innovation Score (48.6/100): 19.7
avg claims per patent: -94%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R6637 · US Corporation #6,637 · 50 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 50 grants
UPPER-Q #6,637/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Capstan Systems
CPC-WIDE C22C · 43 areas
INNOV-PAR 48.6/100
CLAIMS-RICH 19.7 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -94% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Capstan Ag Systems, 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.

How Crucible’s 48.6 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 13.6 pts (28%) Velocity 0.0 pts (0%) Breadth 23.2 pts (48%) Claim depth 11.8 pts (24%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Chr Hansen A/S · near

49
Crucible Intellectua… · this assignee

49
Mojave Energy Systems · near

49
ThermAvant · near

49
Universita' Degli… · near

49
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Crucible's Innovation Score is 48.6/100 (top 16% 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 Crucible?

Each dot is one of Crucible’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). Crucible’s own 19.7 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.3 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Crucible's grants concentrate

Crucible Intellectual Property, LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 43 CPC subclasses with 68% of grants classified under C22C (Alloys). Peak complete grant year is 2017 (14 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2021. By volume, Crucible sits between CSIR and Damaka, Inc..

CSIR

50
Capstan Systems

50
Cascade

50
Coinplug

50
Cytiva Bioprocess…

50
Daiki

50
Dana Motion Syste…

50
Damaka

50
Crucible Intellec… ◀

50

What this shows Crucible holds 50 patents at rank #6,638, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Crucible

By rank, the assignees closest to #6,638 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C22C (Alloys)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Crucible, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In C22C (Alloys), Crucible ranks #50 of 948 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (49 here).

Chr. Hansen A/S 49 Universita' Degli Studi DI Milano - Bicocca 49 ThermAvant Technologies, LLC 49 Mojave Energy Systems, Inc. 49

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (19.7 here).

Aseko, Inc. 19.7 avg Teva Pharmaceuticals International GMBH 19.7 avg Zazzle Inc. 19.7 avg Energous Corporation 19.7 avg

Crucible's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

49 Top 16% higher than 84% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2021

Grants by year

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

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Crucible Intellectual Property, LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	10	20.0%
2016	7	14.0%
2017	14	28.0%
2018	10	20.0%
2019	6	12.0%
2020	2	4.0%
2021	1	2.0%

Which technologies does Crucible Intellectual Property, LLC patent most?

C22C - Alloys 34

B22D - Casting OF METALS; Casting OF Other Substances BY THE Same Processes OR Devices 26

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 13

C22F - Changing THE Physical Structure OF Non-ferrous Metals AND Non-ferrous Alloys 7

H05B - Electric HEATING; Electric Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Circuit Arrangements FOR Electric Light Sources, IN General 7

F27D - Details OR Accessories OF Furnaces, Kilns, Ovens OR Retorts, IN SO FAR AS They ARE OF Kinds Occurring IN More Than ONE Kind OF Furnace 7

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 6

C23C - Coating Metallic MATERIAL; Coating Material With Metallic MATERIAL; Surface Treatment OF Metallic Material BY Diffusion Into THE Surface, BY Chemical Conversion OR SUBSTITUTION; Coating BY Vacuum Evaporation, BY Sputtering, BY ION Implantation OR BY Chemical Vapour Deposition, IN General 5

C21D - Modifying THE Physical Structure OF Ferrous METALS; General Devices FOR Heat Treatment OF Ferrous OR Non-ferrous Metals OR ALLOYS; Making Metal Malleable, e.g. BY Decarburisation OR Tempering 5

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 5

F27B - Furnaces, Kilns, Ovens OR Retorts IN GENERAL; Open Sintering OR Like Apparatus 5

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 4

B21D - Working OR Processing OF Sheet Metal OR Metal Tubes, Rods OR Profiles Without Essentially Removing MATERIAL; Punching Metal 2

A61L - Methods OR Apparatus FOR Sterilising Materials OR Objects IN GENERAL; Disinfection, Sterilisation OR Deodorisation OF AIR; Chemical Aspects OF Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads OR Surgical ARTICLES; Materials FOR Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads OR Surgical Articles 2

A61F - Filters Implantable Into Blood VESSELS; PROSTHESES; Devices Providing Patency TO, OR Preventing Collapsing OF, Tubular Structures OF THE Body, e.g. STENTS; Orthopaedic, Nursing OR Contraceptive DEVICES; FOMENTATION; Treatment OR Protection OF Eyes OR EARS; Bandages, Dressings OR Absorbent PADS; Firs 2

Top 15 of 43 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

Crucible Intellectual Property, LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Crucible Intellectual Property, LLC's lead technology class is C22C (Alloys), 68% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C22C
Ranked #6,637 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Crucible Intellectual Property, LLC against CSIR, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 48.6/100 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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