Where does Crystal IS, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Crystal IS, Inc. ranks #4,663 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 Crystal IS, Inc. hold?

Crystal IS, Inc. holds 75 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 16 technology areas.

What is Crystal IS, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Crystal IS, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 48.7 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 Crystal IS, Inc. focus on?

Crystal IS, Inc.'s top technology area is H10H (Inorganic Light-emitting Semiconductor Devices Having Potential Barriers) with 45 patents, ranking #67 of 857 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 16 CPC subclasses total.

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

Crystal IS, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +0% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). The company is maintaining or growing its granted-patent output.

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

Crystal IS, Inc.'s patents average 25.8 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 Crystal IS, 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

Crystal IS, Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 75 granted patents across 16 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: H10H (Inorganic Light-emitting Semiconductor Devices Having Potential Barriers).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Crystal ranks #4,663 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 75 patents across 16 technology areas.

#4,663
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 16%
by Innovation Score (48.7/100): 25.8
avg claims per patent: +0%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R4663 · US Corporation #4,663 · 75 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-FLAT · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 75 grants
TOP-DECILE #4,663/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Ball Aerospace &
CPC-FOCUS H10H · 16 areas
INNOV-PAR 48.7/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 25.8 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-FLAT +0% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. (±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 Crystal’s 48.7 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 15.0 pts (31%) Velocity 4.6 pts (9%) Breadth 14.1 pts (29%) Claim depth 15.0 pts (31%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

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Crown Packaging… · near

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Crystal IS · this assignee

49
George Mason… · near

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Intellectual… · near

49
Oce- B V · near

49
3D Lighting… · lowest

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What this shows Crystal's Innovation Score is 48.7/100 (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 Crystal?

Each dot is one of Crystal’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). Crystal’s own 25.8 claims/patent is ABOVE the 18.9 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Crystal's grants concentrate

Crystal IS, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 16 CPC subclasses with 60% of grants classified under H10H (Inorganic Light-emitting Semiconductor Devices Having Potential Barriers). Peak complete grant year is 2020 (11 grants) versus a trough of 3 in 2015. By volume, Crystal sits between Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. and Hitachi-ge Nuclear Energy, Ltd..

Crystal's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Crystal IS, Inc. moved from 26 to 18 grants (0.69x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Ball Aerospace &

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Becton Dickinson…

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CAE

75
Cloudera

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DE LA RUE Interna…

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Federal Home Loan…

75
Grass

75
Hitachi-ge Nuclea…

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Crystal IS ◀

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What this shows Crystal holds 75 patents at rank #4,663, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Crystal

By rank, the assignees closest to #4,663 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H10H (Inorganic Light-emitting Semiconductor Devices Having Pot…)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Crystal, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H10H (Inorganic Light-emitting Semiconductor Devices Having Pot…), Crystal ranks #67 of 857 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (49 here).

Intellectual Ventures Holding 81 LLC 49 Crown Packaging Technology, Inc. 49 Oce-technologies B.V. 49 George Mason Research Foundation, Inc. 49

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (25.8 here).

ATI Properties LLC 25.8 avg Rigetti & Co, LLC 25.7 avg Derrick Corporation 25.8 avg Cummins-Allison Corp. 25.7 avg

Crystal'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 · 2015–2025

Grants by year

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

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Crystal IS, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	3	4.0%
2016	7	9.3%
2017	10	13.3%
2018	6	8.0%
2019	9	12.0%
2020	11	14.7%
2021	6	8.0%
2022	9	12.0%
2023	4	5.3%
2024	5	6.7%
2025partial year	5	6.7%

Which technologies does Crystal IS, Inc. patent most?

H10H - Inorganic Light-emitting Semiconductor Devices Having Potential Barriers 45

C30B - Single-crystal Growth ; Unidirectional Solidification OF Eutectic Material OR Unidirectional Demixing OF Eutectoid MATERIAL; Refining BY Zone-melting OF Material ; Production OF A Homogeneous Polycrystalline Material With Defined Structure ; Single Crystals OR Homogeneous Polycrystalline Material WI 40

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 34

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 16

C01B - Non-metallic ELEMENTS; Compounds THEREOF; ; Metalloids OR Compounds Thereof NOT Covered BY Subclass C01c 11

H01S - Devices Using THE Process OF Light Amplification BY Stimulated Emission OF Radiation [LASER] TO Amplify OR Generate LIGHT; Devices Using Stimulated Emission OF Electromagnetic Radiation IN Wave Ranges Other Than Optical 9

C02F - Treatment OF Water, Waste Water, Sewage, OR Sludge 8

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 8

H10D - Inorganic Electric Semiconductor Devices 6

C01P - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Structural AND Physical Aspects OF Solid Inorganic Compounds 5

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 2

B28D - Working Stone OR Stone-like Materials 2

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 1

B01D - Separation 1

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 1

Top 15 of 16 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

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

Crystal IS, Inc.'s lead technology class is H10H (Inorganic Light-emitting Semiconductor Devices Having Potential Barriers), 60% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H10H
Ranked #4,663 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Crystal IS, Inc. against Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 48.7/100 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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