Where does Crystal Solar, Incorporated rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Crystal Solar, Incorporated ranks #34,890 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 Solar, Incorporated hold?

Crystal Solar, Incorporated holds 7 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2018, spanning 7 technology areas.

What is Crystal Solar, Incorporated's Innovation Score?

Crystal Solar, Incorporated has an Innovation Score of 27.5 out of 100 (24th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Crystal Solar, Incorporated's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Crystal Solar, Incorporated's recent grant velocity is -100% 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 Crystal Solar, Incorporated's patents?

Crystal Solar, Incorporated's patents average 18.3 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 Crystal Solar, Incorporated 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 Solar, Incorporated

Q: What technology areas does Crystal Solar, Incorporated focus on?

Crystal Solar, Incorporated's top technology area is Y02E (Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution) with 5 patents, ranking #2,175 of 5,963 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 7 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 7 granted patents across 7 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2018. 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: Y02E (Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Crystal ranks #34,890 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 7 patents across 7 technology areas.

#34,890
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 24th percentile
by Innovation Score (27.5/100): 18.3
avg claims per patent: -100%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R34890 · US Corporation #34,890 · 7 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 7 grants
MID-PACK #34,890/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Crestcom
CPC-NARROW Y02E · 7 areas
INNOV-THIN 27.5/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.3 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -100% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Crestcom, 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 Crystal’s 27.5 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 7.2 pts (26%) Velocity 0.0 pts (0%) Breadth 9.4 pts (34%) Claim depth 11.0 pts (40%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Crystal Solar… · this assignee

28
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Crystal's Innovation Score is 27.5/100 (24th percentile 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 18.3 claims/patent is ABOVE the 17.6 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 Solar, Incorporated is a focused PatentsView assignee: 7 CPC subclasses with 71.4% of grants classified under Y02E (Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution). Peak complete grant year is 2016 (4 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2017. By volume, Crystal sits between Crestcom, Inc. and Curative Sound, LLC.

Crestcom

7
Crutchfield

7
Cryotherapeutics

7
Cryptomathic

7
Cummins Intellect…

7
Cupron

7
Curadel

7
Curative Sound

7
Crystal Solar Inc… ◀

7

What this shows Crystal holds 7 patents at rank #34,906, 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 #34,906 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in Y02E (Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions)

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

Crystal's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

28 24th percentile higher than 24% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2018

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2016–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Crystal Solar, Incorporated patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	4	57.1%
2017	1	14.3%
2018	2	28.6%

Which technologies does Crystal Solar, Incorporated patent most?

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 5

H10F - Inorganic Semiconductor Devices Sensitive TO Infrared Radiation, Light, Electromagnetic Radiation OF Shorter Wavelength OR Corpuscular Radiation 5

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 4

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 4

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 2

H10H - Inorganic Light-emitting Semiconductor Devices Having Potential Barriers 1

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 1

Top 7 of 7 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 Solar, Incorporated's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Crystal Solar, Incorporated's lead technology class is Y02E (Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution), 71.4% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore Y02E
Ranked #34,890 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Crystal Solar, Incorporated against Crestcom, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 27.5/100 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

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