Where does Cubic Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Cubic Corporation ranks #1,981 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 Cubic Corporation hold?

Cubic Corporation holds 202 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 75 technology areas.

What is Cubic Corporation's Innovation Score?

Cubic Corporation has an Innovation Score of 56.1 out of 100 (top 6% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Cubic Corporation's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Cubic Corporation's recent grant velocity is -63% 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 Cubic Corporation's patents?

Cubic Corporation's patents average 17.7 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 Cubic 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

Cubic Corporation

Q: What technology areas does Cubic Corporation focus on?

Cubic Corporation's top technology area is G06Q (Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory Purposes, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR) with 64 patents. Grants appear in 75 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 202 granted patents across 75 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: G06Q (Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative,).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Cubic ranks #1,981 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 202 patents across 75 technology areas.

#1,981
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 6%
by Innovation Score (56.1/100): 17.7
avg claims per patent: -63%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1981 · US Corporation #1,981 · 202 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 202 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,981/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH BP North America
CPC-WIDE G06Q · 75 areas
INNOV-PAR 56.1/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.7 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -63% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: BP Corporation North America 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
Advanced Solutions… · near

56
Asahi Glass · near

56
Sato · near

56
Topsoe A/S · near

56
Cubic · this assignee

56
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Cubic's Innovation Score is 56.1/100 (top 6% 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.

How Cubic's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Cubic Corporation received 54 grants versus 145 in 2015–2019 (-63% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2019 at 40 grants and bottomed in 2024 at 4. Lead class G06Q accounts for 31.7% of the portfolio across 75 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Tridonic GmbH & Co KG (#1,977) and Indian Oil Corporation Limited (#1,985).

Cubic's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Cubic Corporation moved from 71 to 23 grants (0.32x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). Among 3,296 tracked assignees with ≥100 grants and ≥20 prior-period grants, that multiple ranks #2,971. See the growth leaderboard.

Tridonic & KG

203
University of Not…

203
Virginia Commonwe…

203
BP North America

202
Gavrieli Brands

202
Hongfujin Precisi…

202
Invue Security Pr…

202
Indian Oil

202
Cubic ◀

202

What this shows Cubic holds 202 patents at rank #1,981, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Cubic

By rank, the assignees closest to #1,981 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G06Q (Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially…)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

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

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (56 here).

Sato Corporation 56 Asahi Glass Co., Ltd. 56 Topsoe A/S 56 Advanced Solutions Life Sciences, LLC 56

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (17.7 here).

Medtronic Ardian Luxembourg S.A.R.L. 17.7 avg DeLaval Holding AB 17.7 avg CommScope Connectivity Belgium Bvba 17.7 avg Utah State University 17.7 avg

Cubic's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

56 Top 6% higher than 94% 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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Cubic Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	21	10.4%
2016	29	14.4%
2017	23	11.4%
2018	32	15.8%
2019	40	19.8%
2020	19	9.4%
2021	12	5.9%
2022	8	4.0%
2023	11	5.4%
2024	4	2.0%
2025partial year	3	1.5%

Which technologies does Cubic Corporation patent most?

G06Q - Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory Purposes, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 64

G07B - Ticket-issuing APPARATUS; Fare-registering APPARATUS; Franking Apparatus 47

G07C - Time OR Attendance REGISTERS; Registering OR Indicating THE Working OF MACHINES; Generating Random NUMBERS; Voting OR Lottery APPARATUS; Arrangements, Systems OR Apparatus FOR Checking NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere 46

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 33

F41G - Weapon SIGHTS; Aiming 30

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 27

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 26

G01S - Radio DIRECTION-FINDING; Radio NAVIGATION; Determining Distance OR Velocity BY USE OF Radio WAVES; Locating OR Presence-detecting BY USE OF THE Reflection OR Reradiation OF Radio WAVES; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves 22

G08G - Traffic Control Systems 22

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 21

H04B - Transmission 21

G07F - Coin-freed OR Like Apparatus 20

G06K - Graphical Data Reading ; Presentation OF DATA; Record CARRIERS; Handling Record Carriers 19

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 18

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 17

Top 15 of 75 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#1,981

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

56.1 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

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Cubic Corporation's lead technology class is G06Q (Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative,), 31.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06Q
Ranked #1,981 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Cubic Corporation against Tridonic GmbH & Co KG, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 56.1/100 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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