Where does CUE Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), CUE Inc. ranks #15,934 of 50,000 assignees by granted-patent volume, the same sort as the companies listing and top-holders ranking. See /methodology/#corpus-placement.

How many patents does CUE Inc. hold?

CUE Inc. holds 18 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2018, spanning 14 technology areas.

What is CUE Inc.'s Innovation Score?

CUE Inc. has an Innovation Score of 35.1 out of 100 (top 50% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does CUE Inc. focus on?

CUE Inc.'s top technology area is B01L (CHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL LABORATORY APPARATUS FOR GENERAL USE) with 14 patents. Grants appear in 14 CPC subclasses total.

Is CUE Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

CUE Inc.'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 CUE Inc.'s patents?

CUE Inc.'s patents average 19.6 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 CUE 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

CUE Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 18 granted patents across 14 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2018. 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: B01L (CHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL LABORATORY APPARATUS FOR GENERAL USE).

Compiled by PlainPatent · May 15, 2026

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, CUE ranks #15,934 of 50,000 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 18 patents across 14 technology areas.

#15,934
of 50,000 US assignees by volume: Top 50%
by Innovation Score (35.1/100): 19.6
avg claims per patent: -100%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R15934 · US Corporation #15,934 · 18 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 18 grants
MID-PACK #15,934/50,000
PHOTO-FINISH Calnetix
CPC-FOCUS B01L · 14 areas
INNOV-THIN 35.1/100
CLAIMS-RICH 19.6 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -100% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Calnetix Technologies, Llc (±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
CUE · this assignee

35
3D Lighting Innovati… · lowest

7

What this shows CUE Inc. stamps GRANTS-MICRO, MID-PACK, PHOTO-FINISH, CPC-FOCUS, INNOV-THIN, CLAIMS-RICH, TYPE-USCORP, VEL-DROP, BOOK-FULL. Volume places it #15,934 of 50,000; Innovation Score 35.1/100 sits in the top 50% of the PatentsView-derived corpus. Closest grant-volume peer on this plate is Calnetix Technologies, Llc (±0 grants).

Portfolio overview

CUE Inc. has been granted 18 US utility patents between 2015 and 2018, placing CUE Inc. at #15,934 of 50,000 across all assignees tracked by PlainPatent. This portfolio spans 14 distinct Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC) subclasses, averaging 19.6 claims per patent with primary concentration in B01L (CHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL LABORATORY APPARATUS FOR GENERAL USE). As a US Corporation, CUE Inc. is one of the more focused assignees in the PatentsView dataset. By volume, CUE sits between Crescendo Biologics Limited (18 patents, rank #15,904) and Calnetix Technologies, Llc (18 patents, rank #15,912) - the closest US assignees by grant volume. The composite Innovation Score of 35.1/100 blends portfolio volume, grant velocity, technology breadth, and claim depth into a single comparable measure drawn directly from USPTO PatentsView records.

Grant cadence records the difference between two grant-year windows. Between 2020 and 2024 the company received 0 grants, compared with 18 in the 2015–2019 window, a -100% shift in five-year grant velocity. Both windows cover five complete grant years; the latest PatentsView year is a partial release and is excluded from this comparison, though it still appears in the yearly table and chart below. Grant timing can lag the related application by years, so this comparison does not establish current R&D spending, strategic intent, or a company’s application activity. The US Corporation classification provides context for the assignee record, not a conclusion about its business strategy.

Claim depth and technology breadth describe this aggregate record. CUE Inc.'s 19.6 average claims per patent is an average count, not a measure of claim scope, legal strength, enforceability, or design-around risk. The record spans 14 CPC subclasses. Combined with portfolio volume, these figures let readers compare the documented grant records of assignees in similar technology classes.

Crescendo Biologi…

18
Cryptzone North A…

18
CTK

18
Cubtek

18
Curlin Medical

18
CV6 Therapeutics…

18
Cyvek

18
Calnetix

18
CUE ◀

18

What this shows CUE holds 18 patents at rank #15,908, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near CUE

By rank, the assignees closest to #15,908 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B01L (Chemical OR Physical Laboratory Apparatus FOR General USE)

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

CUE's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

35 Top 50% higher than 50% of 50,000 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2018

Grants by year

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

View data table

CUE Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	6	33.3%
2016	4	22.2%
2017	7	38.9%
2018	1	5.6%

Which technologies does CUE Inc. patent most?

B01L - CHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL LABORATORY APPARATUS FOR GENERAL USE 14

C12Q - MEASURING OR TESTING PROCESSES INVOLVING ENZYMES, NUCLEIC ACIDS OR MICROORGANISMS ; COMPOSITIONS OR TEST PAPERS THEREFOR; PROCESSES OF PREPARING SUCH COMPOSITIONS; CONDITION-RESPONSIVE CONTROL IN MICROBIOLOGICAL OR ENZYMOLOGICAL PROCESSES 14

G01N - INVESTIGATING OR ANALYSING MATERIALS BY DETERMINING THEIR CHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL PROPERTIES 14

Y10T - TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION 11

B05D - PROCESSES FOR APPLYING FLUENT MATERIALS TO SURFACES, IN GENERAL 11

F16K - VALVES; TAPS; COCKS; ACTUATING-FLOATS; DEVICES FOR VENTING OR AERATING 11

H04M - TELEPHONIC COMMUNICATION 11

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; IDENTIFICATION 3

B65D - CONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS, e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES, DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKAGES 3

B01F - MIXING, e.g. DISSOLVING, EMULSIFYING OR DISPERSING 2

H04N - PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION 1

H04R - LOUDSPEAKERS, MICROPHONES, GRAMOPHONE PICK-UPS OR LIKE ACOUSTIC ELECTROMECHANICAL TRANSDUCERS; DEAF-AID SETS; PUBLIC ADDRESS SYSTEMS 1

H04L - TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION 1

H04W - WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS 1

Top 14 of 14 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#15,934

of 50,000 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

35.1 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

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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