Where does Culligan International Company rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Culligan International Company ranks #22,430 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 Culligan International Company hold?

Culligan International Company holds 12 US utility patents granted between 2017 and 2025, spanning 12 technology areas.

What is Culligan International Company's Innovation Score?

Culligan International Company has an Innovation Score of 35.0 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%).

Is Culligan International Company's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Culligan International Company's recent grant velocity is +800% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Culligan International Company's patents?

Culligan International Company's patents average 14.3 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 Culligan International Company 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

Culligan International Company

Q: What technology areas does Culligan International Company focus on?

Culligan International Company's top technology area is C02F (TREATMENT OF WATER, WASTE WATER, SEWAGE, OR SLUDGE) with 11 patents. Grants appear in 12 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 12 granted patents across 12 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2017–2025. 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: C02F (TREATMENT OF WATER, WASTE WATER, SEWAGE, OR SLUDGE).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Culligan ranks #22,430 of 50,000 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 12 patents across 12 technology areas.

#22,430
of 50,000 US assignees by volume: Top 50%
by Innovation Score (35.0/100): 14.3
avg claims per patent: +800%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R22430 · US Corporation #22,430 · 12 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 12 grants
MID-PACK #22,430/50,000
PHOTO-FINISH Caldera Medical
CPC-FOCUS C02F · 12 areas
INNOV-THIN 35.0/100
CLAIMS-RICH 14.3 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +800% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Caldera Medical, 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
Culligan International · this assignee

35
3D Lighting Innovati… · lowest

7

What this shows Culligan's Innovation Score is 35.0/100 (top 50% 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.

Where Culligan's grants concentrate

Culligan International Company is a focused PatentsView assignee: 12 CPC subclasses with 91.7% of grants classified under C02F (TREATMENT OF WATER, WASTE WATER, SEWAGE, OR SLUDGE). Peak complete grant year is 2020 (4 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2017. By volume, Culligan sits between Crown Bioscience, Inc. (taicang) and Carmax Enterprise Services, Llc.

Crown Bioscience…

12
Crystal Internati…

12
CSI Cells

12
CU Aerospace

12
Caldera Medical

12
California Cooper…

12
Canary Medical Sw…

12
Carmax Enterprise…

12
Culligan Internat… ◀

12

What this shows Culligan holds 12 patents at rank #22,381, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Culligan

By rank, the assignees closest to #22,381 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C02F (Treatment OF Water)

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

Culligan'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 · 2017–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2017–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Culligan International Company patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2017	1	8.3%
2020	4	33.3%
2021	1	8.3%
2022	1	8.3%
2023	2	16.7%
2024	1	8.3%
2025partial year	2	16.7%

Which technologies does Culligan International Company patent most?

C02F - TREATMENT OF WATER, WASTE WATER, SEWAGE, OR SLUDGE 11

F16K - VALVES; TAPS; COCKS; ACTUATING-FLOATS; DEVICES FOR VENTING OR AERATING 6

B01J - CHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL PROCESSES, e.g. CATALYSIS OR COLLOID CHEMISTRY; THEIR RELEVANT APPARATUS 2

B01D - SEPARATION 2

B01F - MIXING, e.g. DISSOLVING, EMULSIFYING OR DISPERSING 1

A47J - KITCHEN EQUIPMENT; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; APPARATUS FOR MAKING BEVERAGES 1

B67D - DISPENSING, DELIVERING OR TRANSFERRING LIQUIDS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR 1

Y02A - TECHNOLOGIES FOR ADAPTATION TO CLIMATE CHANGE 1

G08B - SIGNALLING OR CALLING SYSTEMS; ORDER TELEGRAPHS; ALARM SYSTEMS 1

G01F - MEASURING VOLUME, VOLUME FLOW, MASS FLOW OR LIQUID LEVEL; METERING BY VOLUME 1

G05D - SYSTEMS FOR CONTROLLING OR REGULATING NON-ELECTRIC VARIABLES 1

E03C - DOMESTIC PLUMBING INSTALLATIONS FOR FRESH WATER OR WASTE WATER ; SINKS 1

Top 12 of 12 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#22,430

of 50,000 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

35.0 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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