Where does Cycling Sports Group, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Cycling Sports Group, Inc. ranks #22,433 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 Cycling Sports Group, Inc. hold?

Cycling Sports Group, Inc. holds 12 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 17 technology areas.

What is Cycling Sports Group, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Cycling Sports Group, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 35.5 out of 100 (top 49% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Cycling Sports Group, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Cycling Sports Group, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -78% 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 Cycling Sports Group, Inc.'s patents?

Cycling Sports Group, Inc.'s patents average 9.1 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 Cycling Sports Group, 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

Cycling Sports Group, Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Cycling Sports Group, Inc. focus on?

Cycling Sports Group, Inc.'s top technology area is B62K (CYCLES; CYCLE FRAMES; CYCLE STEERING DEVICES; RIDER-OPERATED TERMINAL CONTROLS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR CYCLES; CYCLE AXLE SUSPENSIONS; CYCLE SIDE-CARS, FORECARS, OR THE LIKE) with 4 patents. Grants appear in 17 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 12 granted patents across 17 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: B62K (CYCLES; CYCLE FRAMES; CYCLE STEERING DEVICES; RIDER-OPERATED TERMINAL CONTROLS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR CYCLES; CYCLE AXLE SUSPENSIONS; CYCLE SIDE-CARS, FORECARS, OR THE LIKE).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Cycling ranks #22,433 of 50,000 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 12 patents across 17 technology areas.

#22,433
of 50,000 US assignees by volume: Top 49%
by Innovation Score (35.5/100): 9.1
avg claims per patent: -78%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R22433 · US Corporation #22,433 · 12 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 12 grants
MID-PACK #22,433/50,000
PHOTO-FINISH Cottrell
CPC-FOCUS B62K · 17 areas
INNOV-THIN 35.5/100
CLAIMS-PAR 9.1 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -78% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Cottrell, 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
Cycling Sports Group · this assignee

36
3D Lighting Innovati… · lowest

7

What this shows Cycling's Innovation Score is 35.5/100 (top 49% 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 Cycling's grants concentrate

Cycling Sports Group, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 17 CPC subclasses with 33.3% of grants classified under B62K (CYCLES; CYCLE FRAMES; CYCLE STEERING DEVICES; RIDER-OPERATED TERMINAL CONTROLS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR CYCLES; CYCLE AXLE SUSPENSIONS; CYCLE SIDE-CARS, FORECARS, OR THE LIKE). Peak complete grant year is 2016 (5 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2015. By volume, Cycling sits between Cottrell, Inc. and Dainichi Co., Ltd..

Cottrell

12
Cranius

12
Curio Holding

12
Cyan Systems

12
Cypress Lake Soft…

12
D C Water and Sew…

12
D3 Semiconductor

12
Dainichi

12
Cycling Sports Gr… ◀

12

What this shows Cycling holds 12 patents at rank #22,433, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Cycling

By rank, the assignees closest to #22,433 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B62K (Cycles)

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

Cycling's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

36 Top 49% higher than 51% of 50,000 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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Cycling Sports Group, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1	8.3%
2016	5	41.7%
2017	2	16.7%
2018	1	8.3%
2021	1	8.3%
2024	1	8.3%
2025partial year	1	8.3%

Which technologies does Cycling Sports Group, Inc. patent most?

B62K - CYCLES; CYCLE FRAMES; CYCLE STEERING DEVICES; RIDER-OPERATED TERMINAL CONTROLS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR CYCLES; CYCLE AXLE SUSPENSIONS; CYCLE SIDE-CARS, FORECARS, OR THE LIKE 4

B62M - RIDER PROPULSION OF WHEELED VEHICLES OR SLEDGES; POWERED PROPULSION OF SLEDGES OR ; SINGLE-TRACK; CYCLES; TRANSMISSIONS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR SUCH VEHICLES 3

Y10T - TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION 2

A63B - APPARATUS FOR PHYSICAL TRAINING, GYMNASTICS, SWIMMING, CLIMBING, OR FENCING; BALL GAMES; TRAINING EQUIPMENT 2

B62J - CYCLE SADDLES OR SEATS; AUXILIARY DEVICES OR ACCESSORIES SPECIALLY ADAPTED TO CYCLES AND NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR, e.g. ARTICLE CARRIERS OR CYCLE PROTECTORS 2

H01M - PROCESSES OR MEANS, e.g. BATTERIES, FOR THE DIRECT CONVERSION OF CHEMICAL ENERGY INTO ELECTRICAL ENERGY 2

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; IDENTIFICATION 1

A61N - ELECTROTHERAPY; MAGNETOTHERAPY; RADIATION THERAPY; ULTRASOUND THERAPY 1

B21K - MAKING FORGED OR PRESSED METAL PRODUCTS, e.g. HORSE-SHOES, RIVETS, BOLTS OR WHEELS 1

B21J - FORGING; HAMMERING; PRESSING METAL; RIVETING; FORGE FURNACES 1

B21D - WORKING OR PROCESSING OF SHEET METAL OR METAL TUBES, RODS OR PROFILES WITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVING MATERIAL; PUNCHING METAL 1

G05B - CONTROL OR REGULATING SYSTEMS IN GENERAL; FUNCTIONAL ELEMENTS OF SUCH SYSTEMS; MONITORING OR TESTING ARRANGEMENTS FOR SUCH SYSTEMS OR ELEMENTS 1

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 1

B60R - VEHICLES, VEHICLE FITTINGS, OR VEHICLE PARTS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR 1

B62L - BRAKES SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR CYCLES 1

Top 15 of 17 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#22,433

of 50,000 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

35.5 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

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