Where does General Cable Technologies Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), General Cable Technologies Corporation ranks #4,821 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 General Cable Technologies Corporation hold?

General Cable Technologies Corporation holds 72 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 41 technology areas.

What is General Cable Technologies Corporation's Innovation Score?

General Cable Technologies Corporation has an Innovation Score of 48.9 out of 100 (top 16% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is General Cable Technologies Corporation's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

General Cable Technologies Corporation's recent grant velocity is -46% 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 General Cable Technologies Corporation's patents?

General Cable Technologies Corporation's patents average 16.7 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 General Cable Technologies 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

General Cable Technologies Corporation

Q: What technology areas does General Cable Technologies Corporation focus on?

General Cable Technologies Corporation's top technology area is H01B (CABLES; CONDUCTORS; INSULATORS; Selection OF Materials FOR Their Conductive, Insulating OR Dielectric Properties) with 68 patents, ranking #14 of 1,055 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 41 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 72 granted patents across 41 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: H01B (CABLES; CONDUCTORS; INSULATORS; Selection OF Materials FOR Their Conductive, Insulating OR Dielectric Properties).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, General ranks #4,821 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 72 patents across 41 technology areas.

#4,821
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 16%
by Innovation Score (48.9/100): 16.7
avg claims per patent: -46%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R4821 · US Corporation #4,821 · 72 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 72 grants
TOP-DECILE #4,821/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Exact Sciences
CPC-WIDE H01B · 41 areas
INNOV-PAR 48.9/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.7 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -46% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Exact Sciences Corporation (±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 General’s 48.9 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 14.8 pts (30%) Velocity 1.4 pts (3%) Breadth 22.6 pts (46%) Claim depth 10.0 pts (20%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
General Cable · this assignee

49
Glock Technology · near

49
Pilot · near

49
Rush University… · near

49
Universitat Bern · near

49
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows General's Innovation Score is 48.9/100 (top 16% 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 General?

Each dot is one of General’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). General’s own 16.7 claims/patent is ABOVE the 14.7 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

General vs its 8 nearest volume peers: granted patents vs average claims per patent. Source: USPTO PatentsView.

Where General's grants concentrate

General Cable Technologies Corporation is a focused PatentsView assignee: 41 CPC subclasses with 94.4% of grants classified under H01B (CABLES; CONDUCTORS; INSULATORS; Selection OF Materials FOR Their Conductive, Insulating OR Dielectric Properties). Peak complete grant year is 2019 (15 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2022. By volume, General sits between Exact Sciences Corporation and JIO Platforms Limited.

General's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, General Cable Technologies Corporation moved from 33 to 7 grants (0.21x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Exact Sciences

72
FU Ding Electroni…

72
GE Hybrid

72
GEA Mechanical Eq…

72
Humax

72
Inguran

72
Ion Beam Applicat…

72
JIO Platforms

72
General Cable ◀

72

What this shows General holds 72 patents at rank #4,821, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near General

By rank, the assignees closest to #4,821 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H01B (Cables)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for General, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H01B (Cables), General ranks #14 of 1,055 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (49 here).

Rush University Medical Center 49 Universitat Bern 49 Glock Technology GmbH 49 Kabushiki Kaisha Pilot Corporation 49

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (16.7 here).

Sonion Nederland B.V. 16.7 avg Nouryon Chemicals International B.V. 16.7 avg Beijing Goldwind Science & Creation Windpower Equipment Co., Ltd. 16.7 avg DRÄGER Safety AG & Co. Kgaa 16.7 avg

General's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

49 Top 16% higher than 84% 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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General Cable Technologies Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	9	12.5%
2016	6	8.3%
2017	11	15.3%
2018	5	6.9%
2019	15	20.8%
2020	9	12.5%
2021	9	12.5%
2022	2	2.8%
2023	3	4.2%
2024	2	2.8%
2025partial year	1	1.4%

Which technologies does General Cable Technologies Corporation patent most?

H01B - CABLES; CONDUCTORS; INSULATORS; Selection OF Materials FOR Their Conductive, Insulating OR Dielectric Properties 68

C08K - Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances as compounding ingredients 14

C09D - Coating Compositions, e.g. Paints, Varnishes OR LACQUERS; Filling PASTES; Chemical Paint OR INK REMOVERS; INKS; Correcting FLUIDS; WOODSTAINS; Pastes OR Solids FOR Colouring OR PRINTING; USE OF Materials Therefor 10

C09K - Materials FOR Miscellaneous Applications, NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere 9

H02G - Installation OF Electric Cables OR Lines, OR OF Combined Optical AND Electric Cables OR Lines 8

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 7

C08L - Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds 6

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 5

C22C - Alloys 5

B05D - Processes FOR Applying Fluent Materials TO Surfaces, IN General 5

B29C - Shaping OR Joining OF PLASTICS; Shaping OF Material IN A Plastic State, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; After-treatment OF THE Shaped Products, e.g. Repairing 5

C22F - Changing THE Physical Structure OF Non-ferrous Metals AND Non-ferrous Alloys 4

B21C - Manufacture OF Metal Sheets, Wire, Rods, Tubes, Profiles OR Like Semi-manufactured Products Otherwise Than BY ROLLING; Auxiliary Operations Used IN Connection With Metal-working Without Essentially Removing Material 4

B29K - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses B29b, B29c OR B29d, Relating TO Moulding Materials OR TO Materials FOR ; Moulds, ; Reinforcements, Fillers OR Preformed Parts, e.g. Inserts 4

H05K - Printed CIRCUITS; Casings OR Constructional Details OF Electric APPARATUS; Manufacture OF Assemblages OF Electrical Components 3

Top 15 of 41 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

General Cable Technologies Corporation's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

General Cable Technologies Corporation's lead technology class is H01B (CABLES; CONDUCTORS; INSULATORS; Selection OF Materials FOR Their Conductive, Insulating OR Dielectric Properties), 94.4% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H01B
Ranked #4,821 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare General Cable Technologies Corporation against Exact Sciences Corporation, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 48.9/100 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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