Where does The Carlstar Group Llc rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), The Carlstar Group Llc ranks #25,384 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 The Carlstar Group Llc hold?

The Carlstar Group Llc holds 11 US utility patents granted between 2017 and 2024, spanning 4 technology areas.

What is The Carlstar Group Llc's Innovation Score?

The Carlstar Group Llc has an Innovation Score of 20.5 out of 100 (top 93% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is The Carlstar Group Llc's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

The Carlstar Group Llc's recent grant velocity is -43% 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 The Carlstar Group Llc's patents?

The Carlstar Group Llc's patents average 4.4 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 The Carlstar Group Llc 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

The Carlstar Group Llc

Q: What technology areas does The Carlstar Group Llc focus on?

The Carlstar Group Llc's top technology area is B60C (VEHICLE TYRES; TYRE INFLATION; TYRE CHANGING; CONNECTING VALVES TO INFLATABLE ELASTIC BODIES IN GENERAL; DEVICES OR ARRANGEMENTS RELATED TO TYRES) with 2 patents. Grants appear in 4 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 11 granted patents across 4 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2017–2024. 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: B60C (VEHICLE TYRES; TYRE INFLATION; TYRE CHANGING; CONNECTING VALVES TO INFLATABLE ELASTIC BODIES IN GENERAL; DEVICES OR ARRANGEMENTS RELATED TO TYRES).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, The ranks #25,384 of 50,000 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 11 patents across 4 technology areas.

#25,384
of 50,000 US assignees by volume: Top 93%
by Innovation Score (20.5/100): 4.4
avg claims per patent: -43%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R25384 · US Corporation #25,384 · 11 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 11 grants
MID-PACK #25,384/50,000
PHOTO-FINISH Tevnos
CPC-NARROW B60C · 4 areas
INNOV-THIN 20.5/100
CLAIMS-SPARSE 4.4 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -43% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Tevnos 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
Joseph Joseph · near

21
Rembe Safety + Control · near

21
The Carlstar Group · this assignee

21
Labyrinth Research · near

20
Mingsight Pharmaceut… · near

20
3D Lighting Innovati… · lowest

7

What this shows The's Innovation Score is 20.5/100 (top 93% 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 The's grants concentrate

The Carlstar Group Llc is a focused PatentsView assignee: 4 CPC subclasses with 18.2% of grants classified under B60C (VEHICLE TYRES; TYRE INFLATION; TYRE CHANGING; CONNECTING VALVES TO INFLATABLE ELASTIC BODIES IN GENERAL; DEVICES OR ARRANGEMENTS RELATED TO TYRES). Peak complete grant year is 2017 (5 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2020. By volume, The sits between Tevnos Llc and The Nemours Foundation.

The's three-year grant acceleration

The Carlstar Group Llc shows 1 grants in 2022–2024 against only 3 in 2019–2021. That prior window is too thin for a growth multiple (rename and spin-out assignees look artificially high when the baseline is near zero), so PlainPatent withholds a ranked acceleration claim here.

Tevnos

11
Textilma

11
The Agricultural…

11
The Board of Rege…

11
The Container Sto…

11
The Crosby Group

11
The Island Radar

11
The Nemours Found…

11
The Carlstar Group ◀

11

What this shows The holds 11 patents at rank #25,391, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near The

By rank, the assignees closest to #25,391 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B60C (Vehicle Tyres)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

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

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (21 here).

Rembe Gmbh Safety + Control 21 Labyrinth Research Llc 20 Joseph Joseph Ltd. 21 Mingsight Pharmaceuticals, Inc. 20

The's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

21 Top 93% higher than 7% of 50,000 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2017–2024

Grants by year

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

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The Carlstar Group Llc patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2017	5	45.5%
2018	2	18.2%
2020	1	9.1%
2021	2	18.2%
2024	1	9.1%

Which technologies does The Carlstar Group Llc patent most?

B60C - VEHICLE TYRES; TYRE INFLATION; TYRE CHANGING; CONNECTING VALVES TO INFLATABLE ELASTIC BODIES IN GENERAL; DEVICES OR ARRANGEMENTS RELATED TO TYRES 2

A01C - PLANTING; SOWING; FERTILISING 1

B60B - VEHICLE WHEELS ; CASTORS; AXLES FOR WHEELS OR CASTORS; INCREASING WHEEL ADHESION 1

B60Y - INDEXING SCHEME RELATING TO ASPECTS CROSS-CUTTING VEHICLE TECHNOLOGY 1

Top 4 of 4 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#25,384

of 50,000 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

20.5 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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