Where does Arcelormittal INVESTIGACIÓN Y Desarrollo, S.L. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Arcelormittal INVESTIGACIÓN Y Desarrollo, S.L. ranks #7,369 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 Arcelormittal INVESTIGACIÓN Y Desarrollo, S.L. hold?

Arcelormittal INVESTIGACIÓN Y Desarrollo, S.L. holds 44 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2021, spanning 48 technology areas.

What is Arcelormittal INVESTIGACIÓN Y Desarrollo, S.L.'s Innovation Score?

Arcelormittal INVESTIGACIÓN Y Desarrollo, S.L. has an Innovation Score of 47.8 out of 100 (top 18% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Arcelormittal INVESTIGACIÓN Y Desarrollo, S.L.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Arcelormittal INVESTIGACIÓN Y Desarrollo, S.L.'s recent grant velocity is -90% 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 Arcelormittal INVESTIGACIÓN Y Desarrollo, S.L.'s patents?

Arcelormittal INVESTIGACIÓN Y Desarrollo, S.L.'s patents average 16.9 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.

USPTO 2015–2025 USPTO PatentsView Foreign Corporation

Arcelormittal INVESTIGACIÓN Y Desarrollo, S.L.

Q: What technology areas does Arcelormittal INVESTIGACIÓN Y Desarrollo, S.L. focus on?

Arcelormittal INVESTIGACIÓN Y Desarrollo, S.L.'s top technology area is C23C (Coating Metallic MATERIAL; Coating Material With Metallic MATERIAL; Surface Treatment OF Metallic Material BY Diffusion Into THE Surface, BY Chemical Conversion OR SUBSTITUTION; Coating BY Vacuum Evaporation, BY Sputtering, BY ION Implantation OR BY Chemical Vapour Deposition, IN General) with 19 patents, ranking #148 of 1,658 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 48 CPC subclasses total.

Q: How is the Arcelormittal INVESTIGACIÓN Y Desarrollo, S.L. 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 PatentsView assignee record - 44 granted patents across 48 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2021. 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: C23C (Coating Metallic MATERIAL; Coating Material With Metallic MATERIAL; Surface Treatment OF Metallic Material BY Diffusion Into THE Surface, BY Chemical Conversion OR SUBSTITUTION; Coating BY Vacuum Evap).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Arcelormittal ranks #7,369 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 44 patents across 48 technology areas.

#7,369
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 18%
by Innovation Score (47.8/100): 16.9
avg claims per patent: -90%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R7369 · Foreign Corporation #7,369 · 44 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 44 grants
UPPER-Q #7,369/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Alliance Sports Group
CPC-WIDE C23C · 48 areas
INNOV-PAR 47.8/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.9 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -90% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Alliance Sports Group, L.P. (±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 Arcelormittal’s 47.8 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 13.1 pts (27%) Velocity 0.0 pts (0%) Breadth 24.5 pts (51%) Claim depth 10.2 pts (21%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Alector · near

48
Arcelormittal… · this assignee

48
Electric Mirror · near

48
Sanoh Industrial · near

48
Teijin Aramid B V · near

48
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Arcelormittal's Innovation Score is 47.8/100 (top 18% 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 Arcelormittal?

Each dot is one of Arcelormittal’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). Arcelormittal’s own 16.9 claims/patent is ABOVE the 10.3 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Arcelormittal's grants concentrate

Arcelormittal INVESTIGACIÓN Y Desarrollo, S.L. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 48 CPC subclasses with 43.2% of grants classified under C23C (Coating Metallic MATERIAL; Coating Material With Metallic MATERIAL; Surface Treatment OF Metallic Material BY Diffusion Into THE Surface, BY Chemical Conversion OR SUBSTITUTION; Coating BY Vacuum Evap). Peak complete grant year is 2017 (13 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2021. By volume, Arcelormittal sits between Alliance Sports Group, L.P. and Axcess Global Sciences, LLC.

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44
Alpha Assembly So…

44
Anden

44
Arashi Vision

44
Arria Data2text

44
Automotive Energy…

44
AVL Powertrain En…

44
Axcess Global Sci…

44
Arcelormittal Inv… ◀

44

What this shows Arcelormittal holds 44 patents at rank #7,362, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Arcelormittal

By rank, the assignees closest to #7,362 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C23C (Coating Metallic Material)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Arcelormittal, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In C23C (Coating Metallic Material), Arcelormittal ranks #148 of 1,658 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (48 here).

Alector LLC 48 Sanoh Industrial Co. , Ltd. 48 Teijin Aramid B.V. 48 Electric Mirror, LLC 48

Arcelormittal's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

48 Top 18% higher than 82% of 49,997 US assignees

Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more US assignees. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.

Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2021

Grants by year

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

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Arcelormittal INVESTIGACIÓN Y Desarrollo, S.L. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	4	9.1%
2016	8	18.2%
2017	13	29.5%
2018	9	20.5%
2019	6	13.6%
2020	3	6.8%
2021	1	2.3%

Which technologies does Arcelormittal INVESTIGACIÓN Y Desarrollo, S.L. patent most?

C23C - Coating Metallic MATERIAL; Coating Material With Metallic MATERIAL; Surface Treatment OF Metallic Material BY Diffusion Into THE Surface, BY Chemical Conversion OR SUBSTITUTION; Coating BY Vacuum Evaporation, BY Sputtering, BY ION Implantation OR BY Chemical Vapour Deposition, IN General 19

C22C - Alloys 18

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 14

C21D - Modifying THE Physical Structure OF Ferrous METALS; General Devices FOR Heat Treatment OF Ferrous OR Non-ferrous Metals OR ALLOYS; Making Metal Malleable, e.g. BY Decarburisation OR Tempering 14

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 11

B22D - Casting OF METALS; Casting OF Other Substances BY THE Same Processes OR Devices 6

B23K - Soldering OR UNSOLDERING; WELDING; Cladding OR Plating BY Soldering OR WELDING; Cutting BY Applying Heat Locally, e.g. Flame CUTTING; Working BY Laser Beam 3

B21B - Rolling OF Metal 2

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 2

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 2

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 2

F27D - Details OR Accessories OF Furnaces, Kilns, Ovens OR Retorts, IN SO FAR AS They ARE OF Kinds Occurring IN More Than ONE Kind OF Furnace 2

C25D - Processes FOR THE Electrolytic OR Electrophoretic Production OF COATINGS; ELECTROFORMING; Apparatus Therefor 2

B60J - Windows, Windscreens, Non-fixed Roofs, Doors, OR Similar Devices FOR VEHICLES; Removable External Protective Coverings Specially Adapted FOR Vehicles 1

B21K - Making Forged OR Pressed Metal Products, e.g. Horse-shoes, Rivets, Bolts OR Wheels 1

Top 15 of 48 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

Arcelormittal INVESTIGACIÓN Y Desarrollo, S.L.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Arcelormittal INVESTIGACIÓN Y Desarrollo, S.L.'s lead technology class is C23C (Coating Metallic MATERIAL; Coating Material With Metallic MATERIAL; Surface Treatment OF Metallic Material BY Diffusion Into THE Surface, BY Chemical Conversion OR SUBSTITUTION; Coating BY Vacuum Evap), 43.2% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C23C
Ranked #7,369 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Arcelormittal INVESTIGACIÓN Y Desarrollo, S.L. against Alliance Sports Group, L.P., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 47.8/100 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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