Where does Barrick Gold Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Barrick Gold Corporation ranks #22,248 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 Barrick Gold Corporation hold?

Barrick Gold Corporation holds 12 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2024, spanning 6 technology areas.

What is Barrick Gold Corporation's Innovation Score?

Barrick Gold Corporation has an Innovation Score of 39.2 out of 100 (top 39% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Barrick Gold Corporation focus on?

Barrick Gold Corporation's top technology area is C22B (Production AND Refining OF Metals ; Pretreatment OF RAW Materials) with 12 patents, ranking #29 of 335 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 6 CPC subclasses total.

Is Barrick Gold Corporation's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Barrick Gold Corporation's recent grant velocity is -50% 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 Barrick Gold Corporation's patents?

Barrick Gold Corporation's patents average 34.2 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 Barrick Gold 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 Foreign Corporation

Barrick Gold Corporation

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 12 granted patents across 6 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2024. 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: C22B (Production AND Refining OF Metals ; Pretreatment OF RAW Materials).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Barrick ranks #22,248 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 12 patents across 6 technology areas.

#22,248
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 39%
by Innovation Score (39.2/100): 34.2
avg claims per patent: -50%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R22248 · Foreign Corporation #22,248 · 12 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 12 grants
MID-PACK #22,248/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Bailey Metal Products
CPC-NARROW C22B · 6 areas
INNOV-THIN 39.2/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 34.2 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -50% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Bailey Metal Products Limited (±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 Barrick’s 39.2 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 8.9 pts (23%) Velocity 6.7 pts (17%) Breadth 8.7 pts (22%) Claim depth 15.0 pts (38%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Barrick Gold · this assignee

39
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Barrick's Innovation Score is 39.2/100 (top 39% 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 Barrick?

Each dot is one of Barrick’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). Barrick’s own 34.2 claims/patent is ABOVE the 9.9 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Barrick's grants concentrate

Barrick Gold Corporation is a focused PatentsView assignee: 6 CPC subclasses with 100% of grants classified under C22B (Production AND Refining OF Metals ; Pretreatment OF RAW Materials). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (2 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2016. By volume, Barrick sits between Bailey Metal Products Limited and Bei Yu Industrial Co..

Barrick's three-year grant acceleration

Barrick Gold Corporation shows 3 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.

Bailey Metal Prod…

12
Banco Bradesco S/A

12
Bank of Canada

12
Barkbox

12
Bastion

12
Becton Dickinson…

12
Beechrock

12
Bei Yu Industrial

12
Barrick Gold ◀

12

What this shows Barrick holds 12 patents at rank #22,283, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Barrick

By rank, the assignees closest to #22,283 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C22B (Production AND Refining OF Metals)

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

Barrick's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

39 Top 39% higher than 61% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2024

Grants by year

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

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Barrick Gold Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	2	16.7%
2016	1	8.3%
2017	1	8.3%
2018	2	16.7%
2019	2	16.7%
2020	1	8.3%
2022	1	8.3%
2023	1	8.3%
2024	1	8.3%

Which technologies does Barrick Gold Corporation patent most?

C22B - Production AND Refining OF Metals ; Pretreatment OF RAW Materials 12

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 11

B01D - Separation 2

B03D - FLOTATION; Differential Sedimentation 2

C22C - Alloys 1

C01G - Compounds Containing Metals NOT Covered BY Subclasses C01d OR C01f 1

Top 6 of 6 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

Barrick Gold Corporation's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Barrick Gold Corporation's lead technology class is C22B (Production AND Refining OF Metals ; Pretreatment OF RAW Materials), 100% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C22B
Ranked #22,248 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Barrick Gold Corporation against Bailey Metal Products Limited, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 39.2/100 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

Every figure on PlainPatent is rendered directly from USPTO source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on USPTO source data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 2026.