Where does Berry Metal Company rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Berry Metal Company ranks #19,510 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 Berry Metal Company hold?

Berry Metal Company holds 14 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2022, spanning 14 technology areas.

What is Berry Metal Company's Innovation Score?

Berry Metal Company has an Innovation Score of 33.4 out of 100 (44th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Berry Metal Company's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Berry Metal Company's recent grant velocity is +0% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). The company is maintaining or growing its granted-patent output.

What does claim depth mean for Berry Metal Company's patents?

Berry Metal Company's patents average 15.2 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 Berry Metal Company 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

Berry Metal Company

Q: What technology areas does Berry Metal Company focus on?

Berry Metal Company's top technology area is 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) with 12 patents, ranking #25 of 350 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 14 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 14 granted patents across 14 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2022. 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: 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).

Compiled by PlainPatent · May 15, 2026

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Berry ranks #19,510 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 14 patents across 14 technology areas.

#19,510
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 44th percentile
by Innovation Score (33.4/100): 15.2
avg claims per patent: +0%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R19510 · US Corporation #19,510 · 14 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 14 grants
MID-PACK #19,510/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Beijing information…
CPC-FOCUS F27D · 14 areas
INNOV-THIN 33.4/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.2 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-FLAT +0% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Beijing information Science & Technology University (±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 Berry’s 33.4 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 9.4 pts (28%) Velocity 1.7 pts (5%) Breadth 13.2 pts (40%) Claim depth 9.1 pts (27%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Berry Metal · this assignee

33
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Berry's Innovation Score is 33.4/100 (44th percentile 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 Berry?

Each dot is one of Berry’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). Berry’s own 15.2 claims/patent is ABOVE the 14.2 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Berry's grants concentrate

Berry Metal Company is a focused PatentsView assignee: 14 CPC subclasses with 85.7% of grants classified under 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). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (3 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2017. By volume, Berry sits between Beijing Zhongxiangying Technology Co., Ltd. and Biochar Now, LLC.

Berry's three-year grant acceleration

Berry Metal Company shows 2 grants in 2022–2024 against only 8 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.

Beijing Zhongxian…

14
Beijing informati…

14
Bell and Howell

14
Benecke-kaliko

14
Beyond Innovation…

14
Biglobe

14
Biomimetic Therap…

14
Biochar Now

14
Berry Metal ◀

14

What this shows Berry holds 14 patents at rank #19,527, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Berry

By rank, the assignees closest to #19,527 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F27D (Details OR Accessories OF Furnaces)

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

Berry's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

33 44th percentile higher than 44% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2022

Grants by year

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

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Berry Metal Company patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	3	21.4%
2017	1	7.1%
2019	3	21.4%
2020	3	21.4%
2021	2	14.3%
2022	2	14.3%

Which technologies does Berry Metal Company patent most?

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 12

F27B - Furnaces, Kilns, Ovens OR Retorts IN GENERAL; Open Sintering OR Like Apparatus 7

C21C - Processing OF Pig-iron, e.g. Refining, Manufacture OF Wrought-iron OR STEEL; Treatment IN Molten State OF Ferrous Alloys 6

C21B - Manufacture OF Iron OR Steel 5

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 5

F23D - Burners 2

F23M - Casings, Linings, Walls OR Doors Specially Adapted FOR Combustion Chambers, e.g. FIREBRIDGES; Devices FOR Deflecting AIR, Flames OR Combustion Products IN Combustion CHAMBERS; Safety Arrangements Specially Adapted FOR Combustion APPARATUS; Details OF Combustion Chambers, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 2

F28D - Heat-exchange Apparatus, NOT Provided FOR IN Another Subclass, IN Which THE Heat-exchange Media DO NOT Come Into Direct Contact 1

F28F - Details OF Heat-exchange AND Heat-transfer Apparatus, OF General Application 1

G05D - Systems FOR Controlling OR Regulating Non-electric Variables 1

F23N - Regulating OR Controlling Combustion 1

G01K - Measuring TEMPERATURE; Measuring Quantity OF HEAT; Thermally-sensitive Elements NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1

G01F - Measuring Volume, Volume Flow, Mass Flow OR Liquid LEVEL; Metering BY Volume 1

F23C - Methods OR Apparatus FOR Combustion Using Fluid Fuel OR Solid Fuel Suspended IN ; A Carrier GAS OR; AIR 1

Top 14 of 14 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

Berry Metal Company's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Berry Metal Company's lead technology class is 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), 85.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F27D
Ranked #19,510 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Berry Metal Company against Beijing Zhongxiangying Technology Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 33.4/100 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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