Where does Bluescope Steel Limited rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Bluescope Steel Limited ranks #9,204 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 Bluescope Steel Limited hold?

Bluescope Steel Limited holds 34 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2024, spanning 17 technology areas.

What is Bluescope Steel Limited's Innovation Score?

Bluescope Steel Limited has an Innovation Score of 42.3 out of 100 (top 31% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Bluescope Steel Limited focus on?

Bluescope Steel Limited's top technology area is Y10T (Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification) with 12 patents, ranking #1,042 of 9,657 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 17 CPC subclasses total.

Is Bluescope Steel Limited's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Bluescope Steel Limited's recent grant velocity is +109% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Bluescope Steel Limited's patents?

Bluescope Steel Limited's patents average 9.1 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 Bluescope Steel Limited 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

Bluescope Steel Limited

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 34 granted patents across 17 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2024. 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: Y10T (Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Bluescope ranks #9,204 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 34 patents across 17 technology areas.

#9,204
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 31%
by Innovation Score (42.3/100): 9.1
avg claims per patent: +109%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R9204 · Foreign Corporation #9,204 · 34 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-PAR · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 34 grants
UPPER-Q #9,204/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Belwith Products
CPC-FOCUS Y10T · 17 areas
INNOV-PAR 42.3/100
CLAIMS-PAR 9.1 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +109% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Belwith Products, 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.

How Bluescope’s 42.3 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 12.3 pts (29%) Velocity 10.0 pts (24%) Breadth 14.6 pts (34%) Claim depth 5.5 pts (13%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Atlas Copco IAS UK · near

42
Bluescope Steel · this assignee

42
Fractal Heatsink · near

42
Lockheed Martin Energy · near

42
Wuxi Xivi Science… · near

42
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Bluescope's Innovation Score is 42.3/100 (top 31% 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 Bluescope?

Each dot is one of Bluescope’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). Bluescope’s own 9.1 claims/patent is at or below the 16.3 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Bluescope's grants concentrate

Bluescope Steel Limited is a focused PatentsView assignee: 17 CPC subclasses with 35.3% of grants classified under Y10T (Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification). Peak complete grant year is 2022 (7 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2017. By volume, Bluescope sits between Belwith Products, LLC and Bourgault Industries Ltd..

Bluescope's three-year grant acceleration

Bluescope Steel Limited shows 15 grants in 2022–2024 against only 10 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.

Belwith Products

34
Biotheryx

34
Biolinq Incorpora…

34
Blue-white Indust…

34
Board of Trustees…

34
Boomi

34
Bostongene

34
Bourgault Industr…

34
Bluescope Steel ◀

34

What this shows Bluescope holds 34 patents at rank #9,205, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Bluescope

By rank, the assignees closest to #9,205 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in Y10T (Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Bluescope, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In Y10T (Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification), Bluescope ranks #1,042 of 9,657 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (42 here).

Atlas Copco IAS UK Limited 42 Lockheed Martin Energy, LLC 42 Fractal Heatsink Technologies LLC 42 Wuxi Xivi Science AND Technology Co., Ltd. 42

Bluescope's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

42 Top 31% higher than 69% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2024

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2016–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Bluescope Steel Limited patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	3	8.8%
2017	1	2.9%
2018	5	14.7%
2019	2	5.9%
2020	2	5.9%
2021	6	17.6%
2022	7	20.6%
2023	5	14.7%
2024	3	8.8%

Which technologies does Bluescope Steel Limited patent most?

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 12

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 12

C22C - Alloys 9

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 7

E04D - Roof COVERINGS; SKY-LIGHTS; GUTTERS; Roof-working Tools 3

B05D - Processes FOR Applying Fluent Materials TO Surfaces, IN General 3

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 3

E04C - Structural ELEMENTS; Building Materials 2

E04B - General Building CONSTRUCTIONS; Walls, e.g. PARTITIONS; ROOFS; FLOORS; CEILINGS; Insulation OR Other Protection OF Buildings 2

B01J - Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus 2

B08B - Cleaning IN GENERAL; Prevention OF Fouling IN General 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

F27B - Furnaces, Kilns, Ovens OR Retorts IN GENERAL; Open Sintering OR Like Apparatus 2

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 2

C25D - Processes FOR THE Electrolytic OR Electrophoretic Production OF COATINGS; ELECTROFORMING; Apparatus Therefor 1

Top 15 of 17 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

Bluescope Steel Limited's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Bluescope Steel Limited's lead technology class is Y10T (Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification), 35.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore Y10T
Ranked #9,204 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Bluescope Steel Limited against Belwith Products, LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 42.3/100 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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