Where does Carpenter Technology Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Carpenter Technology Corporation ranks #24,067 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 Carpenter Technology Corporation hold?

Carpenter Technology Corporation holds 11 US utility patents granted between 2018 and 2025, spanning 11 technology areas.

What is Carpenter Technology Corporation's Innovation Score?

Carpenter Technology Corporation has an Innovation Score of 31.6 out of 100 (38th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Carpenter Technology Corporation's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Carpenter Technology Corporation's recent grant velocity is +67% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Carpenter Technology Corporation's patents?

Carpenter Technology Corporation's patents average 13.2 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 Carpenter Technology 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 US Corporation

Carpenter Technology Corporation

Q: What technology areas does Carpenter Technology Corporation focus on?

Carpenter Technology Corporation's top technology area is B22F (Working Metallic POWDER; Manufacture OF Articles From Metallic POWDER; Making Metallic Powder ; Apparatus OR Devices Specially Adapted FOR Metallic Powder) with 8 patents, ranking #162 of 926 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 11 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 11 granted patents across 11 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2018–2025. 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: B22F (Working Metallic POWDER; Manufacture OF Articles From Metallic POWDER; Making Metallic Powder ; Apparatus OR Devices Specially Adapted FOR Metallic Powder).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Carpenter ranks #24,067 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 11 patents across 11 technology areas.

#24,067
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 38th percentile
by Innovation Score (31.6/100): 13.2
avg claims per patent: +67%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R24067 · US Corporation #24,067 · 11 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 11 grants
MID-PACK #24,067/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Carbodeon Oy
CPC-FOCUS B22F · 11 areas
INNOV-THIN 31.6/100
CLAIMS-RICH 13.2 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +67% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Carbodeon Ltd. Oy (±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 Carpenter’s 31.6 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 8.6 pts (27%) Velocity 3.3 pts (10%) Breadth 11.7 pts (37%) Claim depth 7.9 pts (25%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Leidos Innovations… · near

32
Carpenter Technology · this assignee

32
Gilead Connecticut · near

32
Marty Gilman · near

32
WaterGuru · near

32
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Carpenter's Innovation Score is 31.6/100 (38th 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 Carpenter?

Each dot is one of Carpenter’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). Carpenter’s own 13.2 claims/patent is at or below the 17.9 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Carpenter's grants concentrate

Carpenter Technology Corporation is a focused PatentsView assignee: 11 CPC subclasses with 72.7% of grants classified under B22F (Working Metallic POWDER; Manufacture OF Articles From Metallic POWDER; Making Metallic Powder ; Apparatus OR Devices Specially Adapted FOR Metallic Powder). Peak complete grant year is 2018 (2 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2019. By volume, Carpenter sits between Carbodeon Ltd. Oy and Cellepathy Inc..

Carpenter's three-year grant acceleration

Carpenter Technology Corporation shows 2 grants in 2022–2024 against only 4 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.

Carbodeon Oy

11
Carbon Sink

11
Cardomon Internat…

11
Carepredict

11
Casetext

11
Catalytic Combust…

11
Ceelox Patents

11
Cellepathy

11
Carpenter Technol… ◀

11

What this shows Carpenter holds 11 patents at rank #24,118, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Carpenter

By rank, the assignees closest to #24,118 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B22F (Working Metallic Powder)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Carpenter, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B22F (Working Metallic Powder), Carpenter ranks #162 of 926 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (32 here).

Gilead Connecticut, Inc. 32 Marty Gilman, Inc. 32 WaterGuru, Inc. 32 Leidos Innovations Technology, Inc. 32

Carpenter's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

32 38th percentile higher than 38% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2018–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2018–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Carpenter Technology Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2018	2	18.2%
2019	1	9.1%
2020	2	18.2%
2021	1	9.1%
2024	2	18.2%
2025partial year	3	27.3%

Which technologies does Carpenter Technology Corporation patent most?

B22F - Working Metallic POWDER; Manufacture OF Articles From Metallic POWDER; Making Metallic Powder ; Apparatus OR Devices Specially Adapted FOR Metallic Powder 8

C22C - Alloys 8

B33Y - Additive Manufacturing, i.e. Manufacturing OF Three-dimensional [3-D] Objects BY Additive Deposition, Additive Agglomeration OR Additive Layering, e.g. BY 3-D Printing, Stereolithography OR Selective Laser Sintering 5

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

H01F - MAGNETS; INDUCTANCES; TRANSFORMERS; Selection OF Materials FOR Their Magnetic Properties 3

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 3

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 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 1

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 1

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 1

B29C - Shaping OR Joining OF PLASTICS; Shaping OF Material IN A Plastic State, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; After-treatment OF THE Shaped Products, e.g. Repairing 1

Top 11 of 11 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

Carpenter Technology Corporation's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Carpenter Technology Corporation's lead technology class is B22F (Working Metallic POWDER; Manufacture OF Articles From Metallic POWDER; Making Metallic Powder ; Apparatus OR Devices Specially Adapted FOR Metallic Powder), 72.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B22F
Ranked #24,067 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Carpenter Technology Corporation against Carbodeon Ltd. Oy, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 31.6/100 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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