Where does Commercial Metals Company rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Commercial Metals Company ranks #34,813 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 Commercial Metals Company hold?

Commercial Metals Company holds 7 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 11 technology areas.

What is Commercial Metals Company's Innovation Score?

Commercial Metals Company has an Innovation Score of 31.9 out of 100 (39th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Commercial Metals Company focus on?

Commercial Metals Company's top technology area is Y10T (Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification) with 5 patents, ranking #2,382 of 9,657 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 11 CPC subclasses total.

Is Commercial Metals Company's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Commercial Metals 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 Commercial Metals Company's patents?

Commercial Metals Company's patents average 16.1 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 Commercial Metals 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

Commercial Metals Company

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 7 granted patents across 11 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2025. 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: Y10T (Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Commercial ranks #34,813 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 7 patents across 11 technology areas.

#34,813
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 39th percentile
by Innovation Score (31.9/100): 16.1
avg claims per patent: +0%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R34813 · US Corporation #34,813 · 7 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 7 grants
MID-PACK #34,813/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Columbia Trailer
CPC-FOCUS Y10T · 11 areas
INNOV-THIN 31.9/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.1 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-FLAT +0% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Columbia Trailer Co., Inc. (±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 Commercial’s 31.9 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 7.2 pts (23%) Velocity 3.3 pts (10%) Breadth 11.7 pts (37%) Claim depth 9.7 pts (30%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Commercial Metals · this assignee

32
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Commercial's Innovation Score is 31.9/100 (39th 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 Commercial?

Each dot is one of Commercial’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). Commercial’s own 16.1 claims/patent is ABOVE the 13.4 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Commercial's grants concentrate

Commercial Metals Company is a focused PatentsView assignee: 11 CPC subclasses with 71.4% of grants classified under Y10T (Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (2 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2018. By volume, Commercial sits between Columbia Trailer Co., Inc. and Compass Corporation.

Commercial's three-year grant acceleration

Commercial Metals Company shows 1 grants in 2022–2024 against only 2 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.

Columbia Trailer

7
Combined Energies

7
Comchip Technology

7
Comfortex Window…

7
Commonwealth Edis…

7
Community com

7
Companhia Brasile…

7
Compass

7
Commercial Metals ◀

7

What this shows Commercial holds 7 patents at rank #34,858, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Commercial

By rank, the assignees closest to #34,858 in granted patent volume.

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

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

Commercial's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

32 39th percentile higher than 39% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2025

Grants by year

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

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Commercial Metals Company patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	2	28.6%
2018	1	14.3%
2020	1	14.3%
2021	1	14.3%
2024	1	14.3%
2025partial year	1	14.3%

Which technologies does Commercial Metals Company patent most?

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 5

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 5

B24C - Abrasive OR Related Blasting With Particulate Material 3

C22C - Alloys 3

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 3

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 3

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 3

B01D - Separation 1

C22B - Production AND Refining OF Metals ; Pretreatment OF RAW Materials 1

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 1

F41H - ARMOUR; Armoured TURRETS; Armoured OR Armed VEHICLES; Means OF Attack OR Defence, e.g. Camouflage, IN General 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

Commercial Metals Company's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Commercial Metals Company's lead technology class is Y10T (Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification), 71.4% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore Y10T
Ranked #34,813 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Commercial Metals Company against Columbia Trailer Co., Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 31.9/100 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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