Where does Element Six (UK) Limited rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Element Six (UK) Limited ranks #8,374 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 Element Six (UK) Limited hold?

Element Six (UK) Limited holds 38 US utility patents granted between 2019 and 2025, spanning 25 technology areas.

What is Element Six (UK) Limited's Innovation Score?

Element Six (UK) Limited has an Innovation Score of 59.0 out of 100 (top 4% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Element Six (UK) Limited focus on?

Element Six (UK) Limited's top technology area is C22C (Alloys) with 15 patents, ranking #120 of 948 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 25 CPC subclasses total.

Is Element Six (UK) Limited's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Element Six (UK) Limited's recent grant velocity is +700% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Element Six (UK) Limited's patents?

Element Six (UK) Limited's patents average 14.5 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 Element Six (UK) 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

Element Six (UK) Limited

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 38 granted patents across 25 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2019–2025. 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: C22C (Alloys).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Element ranks #8,374 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 38 patents across 25 technology areas.

#8,374
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 4%
by Innovation Score (59.0/100): 14.5
avg claims per patent: +700%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R8374 · Foreign Corporation #8,374 · 38 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 38 grants
UPPER-Q #8,374/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Duke Manufacturing
CPC-FOCUS C22C · 25 areas
INNOV-PAR 59.0/100
CLAIMS-RICH 14.5 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +700% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Duke Manufacturing Co. (±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 Element’s 59.0 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 12.7 pts (21%) Velocity 20.0 pts (34%) Breadth 17.7 pts (30%) Claim depth 8.7 pts (15%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Element Six (UK) · this assignee

59
NCH · near

59
Safran Ceramics · near

59
Source Global PBC · near

59
Tosoh · near

59
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Element's Innovation Score is 59.0/100 (top 4% 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 Element?

Each dot is one of Element’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). Element’s own 14.5 claims/patent is at or below the 16.1 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Element's grants concentrate

Element Six (UK) Limited is a focused PatentsView assignee: 25 CPC subclasses with 39.5% of grants classified under C22C (Alloys). Peak complete grant year is 2023 (8 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2020. By volume, Element sits between Duke Manufacturing Co. and Excelitas Technologies Corp..

Element's three-year grant acceleration

Element Six (UK) Limited shows 21 grants in 2022–2024 against only 6 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.

Duke Manufacturing

38
Dunan Microstaq

38
EBI

38
Endra Life Scienc…

38
Elkem Silicones F…

38
Emirates Telecomm…

38
Endocyte

38
Excelitas

38
Element Six (UK) ◀

38

What this shows Element holds 38 patents at rank #8,375, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Element

By rank, the assignees closest to #8,375 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C22C (Alloys)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Element, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In C22C (Alloys), Element ranks #120 of 948 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (59 here).

NCH Corporation 59 Source Global, PBC 59 Safran Ceramics 59 Tosoh Corporation 59

Element's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

59 Top 4% higher than 96% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2019–2025

Grants by year

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

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Element Six (UK) Limited patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2019	3	7.9%
2020	1	2.6%
2021	2	5.3%
2022	5	13.2%
2023	8	21.1%
2024	8	21.1%
2025partial year	11	28.9%

Which technologies does Element Six (UK) Limited patent most?

C22C - Alloys 15

B22F - Working Metallic POWDER; Manufacture OF Articles From Metallic POWDER; Making Metallic Powder ; Apparatus OR Devices Specially Adapted FOR Metallic Powder 14

E21B - Earth OR Rock DRILLING; Obtaining OIL, GAS, Water, Soluble OR Meltable Materials OR A Slurry OF Minerals From Wells 13

C04B - Lime, MAGNESIA; SLAG; CEMENTS; Compositions Thereof, e.g. Mortars, Concrete OR Like Building MATERIALS; Artificial Stone ; Ceramics ; REFRACTORIES; Treatment OF Natural Stone 12

B23B - TURNING; Boring 8

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 8

E21C - Mining OR Quarrying 3

B23C - Milling 3

C01B - Non-metallic ELEMENTS; Compounds THEREOF; ; Metalloids OR Compounds Thereof NOT Covered BY Subclass C01c 3

B01J - Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus 3

C30B - Single-crystal Growth ; Unidirectional Solidification OF Eutectic Material OR Unidirectional Demixing OF Eutectoid MATERIAL; Refining BY Zone-melting OF Material ; Production OF A Homogeneous Polycrystalline Material With Defined Structure ; Single Crystals OR Homogeneous Polycrystalline Material WI 2

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 2

E02F - DREDGING; Soil-shifting 2

B28B - Shaping Clay OR Other Ceramic COMPOSITIONS; Shaping SLAG; Shaping Mixtures Containing Cementitious Material, e.g. Plaster 2

B24D - Tools FOR Grinding, Buffing OR Sharpening 2

Top 15 of 25 technology areas

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

View all rankings → How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

Element Six (UK) Limited's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Element Six (UK) Limited's lead technology class is C22C (Alloys), 39.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C22C
Ranked #8,374 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Element Six (UK) Limited against Duke Manufacturing Co., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 59.0/100 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.