Where does Ferrotec (USA) Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Ferrotec (USA) Corporation ranks #28,749 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 Ferrotec (USA) Corporation hold?

Ferrotec (USA) Corporation holds 9 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 11 technology areas.

What is Ferrotec (USA) Corporation's Innovation Score?

Ferrotec (USA) Corporation 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%).

Is Ferrotec (USA) Corporation's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Ferrotec (USA) Corporation's recent grant velocity is -40% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). Grant activity has slowed relative to earlier years.

What does claim depth mean for Ferrotec (USA) Corporation's patents?

Ferrotec (USA) Corporation's patents average 14.8 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 Ferrotec (USA) 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

Ferrotec (USA) Corporation

Q: What technology areas does Ferrotec (USA) Corporation focus on?

Ferrotec (USA) Corporation's top technology area is 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) with 4 patents, ranking #522 of 1,658 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 11 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 9 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: 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 Evap).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Ferrotec ranks #28,749 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 9 patents across 11 technology areas.

#28,749
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 39th percentile
by Innovation Score (31.9/100): 14.8
avg claims per patent: -40%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R28749 · US Corporation #28,749 · 9 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 9 grants
MID-PACK #28,749/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Faultless STARCH/BON…
CPC-FOCUS C23C · 11 areas
INNOV-THIN 31.9/100
CLAIMS-RICH 14.8 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DOWN -40% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Faultless STARCH/BON AMI Company (±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 Ferrotec’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 8.0 pts (25%) Velocity 3.3 pts (10%) Breadth 11.7 pts (37%) Claim depth 8.9 pts (28%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Ferrotec (USA) · this assignee

32
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Ferrotec'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 Ferrotec?

Each dot is one of Ferrotec’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). Ferrotec’s own 14.8 claims/patent is ABOVE the 12.1 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Ferrotec's grants concentrate

Ferrotec (USA) Corporation is a focused PatentsView assignee: 11 CPC subclasses with 44.4% of grants classified under 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 Evap). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (2 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2016. By volume, Ferrotec sits between Faultless STARCH/BON AMI Company and Fico Transpar, S.A..

Ferrotec's three-year grant acceleration

Ferrotec (USA) Corporation 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.

Faultless Starch/…

9
FCA Fiat Chrysler…

9
Fedora Pharmaceut…

9
Felsomat & KG

9
FEV North America…

9
Fiberbuilt Manufa…

9
Fibracast

9
Fico Transpar

9
Ferrotec (USA) ◀

9

What this shows Ferrotec holds 9 patents at rank #28,730, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Ferrotec

By rank, the assignees closest to #28,730 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C23C (Coating Metallic Material)

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

Ferrotec'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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Ferrotec (USA) Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	2	22.2%
2016	1	11.1%
2018	2	22.2%
2021	2	22.2%
2023	1	11.1%
2025partial year	1	11.1%

Which technologies does Ferrotec (USA) Corporation patent most?

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 4

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

H01J - Electric Discharge Tubes OR Discharge Lamps 2

H10N - Electric Solid-state Devices 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 2

F28F - Details OF Heat-exchange AND Heat-transfer Apparatus, OF General Application 2

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 2

F25B - Refrigeration Machines, Plants OR SYSTEMS; Combined Heating AND Refrigeration SYSTEMS; Heat Pump Systems 1

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 1

F16H - Gearing 1

F16K - VALVES; TAPS; COCKS; ACTUATING-FLOATS; Devices FOR Venting OR Aerating 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

Ferrotec (USA) Corporation's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Ferrotec (USA) Corporation's lead technology class is 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 Evap), 44.4% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C23C
Ranked #28,749 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Ferrotec (USA) Corporation against Faultless STARCH/BON AMI Company, 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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