Where does Freeport-McMoRan, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Freeport-McMoRan, Inc. ranks #15,294 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 Freeport-McMoRan, Inc. hold?

Freeport-McMoRan, Inc. holds 19 US utility patents granted between 2018 and 2024, spanning 18 technology areas.

What is Freeport-McMoRan, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Freeport-McMoRan, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 41.9 out of 100 (top 32% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Freeport-McMoRan, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Freeport-McMoRan, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -10% 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 Freeport-McMoRan, Inc.'s patents?

Freeport-McMoRan, Inc.'s patents average 19.3 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 Freeport-McMoRan, Inc. 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

Freeport-McMoRan, Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Freeport-McMoRan, Inc. focus on?

Freeport-McMoRan, Inc.'s top technology area is G06Q (Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory Purposes, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR) with 9 patents, ranking #1,413 of 6,520 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 18 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 19 granted patents across 18 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2018–2024. 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: G06Q (Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative,).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Freeport-mcmoran ranks #15,294 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 19 patents across 18 technology areas.

#15,294
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 32%
by Innovation Score (41.9/100): 19.3
avg claims per patent: -10%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R15294 · US Corporation #15,294 · 19 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 19 grants
MID-PACK #15,294/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Fox Head
CPC-FOCUS G06Q · 18 areas
INNOV-PAR 41.9/100
CLAIMS-RICH 19.3 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-FLAT -10% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Fox Head, 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 Freeport-mcmoran’s 41.9 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 10.3 pts (25%) Velocity 5.0 pts (12%) Breadth 15.0 pts (36%) Claim depth 11.6 pts (28%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Freeport-McMoRan · this assignee

42
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Freeport-mcmoran's Innovation Score is 41.9/100 (top 32% 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 Freeport-mcmoran?

Each dot is one of Freeport-mcmoran’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). Freeport-mcmoran’s own 19.3 claims/patent is ABOVE the 10.5 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Freeport-mcmoran's grants concentrate

Freeport-McMoRan, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 18 CPC subclasses with 47.4% of grants classified under G06Q (Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative,). Peak complete grant year is 2018 (5 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2024. By volume, Freeport-mcmoran sits between Fox Head, Inc. and GANZ.

Freeport-mcmoran's three-year grant acceleration

Freeport-McMoRan, Inc. shows 6 grants in 2022–2024 against only 8 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.

Fox Head

19
Franke Kaffeemasc…

19
Free Form Fibers

19
Freedom Photonics

19
Fuhu Holdings

19
Fukuoka University

19
Galaxy Surfactants

19
GANZ

19
Freeport-mcmoran ◀

19

What this shows Freeport-McMoRan holds 19 patents at rank #15,299, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Freeport-McMoRan

By rank, the assignees closest to #15,299 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G06Q (Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially…)

Other assignees with the most granted patents in Freeport-McMoRan's primary technology class.

Freeport-mcmoran's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

42 Top 32% higher than 68% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2018–2024

Grants by year

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

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Freeport-McMoRan, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2018	5	26.3%
2019	5	26.3%
2020	3	15.8%
2022	2	10.5%
2023	3	15.8%
2024	1	5.3%

Which technologies does Freeport-McMoRan, Inc. patent most?

G06Q - Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory Purposes, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 9

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 8

G01S - Radio DIRECTION-FINDING; Radio NAVIGATION; Determining Distance OR Velocity BY USE OF Radio WAVES; Locating OR Presence-detecting BY USE OF THE Reflection OR Reradiation OF Radio WAVES; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves 5

G07C - Time OR Attendance REGISTERS; Registering OR Indicating THE Working OF MACHINES; Generating Random NUMBERS; Voting OR Lottery APPARATUS; Arrangements, Systems OR Apparatus FOR Checking NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere 5

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 5

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

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 3

G08G - Traffic Control Systems 2

B60W - Conjoint Control OF Vehicle Sub-units OF Different Type OR Different FUNCTION; Control Systems Specially Adapted FOR Hybrid VEHICLES; Road Vehicle Drive Control Systems FOR Purposes NOT Related TO THE Control OF A Particular Sub-unit 2

B25J - MANIPULATORS; Chambers Provided With Manipulation Devices 2

E01C - Construction OF, OR Surfaces FOR, Roads, Sports Grounds, OR THE LIKE; Machines OR Auxiliary Tools FOR Construction OR Repair 1

G01M - Testing Static OR Dynamic Balance OF Machines OR STRUCTURES; Testing OF Structures OR Apparatus, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1

G05D - Systems FOR Controlling OR Regulating Non-electric Variables 1

H02G - Installation OF Electric Cables OR Lines, OR OF Combined Optical AND Electric Cables OR Lines 1

E21F - Safety Devices, Transport, Filling-up, Rescue, Ventilation, OR Draining IN OR OF Mines OR Tunnels 1

Top 15 of 18 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

Freeport-McMoRan, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Freeport-McMoRan, Inc.'s lead technology class is G06Q (Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative,), 47.4% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06Q
Ranked #15,294 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Freeport-McMoRan, Inc. against Fox Head, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 41.9/100 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

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