Where does Freeport Minerals Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Freeport Minerals Corporation ranks #6,148 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 Minerals Corporation hold?

Freeport Minerals Corporation holds 55 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 17 technology areas.

What is Freeport Minerals Corporation's Innovation Score?

Freeport Minerals Corporation has an Innovation Score of 53.6 out of 100 (top 9% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Freeport Minerals Corporation focus on?

Freeport Minerals Corporation's top technology area is C22B (Production AND Refining OF Metals ; Pretreatment OF RAW Materials) with 44 patents, ranking #3 of 335 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 17 CPC subclasses total.

Is Freeport Minerals Corporation's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Freeport Minerals Corporation's recent grant velocity is +65% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Freeport Minerals Corporation's patents?

Freeport Minerals Corporation's patents average 17.5 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 Freeport Minerals 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

Freeport Minerals Corporation

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 55 granted patents across 17 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: C22B (Production AND Refining OF Metals ; Pretreatment OF RAW Materials).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Freeport ranks #6,148 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 55 patents across 17 technology areas.

#6,148
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 9%
by Innovation Score (53.6/100): 17.5
avg claims per patent: +65%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R6148 · US Corporation #6,148 · 55 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 55 grants
UPPER-Q #6,148/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Erasmus University…
CPC-FOCUS C22B · 17 areas
INNOV-PAR 53.6/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.5 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +65% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Erasmus University Medical Center Rotterdam (±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’s 53.6 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 13.9 pts (26%) Velocity 14.7 pts (27%) Breadth 14.6 pts (27%) Claim depth 10.5 pts (20%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

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Freeport Minerals · this assignee

54
MerchSource · near

54
Miba Gleitlager… · near

54
National Applied… · near

54
Personalis · near

54
3D Lighting… · lowest

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What this shows Freeport's Innovation Score is 53.6/100 (top 9% 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?

Each dot is one of Freeport’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’s own 17.5 claims/patent is ABOVE the 13.2 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Freeport's grants concentrate

Freeport Minerals Corporation is a focused PatentsView assignee: 17 CPC subclasses with 80% of grants classified under C22B (Production AND Refining OF Metals ; Pretreatment OF RAW Materials). Peak complete grant year is 2024 (13 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2016. By volume, Freeport sits between Erasmus University Medical Center Rotterdam and Grail, Inc..

Freeport's three-year grant acceleration

Freeport Minerals Corporation shows 22 grants in 2022–2024 against only 10 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.

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Foundation for Re…

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Grail

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Freeport Minerals ◀

55

What this shows Freeport holds 55 patents at rank #6,146, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Freeport

By rank, the assignees closest to #6,146 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C22B (Production AND Refining OF Metals)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Freeport, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In C22B (Production AND Refining OF Metals), Freeport ranks #3 of 335 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (54 here).

Miba Gleitlager Austria GmbH 54 Personalis, Inc. 54 National Applied Research Laboratories 54 MerchSource, LLC 54

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (17.5 here).

TPI Composites, Inc. 17.5 avg Tecan Trading AG 17.5 avg Idac Holdings, Inc. 17.5 avg The Governors of the University of Alberta 17.5 avg

Freeport's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

54 Top 9% higher than 91% 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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Freeport Minerals Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	5	9.1%
2016	2	3.6%
2018	6	10.9%
2019	4	7.3%
2020	4	7.3%
2021	2	3.6%
2022	3	5.5%
2023	6	10.9%
2024	13	23.6%
2025partial year	10	18.2%

Which technologies does Freeport Minerals Corporation patent most?

C22B - Production AND Refining OF Metals ; Pretreatment OF RAW Materials 44

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 38

C25C - Processes FOR THE Electrolytic Production, Recovery OR Refining OF METALS; Apparatus Therefor 23

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 16

B01D - Separation 14

E21B - Earth OR Rock DRILLING; Obtaining OIL, GAS, Water, Soluble OR Meltable Materials OR A Slurry OF Minerals From Wells 6

G05D - Systems FOR Controlling OR Regulating Non-electric Variables 6

G01F - Measuring Volume, Volume Flow, Mass Flow OR Liquid LEVEL; Metering BY Volume 6

G08B - Signalling OR Calling SYSTEMS; Order TELEGRAPHS; Alarm Systems 6

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 6

B02C - Crushing, Pulverising, OR Disintegrating IN GENERAL; Milling Grain 3

G01C - Measuring Distances, Levels OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; Gyroscopic INSTRUMENTS; Photogrammetry OR Videogrammetry 2

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 2

C25D - Processes FOR THE Electrolytic OR Electrophoretic Production OF COATINGS; ELECTROFORMING; Apparatus Therefor 2

E21C - Mining OR Quarrying 1

Top 15 of 17 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 Minerals Corporation's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Freeport Minerals Corporation's lead technology class is C22B (Production AND Refining OF Metals ; Pretreatment OF RAW Materials), 80% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C22B
Ranked #6,148 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Freeport Minerals Corporation against Erasmus University Medical Center Rotterdam, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 53.6/100 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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