Where does Howmet Aerospace Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Howmet Aerospace Inc. ranks #6,540 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 Howmet Aerospace Inc. hold?

Howmet Aerospace Inc. holds 51 US utility patents granted between 2020 and 2025, spanning 26 technology areas.

What is Howmet Aerospace Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Howmet Aerospace Inc. has an Innovation Score of 59.3 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%).

Is Howmet Aerospace Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Insufficient historical data is available to calculate a velocity trend for Howmet Aerospace Inc..

What does claim depth mean for Howmet Aerospace Inc.'s patents?

Howmet Aerospace Inc.'s patents average 12.7 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 Howmet Aerospace 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

Howmet Aerospace Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Howmet Aerospace Inc. focus on?

Howmet Aerospace Inc.'s top technology area is F16B (Devices FOR Fastening OR Securing Constructional Elements OR Machine Parts Together, e.g. Nails, Bolts, Circlips, Clamps, Clips OR WEDGES; Joints OR Jointing) with 22 patents, ranking #38 of 2,095 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 26 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 51 granted patents across 26 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2020–2025. 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: F16B (Devices FOR Fastening OR Securing Constructional Elements OR Machine Parts Together, e.g. Nails, Bolts, Circlips, Clamps, Clips OR WEDGES; Joints OR Jointing).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Howmet ranks #6,540 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 51 patents across 26 technology areas.

#6,540
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 4%
by Innovation Score (59.3/100): 12.7
avg claims per patent

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R6540 · US Corporation #6,540 · 51 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · SPAN-YRS · BOOK-RICH

GRANTS-SMALL 51 grants
UPPER-Q #6,540/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Glenmark Pharmaceuti…
CPC-FOCUS F16B · 26 areas
INNOV-PAR 59.3/100
CLAIMS-RICH 12.7 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
SPAN-YRS 2020–2025 · 6y
BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Glenmark Pharmaceuticals S.A. (±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 Howmet’s 59.3 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 13.6 pts (23%) Velocity 20.0 pts (34%) Breadth 18.0 pts (30%) Claim depth 7.6 pts (13%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Abbott Laboratories · near

59
American Axle &… · near

59
Auckland Uniservices · near

59
Howmet Aerospace · this assignee

59
Syntegon Technology · near

59
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Howmet's Innovation Score is 59.3/100 (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 Howmet?

Each dot is one of Howmet’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). Howmet’s own 12.7 claims/patent is at or below the 13.8 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Howmet's grants concentrate

Howmet Aerospace Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 26 CPC subclasses with 43.1% of grants classified under F16B (Devices FOR Fastening OR Securing Constructional Elements OR Machine Parts Together, e.g. Nails, Bolts, Circlips, Clamps, Clips OR WEDGES; Joints OR Jointing). Peak complete grant year is 2024 (12 grants) versus a trough of 4 in 2020. By volume, Howmet sits between Guangzhou Tyrafos Semiconductor Technologies Co., Ltd. and IP Reservoir, LLC.

Howmet's three-year grant acceleration

Howmet Aerospace Inc. shows 30 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.

Guangzhou Tyrafos…

51
Glenmark Pharmace…

51
Glock Technology

51
Helsinn Healthcare

51
Inergy Automotive…

51
Inha-industry Par…

51
Integrity Securit…

51
IP Reservoir

51
Howmet Aerospace ◀

51

What this shows Howmet holds 51 patents at rank #6,540, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Howmet

By rank, the assignees closest to #6,540 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F16B (Devices FOR Fastening OR Securing Constructional Elements…)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Howmet, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In F16B (Devices FOR Fastening OR Securing Constructional Elements…), Howmet ranks #38 of 2,095 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (59 here).

Syntegon Technology GmbH 59 Auckland Uniservices Limited 59 American Axle & Manufacturing, Inc. 59 Abbott Laboratories 59

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (12.7 here).

Lwrc International LLC 12.7 avg Sigmastar Technology Ltd. 12.7 avg Guangzhou Automobile Group Co., Ltd. 12.7 avg Unirac, Inc. 12.7 avg

Howmet'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 · 2020–2025

Grants by year

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

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Howmet Aerospace Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2020	4	7.8%
2021	6	11.8%
2022	7	13.7%
2023	11	21.6%
2024	12	23.5%
2025partial year	11	21.6%

Which technologies does Howmet Aerospace Inc. patent most?

F16B - Devices FOR Fastening OR Securing Constructional Elements OR Machine Parts Together, e.g. Nails, Bolts, Circlips, Clamps, Clips OR WEDGES; Joints OR Jointing 22

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 14

B21J - FORGING; HAMMERING; Pressing METAL; RIVETING; Forge Furnaces 9

B60B - Vehicle Wheels ; CASTORS; Axles FOR Wheels OR CASTORS; Increasing Wheel Adhesion 5

C22F - Changing THE Physical Structure OF Non-ferrous Metals AND Non-ferrous Alloys 4

C22C - Alloys 4

H01R - Electrically-conductive CONNECTIONS; Structural Associations OF A Plurality OF Mutually-insulated Electrical Connecting ELEMENTS; Coupling DEVICES; Current Collectors 4

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 4

B23B - TURNING; Boring 2

E05C - Bolts OR Fastening Devices FOR Wings, Specially FOR Doors OR Windows 2

E05B - LOCKS; Accessories THEREFOR; Handcuffs 2

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 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

B33Y - Additive Manufacturing, i.e. Manufacturing OF Three-dimensional [3-D] Objects BY Additive Deposition, Additive Agglomeration OR Additive Layering, e.g. BY 3-D Printing, Stereolithography OR Selective Laser Sintering 2

B23P - Metal-working NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Combined OPERATIONS; Universal Machine Tools 1

Top 15 of 26 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

Howmet Aerospace Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Howmet Aerospace Inc.'s lead technology class is F16B (Devices FOR Fastening OR Securing Constructional Elements OR Machine Parts Together, e.g. Nails, Bolts, Circlips, Clamps, Clips OR WEDGES; Joints OR Jointing), 43.1% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F16B
Ranked #6,540 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Howmet Aerospace Inc. against Guangzhou Tyrafos Semiconductor Technologies Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 59.3/100 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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