Where does John Cockerill SA rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), John Cockerill SA ranks #41,129 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 John Cockerill SA hold?

John Cockerill SA holds 6 US utility patents granted between 2022 and 2025, spanning 14 technology areas.

What is John Cockerill SA's Innovation Score?

John Cockerill SA has an Innovation Score of 48.6 out of 100 (top 16% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is John Cockerill SA's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Insufficient historical data is available to calculate a velocity trend for John Cockerill SA.

What does claim depth mean for John Cockerill SA's patents?

John Cockerill SA'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 John Cockerill SA 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

John Cockerill SA

Q: What technology areas does John Cockerill SA focus on?

John Cockerill SA's top technology area is C21D (Modifying THE Physical Structure OF Ferrous METALS; General Devices FOR Heat Treatment OF Ferrous OR Non-ferrous Metals OR ALLOYS; Making Metal Malleable, e.g. BY Decarburisation OR Tempering) with 2 patents, ranking #187 of 428 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 14 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 6 granted patents across 14 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2022–2025. 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: C21D (Modifying THE Physical Structure OF Ferrous METALS; General Devices FOR Heat Treatment OF Ferrous OR Non-ferrous Metals OR ALLOYS; Making Metal Malleable, e.g. BY Decarburisation OR Tempering).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, John ranks #41,129 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 6 patents across 14 technology areas.

#41,129
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 16%
by Innovation Score (48.6/100): 14.5
avg claims per patent

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R41129 · Foreign Corporation #41,129 · 6 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · LOWER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · SPAN-YRS · BOOK-RICH

GRANTS-MICRO 6 grants
LOWER-Q #41,129/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Jiaxing Bepal…
CPC-FOCUS C21D · 14 areas
INNOV-PAR 48.6/100
CLAIMS-RICH 14.5 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
SPAN-YRS 2022–2025 · 4y
BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Jiaxing Bepal Technology Co., Ltd. (±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 John’s 48.6 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 6.7 pts (14%) Velocity 20.0 pts (41%) Breadth 13.2 pts (27%) Claim depth 8.7 pts (18%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
H Lundbeck A/S · near

49
Herakles · near

49
John Cockerill · this assignee

49
Kulite Semiconductor… · near

49
Samsung Engineering · near

49
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows John's Innovation Score is 48.6/100 (top 16% 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 John?

Each dot is one of John’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). John’s own 14.5 claims/patent is ABOVE the 10.8 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where John's grants concentrate

John Cockerill SA is a focused PatentsView assignee: 14 CPC subclasses with 33.3% of grants classified under C21D (Modifying THE Physical Structure OF Ferrous METALS; General Devices FOR Heat Treatment OF Ferrous OR Non-ferrous Metals OR ALLOYS; Making Metal Malleable, e.g. BY Decarburisation OR Tempering). Peak complete grant year is 2023 (2 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2022. By volume, John sits between Jiaxing Bepal Technology Co., Ltd. and Johnson Technologies Corporation.

John's three-year grant acceleration

John Cockerill SA shows 5 grants in 2022–2024 against only 0 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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What this shows John holds 6 patents at rank #41,116, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near John

By rank, the assignees closest to #41,116 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C21D (Modifying THE Physical Structure OF Ferrous Metals)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for John, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In C21D (Modifying THE Physical Structure OF Ferrous Metals), John ranks #187 of 428 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (49 here).

Samsung Engineering Co., Ltd. 49 Herakles 49 Kulite Semiconductor Products, Inc. 49 H. Lundbeck A/S 49

John's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

49 Top 16% higher than 84% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2022–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2022–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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John Cockerill SA patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2022	1	16.7%
2023	2	33.3%
2024	2	33.3%
2025partial year	1	16.7%

Which technologies does John Cockerill SA patent most?

C21D - Modifying THE Physical Structure OF Ferrous METALS; General Devices FOR Heat Treatment OF Ferrous OR Non-ferrous Metals OR ALLOYS; Making Metal Malleable, e.g. BY Decarburisation OR Tempering 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

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 2

F27D - Details OR Accessories OF Furnaces, Kilns, Ovens OR Retorts, IN SO FAR AS They ARE OF Kinds Occurring IN More Than ONE Kind OF Furnace 1

C22F - Changing THE Physical Structure OF Non-ferrous Metals AND Non-ferrous Alloys 1

B05C - Apparatus FOR Applying Fluent Materials TO Surfaces, IN General 1

Y02W - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Wastewater Treatment OR Waste Management 1

C02F - Treatment OF Water, Waste Water, Sewage, OR Sludge 1

F27B - Furnaces, Kilns, Ovens OR Retorts IN GENERAL; Open Sintering OR Like Apparatus 1

F28D - Heat-exchange Apparatus, NOT Provided FOR IN Another Subclass, IN Which THE Heat-exchange Media DO NOT Come Into Direct Contact 1

F22B - Methods OF Steam GENERATION; Steam Boilers 1

F28F - Details OF Heat-exchange AND Heat-transfer Apparatus, OF General Application 1

F24S - Solar Heat COLLECTORS; Solar Heat Systems 1

B01D - Separation 1

Top 14 of 14 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

John Cockerill SA's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

John Cockerill SA's lead technology class is C21D (Modifying THE Physical Structure OF Ferrous METALS; General Devices FOR Heat Treatment OF Ferrous OR Non-ferrous Metals OR ALLOYS; Making Metal Malleable, e.g. BY Decarburisation OR Tempering), 33.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C21D
Ranked #41,129 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare John Cockerill SA against Jiaxing Bepal Technology Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 48.6/100 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

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.