Where does Materion Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Materion Corporation ranks #2,348 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 Materion Corporation hold?

Materion Corporation holds 167 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 95 technology areas.

What is Materion Corporation's Innovation Score?

Materion Corporation has an Innovation Score of 57.9 out of 100 (top 5% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Materion Corporation focus on?

Materion Corporation's top technology area is C22C (Alloys) with 44 patents, ranking #34 of 948 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 95 CPC subclasses total.

Is Materion Corporation's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Materion Corporation's recent grant velocity is +24% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). The company is maintaining or growing its granted-patent output.

What does claim depth mean for Materion Corporation's patents?

Materion Corporation's patents average 17.1 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 Materion 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

Materion Corporation

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 167 granted patents across 95 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: C22C (Alloys).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Materion ranks #2,348 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 167 patents across 95 technology areas.

#2,348
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 5%
by Innovation Score (57.9/100): 17.1
avg claims per patent: +24%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2348 · US Corporation #2,348 · 167 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-UP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 167 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,348/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH BJ Energy Solutions
CPC-WIDE C22C · 95 areas
INNOV-PAR 57.9/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.1 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-UP +24% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: BJ Energy Solutions, LLC (±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 Materion’s 57.9 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 17.7 pts (31%) Velocity 4.9 pts (8%) Breadth 25.0 pts (43%) Claim depth 10.3 pts (18%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
IPG Photonics · near

58
Materion · this assignee

58
Sensata · near

58
Technische Universit… · near

58
Vertex Pharmaceutica… · near

58
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Materion's Innovation Score is 57.9/100 (top 5% 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 Materion?

Each dot is one of Materion’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). Materion’s own 17.1 claims/patent is ABOVE the 16.1 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How Materion's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Materion Corporation received 89 grants versus 72 in 2015–2019 (+24% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2019 at 27 grants and bottomed in 2015 at 4. Lead class C22C accounts for 26.3% of the portfolio across 95 subclasses. Volume neighbours: BJ Energy Solutions, LLC (#2,344) and Tandem Diabetes Care, Inc. (#2,352).

Materion's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Materion Corporation moved from 67 to 49 grants (0.73x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). Among 3,296 tracked assignees with ≥100 grants and ≥20 prior-period grants, that multiple ranks #2,047. See the growth leaderboard.

BJ Energy Solutio…

167
Forschungszentrum…

167
J C Bamford Excav…

167
Lookout

167
Rakuten Mobile

167
Societe BIC

167
Software

167
Tandem Diabetes C…

167
Materion ◀

167

What this shows Materion holds 167 patents at rank #2,348, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Materion

By rank, the assignees closest to #2,348 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C22C (Alloys)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Materion, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In C22C (Alloys), Materion ranks #34 of 948 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (58 here).

Sensata Technologies, Inc. 58 IPG Photonics Corporation 58 Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated 58 Technische Universität Wien 58

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (17.1 here).

Thomas & Betts International LLC 17.1 avg GE Avio S.R.L. 17.1 avg The Curators of the University of Missouri 17.1 avg Videojet Technologies Inc. 17.1 avg

Materion's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

58 Top 5% higher than 95% 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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Materion Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	4	2.4%
2016	15	9.0%
2017	15	9.0%
2018	11	6.6%
2019	27	16.2%
2020	22	13.2%
2021	18	10.8%
2022	21	12.6%
2023	12	7.2%
2024	16	9.6%
2025partial year	6	3.6%

Which technologies does Materion Corporation patent most?

C22C - Alloys 44

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 36

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 32

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 19

C22F - Changing THE Physical Structure OF Non-ferrous Metals AND Non-ferrous Alloys 17

G03B - Apparatus OR Arrangements FOR Taking Photographs OR FOR Projecting OR Viewing THEM; Apparatus OR Arrangements Employing Analogous Techniques Using Waves Other Than Optical WAVES; Accessories Therefor 17

C08G - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than BY Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds 16

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 15

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 13

C07C - Acyclic OR Carbocyclic Compounds 10

C08K - Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances as compounding ingredients 10

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 10

C03C - Chemical Composition OF Glasses, Glazes OR Vitreous ENAMELS; Surface Treatment OF GLASS; Surface Treatment OF Fibres OR Filaments Made From Glass, Minerals OR SLAGS; Joining Glass TO Glass OR Other Materials 9

E21B - Earth OR Rock DRILLING; Obtaining OIL, GAS, Water, Soluble OR Meltable Materials OR A Slurry OF Minerals From Wells 9

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 9

Top 15 of 95 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

Materion Corporation's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Materion Corporation's lead technology class is C22C (Alloys), 26.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C22C
Ranked #2,348 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Materion Corporation against BJ Energy Solutions, LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 57.9/100 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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