Where does Metallo Belgium rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Metallo Belgium ranks #21,441 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 Metallo Belgium hold?

Metallo Belgium holds 13 US utility patents granted between 2021 and 2025, spanning 9 technology areas.

What is Metallo Belgium's Innovation Score?

Metallo Belgium has an Innovation Score of 50.8 out of 100 (top 12% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Metallo Belgium focus on?

Metallo Belgium's top technology area is Y02P (Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods) with 13 patents, ranking #548 of 4,985 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 9 CPC subclasses total.

Is Metallo Belgium's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Insufficient historical data is available to calculate a velocity trend for Metallo Belgium.

What does claim depth mean for Metallo Belgium's patents?

Metallo Belgium's patents average 18.4 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 Metallo Belgium 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

Metallo Belgium

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 13 granted patents across 9 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2021–2025. 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: Y02P (Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Metallo ranks #21,441 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 13 patents across 9 technology areas.

#21,441
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 12%
by Innovation Score (50.8/100): 18.4
avg claims per patent

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R21441 · Foreign Corporation #21,441 · 13 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · SPAN-YRS · BOOK-RICH

GRANTS-MICRO 13 grants
MID-PACK #21,441/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH MAX Mobility
CPC-NARROW Y02P · 9 areas
INNOV-PAR 50.8/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.4 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
SPAN-YRS 2021–2025 · 5y
BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: MAX Mobility, 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 Metallo’s 50.8 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 9.1 pts (18%) Velocity 20.0 pts (39%) Breadth 10.6 pts (21%) Claim depth 11.0 pts (22%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Metallo Belgium · this assignee

51
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Metallo's Innovation Score is 50.8/100 (top 12% 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 Metallo?

Each dot is one of Metallo’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). Metallo’s own 18.4 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.8 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Metallo's grants concentrate

Metallo Belgium is a focused PatentsView assignee: 9 CPC subclasses with 100% of grants classified under Y02P (Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods). Peak complete grant year is 2023 (6 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2021. By volume, Metallo sits between MAX Mobility, LLC and Micatu Inc..

Metallo's three-year grant acceleration

Metallo Belgium shows 10 grants in 2022–2024 against only 1 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.

MAX Mobility

13
MCQ Tech

13
Mechano Transform…

13
Mellanox Denmark…

13
Metanoia Communic…

13
Metrc

13
Mgmd Brainpower

13
Micatu

13
Metallo Belgium ◀

13

What this shows Metallo holds 13 patents at rank #21,414, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Metallo

By rank, the assignees closest to #21,414 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in Y02P (Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production…)

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

Metallo's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

51 Top 12% higher than 88% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2021–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2021–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Metallo Belgium patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2021	1	7.7%
2023	6	46.2%
2024	4	30.8%
2025partial year	2	15.4%

Which technologies does Metallo Belgium patent most?

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 13

C22B - Production AND Refining OF Metals ; Pretreatment OF RAW Materials 11

C22C - Alloys 10

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 8

B01D - Separation 3

C04B - Lime, MAGNESIA; SLAG; CEMENTS; Compositions Thereof, e.g. Mortars, Concrete OR Like Building MATERIALS; Artificial Stone ; Ceramics ; REFRACTORIES; Treatment OF Natural Stone 2

Y02W - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Wastewater Treatment OR Waste Management 2

B28B - Shaping Clay OR Other Ceramic COMPOSITIONS; Shaping SLAG; Shaping Mixtures Containing Cementitious Material, e.g. Plaster 2

C25C - Processes FOR THE Electrolytic Production, Recovery OR Refining OF METALS; Apparatus Therefor 1

Top 9 of 9 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

Metallo Belgium's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Metallo Belgium's lead technology class is Y02P (Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods), 100% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore Y02P
Ranked #21,441 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Metallo Belgium against MAX Mobility, LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 50.8/100 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.