Where does Metalysis Limited rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Metalysis Limited ranks #22,981 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 Metalysis Limited hold?

Metalysis Limited holds 12 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2022, spanning 14 technology areas.

What is Metalysis Limited's Innovation Score?

Metalysis Limited has an Innovation Score of 42.5 out of 100 (top 30% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Metalysis Limited focus on?

Metalysis Limited's top technology area is C25C (Processes FOR THE Electrolytic Production, Recovery OR Refining OF METALS; Apparatus Therefor) with 12 patents, ranking #6 of 77 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 14 CPC subclasses total.

Is Metalysis Limited's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Metalysis Limited's recent grant velocity is -50% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). Grant activity has slowed relative to earlier years.

What does claim depth mean for Metalysis Limited's patents?

Metalysis Limited's patents average 22.9 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 Metalysis Limited 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

Metalysis Limited

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 12 granted patents across 14 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2022. 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: C25C (Processes FOR THE Electrolytic Production, Recovery OR Refining OF METALS; Apparatus Therefor).

Compiled by PlainPatent · May 15, 2026

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Metalysis ranks #22,981 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 12 patents across 14 technology areas.

#22,981
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 30%
by Innovation Score (42.5/100): 22.9
avg claims per patent: -50%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R22981 · Foreign Corporation #22,981 · 12 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 12 grants
MID-PACK #22,981/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Menlo Therapeutics
CPC-FOCUS C25C · 14 areas
INNOV-PAR 42.5/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 22.9 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -50% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Menlo Therapeutics Inc. (±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 Metalysis’s 42.5 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 8.9 pts (21%) Velocity 6.7 pts (16%) Breadth 13.2 pts (31%) Claim depth 13.8 pts (32%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Metalysis · this assignee

43
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Metalysis's Innovation Score is 42.5/100 (top 30% 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 Metalysis?

Each dot is one of Metalysis’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). Metalysis’s own 22.9 claims/patent is ABOVE the 12.8 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Metalysis's grants concentrate

Metalysis Limited is a focused PatentsView assignee: 14 CPC subclasses with 100% of grants classified under C25C (Processes FOR THE Electrolytic Production, Recovery OR Refining OF METALS; Apparatus Therefor). Peak complete grant year is 2017 (3 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2015. By volume, Metalysis sits between Menlo Therapeutics Inc. and Microrganic Technologies, Inc..

Metalysis's three-year grant acceleration

Metalysis Limited shows 2 grants in 2022–2024 against only 2 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.

Menlo Therapeutics

12
Merry Yard Intern…

12
Mersen France SB…

12
Metabank

12
MHI Health Devices

12
Micro Matic A/S

12
Micronics

12
Microrganic

12
Metalysis ◀

12

What this shows Metalysis holds 12 patents at rank #22,945, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Metalysis

By rank, the assignees closest to #22,945 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C25C (Processes FOR THE Electrolytic Production)

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

Metalysis's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

43 Top 30% higher than 70% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2022

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2015–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Metalysis Limited patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1	8.3%
2016	1	8.3%
2017	3	25.0%
2018	3	25.0%
2020	1	8.3%
2021	1	8.3%
2022	2	16.7%

Which technologies does Metalysis Limited patent most?

C25C - Processes FOR THE Electrolytic Production, Recovery OR Refining OF METALS; Apparatus Therefor 12

C22B - Production AND Refining OF Metals ; Pretreatment OF RAW Materials 5

B22F - Working Metallic POWDER; Manufacture OF Articles From Metallic POWDER; Making Metallic Powder ; Apparatus OR Devices Specially Adapted FOR Metallic Powder 3

H01G - CAPACITORS; Capacitors, Rectifiers, Detectors, Switching Devices, Light-sensitive OR Temperature-sensitive Devices OF THE Electrolytic Type 3

C22C - Alloys 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 1

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 1

B22D - Casting OF METALS; Casting OF Other Substances BY THE Same Processes OR Devices 1

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 1

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 1

C01P - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Structural AND Physical Aspects OF Solid Inorganic Compounds 1

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 1

C25B - Electrolytic OR Electrophoretic Processes FOR THE Production OF Compounds OR NON-METALS; Apparatus Therefor 1

C01B - Non-metallic ELEMENTS; Compounds THEREOF; ; Metalloids OR Compounds Thereof NOT Covered BY Subclass C01c 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

Metalysis Limited's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Metalysis Limited's lead technology class is C25C (Processes FOR THE Electrolytic Production, Recovery OR Refining OF METALS; Apparatus Therefor), 100% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C25C
Ranked #22,981 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Metalysis Limited against Menlo Therapeutics Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 42.5/100 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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