Where does Metso Finland Oy rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Metso Finland Oy ranks #48,708 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 Metso Finland Oy hold?

Metso Finland Oy holds 5 US utility patents granted between 2024 and 2025, spanning 4 technology areas.

What is Metso Finland Oy's Innovation Score?

Metso Finland Oy has an Innovation Score of 32.0 out of 100 (40th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Metso Finland Oy's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Insufficient historical data is available to calculate a velocity trend for Metso Finland Oy.

What does claim depth mean for Metso Finland Oy's patents?

Metso Finland Oy's patents average 20.2 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 Metso Finland Oy 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

Metso Finland Oy

Q: What technology areas does Metso Finland Oy focus on?

Metso Finland Oy's top technology area is B02C (Crushing, Pulverising, OR Disintegrating IN GENERAL; Milling Grain) with 3 patents. Grants appear in 4 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 5 granted patents across 4 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2024–2025. 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: B02C (Crushing, Pulverising, OR Disintegrating IN GENERAL; Milling Grain).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Metso ranks #48,708 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 5 patents across 4 technology areas.

#48,708
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 40th percentile
by Innovation Score (32.0/100): 20.2
avg claims per patent

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R48708 · Foreign Corporation #48,708 · 5 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · BOTTOM-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-FRNCORP · SPAN-YRS · BOOK-RICH

GRANTS-MICRO 5 grants
BOTTOM-DECILE #48,708/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Metadata
CPC-NARROW B02C · 4 areas
INNOV-THIN 32.0/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 20.2 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
SPAN-YRS 2024–2025 · 2y
BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Metadata, 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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Metso Finland Oy · this assignee

32
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Metso's Innovation Score is 32.0/100 (40th percentile 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.

Where Metso's grants concentrate

Metso Finland Oy is a focused PatentsView assignee: 4 CPC subclasses with 60% of grants classified under B02C (Crushing, Pulverising, OR Disintegrating IN GENERAL; Milling Grain). By volume, Metso sits between Metadata, Inc. and MiTAC Research (Shanghai) Ltd..

Metso's three-year grant acceleration

Metso Finland Oy shows 1 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 Metso holds 5 patents at rank #48,841, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Metso

By rank, the assignees closest to #48,841 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B02C (Crushing)

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

Metso's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

32 40th percentile higher than 40% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2024–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2024–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Metso Finland Oy patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2024	1	20.0%
2025partial year	4	80.0%

Which technologies does Metso Finland Oy patent most?

B02C - Crushing, Pulverising, OR Disintegrating IN GENERAL; Milling Grain 3

B65G - Transport OR Storage Devices, e.g. Conveyors FOR Loading OR Tipping, Shop Conveyor Systems OR Pneumatic Tube Conveyors 1

B03D - FLOTATION; Differential Sedimentation 1

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

Top 4 of 4 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#48,708

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

32.0 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

Metso Finland Oy's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Metso Finland Oy's lead technology class is B02C (Crushing, Pulverising, OR Disintegrating IN GENERAL; Milling Grain), 60% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B02C
Ranked #48,708 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
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Innovation Score of 32.0/100 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.