Where does Oerlikon Metco AG, Wohlen rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Oerlikon Metco AG, Wohlen ranks #21,547 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 Oerlikon Metco AG, Wohlen hold?

Oerlikon Metco AG, Wohlen holds 13 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2025, spanning 22 technology areas.

What is Oerlikon Metco AG, Wohlen's Innovation Score?

Oerlikon Metco AG, Wohlen has an Innovation Score of 41.8 out of 100 (top 32% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Oerlikon Metco AG, Wohlen's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Oerlikon Metco AG, Wohlen'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 Oerlikon Metco AG, Wohlen's patents?

Oerlikon Metco AG, Wohlen's patents average 15.8 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 Oerlikon Metco AG, Wohlen 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

Oerlikon Metco AG, Wohlen

Q: What technology areas does Oerlikon Metco AG, Wohlen focus on?

Oerlikon Metco AG, Wohlen's top technology area is 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) with 9 patents, ranking #278 of 1,658 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 22 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 13 granted patents across 22 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2025. 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: 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 Evap).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Oerlikon ranks #21,547 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 13 patents across 22 technology areas.

#21,547
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 32%
by Innovation Score (41.8/100): 15.8
avg claims per patent: -50%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R21547 · Foreign Corporation #21,547 · 13 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 13 grants
MID-PACK #21,547/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Nutrition21
CPC-FOCUS C23C · 22 areas
INNOV-PAR 41.8/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.8 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -50% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Nutrition21, 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 Oerlikon’s 41.8 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 (22%) Velocity 6.7 pts (16%) Breadth 16.6 pts (40%) Claim depth 9.5 pts (23%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Oerlikon Metco Wohlen · this assignee

42
3D Lighting… · lowest

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What this shows Oerlikon's Innovation Score is 41.8/100 (top 32% 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 Oerlikon?

Each dot is one of Oerlikon’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). Oerlikon’s own 15.8 claims/patent is ABOVE the 12.9 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Oerlikon's grants concentrate

Oerlikon Metco AG, Wohlen is a focused PatentsView assignee: 22 CPC subclasses with 69.2% of grants classified under 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 Evap). Peak complete grant year is 2017 (3 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2018. By volume, Oerlikon sits between Nutrition21, LLC and Omnisens SA.

Oerlikon's three-year grant acceleration

Oerlikon Metco AG, Wohlen shows 3 grants in 2022–2024 against only 3 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.

Nutrition21

13
Oben

13
Obshchestvo S Ogr…

13
Oculus Optikgerae…

13
Ohfg (Shanghai)

13
OK International

13
Olympus NDT

13
Omnisens

13
Oerlikon Metco Wo… ◀

13

What this shows Oerlikon holds 13 patents at rank #21,543, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Oerlikon

By rank, the assignees closest to #21,543 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C23C (Coating Metallic Material)

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

Oerlikon's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

42 Top 32% higher than 68% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2016–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Oerlikon Metco AG, Wohlen patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	2	15.4%
2017	3	23.1%
2018	1	7.7%
2019	2	15.4%
2021	1	7.7%
2023	2	15.4%
2024	1	7.7%
2025partial year	1	7.7%

Which technologies does Oerlikon Metco AG, Wohlen patent most?

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 9

B05B - Spraying APPARATUS; Atomising APPARATUS; Nozzles 6

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 5

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 3

C22C - Alloys 3

B05D - Processes FOR Applying Fluent Materials TO Surfaces, IN General 2

F02F - Cylinders, Pistons OR Casings, FOR Combustion ENGINES; Arrangements OF Sealings IN Combustion Engines 2

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 2

F16C - SHAFTS; Flexible SHAFTS; Elements OR Crankshaft MECHANISMS; Rotary Bodies Other Than Gearing ELEMENTS; Bearings 1

C09D - Coating Compositions, e.g. Paints, Varnishes OR LACQUERS; Filling PASTES; Chemical Paint OR INK REMOVERS; INKS; Correcting FLUIDS; WOODSTAINS; Pastes OR Solids FOR Colouring OR PRINTING; USE OF Materials Therefor 1

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

C30B - Single-crystal Growth ; Unidirectional Solidification OF Eutectic Material OR Unidirectional Demixing OF Eutectoid MATERIAL; Refining BY Zone-melting OF Material ; Production OF A Homogeneous Polycrystalline Material With Defined Structure ; Single Crystals OR Homogeneous Polycrystalline Material WI 1

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 1

H05H - Plasma Technique ; Production OF Accelerated Electrically-charged Particles OR OF NEUTRONS; Production OR Acceleration OF Neutral Molecular OR Atomic Beams 1

F05C - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Materials, Material Properties OR Material Characteristics FOR Machines, Engines OR Pumps Other Than Non-positive-displacement Machines OR Engines 1

Top 15 of 22 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

Oerlikon Metco AG, Wohlen's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Oerlikon Metco AG, Wohlen's lead technology class is 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 Evap), 69.2% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C23C
Ranked #21,547 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Oerlikon Metco AG, Wohlen against Nutrition21, LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 41.8/100 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

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