Where does Oerlikon Metco (US) Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Oerlikon Metco (US) Inc. ranks #6,575 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 (US) Inc. hold?

Oerlikon Metco (US) Inc. holds 51 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 41 technology areas.

What is Oerlikon Metco (US) Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Oerlikon Metco (US) Inc. has an Innovation Score of 51.1 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%).

Is Oerlikon Metco (US) Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Oerlikon Metco (US) Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +56% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Oerlikon Metco (US) Inc.'s patents?

Oerlikon Metco (US) Inc.'s patents average 16.8 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 (US) Inc. 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

Oerlikon Metco (US) Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Oerlikon Metco (US) Inc. focus on?

Oerlikon Metco (US) Inc.'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 25 patents, ranking #112 of 1,658 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 41 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 51 granted patents across 41 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: 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 #6,575 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 51 patents across 41 technology areas.

#6,575
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 12%
by Innovation Score (51.1/100): 16.8
avg claims per patent: +56%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R6575 · US Corporation #6,575 · 51 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 51 grants
UPPER-Q #6,575/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Nokomis
CPC-WIDE C23C · 41 areas
INNOV-PAR 51.1/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.8 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +56% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Nokomis, 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 Oerlikon’s 51.1 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 13.6 pts (27%) Velocity 4.8 pts (9%) Breadth 22.6 pts (44%) Claim depth 10.1 pts (20%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Labrador Diagnostics · near

51
TDA Research · near

51
Umm-Al-Qura University · near

51
Mckinsey & · near

51
Oerlikon Metco (US) · this assignee

51
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Oerlikon's Innovation Score is 51.1/100 (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 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 16.8 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.5 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 (US) Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 41 CPC subclasses with 49% 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 2021 (9 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2016. By volume, Oerlikon sits between Nokomis, Inc. and Paraty B.V.B.A..

Oerlikon's three-year grant acceleration

Oerlikon Metco (US) Inc. shows 13 grants in 2022–2024 against only 18 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.

Nokomis

51
Optical Logic

51
Orion Energy Syst…

51
Ovid Therapeutics

51
Olympus Scientifi…

51
Oneevent

51
Optum Technology

51
Paraty B V B A

51
Oerlikon Metco (U… ◀

51

What this shows Oerlikon holds 51 patents at rank #6,578, 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 #6,578 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C23C (Coating Metallic Material)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Oerlikon, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In C23C (Coating Metallic Material), Oerlikon ranks #112 of 1,658 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (51 here).

Mckinsey & Company, Inc. 51 TDA Research, Inc. 51 Umm-Al-Qura University 51 Labrador Diagnostics LLC 51

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (16.8 here).

AMX LLC 16.8 avg Innoscience (ZHUHAI) Technology Co., Ltd. 16.8 avg Ferro Corporation 16.8 avg Cipla Limited 16.8 avg

Oerlikon'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 · 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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Oerlikon Metco (US) Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	5	9.8%
2016	1	2.0%
2017	3	5.9%
2018	6	11.8%
2019	3	5.9%
2020	6	11.8%
2021	9	17.6%
2022	4	7.8%
2023	5	9.8%
2024	4	7.8%
2025partial year	5	9.8%

Which technologies does Oerlikon Metco (US) Inc. 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 25

C22C - Alloys 18

B22F - Working Metallic POWDER; Manufacture OF Articles From Metallic POWDER; Making Metallic Powder ; Apparatus OR Devices Specially Adapted FOR Metallic Powder 12

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 12

H05H - Plasma Technique ; Production OF Accelerated Electrically-charged Particles OR OF NEUTRONS; Production OR Acceleration OF Neutral Molecular OR Atomic Beams 10

B05B - Spraying APPARATUS; Atomising APPARATUS; Nozzles 8

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 7

F01D - Non-positive Displacement Machines OR Engines, e.g. Steam Turbines 5

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 5

C04B - Lime, MAGNESIA; SLAG; CEMENTS; Compositions Thereof, e.g. Mortars, Concrete OR Like Building MATERIALS; Artificial Stone ; Ceramics ; REFRACTORIES; Treatment OF Natural Stone 5

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 3

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 3

E21B - Earth OR Rock DRILLING; Obtaining OIL, GAS, Water, Soluble OR Meltable Materials OR A Slurry OF Minerals From Wells 2

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 2

F04B - Positive-displacement Machines FOR LIQUIDS; Pumps 2

Top 15 of 41 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 (US) Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Oerlikon Metco (US) Inc.'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), 49% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C23C
Ranked #6,575 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Oerlikon Metco (US) Inc. against Nokomis, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 51.1/100 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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