Where does Outotec (FINLAND) OY rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Outotec (FINLAND) OY ranks #2,255 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 Outotec (FINLAND) OY hold?

Outotec (FINLAND) OY holds 174 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 78 technology areas.

What is Outotec (FINLAND) OY's Innovation Score?

Outotec (FINLAND) OY has an Innovation Score of 52.9 out of 100 (top 9% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Outotec (FINLAND) OY's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Outotec (FINLAND) OY's recent grant velocity is -46% 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 Outotec (FINLAND) OY's patents?

Outotec (FINLAND) OY's patents average 15.2 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 Outotec (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

Outotec (FINLAND) OY

Q: What technology areas does Outotec (FINLAND) OY focus on?

Outotec (FINLAND) OY's top technology area is Y02P (Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods) with 59 patents. Grants appear in 78 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 174 granted patents across 78 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: Y02P (Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Outotec ranks #2,255 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 174 patents across 78 technology areas.

#2,255
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 9%
by Innovation Score (52.9/100): 15.2
avg claims per patent: -46%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2255 · Foreign Corporation #2,255 · 174 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 174 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,255/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Florida Foundation…
CPC-WIDE Y02P · 78 areas
INNOV-PAR 52.9/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.2 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -46% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Florida Foundation Seed Producers, 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
El · near

53
Foundation Medicine · near

53
Japan Agency FOR… · near

53
Netease (HANGZHOU)… · near

53
Outotec (FINLAND) OY · this assignee

53
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Outotec's Innovation Score is 52.9/100 (top 9% 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.

How Outotec's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Outotec (FINLAND) OY received 60 grants versus 112 in 2015–2019 (-46% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2019 at 38 grants and bottomed in 2015 at 1. Lead class Y02P accounts for 33.9% of the portfolio across 78 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Florida Foundation Seed Producers, Inc. (#2,251) and Valeo Equipements Electriques Moteur (#2,259).

Outotec's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Outotec (FINLAND) OY moved from 86 to 12 grants (0.14x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). Among 3,296 tracked assignees with ≥100 grants and ≥20 prior-period grants, that multiple ranks #3,144. See the growth leaderboard.

Florida Foundatio…

174
Fresenius Kabi De…

174
Joseph Joseph

174
NAN YA Plastics

174
SIG Sauer

174
Stmicroelectronic…

174
Sumitomo Construc…

174
Valeo Equipements…

174
Outotec (Finland)… ◀

174

What this shows Outotec holds 174 patents at rank #2,255, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Outotec

By rank, the assignees closest to #2,255 in granted patent volume.

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

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Outotec, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above).

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (53 here).

Netease (HANGZHOU) Network Co., Ltd. 53 Japan Agency FOR Marine-earth Science AND Technology 53 Foundation Medicine, Inc. 53 El Electronics LLC 53

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (15.2 here).

AT&S Austria Technologie & Systemtechnik Aktiengesellschaft 15.2 avg Newfrey LLC 15.2 avg Institut Curie 15.2 avg Nuvoton Technology Corporation 15.2 avg

Outotec's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

53 Top 9% higher than 91% 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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Outotec (FINLAND) OY patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1	0.6%
2016	11	6.3%
2017	33	19.0%
2018	29	16.7%
2019	38	21.8%
2020	36	20.7%
2021	12	6.9%
2022	7	4.0%
2023	4	2.3%
2024	1	0.6%
2025partial year	2	1.1%

Which technologies does Outotec (FINLAND) OY patent most?

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 59

C22B - Production AND Refining OF Metals ; Pretreatment OF RAW Materials 53

B01D - Separation 39

F27D - Details OR Accessories OF Furnaces, Kilns, Ovens OR Retorts, IN SO FAR AS They ARE OF Kinds Occurring IN More Than ONE Kind OF Furnace 30

F27B - Furnaces, Kilns, Ovens OR Retorts IN GENERAL; Open Sintering OR Like Apparatus 26

B03D - FLOTATION; Differential Sedimentation 17

B01J - Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus 14

B02C - Crushing, Pulverising, OR Disintegrating IN GENERAL; Milling Grain 14

C02F - Treatment OF Water, Waste Water, Sewage, OR Sludge 13

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

B01F - Mixing, e.g. Dissolving, Emulsifying OR Dispersing 11

C01B - Non-metallic ELEMENTS; Compounds THEREOF; ; Metalloids OR Compounds Thereof NOT Covered BY Subclass C01c 9

C21C - Processing OF Pig-iron, e.g. Refining, Manufacture OF Wrought-iron OR STEEL; Treatment IN Molten State OF Ferrous Alloys 7

B65G - Transport OR Storage Devices, e.g. Conveyors FOR Loading OR Tipping, Shop Conveyor Systems OR Pneumatic Tube Conveyors 7

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 6

Top 15 of 78 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#2,255

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

52.9 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

Outotec (FINLAND) OY's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Outotec (FINLAND) OY's lead technology class is Y02P (Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods), 33.9% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore Y02P
Ranked #2,255 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Outotec (FINLAND) OY against Florida Foundation Seed Producers, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 52.9/100 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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