Where does Primetals Technologies Austria GmbH rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Primetals Technologies Austria GmbH ranks #2,732 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 Primetals Technologies Austria GmbH hold?

Primetals Technologies Austria GmbH holds 142 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 60 technology areas.

What is Primetals Technologies Austria GmbH's Innovation Score?

Primetals Technologies Austria GmbH has an Innovation Score of 57.5 out of 100 (top 5% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Primetals Technologies Austria GmbH focus on?

Primetals Technologies Austria GmbH's top technology area is B21B (Rolling OF Metal) with 72 patents, ranking #5 of 171 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 60 CPC subclasses total.

Is Primetals Technologies Austria GmbH's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Primetals Technologies Austria GmbH's recent grant velocity is +5% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). The company is maintaining or growing its granted-patent output.

What does claim depth mean for Primetals Technologies Austria GmbH's patents?

Primetals Technologies Austria GmbH's patents average 13.9 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 Primetals Technologies Austria GmbH 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

Primetals Technologies Austria GmbH

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 142 granted patents across 60 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: B21B (Rolling OF Metal).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Primetals ranks #2,732 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 142 patents across 60 technology areas.

#2,732
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 5%
by Innovation Score (57.5/100): 13.9
avg claims per patent: +5%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2732 · Foreign Corporation #2,732 · 142 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 142 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,732/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Ofinno
CPC-WIDE B21B · 60 areas
INNOV-PAR 57.5/100
CLAIMS-RICH 13.9 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-FLAT +5% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Ofinno Technologies, 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 Primetals’s 57.5 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 17.1 pts (30%) Velocity 7.0 pts (12%) Breadth 25.0 pts (44%) Claim depth 8.3 pts (14%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Bystronic Laser · near

57
Kddi · near

57
Primetals Austria · this assignee

57
Nano and Advanced… · near

57
The PNC Financial… · near

57
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Primetals's Innovation Score is 57.5/100 (top 5% 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 Primetals?

Each dot is one of Primetals’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). Primetals’s own 13.9 claims/patent is at or below the 16.9 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

How Primetals's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Primetals Technologies Austria GmbH received 69 grants versus 66 in 2015–2019 (+5% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2017 at 19 grants and bottomed in 2015 at 3. Lead class B21B accounts for 50.7% of the portfolio across 60 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Owen Mumford Limited (#2,728) and Amosense Co., Ltd. (#2,736).

Primetals's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Primetals Technologies Austria GmbH moved from 40 to 42 grants (1.05x 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 #1,063. See the growth leaderboard.

Owen Mumford

142
Ofinno

142
Outdoor Wireless…

142
PDF Solutions

142
Roblox

142
Technische Univer…

142
The George Washin…

142
Primetals Austria ◀

142
Amosense

141

What this shows Primetals holds 142 patents at rank #2,732, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Primetals

By rank, the assignees closest to #2,732 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B21B (Rolling OF Metal)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Primetals, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B21B (Rolling OF Metal), Primetals ranks #5 of 171 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (57 here).

Kddi Corporation 57 Bystronic Laser AG 57 Nano and Advanced Materials Institute Limited 57 The PNC Financial Services Group, Inc. 57

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (13.9 here).

Munchkin, Inc. 13.9 avg Frito-Lay North America, Inc. 13.9 avg Black Sesame Technologies Inc. 13.9 avg Meyn Food Processing Technology B.V. 13.9 avg

Primetals's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

57 Top 5% higher than 95% 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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Primetals Technologies Austria GmbH patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	3	2.1%
2016	14	9.9%
2017	19	13.4%
2018	17	12.0%
2019	13	9.2%
2020	12	8.5%
2021	15	10.6%
2022	12	8.5%
2023	15	10.6%
2024	15	10.6%
2025partial year	7	4.9%

Which technologies does Primetals Technologies Austria GmbH patent most?

B21B - Rolling OF Metal 72

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 36

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 28

C21B - Manufacture OF Iron OR Steel 28

B22D - Casting OF METALS; Casting OF Other Substances BY THE Same Processes OR Devices 24

F27B - Furnaces, Kilns, Ovens OR Retorts IN GENERAL; Open Sintering OR Like Apparatus 20

B21C - Manufacture OF Metal Sheets, Wire, Rods, Tubes, Profiles OR Like Semi-manufactured Products Otherwise Than BY ROLLING; Auxiliary Operations Used IN Connection With Metal-working Without Essentially Removing Material 15

C21D - Modifying THE Physical Structure OF Ferrous METALS; General Devices FOR Heat Treatment OF Ferrous OR Non-ferrous Metals OR ALLOYS; Making Metal Malleable, e.g. BY Decarburisation OR Tempering 12

C21C - Processing OF Pig-iron, e.g. Refining, Manufacture OF Wrought-iron OR STEEL; Treatment IN Molten State OF Ferrous Alloys 10

B65H - Handling Thin OR Filamentary Material, e.g. Sheets, Webs, Cables 9

B65G - Transport OR Storage Devices, e.g. Conveyors FOR Loading OR Tipping, Shop Conveyor Systems OR Pneumatic Tube Conveyors 6

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 6

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

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

B01D - Separation 4

Top 15 of 60 technology areas

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USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

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What to do with this data

Primetals Technologies Austria GmbH's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Primetals Technologies Austria GmbH's lead technology class is B21B (Rolling OF Metal), 50.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B21B
Ranked #2,732 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Primetals Technologies Austria GmbH against Owen Mumford Limited, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 57.5/100 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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