Where does Primetals Technologies USA LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Primetals Technologies USA LLC ranks #12,175 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 USA LLC hold?

Primetals Technologies USA LLC holds 25 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 18 technology areas.

What is Primetals Technologies USA LLC's Innovation Score?

Primetals Technologies USA LLC has an Innovation Score of 39.1 out of 100 (top 39% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Primetals Technologies USA LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Primetals Technologies USA LLC's recent grant velocity is -47% 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 Primetals Technologies USA LLC's patents?

Primetals Technologies USA LLC's patents average 12.2 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 Primetals Technologies USA LLC 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

Primetals Technologies USA LLC

Q: What technology areas does Primetals Technologies USA LLC focus on?

Primetals Technologies USA LLC's top technology area is 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) with 13 patents, ranking #10 of 268 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 18 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 25 granted patents across 18 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: 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 RE).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Primetals ranks #12,175 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 25 patents across 18 technology areas.

#12,175
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 39%
by Innovation Score (39.1/100): 12.2
avg claims per patent: -47%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R12175 · US Corporation #12,175 · 25 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 25 grants
UPPER-Q #12,175/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Pictiva Displays…
CPC-FOCUS B21C · 18 areas
INNOV-THIN 39.1/100
CLAIMS-RICH 12.2 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -47% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Pictiva Displays International Limited (±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 39.1 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 11.3 pts (29%) Velocity 5.6 pts (14%) Breadth 15.0 pts (38%) Claim depth 7.3 pts (19%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
China Communication… · near

39
Monterey Research · near

39
Primetals USA · this assignee

39
Shanghai Xiaoyi… · near

39
The Southern · near

39
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Primetals's Innovation Score is 39.1/100 (top 39% 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 12.2 claims/patent is at or below the 16.1 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.

Where Primetals's grants concentrate

Primetals Technologies USA LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 18 CPC subclasses with 52% of grants classified under 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 RE). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (4 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2021. By volume, Primetals sits between Pictiva Displays International Limited and PwC Product Sales LLC.

Primetals's three-year grant acceleration

Primetals Technologies USA LLC shows 5 grants in 2022–2024 against only 6 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.

Pictiva Displays…

25
Placeiq

25
Pneumrx

25
Powerhouse Engine…

25
Princeton Identity

25
Princeton Technol…

25
Prospira

25
Pwc Product Sales

25
Primetals USA ◀

25

What this shows Primetals holds 25 patents at rank #12,173, 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 #12,173 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B21C (Manufacture OF Metal Sheets)

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 B21C (Manufacture OF Metal Sheets), Primetals ranks #10 of 268 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (39 here).

China Communication Technology Co., Ltd. 39 Monterey Research, LLC 39 Shanghai Xiaoyi Technology Co., Ltd. 39 The Southern Company 39

Primetals's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

39 Top 39% higher than 61% 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 USA LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	4	16.0%
2016	2	8.0%
2017	2	8.0%
2018	4	16.0%
2019	3	12.0%
2020	2	8.0%
2021	1	4.0%
2022	2	8.0%
2023	2	8.0%
2024	1	4.0%
2025partial year	2	8.0%

Which technologies does Primetals Technologies USA LLC patent most?

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 13

B21B - Rolling OF Metal 13

B65H - Handling Thin OR Filamentary Material, e.g. Sheets, Webs, Cables 4

B65G - Transport OR Storage Devices, e.g. Conveyors FOR Loading OR Tipping, Shop Conveyor Systems OR Pneumatic Tube Conveyors 3

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 2

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 2

B21F - Working OR Processing OF Metal Wire 2

B05B - Spraying APPARATUS; Atomising APPARATUS; Nozzles 2

B26D - CUTTING; Details Common TO Machines FOR Perforating, Punching, Cutting-out, Stamping-out OR Severing 2

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 2

F16C - SHAFTS; Flexible SHAFTS; Elements OR Crankshaft MECHANISMS; Rotary Bodies Other Than Gearing ELEMENTS; Bearings 2

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 2

B23D - PLANING; SLOTTING; SHEARING; BROACHING; SAWING; FILING; SCRAPING; Like Operations FOR Working Metal BY Removing Material, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1

B65B - Machines, Apparatus OR Devices FOR, OR Methods OF, Packaging Articles OR MATERIALS; Unpacking 1

G10L - Speech Analysis Techniques OR Speech SYNTHESIS; Speech RECOGNITION; Speech OR Voice Processing TECHNIQUES; Speech OR Audio Coding OR Decoding 1

Top 15 of 18 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

Primetals Technologies USA LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Primetals Technologies USA LLC's lead technology class is 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 RE), 52% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B21C
Ranked #12,175 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Primetals Technologies USA LLC against Pictiva Displays International Limited, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 39.1/100 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.

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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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