Where does Terralithium LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Terralithium LLC ranks #21,884 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 Terralithium LLC hold?

Terralithium LLC holds 13 US utility patents granted between 2020 and 2025, spanning 16 technology areas.

What is Terralithium LLC's Innovation Score?

Terralithium LLC has an Innovation Score of 39.7 out of 100 (top 37% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Terralithium LLC focus on?

Terralithium LLC's top technology area is C22B (Production AND Refining OF Metals ; Pretreatment OF RAW Materials) with 9 patents, ranking #36 of 335 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 16 CPC subclasses total.

Is Terralithium LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Insufficient historical data is available to calculate a velocity trend for Terralithium LLC.

What does claim depth mean for Terralithium LLC's patents?

Terralithium LLC's patents average 14.1 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 Terralithium 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

Terralithium LLC

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 13 granted patents across 16 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2020–2025. 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: C22B (Production AND Refining OF Metals ; Pretreatment OF RAW Materials).

Compiled by PlainPatent · May 15, 2026

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Terralithium ranks #21,884 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 13 patents across 16 technology areas.

#21,884
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 37%
by Innovation Score (39.7/100): 14.1
avg claims per patent

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R21884 · US Corporation #21,884 · 13 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · SPAN-YRS · BOOK-RICH

GRANTS-MICRO 13 grants
MID-PACK #21,884/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Avancees ET…
CPC-FOCUS C22B · 16 areas
INNOV-THIN 39.7/100
CLAIMS-RICH 14.1 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
SPAN-YRS 2020–2025 · 6y
BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Technologies Avancees ET Membranes Industrielles (±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 Terralithium’s 39.7 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 (23%) Velocity 8.0 pts (20%) Breadth 14.1 pts (36%) Claim depth 8.4 pts (21%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

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Terralithium · this assignee

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What this shows Terralithium's Innovation Score is 39.7/100 (top 37% 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 Terralithium?

Each dot is one of Terralithium’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). Terralithium’s own 14.1 claims/patent is ABOVE the 11.7 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Terralithium's grants concentrate

Terralithium LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 16 CPC subclasses with 69.2% of grants classified under C22B (Production AND Refining OF Metals ; Pretreatment OF RAW Materials). Peak complete grant year is 2020 (3 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2021. By volume, Terralithium sits between Technologies Avancees ET Membranes Industrielles and THD S.P.A..

Terralithium's three-year grant acceleration

Terralithium LLC shows 6 grants in 2022–2024 against only 5 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.

Avancees ET Membr…

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Telink Semiconduc…

13
Tentsile

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Terranet AB

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What this shows Terralithium holds 13 patents at rank #21,874, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Terralithium

By rank, the assignees closest to #21,874 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C22B (Production AND Refining OF Metals)

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

Terralithium's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

40 Top 37% higher than 63% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2020–2025

Grants by year

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

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Terralithium LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2020	3	23.1%
2021	2	15.4%
2022	2	15.4%
2023	2	15.4%
2024	2	15.4%
2025partial year	2	15.4%

Which technologies does Terralithium LLC patent most?

C22B - Production AND Refining OF Metals ; Pretreatment OF RAW Materials 9

C01D - Compounds OF Alkali Metals, i.e. Lithium, Sodium, Potassium, Rubidium, Caesium, OR Francium 7

B01J - Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus 7

C09K - Materials FOR Miscellaneous Applications, NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere 7

C02F - Treatment OF Water, Waste Water, Sewage, OR Sludge 7

C01B - Non-metallic ELEMENTS; Compounds THEREOF; ; Metalloids OR Compounds Thereof NOT Covered BY Subclass C01c 6

B01D - Separation 6

C01P - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Structural AND Physical Aspects OF Solid Inorganic Compounds 5

C25B - Electrolytic OR Electrophoretic Processes FOR THE Production OF Compounds OR NON-METALS; Apparatus Therefor 4

C25C - Processes FOR THE Electrolytic Production, Recovery OR Refining OF METALS; Apparatus Therefor 3

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 3

E21B - Earth OR Rock DRILLING; Obtaining OIL, GAS, Water, Soluble OR Meltable Materials OR A Slurry OF Minerals From Wells 3

Y02W - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Wastewater Treatment OR Waste Management 3

C01F - Compounds OF THE Metals Beryllium, Magnesium, Aluminium, Calcium, Strontium, Barium, Radium, Thorium, OR OF THE Rare-earth Metals 3

F03G - Spring, Weight, Inertia OR Like MOTORS; Mechanical-power Producing Devices OR Mechanisms, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR OR Using Energy Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 2

Top 15 of 16 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

Terralithium LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Terralithium LLC's lead technology class is C22B (Production AND Refining OF Metals ; Pretreatment OF RAW Materials), 69.2% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C22B
Ranked #21,884 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Terralithium LLC against Technologies Avancees ET Membranes Industrielles, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 39.7/100 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

Every figure on PlainPatent is rendered directly from USPTO source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on USPTO source data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 2026.