Where does ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe AG rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe AG ranks #1,843 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 ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe AG hold?

ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe AG holds 219 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 80 technology areas.

What is ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe AG's Innovation Score?

ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe AG has an Innovation Score of 53.3 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 ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe AG's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe AG's recent grant velocity is -55% 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 ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe AG's patents?

ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe AG's patents average 13.2 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 ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe AG 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

ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe AG

Q: What technology areas does ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe AG focus on?

ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe AG's top technology area is 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) with 76 patents. Grants appear in 80 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 219 granted patents across 80 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: 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).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Thyssenkrupp ranks #1,843 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 219 patents across 80 technology areas.

#1,843
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 9%
by Innovation Score (53.3/100): 13.2
avg claims per patent: -55%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1843 · Foreign Corporation #1,843 · 219 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 219 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,843/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Electrolux Home…
CPC-WIDE C21D · 80 areas
INNOV-PAR 53.3/100
CLAIMS-RICH 13.2 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -55% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Electrolux Home Products Corporation N. V. (±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
National University… · near

53
ThyssenKrupp Steel… · this assignee

53
University OF Durham · near

53
Vale · near

53
ETH ZÜRICH (EIDGENÖS… · near

53
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Thyssenkrupp's Innovation Score is 53.3/100 (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 Thyssenkrupp's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe AG received 64 grants versus 143 in 2015–2019 (-55% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2019 at 48 grants and bottomed in 2022 at 4. Lead class C21D accounts for 34.7% of the portfolio across 80 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Electrolux Home Products Corporation N. V. (#1,839) and National Chung Shan Institute OF Science AND Technology (#1,847).

Thyssenkrupp's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe AG moved from 89 to 23 grants (0.26x 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 #3,035. See the growth leaderboard.

Electrolux Home P…

219
Intelligent Energy

219
Solar Turbines In…

219
The Regents of th…

219
Vista Outdoor Ope…

219
Thyssenkrupp Stee… ◀

219
Carl Zeiss Vision…

218
Furukawa Automoti…

218
National Chung Sh…

218

What this shows ThyssenKrupp holds 219 patents at rank #1,843, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near ThyssenKrupp

By rank, the assignees closest to #1,843 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C21D (Modifying THE Physical Structure OF Ferrous Metals)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

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

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (53 here).

National University Corporation Nagoya University 53 Vale S.A. 53 University OF Durham 53 ETH ZÜRICH (EIDGENÖSSISCHE Technische Hochschule ZÜRICH) 53

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (13.2 here).

Merlin Technology Inc. 13.2 avg Toshiba Lighting & Technology Corporation 13.2 avg Gyrus Medical Limited 13.2 avg HBI Branded Apparel Enterprises, LLC 13.2 avg

Thyssenkrupp'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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ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe AG patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	10	4.6%
2016	16	7.3%
2017	29	13.2%
2018	40	18.3%
2019	48	21.9%
2020	28	12.8%
2021	13	5.9%
2022	4	1.8%
2023	9	4.1%
2024	10	4.6%
2025partial year	12	5.5%

Which technologies does ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe AG patent most?

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 76

C22C - Alloys 61

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 61

B21D - Working OR Processing OF Sheet Metal OR Metal Tubes, Rods OR Profiles Without Essentially Removing MATERIAL; Punching Metal 57

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 47

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 39

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 31

C25D - Processes FOR THE Electrolytic OR Electrophoretic Production OF COATINGS; ELECTROFORMING; Apparatus Therefor 18

B21B - Rolling OF Metal 17

B62D - Motor VEHICLES; Trailers 16

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 13

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 12

B22D - Casting OF METALS; Casting OF Other Substances BY THE Same Processes OR Devices 9

H01F - MAGNETS; INDUCTANCES; TRANSFORMERS; Selection OF Materials FOR Their Magnetic Properties 8

B29C - Shaping OR Joining OF PLASTICS; Shaping OF Material IN A Plastic State, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; After-treatment OF THE Shaped Products, e.g. Repairing 7

Top 15 of 80 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#1,843

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

53.3 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

ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe AG's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe AG's lead technology class is 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), 34.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C21D
Ranked #1,843 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe AG against Electrolux Home Products Corporation N. V., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 53.3/100 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

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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

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