Where does Umicore rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Umicore ranks #2,799 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 Umicore hold?

Umicore holds 138 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 40 technology areas.

What is Umicore's Innovation Score?

Umicore has an Innovation Score of 54.3 out of 100 (top 8% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Umicore focus on?

Umicore's top technology area is H01M (Processes OR Means, e.g. Batteries, FOR THE Direct Conversion OF Chemical Energy Into Electrical Energy) with 117 patents, ranking #64 of 2,332 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 40 CPC subclasses total.

Is Umicore's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Umicore's recent grant velocity is +30% 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 Umicore's patents?

Umicore'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 Umicore 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

Umicore

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 138 granted patents across 40 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: H01M (Processes OR Means, e.g. Batteries, FOR THE Direct Conversion OF Chemical Energy Into Electrical Energy).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Umicore ranks #2,799 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 138 patents across 40 technology areas.

#2,799
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 8%
by Innovation Score (54.3/100): 13.2
avg claims per patent: +30%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2799 · Foreign Corporation #2,799 · 138 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 138 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,799/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH RTC Industries
CPC-WIDE H01M · 40 areas
INNOV-PAR 54.3/100
CLAIMS-RICH 13.2 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-UP +30% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: RTC Industries, 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.

How Umicore’s 54.3 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 17.0 pts (31%) Velocity 7.0 pts (13%) Breadth 22.4 pts (41%) Claim depth 7.9 pts (15%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Evernorth Strategic… · near

54
Hitachi Chemical · near

54
Umicore · this assignee

54
Vuzix · near

54
Wiwynn · near

54
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Umicore's Innovation Score is 54.3/100 (top 8% 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 Umicore?

Each dot is one of Umicore’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). Umicore’s own 13.2 claims/patent is at or below the 14.5 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Umicore's grants concentrate

Umicore is a focused PatentsView assignee: 40 CPC subclasses with 84.8% of grants classified under H01M (Processes OR Means, e.g. Batteries, FOR THE Direct Conversion OF Chemical Energy Into Electrical Energy). Peak complete grant year is 2018 (16 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2016. By volume, Umicore sits between RTC Industries, Inc. and Federal-Mogul LLC.

Umicore's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Umicore moved from 39 to 41 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 #1,061. See the growth leaderboard.

RTC Industries

138
Safran Aero Boost…

138
Saipem S P A

138
Sandvik Mining an…

138
Visa U

138
Young Optics

138
Umicore ◀

138
Chervon (HK)

137
Federal-mogul

137

What this shows Umicore holds 138 patents at rank #2,799, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Umicore

By rank, the assignees closest to #2,799 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H01M (Processes OR Means)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Umicore, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H01M (Processes OR Means), Umicore ranks #64 of 2,332 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (54 here).

Wiwynn Corporation 54 Hitachi Chemical Company, Ltd. 54 Vuzix Corporation 54 Evernorth Strategic Development, Inc. 54

Similar claim depth

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

LSI Solutions, Inc. 13.2 avg Hitachi Vantara, Ltd. 13.2 avg Konami Digital Entertainment Co., Ltd. 13.2 avg Sigma-Aldrich Co. LLC 13.2 avg

Umicore's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

54 Top 8% higher than 92% 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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Umicore patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	7	5.1%
2016	1	0.7%
2017	11	8.0%
2018	16	11.6%
2019	15	10.9%
2020	16	11.6%
2021	8	5.8%
2022	16	11.6%
2023	12	8.7%
2024	13	9.4%
2025partial year	23	16.7%

Which technologies does Umicore patent most?

H01M - Processes OR Means, e.g. Batteries, FOR THE Direct Conversion OF Chemical Energy Into Electrical Energy 117

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 111

C01P - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Structural AND Physical Aspects OF Solid Inorganic Compounds 77

C01G - Compounds Containing Metals NOT Covered BY Subclasses C01d OR C01f 73

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 28

C22B - Production AND Refining OF Metals ; Pretreatment OF RAW Materials 19

C01B - Non-metallic ELEMENTS; Compounds THEREOF; ; Metalloids OR Compounds Thereof NOT Covered BY Subclass C01c 17

Y02W - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Wastewater Treatment OR Waste Management 12

H01B - CABLES; CONDUCTORS; INSULATORS; Selection OF Materials FOR Their Conductive, Insulating OR Dielectric Properties 11

C04B - Lime, MAGNESIA; SLAG; CEMENTS; Compositions Thereof, e.g. Mortars, Concrete OR Like Building MATERIALS; Artificial Stone ; Ceramics ; REFRACTORIES; Treatment OF Natural Stone 6

C01D - Compounds OF Alkali Metals, i.e. Lithium, Sodium, Potassium, Rubidium, Caesium, OR Francium 5

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 5

B22F - Working Metallic POWDER; Manufacture OF Articles From Metallic POWDER; Making Metallic Powder ; Apparatus OR Devices Specially Adapted FOR Metallic Powder 5

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 4

C21C - Processing OF Pig-iron, e.g. Refining, Manufacture OF Wrought-iron OR STEEL; Treatment IN Molten State OF Ferrous Alloys 3

Top 15 of 40 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

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

Umicore's lead technology class is H01M (Processes OR Means, e.g. Batteries, FOR THE Direct Conversion OF Chemical Energy Into Electrical Energy), 84.8% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H01M
Ranked #2,799 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Umicore against RTC Industries, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 54.3/100 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

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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