Where does Usalco, LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Usalco, LLC ranks #27,741 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 Usalco, LLC hold?

Usalco, LLC holds 10 US utility patents granted between 2017 and 2023, spanning 10 technology areas.

What is Usalco, LLC's Innovation Score?

Usalco, LLC has an Innovation Score of 33.0 out of 100 (43rd percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Usalco, LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Usalco, LLC's recent grant velocity is +0% 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 Usalco, LLC's patents?

Usalco, LLC's patents average 17.0 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 Usalco, 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

Usalco, LLC

Q: What technology areas does Usalco, LLC focus on?

Usalco, LLC's top technology area is C01F (Compounds OF THE Metals Beryllium, Magnesium, Aluminium, Calcium, Strontium, Barium, Radium, Thorium, OR OF THE Rare-earth Metals) with 6 patents, ranking #25 of 248 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 10 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 10 granted patents across 10 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2017–2023. 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: C01F (Compounds OF THE Metals Beryllium, Magnesium, Aluminium, Calcium, Strontium, Barium, Radium, Thorium, OR OF THE Rare-earth Metals).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Usalco ranks #27,741 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 10 patents across 10 technology areas.

#27,741
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 43rd percentile
by Innovation Score (33.0/100): 17.0
avg claims per patent: +0%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R27741 · US Corporation #27,741 · 10 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-FLAT · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 10 grants
MID-PACK #27,741/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Umfotec
CPC-FOCUS C01F · 10 areas
INNOV-THIN 33.0/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.0 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-FLAT +0% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Umfotec GmbH (±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 Usalco’s 33.0 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 8.3 pts (25%) Velocity 3.3 pts (10%) Breadth 11.2 pts (34%) Claim depth 10.2 pts (31%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Spectrum Spine IP… · near

33
United Rusal… · near

33
Usalco · this assignee

33
Stragent · near

33
Jenoptik Robot · near

33
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Usalco's Innovation Score is 33.0/100 (43rd percentile 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 Usalco?

Each dot is one of Usalco’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). Usalco’s own 17.0 claims/patent is ABOVE the 14.7 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Usalco's grants concentrate

Usalco, LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 10 CPC subclasses with 60% of grants classified under C01F (Compounds OF THE Metals Beryllium, Magnesium, Aluminium, Calcium, Strontium, Barium, Radium, Thorium, OR OF THE Rare-earth Metals). Peak complete grant year is 2018 (3 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2017. By volume, Usalco sits between UNIVERSITÄT Paderborn and UniqueSoft, LLC.

Usalco's three-year grant acceleration

Usalco, LLC shows 2 grants in 2022–2024 against only 4 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.

UniversitÄT Pader…

10
Unlimited Water S…

10
Upstart Power

10
Ur24technology

10
UTS Biogastechnik

10
Umfotec

10
Unique Home Desig…

10
Uniquesoft

10
Usalco ◀

10

What this shows Usalco holds 10 patents at rank #27,716, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Usalco

By rank, the assignees closest to #27,716 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C01F (Compounds OF THE Metals Beryllium)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Usalco, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In C01F (Compounds OF THE Metals Beryllium), Usalco ranks #25 of 248 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (33 here).

United Company Rusal Engineering and Technology Centre LLC 33 Stragent, LLC 33 Spectrum Spine IP Holdings, LLC 33 Jenoptik Robot GmbH 33

Usalco's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

33 43rd percentile higher than 43% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2017–2023

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2017–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Usalco, LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2017	1	10.0%
2018	3	30.0%
2019	1	10.0%
2020	1	10.0%
2021	2	20.0%
2023	2	20.0%

Which technologies does Usalco, LLC patent most?

C01F - Compounds OF THE Metals Beryllium, Magnesium, Aluminium, Calcium, Strontium, Barium, Radium, Thorium, OR OF THE Rare-earth Metals 6

C02F - Treatment OF Water, Waste Water, Sewage, OR Sludge 5

B01D - Separation 4

C01P - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Structural AND Physical Aspects OF Solid Inorganic Compounds 4

B01J - Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus 3

B07B - Separating Solids From Solids BY Sieving, Screening, Sifting OR BY Using GAS CURRENTS; Separating BY Other DRY Methods Applicable TO Bulk Material, e.g. Loose Articles FIT TO BE Handled Like Bulk Material 2

B03B - Separating Solid Materials Using Liquids OR Using Pneumatic Tables OR Jigs 2

C01B - Non-metallic ELEMENTS; Compounds THEREOF; ; Metalloids OR Compounds Thereof NOT Covered BY Subclass C01c 1

A01K - Animal HUSBANDRY; AVICULTURE; APICULTURE; PISCICULTURE; FISHING; Rearing OR Breeding Animals, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; NEW Breeds OF Animals 1

C08K - Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances as compounding ingredients 1

Top 10 of 10 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

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

Usalco, LLC's lead technology class is C01F (Compounds OF THE Metals Beryllium, Magnesium, Aluminium, Calcium, Strontium, Barium, Radium, Thorium, OR OF THE Rare-earth Metals), 60% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C01F
Ranked #27,741 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Usalco, LLC against UNIVERSITÄT Paderborn, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 33.0/100 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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