Where does Amec Foster Wheeler USA Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Amec Foster Wheeler USA Corporation ranks #15,811 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 Amec Foster Wheeler USA Corporation hold?

Amec Foster Wheeler USA Corporation holds 18 US utility patents granted between 2017 and 2025, spanning 17 technology areas.

What is Amec Foster Wheeler USA Corporation's Innovation Score?

Amec Foster Wheeler USA Corporation has an Innovation Score of 34.4 out of 100 (48th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Amec Foster Wheeler USA Corporation's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Amec Foster Wheeler USA Corporation'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 Amec Foster Wheeler USA Corporation's patents?

Amec Foster Wheeler USA Corporation's patents average 12.4 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 Amec Foster Wheeler USA Corporation 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

Amec Foster Wheeler USA Corporation

Q: What technology areas does Amec Foster Wheeler USA Corporation focus on?

Amec Foster Wheeler USA Corporation's top technology area is C10B (Destructive Distillation OF Carbonaceous Materials FOR Production OF GAS, Coke, TAR, OR Similar Materials) with 10 patents, ranking #14 of 152 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 17 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 18 granted patents across 17 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2017–2025. 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: C10B (Destructive Distillation OF Carbonaceous Materials FOR Production OF GAS, Coke, TAR, OR Similar Materials).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Amec ranks #15,811 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 18 patents across 17 technology areas.

#15,811
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 48th percentile
by Innovation Score (34.4/100): 12.4
avg claims per patent: -55%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R15811 · US Corporation #15,811 · 18 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 18 grants
MID-PACK #15,811/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH All Space Networks
CPC-FOCUS C10B · 17 areas
INNOV-THIN 34.4/100
CLAIMS-RICH 12.4 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -55% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: All.Space Networks 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 Amec’s 34.4 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 10.2 pts (30%) Velocity 2.2 pts (6%) Breadth 14.6 pts (42%) Claim depth 7.5 pts (22%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Amec Foster Wheeler… · this assignee

34
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Amec's Innovation Score is 34.4/100 (48th 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 Amec?

Each dot is one of Amec’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). Amec’s own 12.4 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.

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

Where Amec's grants concentrate

Amec Foster Wheeler USA Corporation is a focused PatentsView assignee: 17 CPC subclasses with 55.6% of grants classified under C10B (Destructive Distillation OF Carbonaceous Materials FOR Production OF GAS, Coke, TAR, OR Similar Materials). Peak complete grant year is 2017 (5 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2020. By volume, Amec sits between All.Space Networks Limited and Aoi Seiki Co., Ltd..

Amec's three-year grant acceleration

Amec Foster Wheeler USA Corporation shows 2 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.

All Space Networks

18
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18
Alpinereplay

18
Ambergen

18
Ampaire

18
Amphenol East Asia

18
Antronix

18
Aoi Seiki

18
Amec Foster Wheel… ◀

18

What this shows Amec holds 18 patents at rank #15,825, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Amec

By rank, the assignees closest to #15,825 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C10B (Destructive Distillation OF Carbonaceous Materials FOR Pr…)

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

Amec's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

34 48th percentile higher than 48% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2017–2025

Grants by year

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

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Amec Foster Wheeler USA Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2017	5	27.8%
2018	3	16.7%
2019	3	16.7%
2020	1	5.6%
2021	2	11.1%
2022	2	11.1%
2025partial year	2	11.1%

Which technologies does Amec Foster Wheeler USA Corporation patent most?

C10B - Destructive Distillation OF Carbonaceous Materials FOR Production OF GAS, Coke, TAR, OR Similar Materials 10

C10G - Cracking Hydrocarbon OILS; Production OF Liquid Hydrocarbon Mixtures, e.g. BY Destructive Hydrogenation, Oligomerisation, Polymerisation ; Recovery OF Hydrocarbon Oils From Oil-shale, Oil-sand, OR GASES; Refining Mixtures Mainly Consisting OF HYDROCARBONS; Reforming OF NAPHTHA; Mineral Waxes 8

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 5

F16L - PIPES; Joints OR Fittings FOR PIPES; Supports FOR Pipes, Cables OR Protective TUBING; Means FOR Thermal Insulation IN General 5

F28F - Details OF Heat-exchange AND Heat-transfer Apparatus, OF General Application 3

F27D - Details OR Accessories OF Furnaces, Kilns, Ovens OR Retorts, IN SO FAR AS They ARE OF Kinds Occurring IN More Than ONE Kind OF Furnace 3

F16J - Pistons ; CYLINDERS; Sealings 3

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

F27B - Furnaces, Kilns, Ovens OR Retorts IN GENERAL; Open Sintering OR Like Apparatus 3

B08B - Cleaning IN GENERAL; Prevention OF Fouling IN General 2

G01S - Radio DIRECTION-FINDING; Radio NAVIGATION; Determining Distance OR Velocity BY USE OF Radio WAVES; Locating OR Presence-detecting BY USE OF THE Reflection OR Reradiation OF Radio WAVES; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves 1

G01B - Measuring Length, Thickness OR Similar Linear DIMENSIONS; Measuring ANGLES; Measuring AREAS; Measuring Irregularities OF Surfaces OR Contours 1

B01D - Separation 1

E21C - Mining OR Quarrying 1

C02F - Treatment OF Water, Waste Water, Sewage, OR Sludge 1

Top 15 of 17 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

Amec Foster Wheeler USA Corporation's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Amec Foster Wheeler USA Corporation's lead technology class is C10B (Destructive Distillation OF Carbonaceous Materials FOR Production OF GAS, Coke, TAR, OR Similar Materials), 55.6% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C10B
Ranked #15,811 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Amec Foster Wheeler USA Corporation against All.Space Networks Limited, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 34.4/100 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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