Where does Antelope OIL Tool & MFG. Co. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Antelope OIL Tool & MFG. Co. ranks #19,449 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 Antelope OIL Tool & MFG. Co. hold?

Antelope OIL Tool & MFG. Co. holds 14 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2018, spanning 13 technology areas.

What is Antelope OIL Tool & MFG. Co.'s Innovation Score?

Antelope OIL Tool & MFG. Co. has an Innovation Score of 34.5 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 Antelope OIL Tool & MFG. Co.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Antelope OIL Tool & MFG. Co.'s recent grant velocity is -100% 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 Antelope OIL Tool & MFG. Co.'s patents?

Antelope OIL Tool & MFG. Co.'s patents average 20.6 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 Antelope OIL Tool & MFG. Co. 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

Antelope OIL Tool & MFG. Co.

Q: What technology areas does Antelope OIL Tool & MFG. Co. focus on?

Antelope OIL Tool & MFG. Co.'s top technology area is E21B (Earth OR Rock DRILLING; Obtaining OIL, GAS, Water, Soluble OR Meltable Materials OR A Slurry OF Minerals From Wells) with 14 patents, ranking #261 of 1,363 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 13 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 14 granted patents across 13 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2018. 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: E21B (Earth OR Rock DRILLING; Obtaining OIL, GAS, Water, Soluble OR Meltable Materials OR A Slurry OF Minerals From Wells).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Antelope ranks #19,449 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 14 patents across 13 technology areas.

#19,449
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 48th percentile
by Innovation Score (34.5/100): 20.6
avg claims per patent: -100%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R19449 · US Corporation #19,449 · 14 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 14 grants
MID-PACK #19,449/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH AMI
CPC-FOCUS E21B · 13 areas
INNOV-THIN 34.5/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 20.6 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -100% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: AMI 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 Antelope’s 34.5 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 9.4 pts (27%) Velocity 0.0 pts (0%) Breadth 12.7 pts (37%) Claim depth 12.4 pts (36%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

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What this shows Antelope's Innovation Score is 34.5/100 (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 Antelope?

Each dot is one of Antelope’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). Antelope’s own 20.6 claims/patent is ABOVE the 17.0 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Antelope's grants concentrate

Antelope OIL Tool & MFG. Co. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 13 CPC subclasses with 100% of grants classified under E21B (Earth OR Rock DRILLING; Obtaining OIL, GAS, Water, Soluble OR Meltable Materials OR A Slurry OF Minerals From Wells). Peak complete grant year is 2017 (9 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2018. By volume, Antelope sits between AMI Inc. and Aquacycl, Inc..

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What this shows Antelope holds 14 patents at rank #19,421, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Antelope

By rank, the assignees closest to #19,421 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in E21B (Earth OR Rock Drilling)

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

Antelope'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 · 2016–2018

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2016–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Antelope OIL Tool & MFG. Co. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	4	28.6%
2017	9	64.3%
2018	1	7.1%

Which technologies does Antelope OIL Tool & MFG. Co. patent most?

E21B - Earth OR Rock DRILLING; Obtaining OIL, GAS, Water, Soluble OR Meltable Materials OR A Slurry OF Minerals From Wells 14

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 5

F16D - Couplings FOR Transmitting ROTATION; CLUTCHES; Brakes 2

B25B - Tools OR Bench Devices NOT Otherwise Provided FOR, FOR Fastening, Connecting, Disengaging OR Holding 2

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 2

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 2

B29K - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses B29b, B29c OR B29d, Relating TO Moulding Materials OR TO Materials FOR ; Moulds, ; Reinforcements, Fillers OR Preformed Parts, e.g. Inserts 2

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 2

C22C - Alloys 1

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 1

F15D - Fluid Dynamics, i.e. Methods OR Means FOR Influencing THE Flow OF Gases OR Liquids 1

F16L - PIPES; Joints OR Fittings FOR PIPES; Supports FOR Pipes, Cables OR Protective TUBING; Means FOR Thermal Insulation IN General 1

B23P - Metal-working NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Combined OPERATIONS; Universal Machine Tools 1

Top 13 of 13 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

Antelope OIL Tool & MFG. Co.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Antelope OIL Tool & MFG. Co.'s lead technology class is E21B (Earth OR Rock DRILLING; Obtaining OIL, GAS, Water, Soluble OR Meltable Materials OR A Slurry OF Minerals From Wells), 100% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore E21B
Ranked #19,449 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Antelope OIL Tool & MFG. Co. against AMI Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 34.5/100 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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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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