Where does Aramco Services Company rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Aramco Services Company ranks #11,920 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 Aramco Services Company hold?

Aramco Services Company holds 25 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2024, spanning 20 technology areas.

What is Aramco Services Company's Innovation Score?

Aramco Services Company has an Innovation Score of 44.3 out of 100 (top 26% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Aramco Services Company's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Aramco Services Company's recent grant velocity is +27% 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 Aramco Services Company's patents?

Aramco Services Company's patents average 16.0 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 Aramco Services Company 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

Aramco Services Company

Q: What technology areas does Aramco Services Company focus on?

Aramco Services Company'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 20 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 25 granted patents across 20 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2024. 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, Aramco ranks #11,920 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 25 patents across 20 technology areas.

#11,920
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 26%
by Innovation Score (44.3/100): 16.0
avg claims per patent: +27%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R11920 · US Corporation #11,920 · 25 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-UP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 25 grants
UPPER-Q #11,920/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Apex Industrial
CPC-FOCUS E21B · 20 areas
INNOV-PAR 44.3/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.0 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-UP +27% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Apex Industrial Technologies LLC (±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 Aramco’s 44.3 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 11.3 pts (26%) Velocity 7.6 pts (17%) Breadth 15.8 pts (36%) Claim depth 9.6 pts (22%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Ambri · near

44
Aramco Services · this assignee

44
Cephalon · near

44
Gilat Satellite… · near

44
Reservoir Labs · near

44
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Aramco's Innovation Score is 44.3/100 (top 26% 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 Aramco?

Each dot is one of Aramco’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). Aramco’s own 16.0 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.0 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Aramco's grants concentrate

Aramco Services Company is a focused PatentsView assignee: 20 CPC subclasses with 56% 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 2023 (6 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2015. By volume, Aramco sits between Apex Industrial Technologies LLC and Atomic Energy COUNCIL—INSTITUTE OF Nuclear Energy Research.

Aramco's three-year grant acceleration

Aramco Services Company shows 8 grants in 2022–2024 against only 7 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.

Apex Industrial

25
Apex Microelectro…

25
API Intellectual…

25
Arakawa Chemical…

25
Arkalumen

25
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25
Asmpt Singapore P…

25
Atomic Energy Cou…

25
Aramco Services ◀

25

What this shows Aramco holds 25 patents at rank #11,905, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Aramco

By rank, the assignees closest to #11,905 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in E21B (Earth OR Rock Drilling)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Aramco, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In E21B (Earth OR Rock Drilling), Aramco ranks #261 of 1,363 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (44 here).

Ambri, LLC 44 Cephalon LLC 44 Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. 44 Reservoir Labs, Inc. 44

Aramco's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

44 Top 26% higher than 74% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2024

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2015–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Aramco Services Company patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1	4.0%
2016	1	4.0%
2017	3	12.0%
2018	5	20.0%
2019	1	4.0%
2020	1	4.0%
2021	5	20.0%
2022	1	4.0%
2023	6	24.0%
2024	1	4.0%

Which technologies does Aramco Services Company patent most?

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

C09K - Materials FOR Miscellaneous Applications, NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere 12

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 5

G01V - GEOPHYSICS; Gravitational MEASUREMENTS; Detecting Masses OR OBJECTS; Tags 4

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

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 3

F02B - Internal-combustion Piston ENGINES; Combustion Engines IN General 3

C07C - Acyclic OR Carbocyclic Compounds 2

F02P - Ignition, Other Than Compression Ignition, FOR Internal-combustion ENGINES; Testing OF Ignition Timing IN Compression-ignition Engines 2

F02M - Supplying Combustion Engines IN General With Combustible Mixtures OR Constituents Thereof 2

C07F - Acyclic, Carbocyclic OR Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium OR Tellurium 1

Y02C - Capture, Storage, Sequestration OR Disposal OF Greenhouse Gases [GHG] 1

B82Y - Specific Uses OR Applications OF NANOSTRUCTURES; Measurement OR Analysis OF NANOSTRUCTURES; Manufacture OR Treatment OF Nanostructures 1

B01D - Separation 1

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 1

Top 15 of 20 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

Aramco Services Company's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Aramco Services Company'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), 56% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore E21B
Ranked #11,920 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Aramco Services Company against Apex Industrial Technologies LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 44.3/100 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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