Where does Babcock Power Services, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Babcock Power Services, Inc. ranks #17,478 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 Babcock Power Services, Inc. hold?

Babcock Power Services, Inc. holds 16 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2023, spanning 20 technology areas.

What is Babcock Power Services, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Babcock Power Services, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 36.6 out of 100 (top 46% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Babcock Power Services, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Babcock Power Services, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -93% 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 Babcock Power Services, Inc.'s patents?

Babcock Power Services, Inc.'s patents average 14.7 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 Babcock Power Services, Inc. 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

Babcock Power Services, Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Babcock Power Services, Inc. focus on?

Babcock Power Services, Inc.'s top technology area is B65G (Transport OR Storage Devices, e.g. Conveyors FOR Loading OR Tipping, Shop Conveyor Systems OR Pneumatic Tube Conveyors) with 8 patents, ranking #261 of 1,746 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 20 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 16 granted patents across 20 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2023. 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: B65G (Transport OR Storage Devices, e.g. Conveyors FOR Loading OR Tipping, Shop Conveyor Systems OR Pneumatic Tube Conveyors).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Babcock ranks #17,478 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 16 patents across 20 technology areas.

#17,478
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 46%
by Innovation Score (36.6/100): 14.7
avg claims per patent: -93%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R17478 · US Corporation #17,478 · 16 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 16 grants
MID-PACK #17,478/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Bandit Industries
CPC-FOCUS B65G · 20 areas
INNOV-THIN 36.6/100
CLAIMS-RICH 14.7 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -93% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Bandit 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 Babcock’s 36.6 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 9.8 pts (27%) Velocity 2.2 pts (6%) Breadth 15.8 pts (43%) Claim depth 8.8 pts (24%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Babcock Power Services · this assignee

37
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Babcock's Innovation Score is 36.6/100 (top 46% 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 Babcock?

Each dot is one of Babcock’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). Babcock’s own 14.7 claims/patent is ABOVE the 14.3 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Babcock's grants concentrate

Babcock Power Services, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 20 CPC subclasses with 50% of grants classified under B65G (Transport OR Storage Devices, e.g. Conveyors FOR Loading OR Tipping, Shop Conveyor Systems OR Pneumatic Tube Conveyors). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (5 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2018. By volume, Babcock sits between Bujeon Co., Ltd. and Beijing Huashi United Energy Technology and Development Co., Ltd..

Babcock's three-year grant acceleration

Babcock Power Services, Inc. shows 1 grants in 2022–2024 against only 3 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.

Bujeon

16
Bulk Tank

16
Butler Engineerin…

16
BWT Holding

16
Bandit Industries

16
Bardex

16
Becklin Holdings

16
Beijing Huashi Un…

16
Babcock Power Ser… ◀

16

What this shows Babcock holds 16 patents at rank #17,503, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Babcock

By rank, the assignees closest to #17,503 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B65G (Transport OR Storage Devices)

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

Babcock's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

37 Top 46% higher than 54% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2023

Grants by year

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

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Babcock Power Services, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	5	31.3%
2016	2	12.5%
2017	4	25.0%
2018	1	6.3%
2019	3	18.8%
2023	1	6.3%

Which technologies does Babcock Power Services, Inc. patent most?

B65G - Transport OR Storage Devices, e.g. Conveyors FOR Loading OR Tipping, Shop Conveyor Systems OR Pneumatic Tube Conveyors 8

F23K - Feeding Fuel TO Combustion Apparatus 4

F24S - Solar Heat COLLECTORS; Solar Heat Systems 4

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 4

F23D - Burners 3

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 3

F23C - Methods OR Apparatus FOR Combustion Using Fluid Fuel OR Solid Fuel Suspended IN ; A Carrier GAS OR; AIR 2

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 1

B02C - Crushing, Pulverising, OR Disintegrating IN GENERAL; Milling Grain 1

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

Y10S - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former Uspc Cross-reference ART Collections [XRACs] AND Digests 1

F22G - Superheating OF Steam 1

F03G - Spring, Weight, Inertia OR Like MOTORS; Mechanical-power Producing Devices OR Mechanisms, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR OR Using Energy Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 1

F23Q - Ignition ; Extinguishing-devices 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

Babcock Power Services, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Babcock Power Services, Inc.'s lead technology class is B65G (Transport OR Storage Devices, e.g. Conveyors FOR Loading OR Tipping, Shop Conveyor Systems OR Pneumatic Tube Conveyors), 50% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B65G
Ranked #17,478 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Babcock Power Services, Inc. against Bujeon Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 36.6/100 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

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