Where does Baker Hughes, a GE company, LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Baker Hughes, a GE company, LLC ranks #308 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 Baker Hughes, a GE company, LLC hold?

Baker Hughes, a GE company, LLC holds 1,390 US utility patents granted between 2017 and 2025, spanning 188 technology areas.

What is Baker Hughes, a GE company, LLC's Innovation Score?

Baker Hughes, a GE company, LLC has an Innovation Score of 60.9 out of 100 (top 3% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Baker Hughes, a GE company, LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Baker Hughes, a GE company, LLC's recent grant velocity is -33% 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 Baker Hughes, a GE company, LLC's patents?

Baker Hughes, a GE company, LLC's patents average 17.1 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 Baker Hughes, a GE company, 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

Baker Hughes, a GE company, LLC

Q: What technology areas does Baker Hughes, a GE company, LLC focus on?

Baker Hughes, a GE company, LLC'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 1,107 patents. Grants appear in 188 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 1,390 granted patents across 188 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: 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, Baker ranks #308 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 1,390 patents across 188 technology areas.

#308
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 3%
by Innovation Score (60.9/100): 17.1
avg claims per patent: -33%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R308 · US Corporation #308 · 1,390 grants

GRANTS-LARGE · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-LARGE 1.4K grants
TOP-DECILE #308/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Sabic Global B V
CPC-WIDE E21B · 188 areas
INNOV-STRONG 60.9/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.1 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DOWN -33% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Sabic Global Technologies B.V. (±4 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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Schneider Electric… · near

61
thyssenkrupp · near

61
Baker Hughes a GE · this assignee

61
Iucf-hyu (INDUSTRY-U… · near

61
University OF… · near

61
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Baker's Innovation Score is 60.9/100 (top 3% 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.

How Baker's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Baker Hughes, a GE company, LLC received 558 grants versus 831 in 2015–2019 (-33% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2019 at 430 grants and bottomed in 2024 at 5. Lead class E21B accounts for 79.6% of the portfolio across 188 subclasses. Volume neighbours: The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd. (#304) and Textron Innovations Inc. (#312).

Baker's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Baker Hughes, a GE company, LLC moved from 910 to 78 grants (0.09x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). Among 3,296 tracked assignees with ≥100 grants and ≥20 prior-period grants, that multiple ranks #3,190. See the growth leaderboard.

The Yokohama Rubb…

1,405
Thales

1,398
Nintendo

1,396
Sabic Global B V

1,394
Baker Hughes a GE ◀

1,390
Cirrus Logic

1,385
Macronix Internat…

1,381
Semiconductor Man…

1,373
Textron Innovatio…

1,370

What this shows Baker holds 1,390 patents at rank #308, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Baker

By rank, the assignees closest to #308 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in E21B (Earth OR Rock Drilling)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Baker, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above).

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (61 here).

Schneider Electric Industries SAS 61 thyssenkrupp AG 61 Iucf-hyu (INDUSTRY-UNIVERSITY Cooperation Foundation Hanyang UNIVERSITY) 61 University OF Connecticut 61

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (17.1 here).

General Electric Company 17.1 avg The Curators of the University of Missouri 17.1 avg GE Avio S.R.L. 17.1 avg Materion Corporation 17.1 avg

Baker's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

61 Top 3% higher than 97% 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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Baker Hughes, a GE company, LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2017	55	4.0%
2018	346	24.9%
2019	430	30.9%
2020	347	25.0%
2021	133	9.6%
2022	57	4.1%
2023	16	1.2%
2024	5	0.4%
2025partial year	1	0.1%

Which technologies does Baker Hughes, a GE company, LLC patent most?

E21B - Earth OR Rock DRILLING; Obtaining OIL, GAS, Water, Soluble OR Meltable Materials OR A Slurry OF Minerals From Wells 1,107

G01V - GEOPHYSICS; Gravitational MEASUREMENTS; Detecting Masses OR OBJECTS; Tags 185

C09K - Materials FOR Miscellaneous Applications, NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere 149

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 80

B22F - Working Metallic POWDER; Manufacture OF Articles From Metallic POWDER; Making Metallic Powder ; Apparatus OR Devices Specially Adapted FOR Metallic Powder 52

C22C - Alloys 51

F04D - Non-positive-displacement Pumps 45

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 44

C04B - Lime, MAGNESIA; SLAG; CEMENTS; Compositions Thereof, e.g. Mortars, Concrete OR Like Building MATERIALS; Artificial Stone ; Ceramics ; REFRACTORIES; Treatment OF Natural Stone 44

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 38

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 34

B01D - Separation 34

H02K - Dynamo-electric Machines 26

B24D - Tools FOR Grinding, Buffing OR Sharpening 25

F16L - PIPES; Joints OR Fittings FOR PIPES; Supports FOR Pipes, Cables OR Protective TUBING; Means FOR Thermal Insulation IN General 25

Top 15 of 188 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#308

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

60.9 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

Baker Hughes, a GE company, LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Baker Hughes, a GE company, LLC'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), 79.6% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore E21B
Ranked #308 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Baker Hughes, a GE company, LLC against The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 60.9/100 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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