Where does Baker Hughes Holdings LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Baker Hughes Holdings LLC ranks #238 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 Holdings LLC hold?

Baker Hughes Holdings LLC holds 1,746 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 201 technology areas.

What is Baker Hughes Holdings LLC's Innovation Score?

Baker Hughes Holdings LLC has an Innovation Score of 68.3 out of 100 (top 1% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Baker Hughes Holdings LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Baker Hughes Holdings LLC's recent grant velocity is -84% 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 Holdings LLC's patents?

Baker Hughes Holdings LLC's patents average 17.8 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 Holdings 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 Holdings LLC

Q: What technology areas does Baker Hughes Holdings LLC focus on?

Baker Hughes Holdings 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 1,273 patents. Grants appear in 201 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 1,746 granted patents across 201 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2025. 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 #238 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 1,746 patents across 201 technology areas.

#238
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 1%
by Innovation Score (68.3/100): 17.8
avg claims per patent: -84%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R238 · US Corporation #238 · 1,746 grants

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

GRANTS-LARGE 1.7K grants
TOP-DECILE #238/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Continental Automotive
CPC-BROAD E21B · 201 areas
INNOV-STRONG 68.3/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.8 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -84% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Continental Automotive GMBH (±2 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
California Institute… · near

68
Express Scripts… · near

68
Imperial College… · near

68
Baker Hughes Holdings · this assignee

68
Enevate · near

68
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Baker's Innovation Score is 68.3/100 (top 1% 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 Holdings LLC received 234 grants versus 1,496 in 2015–2019 (-84% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2015 at 483 grants and bottomed in 2020 at 29. Lead class E21B accounts for 72.9% of the portfolio across 201 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Carrier Corporation (#234) and Globus Medical, Inc. (#242).

Baker's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Baker Hughes Holdings LLC moved from 139 to 143 grants (1.03x 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 #1,106. See the growth leaderboard.

Carrier

1,756
ZF Friedrichshafen

1,756
Continental Autom…

1,748
Signify Holding B…

1,748
Baker Hughes Hold… ◀

1,746
AT&T Mobility II

1,742
Airbus Operations…

1,734
Northwestern Univ…

1,734
Globus Medical

1,728

What this shows Baker holds 1,746 patents at rank #238, 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 #238 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 (68 here).

Enevate Corporation 68 California Institute OF Technology 68 Express Scripts Strategic Development, Inc. 68 Imperial College Innovations Ltd 68

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (17.8 here).

Technion Research & Development Foundation Limited 17.8 avg L&P Property Management Company 17.8 avg Total Marketing Services 17.8 avg Blackhawk Network, Inc. 17.8 avg

Baker's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

68 Top 1% higher than 99% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2025

Grants by year

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

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Baker Hughes Holdings LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	483	27.7%
2016	408	23.4%
2017	456	26.1%
2018	101	5.8%
2019	48	2.7%
2020	29	1.7%
2021	62	3.6%
2022	60	3.4%
2023	47	2.7%
2024	36	2.1%
2025partial year	16	0.9%

Which technologies does Baker Hughes Holdings LLC patent most?

E21B - Earth OR Rock DRILLING; Obtaining OIL, GAS, Water, Soluble OR Meltable Materials OR A Slurry OF Minerals From Wells 1,273

G01V - GEOPHYSICS; Gravitational MEASUREMENTS; Detecting Masses OR OBJECTS; Tags 192

C09K - Materials FOR Miscellaneous Applications, NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere 188

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 166

B24D - Tools FOR Grinding, Buffing OR Sharpening 124

C22C - Alloys 116

B22F - Working Metallic POWDER; Manufacture OF Articles From Metallic POWDER; Making Metallic Powder ; Apparatus OR Devices Specially Adapted FOR Metallic Powder 113

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 93

C04B - Lime, MAGNESIA; SLAG; CEMENTS; Compositions Thereof, e.g. Mortars, Concrete OR Like Building MATERIALS; Artificial Stone ; Ceramics ; REFRACTORIES; Treatment OF Natural Stone 60

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 59

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 53

F04D - Non-positive-displacement Pumps 42

B82Y - Specific Uses OR Applications OF NANOSTRUCTURES; Measurement OR Analysis OF NANOSTRUCTURES; Manufacture OR Treatment OF Nanostructures 35

F04B - Positive-displacement Machines FOR LIQUIDS; Pumps 34

H02K - Dynamo-electric Machines 33

Top 15 of 201 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#238

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

68.3 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 Holdings LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Baker Hughes Holdings 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), 72.9% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore E21B
Ranked #238 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Baker Hughes Holdings LLC against Carrier Corporation, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 68.3/100 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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