Where does Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations LLC ranks #557 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 Oilfield Operations LLC hold?

Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations LLC holds 803 US utility patents granted between 2017 and 2025, spanning 127 technology areas.

What is Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations LLC's Innovation Score?

Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations LLC has an Innovation Score of 78.3 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 Oilfield Operations LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations LLC's recent grant velocity is +7522% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations LLC's patents?

Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations LLC's patents average 17.0 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 Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations 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 Oilfield Operations LLC

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

Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations 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 598 patents. Grants appear in 127 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 803 granted patents across 127 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 #557 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 803 patents across 127 technology areas.

#557
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 1%
by Innovation Score (78.3/100): 17.0
avg claims per patent: +7522%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R557 · US Corporation #557 · 803 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 803 grants
TOP-DECILE #557/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH King Faisal University
CPC-WIDE E21B · 127 areas
INNOV-STRONG 78.3/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.0 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +7522% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: King Faisal University (±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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Dell Products · near

79
RTX · near

79
Tencent America · near

78
Baker Hughes… · this assignee

78
GE Precision… · near

78
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Baker's Innovation Score is 78.3/100 (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 Oilfield Operations LLC received 686 grants versus 9 in 2015–2019 (+7522% equal-window velocity, top decile growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2023 at 215 grants and bottomed in 2017 at 2. Lead class E21B accounts for 74.5% of the portfolio across 127 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Lsis Co., Ltd. (#553) and Ut-battelle, LLC (#561).

Baker's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations LLC moved from 131 to 560 grants (4.28x 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 #37. See the growth leaderboard.

Lsis

812
C R Bard

808
Mitsubishi Gas Ch…

808
Meta Platforms

807
King Faisal Unive…

803
Mandom

803
Rohm and Haas

803
Ut-battelle

803
Baker Hughes Oilf… ◀

803

What this shows Baker holds 803 patents at rank #557, 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 #557 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 (78 here).

Tencent America LLC 78 GE Precision Healthcare LLC 78 RTX Corporation 79 Dell Products L.P. 79

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (17.0 here).

Assa Abloy AB 17.0 avg Spreadtrum Communications (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. 17.0 avg University of Notre Dame du Lac 17.0 avg RTC Industries, Inc. 17.0 avg

Baker's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

78 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 · 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 Oilfield Operations LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2017	2	0.2%
2018	2	0.2%
2019	5	0.6%
2020	27	3.4%
2021	99	12.3%
2022	174	21.7%
2023	215	26.8%
2024	171	21.3%
2025partial year	108	13.4%

Which technologies does Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations LLC patent most?

E21B - Earth OR Rock DRILLING; Obtaining OIL, GAS, Water, Soluble OR Meltable Materials OR A Slurry OF Minerals From Wells 598

G01V - GEOPHYSICS; Gravitational MEASUREMENTS; Detecting Masses OR OBJECTS; Tags 78

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 75

C09K - Materials FOR Miscellaneous Applications, NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere 54

F04D - Non-positive-displacement Pumps 41

F16K - VALVES; TAPS; COCKS; ACTUATING-FLOATS; Devices FOR Venting OR Aerating 33

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 32

G01R - Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables 22

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 22

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 20

H02K - Dynamo-electric Machines 20

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 19

B33Y - Additive Manufacturing, i.e. Manufacturing OF Three-dimensional [3-D] Objects BY Additive Deposition, Additive Agglomeration OR Additive Layering, e.g. BY 3-D Printing, Stereolithography OR Selective Laser Sintering 19

F04B - Positive-displacement Machines FOR LIQUIDS; Pumps 17

B22F - Working Metallic POWDER; Manufacture OF Articles From Metallic POWDER; Making Metallic Powder ; Apparatus OR Devices Specially Adapted FOR Metallic Powder 15

Top 15 of 127 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#557

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

78.3 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 Oilfield Operations LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations 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), 74.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore E21B
Ranked #557 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations LLC against Lsis Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 78.3/100 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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