Where does Bechtel Hydrocarbon Technology Solutions, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Bechtel Hydrocarbon Technology Solutions, Inc. ranks #9,714 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 Bechtel Hydrocarbon Technology Solutions, Inc. hold?

Bechtel Hydrocarbon Technology Solutions, Inc. holds 32 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2021, spanning 16 technology areas.

What is Bechtel Hydrocarbon Technology Solutions, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Bechtel Hydrocarbon Technology Solutions, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 32.3 out of 100 (41st percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Bechtel Hydrocarbon Technology Solutions, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Bechtel Hydrocarbon Technology Solutions, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -77% 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 Bechtel Hydrocarbon Technology Solutions, Inc.'s patents?

Bechtel Hydrocarbon Technology Solutions, Inc.'s patents average 10.1 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.

USPTO 2015–2025 USPTO PatentsView US Corporation

Bechtel Hydrocarbon Technology Solutions, Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Bechtel Hydrocarbon Technology Solutions, Inc. focus on?

Bechtel Hydrocarbon Technology Solutions, Inc.'s top technology area is 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) with 16 patents. Grants appear in 16 CPC subclasses total.

Q: How is the Bechtel Hydrocarbon Technology Solutions, 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 PatentsView assignee record - 32 granted patents across 16 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2021. 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: 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 GAS).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Bechtel ranks #9,714 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 32 patents across 16 technology areas.

#9,714
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 41st percentile
by Innovation Score (32.3/100): 10.1
avg claims per patent: -77%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R9714 · US Corporation #9,714 · 32 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 32 grants
UPPER-Q #9,714/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Arrinex
CPC-FOCUS C10G · 16 areas
INNOV-THIN 32.3/100
CLAIMS-PAR 10.1 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -77% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Arrinex, 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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Ainsworth Game… · near

32
Bechtel Hydrocarbon… · this assignee

32
Clearwire IP… · near

32
Hyper Ice · near

32
Ipgreat Incorporated · near

32
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Bechtel's Innovation Score is 32.3/100 (41st percentile 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.

Where Bechtel's grants concentrate

Bechtel Hydrocarbon Technology Solutions, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 16 CPC subclasses with 50% of grants classified under 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 GAS). Peak complete grant year is 2019 (13 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2015. By volume, Bechtel sits between Arrinex, Inc. and BLY IP Inc..

Arrinex

32
Asfora IP

32
Austin Hardware &…

32
Avantium Knowledg…

32
BIO Clean Environ…

32
Biosurfit

32
Bluebird BIO

32
BLY IP

32
Bechtel Hydrocarb… ◀

32

What this shows Bechtel holds 32 patents at rank #9,714, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Bechtel

By rank, the assignees closest to #9,714 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C10G (Cracking Hydrocarbon OILS)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

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

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (32 here).

Ainsworth Game Technology Limited 32 Clearwire IP Holdings L.L.C. 32 Hyper Ice, Inc. 32 Ipgreat Incorporated 32

Bechtel's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

32 41st percentile higher than 41% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2021

Grants by year

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

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Bechtel Hydrocarbon Technology Solutions, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	2	6.3%
2016	2	6.3%
2017	5	15.6%
2018	4	12.5%
2019	13	40.6%
2020	4	12.5%
2021	2	6.3%

Which technologies does Bechtel Hydrocarbon Technology Solutions, Inc. patent most?

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 16

B01D - Separation 15

C10B - Destructive Distillation OF Carbonaceous Materials FOR Production OF GAS, Coke, TAR, OR Similar Materials 10

C01C - AMMONIA; CYANOGEN; Compounds Thereof 6

F25B - Refrigeration Machines, Plants OR SYSTEMS; Combined Heating AND Refrigeration SYSTEMS; Heat Pump Systems 5

F25J - Liquefaction, Solidification OR Separation OF Gases OR Gaseous ; OR Liquefied GASEOUS; Mixtures BY Pressure AND Cold Treatment ; OR BY Bringing Them Into THE Supercritical State 5

C01B - Non-metallic ELEMENTS; Compounds THEREOF; ; Metalloids OR Compounds Thereof NOT Covered BY Subclass C01c 3

G05D - Systems FOR Controlling OR Regulating Non-electric Variables 3

B08B - Cleaning IN GENERAL; Prevention OF Fouling IN General 3

C02F - Treatment OF Water, Waste Water, Sewage, OR Sludge 3

F04D - Non-positive-displacement Pumps 3

C10L - Fuels NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Natural GAS; Synthetic Natural GAS Obtained BY Processes NOT Covered BY Subclasses C10g OR C10K; Liquified Petroleum GAS; USE OF Additives TO Fuels OR FIRES; Fire-lighters 2

C10K - Purifying OR Modifying THE Chemical Composition OF Combustible Gases Containing Carbon Monoxide 2

Y02C - Capture, Storage, Sequestration OR Disposal OF Greenhouse Gases [GHG] 2

B63B - Ships OR Other Waterborne VESSELS; Equipment FOR Shipping 2

Top 15 of 16 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#9,714

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

32.3 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

Bechtel Hydrocarbon Technology Solutions, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Bechtel Hydrocarbon Technology Solutions, Inc.'s lead technology class is 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 GAS), 50% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C10G
Ranked #9,714 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Bechtel Hydrocarbon Technology Solutions, Inc. against Arrinex, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 32.3/100 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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