Where does BJ Services, Llc rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), BJ Services, Llc ranks #22,287 of 50,000 assignees by granted-patent volume, the same sort as the companies listing and top-holders ranking. See /methodology/#corpus-placement.

How many patents does BJ Services, Llc hold?

BJ Services, Llc holds 12 US utility patents granted between 2017 and 2021, spanning 18 technology areas.

What is BJ Services, Llc's Innovation Score?

BJ Services, Llc has an Innovation Score of 36.4 out of 100 (top 47% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is BJ Services, Llc's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

BJ Services, Llc's recent grant velocity is -80% 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 BJ Services, Llc's patents?

BJ Services, Llc's patents average 20.8 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 BJ Services, 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

BJ Services, Llc

Q: What technology areas does BJ Services, Llc focus on?

BJ Services, 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 6 patents. Grants appear in 18 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 12 granted patents across 18 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2017–2021. 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: 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, BJ ranks #22,287 of 50,000 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 12 patents across 18 technology areas.

#22,287
of 50,000 US assignees by volume: Top 47%
by Innovation Score (36.4/100): 20.8
avg claims per patent: -80%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R22287 · US Corporation #22,287 · 12 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 12 grants
MID-PACK #22,287/50,000
PHOTO-FINISH BIOASIS
CPC-FOCUS E21B · 18 areas
INNOV-THIN 36.4/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 20.8 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -80% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Bioasis Technologies, 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
BJ Services · this assignee

36
3D Lighting Innovati… · lowest

7

What this shows BJ's Innovation Score is 36.4/100 (top 47% 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 BJ's grants concentrate

BJ Services, Llc is a focused PatentsView assignee: 18 CPC subclasses with 50% of grants classified under E21B (EARTH OR ROCK DRILLING; OBTAINING OIL, GAS, WATER, SOLUBLE OR MELTABLE MATERIALS OR A SLURRY OF MINERALS FROM WELLS). Peak complete grant year is 2019 (6 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2017. By volume, BJ sits between Bioasis Technologies, Inc. and BOLY Media Communications (shenzhen) Co., Ltd..

Bioasis

12
BION

12
Biotechnology Ins…

12
Biotheranostics

12
BMA Braunschweigi…

12
Bodyfriend

12
BOLD Transmission

12
BOLY Media Commun…

12
BJ Services ◀

12

What this shows BJ holds 12 patents at rank #22,261, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near BJ

By rank, the assignees closest to #22,261 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in E21B (Earth OR ROCK Drilling)

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

BJ's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

36 Top 47% higher than 53% of 50,000 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2017–2021

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2017–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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BJ Services, Llc patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2017	1	8.3%
2018	3	25.0%
2019	6	50.0%
2020	1	8.3%
2021	1	8.3%

Which technologies does BJ Services, Llc patent most?

E21B - EARTH OR ROCK DRILLING; OBTAINING OIL, GAS, WATER, SOLUBLE OR MELTABLE MATERIALS OR A SLURRY OF MINERALS FROM WELLS 6

C09K - MATERIALS FOR MISCELLANEOUS APPLICATIONS, NOT PROVIDED FOR ELSEWHERE 4

F04B - POSITIVE-DISPLACEMENT MACHINES FOR LIQUIDS; PUMPS 3

F04D - NON-POSITIVE-DISPLACEMENT PUMPS 1

B01F - MIXING, e.g. DISSOLVING, EMULSIFYING OR DISPERSING 1

G05D - SYSTEMS FOR CONTROLLING OR REGULATING NON-ELECTRIC VARIABLES 1

B28C - PREPARING CLAY; PRODUCING MIXTURES CONTAINING CLAY OR CEMENTITIOUS MATERIAL, e.g. PLASTER 1

G06T - IMAGE DATA PROCESSING OR GENERATION, IN GENERAL 1

H01M - PROCESSES OR MEANS, e.g. BATTERIES, FOR THE DIRECT CONVERSION OF CHEMICAL ENERGY INTO ELECTRICAL ENERGY 1

H02J - CIRCUIT ARRANGEMENTS OR SYSTEMS FOR SUPPLYING OR DISTRIBUTING ELECTRIC POWER; SYSTEMS FOR STORING ELECTRIC ENERGY 1

Y02B - CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION TECHNOLOGIES RELATED TO BUILDINGS, e.g. HOUSING, HOUSE APPLIANCES OR RELATED END-USER APPLICATIONS 1

Y02E - REDUCTION OF GREENHOUSE GAS [GHG] EMISSIONS, RELATED TO ENERGY GENERATION, TRANSMISSION OR DISTRIBUTION 1

B65G - TRANSPORT OR STORAGE DEVICES, e.g. CONVEYORS FOR LOADING OR TIPPING, SHOP CONVEYOR SYSTEMS OR PNEUMATIC TUBE CONVEYORS 1

G01G - WEIGHING 1

C04B - LIME, MAGNESIA; SLAG; CEMENTS; COMPOSITIONS THEREOF, e.g. MORTARS, CONCRETE OR LIKE BUILDING MATERIALS; ARTIFICIAL STONE ; CERAMICS ; REFRACTORIES; TREATMENT OF NATURAL STONE 1

Top 15 of 18 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#22,287

of 50,000 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

36.4 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

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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