Where does Black & Veatch Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Black & Veatch Corporation ranks #20,842 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 Black & Veatch Corporation hold?

Black & Veatch Corporation holds 13 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2025, spanning 9 technology areas.

What is Black & Veatch Corporation's Innovation Score?

Black & Veatch Corporation has an Innovation Score of 31.3 out of 100 (top 63% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Black & Veatch Corporation's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Black & Veatch Corporation's recent grant velocity is -78% 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 Black & Veatch Corporation's patents?

Black & Veatch Corporation'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 Black & Veatch Corporation 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

Black & Veatch Corporation

Q: What technology areas does Black & Veatch Corporation focus on?

Black & Veatch Corporation's top technology area is 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) with 10 patents. Grants appear in 9 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 13 granted patents across 9 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2025. 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: 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).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Black ranks #20,842 of 50,000 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 13 patents across 9 technology areas.

#20,842
of 50,000 US assignees by volume: Top 63%
by Innovation Score (31.3/100): 17.1
avg claims per patent: -78%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R20842 · US Corporation #20,842 · 13 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 13 grants
MID-PACK #20,842/50,000
PHOTO-FINISH BIOGEN IDEC MA
CPC-NARROW F25J · 9 areas
INNOV-THIN 31.3/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.1 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -78% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Biogen IDEC MA 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
Concealfab · near

31
Gorlan TEAM S l u · near

31
Black & Veatch · this assignee

31
Gavrieli Brands · near

31
Sync-think · near

31
3D Lighting Innovati… · lowest

7

What this shows Black's Innovation Score is 31.3/100 (top 63% 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 Black's grants concentrate

Black & Veatch Corporation is a focused PatentsView assignee: 9 CPC subclasses with 76.9% of grants classified under 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). Peak complete grant year is 2019 (4 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2016. By volume, Black sits between Biogen IDEC MA Inc. and Bomgar Corporation.

Biogen IDEC MA

13
Bioniz

13
Bitanimate

13
Bizlink Industry…

13
Blum-novotest

13
Boardtek

13
Boehringer Ingelh…

13
Bomgar

13
Black & Veatch ◀

13

What this shows Black holds 13 patents at rank #20,822, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Black

By rank, the assignees closest to #20,822 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F25J (Liquefaction)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

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

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (31 here).

Gavrieli Brands Llc 31 Gorlan TEAM, S.l.u. 31 Concealfab, Inc. 31 Sync-think, Inc. 31

Black's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

31 Top 63% higher than 37% of 50,000 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2016–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Black & Veatch Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	1	7.7%
2017	2	15.4%
2018	2	15.4%
2019	4	30.8%
2020	1	7.7%
2024	1	7.7%
2025partial year	2	15.4%

Which technologies does Black & Veatch Corporation patent most?

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 10

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

F15B - SYSTEMS ACTING BY MEANS OF FLUIDS IN GENERAL; FLUID-PRESSURE ACTUATORS, e.g. SERVOMOTORS; DETAILS OF FLUID-PRESSURE SYSTEMS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR 1

F03B - MACHINES OR ENGINES FOR LIQUIDS 1

F03G - SPRING, WEIGHT, INERTIA OR LIKE MOTORS; MECHANICAL-POWER PRODUCING DEVICES OR MECHANISMS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR OR USING ENERGY SOURCES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR 1

B60L - PROPULSION OF ELECTRICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES ; SUPPLYING ELECTRIC POWER FOR AUXILIARY EQUIPMENT OF ELECTRICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES ; ELECTRODYNAMIC BRAKE SYSTEMS FOR VEHICLES IN GENERAL ; MAGNETIC SUSPENSION OR LEVITATION FOR VEHICLES; MONITORING OPERATING VARIABLES OF ELECTRICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICL 1

E04H - BUILDINGS OR LIKE STRUCTURES FOR PARTICULAR PURPOSES; SWIMMING OR SPLASH BATHS OR POOLS; MASTS; FENCING; TENTS OR CANOPIES, IN GENERAL 1

G01D - MEASURING NOT SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR A SPECIFIC VARIABLE; ARRANGEMENTS FOR MEASURING TWO OR MORE VARIABLES NOT COVERED IN A SINGLE OTHER SUBCLASS; TARIFF METERING APPARATUS; MEASURING OR TESTING NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR 1

C02F - TREATMENT OF WATER, WASTE WATER, SEWAGE, OR SLUDGE 1

Top 9 of 9 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#20,842

of 50,000 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

31.3 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

Compiled by PlainPatent, US Patent Intelligence Editorial Process · May 15, 2026

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