Where does BP Exploration Operating Company Limited rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), BP Exploration Operating Company Limited ranks #5,743 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 BP Exploration Operating Company Limited hold?

BP Exploration Operating Company Limited holds 59 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 25 technology areas.

What is BP Exploration Operating Company Limited's Innovation Score?

BP Exploration Operating Company Limited has an Innovation Score of 52.4 out of 100 (top 10% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is BP Exploration Operating Company Limited's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

BP Exploration Operating Company Limited's recent grant velocity is +19% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). The company is maintaining or growing its granted-patent output.

What does claim depth mean for BP Exploration Operating Company Limited's patents?

BP Exploration Operating Company Limited's patents average 21.9 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 Foreign Corporation

BP Exploration Operating Company Limited

Q: What technology areas does BP Exploration Operating Company Limited focus on?

BP Exploration Operating Company Limited'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 40 patents, ranking #83 of 1,363 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 25 CPC subclasses total.

Q: How is the BP Exploration Operating Company Limited 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 - 59 granted patents across 25 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, BP ranks #5,743 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 59 patents across 25 technology areas.

#5,743
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 10%
by Innovation Score (52.4/100): 21.9
avg claims per patent: +19%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R5743 · Foreign Corporation #5,743 · 59 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-UP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 59 grants
UPPER-Q #5,743/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Accuvein
CPC-FOCUS E21B · 25 areas
INNOV-PAR 52.4/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 21.9 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-UP +19% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Accuvein, 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.

How BP’s 52.4 Innovation Score adds up

The same four weighted components behind every Innovation Score on PlainPatent: portfolio volume, grant velocity, technology breadth, and claim depth.

Volume 14.1 pts (27%) Velocity 7.5 pts (14%) Breadth 17.7 pts (34%) Claim depth 13.1 pts (25%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
MCI (Mirror… · near

52
Nextiva · near

52
BP Exploration… · this assignee

52
Nippon Hoso Kyokai · near

52
Electric AND… · near

52
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows BP's Innovation Score is 52.4/100 (top 10% 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.

Does more volume mean deeper claims for BP?

Each dot is one of BP’s 8 nearest volume peers (same corpus rank neighbourhood as the chart above), placed by total granted patents (horizontal) against average claims per patent (vertical). BP’s own 21.9 claims/patent is ABOVE the 14.3 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

BP vs its 8 nearest volume peers: granted patents vs average claims per patent. Source: USPTO PatentsView.

Where BP's grants concentrate

BP Exploration Operating Company Limited is a focused PatentsView assignee: 25 CPC subclasses with 67.8% 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 2021 (10 grants) versus a trough of 3 in 2019. By volume, BP sits between Accuvein, Inc. and Ceramtec GMBH.

BP's three-year grant acceleration

BP Exploration Operating Company Limited shows 18 grants in 2022–2024 against only 16 in 2019–2021. That prior window is too thin for a growth multiple (rename and spin-out assignees look artificially high when the baseline is near zero), so PlainPatent withholds a ranked acceleration claim here.

Accuvein

59
Aerin Medical

59
Bauerfeind

59
Baylor Research I…

59
Banjo

59
Blueprint Medicin…

59
Capsovision

59
Ceramtec

59
BP Exploration Op… ◀

59

What this shows BP holds 59 patents at rank #5,741, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near BP

By rank, the assignees closest to #5,741 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in E21B (Earth OR Rock Drilling)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for BP, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In E21B (Earth OR Rock Drilling), BP ranks #83 of 1,363 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (52 here).

Nippon Hoso Kyokai 52 MCI (Mirror Controls International) Netherlands B.V. 52 Nextiva, Inc. 52 Electric AND Telecommunications Research Institute 52

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (21.9 here).

pSemi Corporation 21.9 avg VigNet Incorporated 21.9 avg Carl Zeiss SMT GmbH 21.8 avg Xenon Pharmaceuticals Inc. 21.9 avg

BP's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

52 Top 10% higher than 90% 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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BP Exploration Operating Company Limited patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	6	10.2%
2016	8	13.6%
2017	4	6.8%
2018	5	8.5%
2019	3	5.1%
2020	3	5.1%
2021	10	16.9%
2022	9	15.3%
2023	4	6.8%
2024	5	8.5%
2025partial year	2	3.4%

Which technologies does BP Exploration Operating Company Limited patent most?

E21B - Earth OR Rock DRILLING; Obtaining OIL, GAS, Water, Soluble OR Meltable Materials OR A Slurry OF Minerals From Wells 40

G01V - GEOPHYSICS; Gravitational MEASUREMENTS; Detecting Masses OR OBJECTS; Tags 17

C09K - Materials FOR Miscellaneous Applications, NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere 15

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 12

G01H - Measurement OF Mechanical Vibrations OR Ultrasonic, Sonic OR Infrasonic Waves 10

C02F - Treatment OF Water, Waste Water, Sewage, OR Sludge 10

B01D - Separation 10

Y02A - Technologies FOR Adaptation TO Climate Change 8

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 4

C04B - Lime, MAGNESIA; SLAG; CEMENTS; Compositions Thereof, e.g. Mortars, Concrete OR Like Building MATERIALS; Artificial Stone ; Ceramics ; REFRACTORIES; Treatment OF Natural Stone 3

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 3

F04C - Rotary-piston, OR Oscillating-piston, Positive-displacement Machines FOR Liquids ; Rotary-piston, OR Oscillating-piston, Positive-displacement Pumps 3

B01F - Mixing, e.g. Dissolving, Emulsifying OR Dispersing 3

G01P - Measuring Linear OR Angular Speed, Acceleration, Deceleration, OR SHOCK; Indicating Presence, Absence, OR Direction, OF Movement 2

Y02W - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Wastewater Treatment OR Waste Management 2

Top 15 of 25 technology areas

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

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What to do with this data

BP Exploration Operating Company Limited's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

BP Exploration Operating Company Limited'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), 67.8% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore E21B
Ranked #5,743 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare BP Exploration Operating Company Limited against Accuvein, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 52.4/100 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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