Where does Butts Properties, Ltd. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Butts Properties, Ltd. ranks #31,111 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 Butts Properties, Ltd. hold?

Butts Properties, Ltd. holds 8 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2020, spanning 8 technology areas.

What is Butts Properties, Ltd.'s Innovation Score?

Butts Properties, Ltd. has an Innovation Score of 27.1 out of 100 (23rd percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Butts Properties, Ltd.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Butts Properties, Ltd.'s recent grant velocity is -86% 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 Butts Properties, Ltd.'s patents?

Butts Properties, Ltd.'s patents average 15.9 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.

How is the Butts Properties, Ltd. 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

Butts Properties, Ltd.

Q: What technology areas does Butts Properties, Ltd. focus on?

Butts Properties, Ltd.'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 7 patents, ranking #31 of 125 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 8 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 8 granted patents across 8 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2020. 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, Butts ranks #31,111 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 8 patents across 8 technology areas.

#31,111
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 23rd percentile
by Innovation Score (27.1/100): 15.9
avg claims per patent: -86%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R31111 · US Corporation #31,111 · 8 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 8 grants
MID-PACK #31,111/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Bullard Spine
CPC-NARROW F25J · 8 areas
INNOV-THIN 27.1/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.9 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -86% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Bullard Spine, LLC (±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 Butts’s 27.1 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 7.6 pts (28%) Velocity 0.0 pts (0%) Breadth 10.0 pts (37%) Claim depth 9.5 pts (35%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

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What this shows Butts's Innovation Score is 27.1/100 (23rd 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.

Does more volume mean deeper claims for Butts?

Each dot is one of Butts’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). Butts’s own 15.9 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.3 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Butts's grants concentrate

Butts Properties, Ltd. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 8 CPC subclasses with 87.5% 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 2015 (2 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2018. By volume, Butts sits between Bullard Spine, LLC and C.M.I. Cerniere Meccaniche Industriali S.R.L..

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What this shows Butts holds 8 patents at rank #31,112, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Butts

By rank, the assignees closest to #31,112 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F25J (Liquefaction)

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

Butts's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

27 23rd percentile higher than 23% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2020

Grants by year

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

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Butts Properties, Ltd. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	2	25.0%
2017	2	25.0%
2018	1	12.5%
2019	2	25.0%
2020	1	12.5%

Which technologies does Butts Properties, Ltd. 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 7

Y02C - Capture, Storage, Sequestration OR Disposal OF Greenhouse Gases [GHG] 4

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 3

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 3

Y10S - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former Uspc Cross-reference ART Collections [XRACs] AND Digests 1

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 1

C07C - Acyclic OR Carbocyclic Compounds 1

B01D - Separation 1

Top 8 of 8 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

Butts Properties, Ltd.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Butts Properties, Ltd.'s lead technology class 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), 87.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F25J
Ranked #31,111 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Butts Properties, Ltd. against Bullard Spine, LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 27.1/100 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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