Where does Bwxt Advanced Technologies LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Bwxt Advanced Technologies LLC ranks #9,988 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 Bwxt Advanced Technologies LLC hold?

Bwxt Advanced Technologies LLC holds 31 US utility patents granted between 2022 and 2025, spanning 26 technology areas.

What is Bwxt Advanced Technologies LLC's Innovation Score?

Bwxt Advanced Technologies LLC has an Innovation Score of 63.4 out of 100 (top 2% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Bwxt Advanced Technologies LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Insufficient historical data is available to calculate a velocity trend for Bwxt Advanced Technologies LLC.

What does claim depth mean for Bwxt Advanced Technologies LLC's patents?

Bwxt Advanced Technologies LLC's patents average 22.3 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 Bwxt Advanced Technologies 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

Bwxt Advanced Technologies LLC

Q: What technology areas does Bwxt Advanced Technologies LLC focus on?

Bwxt Advanced Technologies LLC's top technology area is Y02E (Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution) with 27 patents, ranking #567 of 5,963 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 26 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 31 granted patents across 26 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2022–2025. 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: Y02E (Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Bwxt ranks #9,988 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 31 patents across 26 technology areas.

#9,988
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 2%
by Innovation Score (63.4/100): 22.3
avg claims per patent

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R9988 · US Corporation #9,988 · 31 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-USCORP · SPAN-YRS · BOOK-RICH

GRANTS-SMALL 31 grants
UPPER-Q #9,988/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Banpil Photonics
CPC-FOCUS Y02E · 26 areas
INNOV-STRONG 63.4/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 22.3 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
SPAN-YRS 2022–2025 · 4y
BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Banpil Photonics, 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 Bwxt’s 63.4 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 12.0 pts (19%) Velocity 20.0 pts (32%) Breadth 18.0 pts (28%) Claim depth 13.4 pts (21%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
3D Systems · near

63
Carl Zeiss Microscopy · near

63
Zhejiang Jinko Solar · near

63
Bwxt Advanced · this assignee

63
West Affum Holdings… · near

63
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Bwxt's Innovation Score is 63.4/100 (top 2% 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 Bwxt?

Each dot is one of Bwxt’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). Bwxt’s own 22.3 claims/patent is ABOVE the 17.1 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Bwxt's grants concentrate

Bwxt Advanced Technologies LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 26 CPC subclasses with 87.1% of grants classified under Y02E (Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution). Peak complete grant year is 2024 (10 grants) versus a trough of 6 in 2022. By volume, Bwxt sits between BIG Dutchman International GMBH and Blueair AB.

Bwxt's three-year grant acceleration

Bwxt Advanced Technologies LLC shows 24 grants in 2022–2024 against only 0 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.

BIG Dutchman Inte…

31
BP Chemicals

31
BP P L C

31
Bruker Switzerland

31
Banpil Photonics

31
Beijing Jingdong…

31
Bisn Tec

31
Blueair AB

31
Bwxt Advanced ◀

31

What this shows Bwxt holds 31 patents at rank #9,982, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Bwxt

By rank, the assignees closest to #9,982 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in Y02E (Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Bwxt, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In Y02E (Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions), Bwxt ranks #567 of 5,963 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (63 here).

West Affum Holdings DAC 63 Zhejiang Jinko Solar Co., Ltd. 63 3D Systems, Inc. 63 Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbH 63

Bwxt's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

63 Top 2% higher than 98% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2022–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2022–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Bwxt Advanced Technologies LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2022	6	19.4%
2023	8	25.8%
2024	10	32.3%
2025partial year	7	22.6%

Which technologies does Bwxt Advanced Technologies LLC patent most?

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 27

G21C - Nuclear Reactors 25

G21D - Nuclear Power Plant 13

B33Y - Additive Manufacturing, i.e. Manufacturing OF Three-dimensional [3-D] Objects BY Additive Deposition, Additive Agglomeration OR Additive Layering, e.g. BY 3-D Printing, Stereolithography OR Selective Laser Sintering 8

B29C - Shaping OR Joining OF PLASTICS; Shaping OF Material IN A Plastic State, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; After-treatment OF THE Shaped Products, e.g. Repairing 7

B64G - COSMONAUTICS; Vehicles OR Equipment Therefor 5

B22F - Working Metallic POWDER; Manufacture OF Articles From Metallic POWDER; Making Metallic Powder ; Apparatus OR Devices Specially Adapted FOR Metallic Powder 5

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 4

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 4

C08F - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained BY Reactions Only Involving Carbon-to-carbon Unsaturated Bonds 4

C08K - Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances as compounding ingredients 4

F16H - Gearing 2

F02K - Jet-propulsion Plants 2

G21G - Conversion OF Chemical ELEMENTS; Radioactive Sources 2

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 2

Top 15 of 26 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

Bwxt Advanced Technologies LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Bwxt Advanced Technologies LLC's lead technology class is Y02E (Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution), 87.1% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore Y02E
Ranked #9,988 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Bwxt Advanced Technologies LLC against BIG Dutchman International GMBH, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 63.4/100 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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