Where does Bwxt Nuclear Energy, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Bwxt Nuclear Energy, Inc. ranks #11,196 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 Nuclear Energy, Inc. hold?

Bwxt Nuclear Energy, Inc. holds 27 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 21 technology areas.

What is Bwxt Nuclear Energy, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Bwxt Nuclear Energy, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 57.7 out of 100 (top 5% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Bwxt Nuclear Energy, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Bwxt Nuclear Energy, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -37% 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 Bwxt Nuclear Energy, Inc.'s patents?

Bwxt Nuclear Energy, Inc.'s patents average 20.3 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 Nuclear Energy, Inc. 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 Nuclear Energy, Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Bwxt Nuclear Energy, Inc. focus on?

Bwxt Nuclear Energy, Inc.'s top technology area is Y02E (Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution) with 23 patents, ranking #649 of 5,963 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 21 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 27 granted patents across 21 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: 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 #11,196 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 27 patents across 21 technology areas.

#11,196
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 5%
by Innovation Score (57.7/100): 20.3
avg claims per patent: -37%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R11196 · US Corporation #11,196 · 27 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 27 grants
UPPER-Q #11,196/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Bausch + Lomb Ireland
CPC-FOCUS Y02E · 21 areas
INNOV-PAR 57.7/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 20.3 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DOWN -37% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Bausch + Lomb Ireland Limited (±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 57.7 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 11.5 pts (20%) Velocity 17.8 pts (31%) Breadth 16.2 pts (28%) Claim depth 12.2 pts (21%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Bwxt Nuclear Energy · this assignee

58
Macroblock · near

58
Overhead Door · near

58
Particle Measuring… · near

58
Thomas Jefferson… · near

58
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Bwxt's Innovation Score is 57.7/100 (top 5% 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 20.3 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.2 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 Nuclear Energy, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 21 CPC subclasses with 85.2% of grants classified under Y02E (Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution). Peak complete grant year is 2016 (8 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2018. By volume, Bwxt sits between Bone Foam, Inc. and Biohaven Therapeutics Ltd..

Bwxt's three-year grant acceleration

Bwxt Nuclear Energy, Inc. shows 8 grants in 2022–2024 against only 3 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.

Bone Foam

27
Bonutti Research

27
BTL Medical s r o

27
Buccellati Holdin…

27
Bausch + Lomb Ire…

27
Belanger

27
Bicycletx

27
Biohaven Therapeu…

27
Bwxt Nuclear Ener… ◀

27

What this shows Bwxt holds 27 patents at rank #11,185, 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 #11,185 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 #649 of 5,963 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (58 here).

Particle Measuring Systems, Inc. 58 Macroblock, Inc. 58 Overhead Door Corporation 58 Thomas Jefferson University 58

Bwxt's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

58 Top 5% higher than 95% 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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Bwxt Nuclear Energy, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	2	7.4%
2016	8	29.6%
2017	4	14.8%
2018	1	3.7%
2019	1	3.7%
2021	2	7.4%
2022	2	7.4%
2023	4	14.8%
2024	2	7.4%
2025partial year	1	3.7%

Which technologies does Bwxt Nuclear Energy, Inc. patent most?

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 23

G21C - Nuclear Reactors 22

G21D - Nuclear Power Plant 10

B64G - COSMONAUTICS; Vehicles OR Equipment Therefor 7

F22B - Methods OF Steam GENERATION; Steam Boilers 6

F02K - Jet-propulsion Plants 6

F04D - Non-positive-displacement Pumps 4

B22F - Working Metallic POWDER; Manufacture OF Articles From Metallic POWDER; Making Metallic Powder ; Apparatus OR Devices Specially Adapted FOR Metallic Powder 3

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 3

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 2

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 2

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 2

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 1

B66C - CRANES; Load-engaging Elements OR Devices FOR Cranes, Capstans, Winches, OR Tackles 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

Top 15 of 21 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 Nuclear Energy, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Bwxt Nuclear Energy, Inc.'s lead technology class is Y02E (Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution), 85.2% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore Y02E
Ranked #11,196 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Bwxt Nuclear Energy, Inc. against Bone Foam, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 57.7/100 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

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