Where does Downing Wellhead Equipment, LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Downing Wellhead Equipment, LLC ranks #10,599 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 Downing Wellhead Equipment, LLC hold?

Downing Wellhead Equipment, LLC holds 29 US utility patents granted between 2020 and 2025, spanning 4 technology areas.

What is Downing Wellhead Equipment, LLC's Innovation Score?

Downing Wellhead Equipment, LLC has an Innovation Score of 45.1 out of 100 (top 24% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Downing Wellhead Equipment, LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Insufficient historical data is available to calculate a velocity trend for Downing Wellhead Equipment, LLC.

What does claim depth mean for Downing Wellhead Equipment, LLC's patents?

Downing Wellhead Equipment, LLC's patents average 27.2 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 Downing Wellhead Equipment, 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

Downing Wellhead Equipment, LLC

Q: What technology areas does Downing Wellhead Equipment, LLC focus on?

Downing Wellhead Equipment, LLC'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 27 patents, ranking #133 of 1,363 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 4 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 29 granted patents across 4 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2020–2025. 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, Downing ranks #10,599 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 29 patents across 4 technology areas.

#10,599
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 24%
by Innovation Score (45.1/100): 27.2
avg claims per patent

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R10599 · US Corporation #10,599 · 29 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 29 grants
UPPER-Q #10,599/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Delta Design
CPC-NARROW E21B · 4 areas
INNOV-PAR 45.1/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 27.2 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
SPAN-YRS 2020–2025 · 6y
BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Delta Design, 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 Downing’s 45.1 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 11.7 pts (26%) Velocity 11.3 pts (25%) Breadth 7.1 pts (16%) Claim depth 15.0 pts (33%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Arete Associates · near

45
Downing Wellhead… · this assignee

45
OSE Immunotherapeutics · near

45
SOS LAB · near

45
Titan Spine · near

45
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Downing's Innovation Score is 45.1/100 (top 24% 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 Downing?

Each dot is one of Downing’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). Downing’s own 27.2 claims/patent is ABOVE the 17.6 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Downing's grants concentrate

Downing Wellhead Equipment, LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 4 CPC subclasses with 93.1% 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 2022 (7 grants) versus a trough of 4 in 2021. By volume, Downing sits between DePuy International Limited and Enswers Co., Ltd..

Downing's three-year grant acceleration

Downing Wellhead Equipment, LLC shows 17 grants in 2022–2024 against only 10 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.

Depuy Internation…

29
Delta Design

29
Dioxide Materials

29
Diversitech

29
Ecole Normale Sup…

29
Elbit Systems Lan…

29
Empresa Brasileir…

29
Enswers

29
Downing Wellhead… ◀

29

What this shows Downing holds 29 patents at rank #10,599, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Downing

By rank, the assignees closest to #10,599 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in E21B (Earth OR Rock Drilling)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Downing, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In E21B (Earth OR Rock Drilling), Downing ranks #133 of 1,363 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (45 here).

SOS LAB Co., Ltd 45 Titan Spine, LLC 45 Arete Associates 45 OSE Immunotherapeutics 45

Downing's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

45 Top 24% higher than 76% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2020–2025

Grants by year

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

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Downing Wellhead Equipment, LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2020	6	20.7%
2021	4	13.8%
2022	7	24.1%
2023	4	13.8%
2024	6	20.7%
2025partial year	2	6.9%

Which technologies does Downing Wellhead Equipment, LLC patent most?

E21B - Earth OR Rock DRILLING; Obtaining OIL, GAS, Water, Soluble OR Meltable Materials OR A Slurry OF Minerals From Wells 27

F16N - Lubricating 12

F16L - PIPES; Joints OR Fittings FOR PIPES; Supports FOR Pipes, Cables OR Protective TUBING; Means FOR Thermal Insulation IN General 3

F16K - VALVES; TAPS; COCKS; ACTUATING-FLOATS; Devices FOR Venting OR Aerating 2

Top 4 of 4 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

Downing Wellhead Equipment, LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Downing Wellhead Equipment, LLC'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), 93.1% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore E21B
Ranked #10,599 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Downing Wellhead Equipment, LLC against DePuy International Limited, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 45.1/100 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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