Where does Dresser, LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Dresser, LLC ranks #3,254 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 Dresser, LLC hold?

Dresser, LLC holds 115 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 39 technology areas.

What is Dresser, LLC's Innovation Score?

Dresser, LLC has an Innovation Score of 55.8 out of 100 (top 7% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Dresser, LLC focus on?

Dresser, LLC's top technology area is F16K (VALVES; TAPS; COCKS; ACTUATING-FLOATS; Devices FOR Venting OR Aerating) with 80 patents, ranking #15 of 1,836 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 39 CPC subclasses total.

Is Dresser, LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Dresser, LLC's recent grant velocity is -26% 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 Dresser, LLC's patents?

Dresser, LLC's patents average 16.2 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 Dresser, 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

Dresser, LLC

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 115 granted patents across 39 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: F16K (VALVES; TAPS; COCKS; ACTUATING-FLOATS; Devices FOR Venting OR Aerating).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Dresser ranks #3,254 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 115 patents across 39 technology areas.

#3,254
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 7%
by Innovation Score (55.8/100): 16.2
avg claims per patent: -26%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R3254 · US Corporation #3,254 · 115 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 115 grants
TOP-DECILE #3,254/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Coherent Logix…
CPC-FOCUS F16K · 39 areas
INNOV-PAR 55.8/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.2 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DOWN -26% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Coherent Logix, Incorporated (±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 Dresser’s 55.8 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 16.4 pts (29%) Velocity 7.6 pts (14%) Breadth 22.1 pts (40%) Claim depth 9.7 pts (17%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
AdrenalineIP · near

56
Dresser · this assignee

56
Hosiden · near

56
Mythical · near

56
Onto Innovation · near

56
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Dresser's Innovation Score is 55.8/100 (top 7% 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 Dresser?

Each dot is one of Dresser’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). Dresser’s own 16.2 claims/patent is ABOVE the 14.2 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Dresser's grants concentrate

Dresser, LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 39 CPC subclasses with 69.6% of grants classified under F16K (VALVES; TAPS; COCKS; ACTUATING-FLOATS; Devices FOR Venting OR Aerating). Peak complete grant year is 2017 (19 grants) versus a trough of 7 in 2020. By volume, Dresser sits between Coherent Logix, Incorporated and Messier-bugatti-dowty.

Dresser's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Dresser, LLC moved from 28 to 32 grants (1.14x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). Among 3,296 tracked assignees with ≥100 grants and ≥20 prior-period grants, that multiple ranks #881. See the growth leaderboard.

Coherent Logix In…

115
Coinbase

115
Desktop Metal

115
Deutsches Krebsfo…

115
Hisamitsu Pharmac…

115
Hunter Engineering

115
Institut Curie

115
Messier-bugatti-d…

115
Dresser ◀

115

What this shows Dresser holds 115 patents at rank #3,254, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Dresser

By rank, the assignees closest to #3,254 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F16K (Valves)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Dresser, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In F16K (Valves), Dresser ranks #15 of 1,836 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (56 here).

Mythical, Inc. 56 Hosiden Corporation 56 Onto Innovation Inc. 56 AdrenalineIP 56

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (16.2 here).

Monash University 16.2 avg Optimedica Corporation 16.2 avg Straumann Holding AG 16.2 avg Huizhou China Star Optoelectronics Display Co., Ltd. 16.2 avg

Dresser's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

56 Top 7% higher than 93% 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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Dresser, LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	10	8.7%
2016	10	8.7%
2017	19	16.5%
2018	9	7.8%
2019	14	12.2%
2020	7	6.1%
2021	7	6.1%
2022	9	7.8%
2023	9	7.8%
2024	14	12.2%
2025partial year	7	6.1%

Which technologies does Dresser, LLC patent most?

F16K - VALVES; TAPS; COCKS; ACTUATING-FLOATS; Devices FOR Venting OR Aerating 80

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 33

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 21

F15B - Systems Acting BY Means OF Fluids IN GENERAL; Fluid-pressure Actuators, e.g. SERVOMOTORS; Details OF Fluid-pressure Systems, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 14

G05D - Systems FOR Controlling OR Regulating Non-electric Variables 13

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 8

G01L - Measuring Force, Stress, Torque, Work, Mechanical Power, Mechanical Efficiency, OR Fluid Pressure 7

G01M - Testing Static OR Dynamic Balance OF Machines OR STRUCTURES; Testing OF Structures OR Apparatus, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 6

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 6

G01F - Measuring Volume, Volume Flow, Mass Flow OR Liquid LEVEL; Metering BY Volume 6

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 6

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

F16L - PIPES; Joints OR Fittings FOR PIPES; Supports FOR Pipes, Cables OR Protective TUBING; Means FOR Thermal Insulation IN General 4

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 4

E21B - Earth OR Rock DRILLING; Obtaining OIL, GAS, Water, Soluble OR Meltable Materials OR A Slurry OF Minerals From Wells 2

Top 15 of 39 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

Dresser, LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Dresser, LLC's lead technology class is F16K (VALVES; TAPS; COCKS; ACTUATING-FLOATS; Devices FOR Venting OR Aerating), 69.6% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F16K
Ranked #3,254 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Dresser, LLC against Coherent Logix, Incorporated, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 55.8/100 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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