Where does Equinor Energy AS rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Equinor Energy AS ranks #3,277 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 Equinor Energy AS hold?

Equinor Energy AS holds 114 US utility patents granted between 2018 and 2025, spanning 57 technology areas.

What is Equinor Energy AS's Innovation Score?

Equinor Energy AS has an Innovation Score of 60.7 out of 100 (top 3% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Equinor Energy AS's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Equinor Energy AS's recent grant velocity is +3300% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Equinor Energy AS's patents?

Equinor Energy AS's patents average 17.7 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 Equinor Energy AS 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 Foreign Corporation

Equinor Energy AS

Q: What technology areas does Equinor Energy AS focus on?

Equinor Energy AS'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 83 patents. Grants appear in 57 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 114 granted patents across 57 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2018–2025. 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, Equinor ranks #3,277 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 114 patents across 57 technology areas.

#3,277
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 3%
by Innovation Score (60.7/100): 17.7
avg claims per patent: +3300%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R3277 · Foreign Corporation #3,277 · 114 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 114 grants
TOP-DECILE #3,277/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Bard Peripheral…
CPC-WIDE E21B · 57 areas
INNOV-STRONG 60.7/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.7 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +3300% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Bard Peripheral Vascular, 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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
AIR Products AND… · near

61
Equinor Energy AS · this assignee

61
Manufacturing… · near

61
UnitedHealth Group… · near

61
Xiamen Hithium… · near

61
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Equinor's Innovation Score is 60.7/100 (top 3% 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.

How Equinor's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Equinor Energy AS received 102 grants versus 3 in 2015–2019 (+3300% equal-window velocity, top decile growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2021 at 22 grants and bottomed in 2018 at 1. Lead class E21B accounts for 72.8% of the portfolio across 57 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. (#3,273) and Hong Kong Baptist University (#3,281).

Equinor's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Equinor Energy AS moved from 45 to 59 grants (1.31x 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 #632. See the growth leaderboard.

Bard Peripheral V…

114
Chia Tai Tianqing…

114
Creeled

114
Dreamwell

114
Exfo

114
Hiroshima Univers…

114
Hankook Tire

114
Hong Kong Baptist…

114
Equinor Energy AS ◀

114

What this shows Equinor holds 114 patents at rank #3,277, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Equinor

By rank, the assignees closest to #3,277 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in E21B (Earth OR Rock Drilling)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Equinor, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above).

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (61 here).

UnitedHealth Group Incorporated 61 Manufacturing Resources International, Inc. 61 Xiamen Hithium Energy Storage Technology Co., Ltd. 61 AIR Products AND Chemicals, Inc. 61

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (17.7 here).

Touchtunes Music Company, LLC 17.7 avg Zephyros, Inc. 17.7 avg Infineon Technologies Americas Corp. 17.7 avg Johns Manville 17.7 avg

Equinor's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

61 Top 3% higher than 97% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2018–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2018–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Equinor Energy AS patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2018	1	0.9%
2019	2	1.8%
2020	21	18.4%
2021	22	19.3%
2022	22	19.3%
2023	22	19.3%
2024	15	13.2%
2025partial year	9	7.9%

Which technologies does Equinor Energy AS patent most?

E21B - Earth OR Rock DRILLING; Obtaining OIL, GAS, Water, Soluble OR Meltable Materials OR A Slurry OF Minerals From Wells 83

G01V - GEOPHYSICS; Gravitational MEASUREMENTS; Detecting Masses OR OBJECTS; Tags 19

B63B - Ships OR Other Waterborne VESSELS; Equipment FOR Shipping 16

F16L - PIPES; Joints OR Fittings FOR PIPES; Supports FOR Pipes, Cables OR Protective TUBING; Means FOR Thermal Insulation IN General 13

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 10

E02D - FOUNDATIONS; EXCAVATIONS; Embankments ; Underground OR Underwater Structures 10

B01D - Separation 8

E02B - Hydraulic Engineering 8

F04D - Non-positive-displacement Pumps 7

F17D - Pipe-line SYSTEMS; Pipe-lines 7

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 7

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 6

C09K - Materials FOR Miscellaneous Applications, NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere 5

G01F - Measuring Volume, Volume Flow, Mass Flow OR Liquid LEVEL; Metering BY Volume 4

B08B - Cleaning IN GENERAL; Prevention OF Fouling IN General 4

Top 15 of 57 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#3,277

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

60.7 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

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Equinor Energy AS'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), 72.8% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore E21B
Ranked #3,277 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Equinor Energy AS against Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 60.7/100 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

Compiled by PlainPatent, US Patent Intelligence Editorial Process · May 15, 2026

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