Where does Evolution Engineering Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Evolution Engineering Inc. ranks #2,963 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 Evolution Engineering Inc. hold?

Evolution Engineering Inc. holds 128 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2022, spanning 32 technology areas.

What is Evolution Engineering Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Evolution Engineering Inc. has an Innovation Score of 52.3 out of 100 (top 10% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Evolution Engineering Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Evolution Engineering Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -73% 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 Evolution Engineering Inc.'s patents?

Evolution Engineering Inc.'s patents average 25.6 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 Evolution Engineering 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 Foreign Corporation

Evolution Engineering Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Evolution Engineering Inc. focus on?

Evolution Engineering Inc.'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 126 patents. Grants appear in 32 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 128 granted patents across 32 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2022. 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, Evolution ranks #2,963 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 128 patents across 32 technology areas.

#2,963
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 10%
by Innovation Score (52.3/100): 25.6
avg claims per patent: -73%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2963 · Foreign Corporation #2,963 · 128 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 128 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,963/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Cytec Industries
CPC-FOCUS E21B · 32 areas
INNOV-PAR 52.3/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 25.6 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -73% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Cytec Industries, 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
Ambit Microsystems… · near

52
AON Risk Services… · near

52
Evolution Engineering · this assignee

52
National University… · near

52
Plaid · near

52
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Evolution's Innovation Score is 52.3/100 (top 10% 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.

Where Evolution's grants concentrate

Evolution Engineering Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 32 CPC subclasses with 98.4% 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 2018 (29 grants) versus a trough of 4 in 2022. By volume, Evolution sits between Cytec Industries, Inc. and Ideal Industries, Inc..

Evolution's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Evolution Engineering Inc. moved from 52 to 4 grants (0.08x 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 #3,197. See the growth leaderboard.

Cytec Industries

128
Discma

128
Ericsson AB

128
Electrocore

128
GAS Technology In…

128
Hitachi Zosen

128
Home BOX Office

128
Ideal Industries

128
Evolution Enginee… ◀

128

What this shows Evolution holds 128 patents at rank #2,963, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Evolution

By rank, the assignees closest to #2,963 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in E21B (Earth OR Rock Drilling)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

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

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (52 here).

Ambit Microsystems (SHANGHAI) Ltd. 52 National University Corporation Yokohama National University 52 Plaid, Inc. 52 AON Risk Services, Inc. OF Maryland 52

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (25.6 here).

InCube Labs, LLC 25.6 avg InVue Security Products Inc. 25.6 avg Sandisk IL Ltd. 25.6 avg Qualcomm Mems Technologies, Inc. 25.6 avg

Evolution's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

52 Top 10% higher than 90% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2022

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2016–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Evolution Engineering Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	15	11.7%
2017	28	21.9%
2018	29	22.7%
2019	29	22.7%
2020	14	10.9%
2021	9	7.0%
2022	4	3.1%

Which technologies does Evolution Engineering Inc. patent most?

E21B - Earth OR Rock DRILLING; Obtaining OIL, GAS, Water, Soluble OR Meltable Materials OR A Slurry OF Minerals From Wells 126

H04B - Transmission 13

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 10

H04Q - Selecting 9

G01V - GEOPHYSICS; Gravitational MEASUREMENTS; Detecting Masses OR OBJECTS; Tags 9

F16L - PIPES; Joints OR Fittings FOR PIPES; Supports FOR Pipes, Cables OR Protective TUBING; Means FOR Thermal Insulation IN General 7

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 5

G01P - Measuring Linear OR Angular Speed, Acceleration, Deceleration, OR SHOCK; Indicating Presence, Absence, OR Direction, OF Movement 3

G08C - Transmission Systems FOR Measured Values, Control OR Similar Signals 3

Y02D - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN Information AND Communication Technologies [ICT], I.E. Information AND Communication Technologies Aiming AT THE Reduction OF Their OWN Energy USE 3

H02J - Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy 2

H04J - Multiplex Communication 2

H01M - Processes OR Means, e.g. Batteries, FOR THE Direct Conversion OF Chemical Energy Into Electrical Energy 2

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 2

H01R - Electrically-conductive CONNECTIONS; Structural Associations OF A Plurality OF Mutually-insulated Electrical Connecting ELEMENTS; Coupling DEVICES; Current Collectors 2

Top 15 of 32 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#2,963

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

52.3 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

Evolution Engineering Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Evolution Engineering Inc.'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), 98.4% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore E21B
Ranked #2,963 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Evolution Engineering Inc. against Cytec Industries, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 52.3/100 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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