Where does Evoqua Water Technologies LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Evoqua Water Technologies LLC ranks #1,745 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 Evoqua Water Technologies LLC hold?

Evoqua Water Technologies LLC holds 233 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 63 technology areas.

What is Evoqua Water Technologies LLC's Innovation Score?

Evoqua Water Technologies LLC has an Innovation Score of 61.4 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%).

What technology areas does Evoqua Water Technologies LLC focus on?

Evoqua Water Technologies LLC's top technology area is C02F (Treatment OF Water, Waste Water, Sewage, OR Sludge) with 177 patents, ranking #3 of 1,366 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 63 CPC subclasses total.

Is Evoqua Water Technologies LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Evoqua Water Technologies LLC's recent grant velocity is +26% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). The company is maintaining or growing its granted-patent output.

What does claim depth mean for Evoqua Water Technologies LLC's patents?

Evoqua Water Technologies LLC's patents average 15.4 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 Evoqua Water Technologies 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

Evoqua Water Technologies LLC

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 233 granted patents across 63 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: C02F (Treatment OF Water, Waste Water, Sewage, OR Sludge).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Evoqua ranks #1,745 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 233 patents across 63 technology areas.

#1,745
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 3%
by Innovation Score (61.4/100): 15.4
avg claims per patent: +26%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1745 · US Corporation #1,745 · 233 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 233 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,745/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Alstom Transport
CPC-WIDE C02F · 63 areas
INNOV-STRONG 61.4/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.4 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-UP +26% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Alstom Transport Technologies (±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 Evoqua’s 61.4 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 18.8 pts (31%) Velocity 8.3 pts (14%) Breadth 25.0 pts (41%) Claim depth 9.3 pts (15%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Darfon · near

61
University of… · near

61
Evoqua Water · this assignee

61
Epistar · near

61
SAF-Holland · near

61
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Evoqua's Innovation Score is 61.4/100 (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.

Does more volume mean deeper claims for Evoqua?

Each dot is one of Evoqua’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). Evoqua’s own 15.4 claims/patent is ABOVE the 14.3 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How Evoqua's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Evoqua Water Technologies LLC received 121 grants versus 96 in 2015–2019 (+26% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2017 at 27 grants and bottomed in 2016 at 15. Lead class C02F accounts for 76% of the portfolio across 63 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (#1,741) and Covestro LLC (#1,749).

Evoqua's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Evoqua Water Technologies LLC moved from 63 to 78 grants (1.24x 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 #726. See the growth leaderboard.

Saudi Basic Indus…

234
Alstom Transport

233
Aptar France SAS

233
Beihang University

233
Magna Internation…

233
Sidel Participati…

233
United States Gyp…

233
Evoqua Water ◀

233
Covestro

232

What this shows Evoqua holds 233 patents at rank #1,745, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Evoqua

By rank, the assignees closest to #1,745 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C02F (Treatment OF Water)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Evoqua, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In C02F (Treatment OF Water), Evoqua ranks #3 of 1,366 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (61 here).

Darfon Electronics Corp. 61 SAF-Holland, Inc. 61 University of Washington through its Center for Commercialization 61 Epistar Corporation 61

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (15.4 here).

Sorbonne Universite 15.4 avg St-ericsson SA 15.4 avg Solenis Technologies, L.P. 15.4 avg JIO Platforms Limited 15.4 avg

Evoqua'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 · 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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Evoqua Water Technologies LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	18	7.7%
2016	15	6.4%
2017	27	11.6%
2018	16	6.9%
2019	20	8.6%
2020	25	10.7%
2021	18	7.7%
2022	26	11.2%
2023	27	11.6%
2024	25	10.7%
2025partial year	16	6.9%

Which technologies does Evoqua Water Technologies LLC patent most?

C02F - Treatment OF Water, Waste Water, Sewage, OR Sludge 177

B01D - Separation 91

Y02W - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Wastewater Treatment OR Waste Management 52

Y02A - Technologies FOR Adaptation TO Climate Change 38

B01J - Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus 24

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 19

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 18

C25B - Electrolytic OR Electrophoretic Processes FOR THE Production OF Compounds OR NON-METALS; Apparatus Therefor 16

H01M - Processes OR Means, e.g. Batteries, FOR THE Direct Conversion OF Chemical Energy Into Electrical Energy 16

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 13

C08J - WORKING-UP; General Processes OF COMPOUNDING; After-treatment NOT Covered BY Subclasses C08b, C08c, C08f, C08g or C08h 10

C01B - Non-metallic ELEMENTS; Compounds THEREOF; ; Metalloids OR Compounds Thereof NOT Covered BY Subclass C01c 10

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 9

B63J - Auxiliaries ON Vessels 6

G21F - Protection Against X-radiation, Gamma Radiation, Corpuscular Radiation OR Particle BOMBARDMENT; Treating Radioactively Contaminated MATERIAL; Decontamination Arrangements Therefor 5

Top 15 of 63 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

Evoqua Water Technologies LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Evoqua Water Technologies LLC's lead technology class is C02F (Treatment OF Water, Waste Water, Sewage, OR Sludge), 76% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C02F
Ranked #1,745 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Evoqua Water Technologies LLC against Saudi Basic Industries Corporation, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 61.4/100 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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