Where does Excelerate Energy Limited Partnership rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Excelerate Energy Limited Partnership ranks #22,555 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 Excelerate Energy Limited Partnership hold?

Excelerate Energy Limited Partnership holds 12 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2022, spanning 9 technology areas.

What is Excelerate Energy Limited Partnership's Innovation Score?

Excelerate Energy Limited Partnership has an Innovation Score of 27.7 out of 100 (25th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Excelerate Energy Limited Partnership focus on?

Excelerate Energy Limited Partnership's top technology area is B63B (Ships OR Other Waterborne VESSELS; Equipment FOR Shipping) with 9 patents, ranking #82 of 645 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 9 CPC subclasses total.

Is Excelerate Energy Limited Partnership's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Excelerate Energy Limited Partnership's recent grant velocity is -50% 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 Excelerate Energy Limited Partnership's patents?

Excelerate Energy Limited Partnership's patents average 11.9 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 Excelerate Energy Limited Partnership 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

Excelerate Energy Limited Partnership

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 12 granted patents across 9 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2022. 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: B63B (Ships OR Other Waterborne VESSELS; Equipment FOR Shipping).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Excelerate ranks #22,555 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 12 patents across 9 technology areas.

#22,555
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 25th percentile
by Innovation Score (27.7/100): 11.9
avg claims per patent: -50%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R22555 · US Corporation #22,555 · 12 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-PAR · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 12 grants
MID-PACK #22,555/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Everest Networks
CPC-NARROW B63B · 9 areas
INNOV-THIN 27.7/100
CLAIMS-PAR 11.9 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -50% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Everest Networks, 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 Excelerate’s 27.7 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 8.9 pts (32%) Velocity 1.1 pts (4%) Breadth 10.6 pts (38%) Claim depth 7.2 pts (26%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Excelerate Energy… · this assignee

28
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Excelerate's Innovation Score is 27.7/100 (25th percentile 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 Excelerate?

Each dot is one of Excelerate’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). Excelerate’s own 11.9 claims/patent is at or below the 16.4 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Excelerate's grants concentrate

Excelerate Energy Limited Partnership is a focused PatentsView assignee: 9 CPC subclasses with 75% of grants classified under B63B (Ships OR Other Waterborne VESSELS; Equipment FOR Shipping). Peak complete grant year is 2019 (3 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2018. By volume, Excelerate sits between Everest Networks, Inc. and Exsurco Medical, Inc..

Excelerate's three-year grant acceleration

Excelerate Energy Limited Partnership shows 1 grants in 2022–2024 against only 6 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.

Everest Networks

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Evertree

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Evoco

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Exordium Engineer…

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Exosect

12
Expander Energy

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Exsurco Medical

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Excelerate Energy… ◀

12

What this shows Excelerate holds 12 patents at rank #22,554, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Excelerate

By rank, the assignees closest to #22,554 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B63B (Ships OR Other Waterborne Vessels)

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

Excelerate's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

28 25th percentile higher than 25% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2022

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2015–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Excelerate Energy Limited Partnership patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	2	16.7%
2017	2	16.7%
2018	1	8.3%
2019	3	25.0%
2020	2	16.7%
2021	1	8.3%
2022	1	8.3%

Which technologies does Excelerate Energy Limited Partnership patent most?

B63B - Ships OR Other Waterborne VESSELS; Equipment FOR Shipping 9

F17C - Vessels FOR Containing OR Storing Compressed, Liquefied OR Solidified GASES; Fixed-capacity GAS-HOLDERS; Filling Vessels With, OR Discharging From Vessels, Compressed, Liquefied, OR Solidified Gases 6

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 4

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

F25J - Liquefaction, Solidification OR Separation OF Gases OR Gaseous ; OR Liquefied GASEOUS; Mixtures BY Pressure AND Cold Treatment ; OR BY Bringing Them Into THE Supercritical State 4

B67D - Dispensing, Delivering OR Transferring Liquids, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 3

E21B - Earth OR Rock DRILLING; Obtaining OIL, GAS, Water, Soluble OR Meltable Materials OR A Slurry OF Minerals From Wells 3

B65G - Transport OR Storage Devices, e.g. Conveyors FOR Loading OR Tipping, Shop Conveyor Systems OR Pneumatic Tube Conveyors 2

B63J - Auxiliaries ON Vessels 2

Top 9 of 9 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

Excelerate Energy Limited Partnership's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Excelerate Energy Limited Partnership's lead technology class is B63B (Ships OR Other Waterborne VESSELS; Equipment FOR Shipping), 75% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B63B
Ranked #22,555 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Excelerate Energy Limited Partnership against Everest Networks, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 27.7/100 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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