Where does Expro North SEA Limited rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Expro North SEA Limited ranks #6,238 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 Expro North SEA Limited hold?

Expro North SEA Limited holds 54 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 20 technology areas.

What is Expro North SEA Limited's Innovation Score?

Expro North SEA Limited has an Innovation Score of 52.6 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 Expro North SEA Limited's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Expro North SEA Limited's recent grant velocity is +133% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Expro North SEA Limited's patents?

Expro North SEA Limited's patents average 18.1 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 Expro North SEA Limited 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

Expro North SEA Limited

Q: What technology areas does Expro North SEA Limited focus on?

Expro North SEA Limited'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 53 patents, ranking #64 of 1,363 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 20 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 54 granted patents across 20 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: 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, Expro ranks #6,238 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 54 patents across 20 technology areas.

#6,238
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 10%
by Innovation Score (52.6/100): 18.1
avg claims per patent: +133%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R6238 · Foreign Corporation #6,238 · 54 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 54 grants
UPPER-Q #6,238/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Debiotech
CPC-FOCUS E21B · 20 areas
INNOV-PAR 52.6/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.1 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +133% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Debiotech S.A. (±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 Expro’s 52.6 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 13.8 pts (26%) Velocity 12.1 pts (23%) Breadth 15.8 pts (30%) Claim depth 10.8 pts (21%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Expro North SEA · this assignee

53
Hyland UK Operations · near

53
Manitowoc Crane… · near

53
Materialise · near

53
Smarter Microelectro… · near

53
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Expro's Innovation Score is 52.6/100 (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.

Does more volume mean deeper claims for Expro?

Each dot is one of Expro’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). Expro’s own 18.1 claims/patent is ABOVE the 18.0 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Expro's grants concentrate

Expro North SEA Limited is a focused PatentsView assignee: 20 CPC subclasses with 98.1% 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 2024 (11 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2015. By volume, Expro sits between Debiotech S.A. and Gerresheimer Regensburg GmbH.

Expro's three-year grant acceleration

Expro North SEA Limited shows 20 grants in 2022–2024 against only 11 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.

Debiotech

54
Distech Controls

54
Delta (Thailand)…

54
Easebon Services

54
Entefy

54
Facense

54
Frore Systems

54
Gerresheimer Rege…

54
Expro North SEA ◀

54

What this shows Expro holds 54 patents at rank #6,237, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Expro

By rank, the assignees closest to #6,237 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in E21B (Earth OR Rock Drilling)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Expro, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In E21B (Earth OR Rock Drilling), Expro ranks #64 of 1,363 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (53 here).

Manitowoc Crane Group France 53 Materialise N.V. 53 Hyland UK Operations Limited 53 Smarter Microelectronics (GUANG ZHOU) Co., Ltd. 53

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (18.1 here).

Aviatrix Systems, Inc. 18.1 avg Avinger, Inc. 18.1 avg Unity Semiconductor 18.1 avg Icon Health & Fitness, Inc. 18.1 avg

Expro's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

53 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 · 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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Expro North SEA Limited patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1	1.9%
2016	3	5.6%
2017	2	3.7%
2018	3	5.6%
2019	3	5.6%
2020	5	9.3%
2021	3	5.6%
2022	5	9.3%
2023	4	7.4%
2024	11	20.4%
2025partial year	14	25.9%

Which technologies does Expro North SEA Limited patent most?

E21B - Earth OR Rock DRILLING; Obtaining OIL, GAS, Water, Soluble OR Meltable Materials OR A Slurry OF Minerals From Wells 53

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

G01V - GEOPHYSICS; Gravitational MEASUREMENTS; Detecting Masses OR OBJECTS; Tags 2

H04B - Transmission 2

F16K - VALVES; TAPS; COCKS; ACTUATING-FLOATS; Devices FOR Venting OR Aerating 2

G01H - Measurement OF Mechanical Vibrations OR Ultrasonic, Sonic OR Infrasonic Waves 1

G01B - Measuring Length, Thickness OR Similar Linear DIMENSIONS; Measuring ANGLES; Measuring AREAS; Measuring Irregularities OF Surfaces OR Contours 1

F42B - Explosive Charges, e.g. FOR Blasting, Fireworks, Ammunition 1

H02H - Emergency Protective Circuit Arrangements 1

G01L - Measuring Force, Stress, Torque, Work, Mechanical Power, Mechanical Efficiency, OR Fluid Pressure 1

E03B - Installations OR Methods FOR Obtaining, Collecting, OR Distributing Water 1

H01R - Electrically-conductive CONNECTIONS; Structural Associations OF A Plurality OF Mutually-insulated Electrical Connecting ELEMENTS; Coupling DEVICES; Current Collectors 1

G01M - Testing Static OR Dynamic Balance OF Machines OR STRUCTURES; Testing OF Structures OR Apparatus, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 1

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 1

Top 15 of 20 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

Expro North SEA Limited's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Expro North SEA Limited'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), 98.1% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore E21B
Ranked #6,238 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Expro North SEA Limited against Debiotech S.A., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 52.6/100 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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