Where does FMC Kongsberg Subsea AS rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), FMC Kongsberg Subsea AS ranks #6,146 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 FMC Kongsberg Subsea AS hold?

FMC Kongsberg Subsea AS holds 55 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2022, spanning 44 technology areas.

What is FMC Kongsberg Subsea AS's Innovation Score?

FMC Kongsberg Subsea AS has an Innovation Score of 46.7 out of 100 (top 20% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is FMC Kongsberg Subsea AS's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

FMC Kongsberg Subsea AS's recent grant velocity is -55% 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 FMC Kongsberg Subsea AS's patents?

FMC Kongsberg Subsea AS's patents average 13.4 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 FMC Kongsberg Subsea 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

FMC Kongsberg Subsea AS

Q: What technology areas does FMC Kongsberg Subsea AS focus on?

FMC Kongsberg Subsea 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 35 patents, ranking #96 of 1,363 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 44 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 55 granted patents across 44 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: 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, FMC ranks #6,146 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 55 patents across 44 technology areas.

#6,146
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 20%
by Innovation Score (46.7/100): 13.4
avg claims per patent: -55%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R6146 · Foreign Corporation #6,146 · 55 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 55 grants
UPPER-Q #6,146/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Entellus Medical
CPC-WIDE E21B · 44 areas
INNOV-PAR 46.7/100
CLAIMS-RICH 13.4 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -55% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Entellus Medical, 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 FMC’s 46.7 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 13.9 pts (30%) Velocity 1.3 pts (3%) Breadth 23.5 pts (50%) Claim depth 8.1 pts (17%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
FMC Kongsberg… · this assignee

47
Kanzaki Kokyukoki MFG · near

47
Miso Robotics · near

47
Rohm and Haas… · near

47
Toyo Tanso · near

47
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows FMC's Innovation Score is 46.7/100 (top 20% 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 FMC?

Each dot is one of FMC’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). FMC’s own 13.4 claims/patent is ABOVE the 13.2 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where FMC's grants concentrate

FMC Kongsberg Subsea AS is a focused PatentsView assignee: 44 CPC subclasses with 63.6% 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 2017 (17 grants) versus a trough of 3 in 2015. By volume, FMC sits between Entellus Medical, Inc. and Fujifilm Manufacturing Europe B.V..

FMC's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, FMC Kongsberg Subsea AS moved from 21 to 4 grants (0.19x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Entellus Medical

55
Erasmus Universit…

55
Exo Imaging

55
Floricultura B V

55
Freeport Minerals

55
Florida A&M Unive…

55
Foundation for Re…

55
Fujifilm Manufact…

55
FMC Kongsberg Sub… ◀

55

What this shows FMC holds 55 patents at rank #6,145, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near FMC

By rank, the assignees closest to #6,145 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in E21B (Earth OR Rock Drilling)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for FMC, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In E21B (Earth OR Rock Drilling), FMC ranks #96 of 1,363 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (47 here).

Toyo Tanso Co., Ltd. 47 Kanzaki Kokyukoki MFG. Co., Ltd. 47 Rohm and Haas Electronic Materials CMP Holdings, Inc. 47 Miso Robotics, Inc. 47

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (13.4 here).

C&D Zodiac, Inc. 13.4 avg Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba 13.4 avg Chang Chun Plastics Co., Ltd. 13.4 avg TRW Limited 13.4 avg

FMC's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

47 Top 20% higher than 80% 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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FMC Kongsberg Subsea AS patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	3	5.5%
2016	3	5.5%
2017	17	30.9%
2018	7	12.7%
2019	8	14.5%
2020	9	16.4%
2021	4	7.3%
2022	4	7.3%

Which technologies does FMC Kongsberg Subsea AS patent most?

E21B - Earth OR Rock DRILLING; Obtaining OIL, GAS, Water, Soluble OR Meltable Materials OR A Slurry OF Minerals From Wells 35

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 9

G01F - Measuring Volume, Volume Flow, Mass Flow OR Liquid LEVEL; Metering BY Volume 6

F16K - VALVES; TAPS; COCKS; ACTUATING-FLOATS; Devices FOR Venting OR Aerating 6

F16L - PIPES; Joints OR Fittings FOR PIPES; Supports FOR Pipes, Cables OR Protective TUBING; Means FOR Thermal Insulation IN General 5

F04D - Non-positive-displacement Pumps 5

F17D - Pipe-line SYSTEMS; Pipe-lines 4

B01D - Separation 4

H01F - MAGNETS; INDUCTANCES; TRANSFORMERS; Selection OF Materials FOR Their Magnetic Properties 3

F15B - Systems Acting BY Means OF Fluids IN GENERAL; Fluid-pressure Actuators, e.g. SERVOMOTORS; Details OF Fluid-pressure Systems, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 3

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 2

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

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

H02G - Installation OF Electric Cables OR Lines, OR OF Combined Optical AND Electric Cables OR Lines 2

H02H - Emergency Protective Circuit Arrangements 2

Top 15 of 44 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

FMC Kongsberg Subsea AS's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

FMC Kongsberg Subsea 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), 63.6% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore E21B
Ranked #6,146 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare FMC Kongsberg Subsea AS against Entellus Medical, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 46.7/100 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

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