Where does Frank's International, LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Frank's International, LLC ranks #4,332 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 Frank's International, LLC hold?

Frank's International, LLC holds 82 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 18 technology areas.

What is Frank's International, LLC's Innovation Score?

Frank's International, LLC has an Innovation Score of 45.6 out of 100 (top 23% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Frank's International, LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Frank's International, LLC's recent grant velocity is -60% 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 Frank's International, LLC's patents?

Frank's International, LLC's patents average 20.2 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 Frank's International, 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

Frank's International, LLC

Q: What technology areas does Frank's International, LLC focus on?

Frank's International, LLC'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 79 patents, ranking #43 of 1,363 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 18 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 82 granted patents across 18 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, Frank's ranks #4,332 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 82 patents across 18 technology areas.

#4,332
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 23%
by Innovation Score (45.6/100): 20.2
avg claims per patent: -60%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R4332 · US Corporation #4,332 · 82 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 82 grants
TOP-DECILE #4,332/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Driv Automotive
CPC-FOCUS E21B · 18 areas
INNOV-PAR 45.6/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 20.2 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -60% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Driv Automotive 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 Frank's’s 45.6 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 15.3 pts (34%) Velocity 3.2 pts (7%) Breadth 15.0 pts (33%) Claim depth 12.1 pts (27%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Chemocentryx · near

46
Control Components · near

46
Frank's International · this assignee

46
HÜBNER & KG · near

46
Whelen Engineering · near

46
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Frank's's Innovation Score is 45.6/100 (top 23% 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 Frank's?

Each dot is one of Frank's’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). Frank's’s own 20.2 claims/patent is ABOVE the 12.8 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Frank's's grants concentrate

Frank's International, LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 18 CPC subclasses with 96.3% 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 (15 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2024. By volume, Frank's sits between Driv Automotive Inc. and Gudeng Precision Industrial Co., Ltd..

Frank's's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Frank's International, LLC moved from 21 to 10 grants (0.48x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Driv Automotive

82
Eisenmann SE

82
Element Six

82
Elringklinger

82
Futaba

82
Faurecia Clarion

82
Guangzhou Haoyang

82
Gudeng Precision…

82
Frank's Internati… ◀

82

What this shows Frank's holds 82 patents at rank #4,329, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Frank's

By rank, the assignees closest to #4,329 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in E21B (Earth OR Rock Drilling)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Frank's, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In E21B (Earth OR Rock Drilling), Frank's ranks #43 of 1,363 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (46 here).

Whelen Engineering Company, Inc. 46 Chemocentryx, Inc. 46 HÜBNER GmbH & Co. KG 46 Control Components, Inc. 46

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (20.2 here).

Intermec IP Corp. 20.2 avg Mobius Imaging, LLC 20.2 avg STMicroelectronics (Alps) SAS 20.2 avg Cabot Corporation 20.3 avg

Frank's's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

46 Top 23% higher than 77% 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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Frank's International, LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	13	15.9%
2016	13	15.9%
2017	15	18.3%
2018	8	9.8%
2019	8	9.8%
2020	9	11.0%
2021	4	4.9%
2022	4	4.9%
2023	4	4.9%
2024	2	2.4%
2025partial year	2	2.4%

Which technologies does Frank's International, LLC patent most?

E21B - Earth OR Rock DRILLING; Obtaining OIL, GAS, Water, Soluble OR Meltable Materials OR A Slurry OF Minerals From Wells 79

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 14

B66C - CRANES; Load-engaging Elements OR Devices FOR Cranes, Capstans, Winches, OR Tackles 10

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

C23C - Coating Metallic MATERIAL; Coating Material With Metallic MATERIAL; Surface Treatment OF Metallic Material BY Diffusion Into THE Surface, BY Chemical Conversion OR SUBSTITUTION; Coating BY Vacuum Evaporation, BY Sputtering, BY ION Implantation OR BY Chemical Vapour Deposition, IN General 3

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 2

B25B - Tools OR Bench Devices NOT Otherwise Provided FOR, FOR Fastening, Connecting, Disengaging OR Holding 2

B23P - Metal-working NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Combined OPERATIONS; Universal Machine Tools 2

G01L - Measuring Force, Stress, Torque, Work, Mechanical Power, Mechanical Efficiency, OR Fluid Pressure 2

G08B - Signalling OR Calling SYSTEMS; Order TELEGRAPHS; Alarm Systems 1

G01S - Radio DIRECTION-FINDING; Radio NAVIGATION; Determining Distance OR Velocity BY USE OF Radio WAVES; Locating OR Presence-detecting BY USE OF THE Reflection OR Reradiation OF Radio WAVES; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves 1

F16P - Safety Devices IN GENERAL; ; Safety Devices FOR Presses 1

B23K - Soldering OR UNSOLDERING; WELDING; Cladding OR Plating BY Soldering OR WELDING; Cutting BY Applying Heat Locally, e.g. Flame CUTTING; Working BY Laser Beam 1

B08B - Cleaning IN GENERAL; Prevention OF Fouling IN General 1

E05D - Hinges OR Suspension Devices FOR Doors, Windows OR Wings 1

Top 15 of 18 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

Frank's International, LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Frank's International, LLC'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), 96.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore E21B
Ranked #4,332 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Frank's International, LLC against Driv Automotive Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 45.6/100 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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