Where does GE OIL & GAS UK Ltd rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), GE OIL & GAS UK Ltd ranks #3,432 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 GE OIL & GAS UK Ltd hold?

GE OIL & GAS UK Ltd holds 108 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2021, spanning 50 technology areas.

What is GE OIL & GAS UK Ltd's Innovation Score?

GE OIL & GAS UK Ltd has an Innovation Score of 51.1 out of 100 (top 12% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is GE OIL & GAS UK Ltd's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

GE OIL & GAS UK Ltd's recent grant velocity is -87% 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 GE OIL & GAS UK Ltd's patents?

GE OIL & GAS UK Ltd's patents average 16.4 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 GE OIL & GAS UK Ltd 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

GE OIL & GAS UK Ltd

Q: What technology areas does GE OIL & GAS UK Ltd focus on?

GE OIL & GAS UK Ltd's top technology area is F16L (PIPES; Joints OR Fittings FOR PIPES; Supports FOR Pipes, Cables OR Protective TUBING; Means FOR Thermal Insulation IN General) with 63 patents, ranking #17 of 1,907 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 50 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 108 granted patents across 50 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2021. 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: F16L (PIPES; Joints OR Fittings FOR PIPES; Supports FOR Pipes, Cables OR Protective TUBING; Means FOR Thermal Insulation IN General).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, GE ranks #3,432 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 108 patents across 50 technology areas.

#3,432
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 12%
by Innovation Score (51.1/100): 16.4
avg claims per patent: -87%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R3432 · Foreign Corporation #3,432 · 108 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 108 grants
TOP-DECILE #3,432/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Edwards Lifesciences…
CPC-WIDE F16L · 50 areas
INNOV-PAR 51.1/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.4 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -87% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Edwards Lifesciences CardiAQ LLC (±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 GE’s 51.1 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 16.2 pts (32%) Velocity 0.0 pts (0%) Breadth 25.0 pts (49%) Claim depth 9.9 pts (19%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Edjx · near

51
Equifax · near

51
GE OIL & GAS UK · this assignee

51
National University… · near

51
Xiamen Solex… · near

51
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows GE's Innovation Score is 51.1/100 (top 12% 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 GE?

Each dot is one of GE’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). GE’s own 16.4 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.7 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How GE's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, GE OIL & GAS UK Ltd received 12 grants versus 96 in 2015–2019 (-87% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2018 at 26 grants and bottomed in 2021 at 2. Lead class F16L accounts for 58.3% of the portfolio across 50 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Edwards Lifesciences CardiAQ LLC (#3,428) and Toppan Inc. (#3,436).

Edwards Lifescien…

108
Essential Products

108
Framatome

108
Formlabs

108
Makerbot Industri…

108
Sram Deutschland

108
Stmicroelectronic…

108
Toppan

108
GE OIL & GAS UK ◀

108

What this shows GE holds 108 patents at rank #3,432, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near GE

By rank, the assignees closest to #3,432 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F16L (Pipes)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for GE, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In F16L (Pipes), GE ranks #17 of 1,907 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (51 here).

Equifax Inc. 51 Xiamen Solex High-Tech Industries Co., Ltd. 51 National University Corporation Tottori University 51 Edjx, Inc. 51

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (16.4 here).

Pioneer Surgical Technology, Inc. 16.4 avg Basf Plant Science Company GmbH 16.4 avg Worcester Polytechnic Institute 16.4 avg Solventum Intellectual Properties Company 16.4 avg

GE's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

51 Top 12% higher than 88% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2021

Grants by year

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

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GE OIL & GAS UK Ltd patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	16	14.8%
2016	19	17.6%
2017	21	19.4%
2018	26	24.1%
2019	14	13.0%
2020	10	9.3%
2021	2	1.9%

Which technologies does GE OIL & GAS UK Ltd patent most?

F16L - PIPES; Joints OR Fittings FOR PIPES; Supports FOR Pipes, Cables OR Protective TUBING; Means FOR Thermal Insulation IN General 63

E21B - Earth OR Rock DRILLING; Obtaining OIL, GAS, Water, Soluble OR Meltable Materials OR A Slurry OF Minerals From Wells 50

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 32

B29C - Shaping OR Joining OF PLASTICS; Shaping OF Material IN A Plastic State, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; After-treatment OF THE Shaped Products, e.g. Repairing 17

G01M - Testing Static OR Dynamic Balance OF Machines OR STRUCTURES; Testing OF Structures OR Apparatus, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 13

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 11

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 10

B29K - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses B29b, B29c OR B29d, Relating TO Moulding Materials OR TO Materials FOR ; Moulds, ; Reinforcements, Fillers OR Preformed Parts, e.g. Inserts 8

B29D - Producing Particular Articles From Plastics OR From Substances IN A Plastic State 5

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 5

G01R - Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables 5

F28F - Details OF Heat-exchange AND Heat-transfer Apparatus, OF General Application 4

B21C - Manufacture OF Metal Sheets, Wire, Rods, Tubes, Profiles OR Like Semi-manufactured Products Otherwise Than BY ROLLING; Auxiliary Operations Used IN Connection With Metal-working Without Essentially Removing Material 4

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

Top 15 of 50 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

GE OIL & GAS UK Ltd's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

GE OIL & GAS UK Ltd's lead technology class is F16L (PIPES; Joints OR Fittings FOR PIPES; Supports FOR Pipes, Cables OR Protective TUBING; Means FOR Thermal Insulation IN General), 58.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F16L
Ranked #3,432 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare GE OIL & GAS UK Ltd against Edwards Lifesciences CardiAQ LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 51.1/100 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

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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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