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General Downhole Tools, Ltd.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 5 granted patents across 2 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2021–2024. 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, General ranks #46,998 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 5 patents across 2 technology areas.

#46,998
of 49,997 US assignees by volume
Top 30%
by Innovation Score (42.7/100)
19.2
avg claims per patent

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R46998 · Foreign Corporation #46,998 · 5 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · BOTTOM-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · SPAN-YRS · BOOK-RICH

  • GRANTS-MICRO 5 grants
  • BOTTOM-DECILE #46,998/49,997
  • PHOTO-FINISH Geesco
  • CPC-NARROW E21B · 2 areas
  • INNOV-PAR 42.7/100
  • CLAIMS-RICH 19.2 claims/avg
  • TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
  • SPAN-YRS 2021–2024 · 4y
  • BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Geesco Co., Ltd. (±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.

Innovation-score neighbourhood around General

Lowest and highest poles plus nearest Innovation Score peers, not a full corpus board reprint.

score

What this shows General's Innovation Score is 42.7/100 (top 30% 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.

Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score As of 2015–2025

Where General's grants concentrate

General Downhole Tools, Ltd. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 2 CPC subclasses with 100% 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 2023 (2 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2021. By volume, General sits between Geesco Co., Ltd. and Genesis Industries, LLC.

General's three-year grant acceleration

General Downhole Tools, Ltd. shows 4 grants in 2022–2024 against only 1 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.

Who files at General's volume?

Granted US patents 2015–2025 versus its nearest-ranked assignees by volume, this company marked ◀

patents

What this shows General holds 5 patents at rank #46,980, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Source USPTO PatentsView, granted utility patents As of 2015–2025

Companies ranked near General

By rank, the assignees closest to #46,980 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in E21B (Earth OR Rock Drilling)

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

General's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

43 Top 30% higher than 70% of 49,997 US assignees

This assignee 0 100 every tracked assignee, bucketed by value

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

0.511.522.5 202120232024 2
USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2021–2024

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2021–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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General Downhole Tools, Ltd. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year Patents Granted Share of Period
2021 1 20.0%
2023 2 40.0%
2024 2 40.0%

Which technologies does General Downhole Tools, Ltd. patent most?

Top 2 of 2 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#46,998

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

42.7 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

General Downhole Tools, Ltd.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

  • General Downhole Tools, Ltd.'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), 100% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore E21B
  • Ranked #46,998 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
  • Compare General Downhole Tools, Ltd. against Geesco Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
  • Innovation Score of 42.7/100 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

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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

Every figure on PlainPatent is rendered directly from USPTO source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on USPTO source data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 2026.