Where does Headwaters Heavy OIL, LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Headwaters Heavy OIL, LLC ranks #47,354 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 Headwaters Heavy OIL, LLC hold?

Headwaters Heavy OIL, LLC holds 5 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2018, spanning 3 technology areas.

What is Headwaters Heavy OIL, LLC's Innovation Score?

Headwaters Heavy OIL, LLC has an Innovation Score of 27.3 out of 100 (23rd percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Headwaters Heavy OIL, LLC focus on?

Headwaters Heavy OIL, LLC's top technology area is B01J (Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus) with 5 patents, ranking #812 of 2,755 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 3 CPC subclasses total.

Is Headwaters Heavy OIL, LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Headwaters Heavy OIL, LLC's recent grant velocity is -100% 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 Headwaters Heavy OIL, LLC's patents?

Headwaters Heavy OIL, LLC's patents average 36.2 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 Headwaters Heavy OIL, 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

Headwaters Heavy OIL, LLC

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 5 granted patents across 3 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2018. 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: B01J (Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Headwaters ranks #47,354 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 5 patents across 3 technology areas.

#47,354
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 23rd percentile
by Innovation Score (27.3/100): 36.2
avg claims per patent: -100%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R47354 · US Corporation #47,354 · 5 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · BOTTOM-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 5 grants
BOTTOM-DECILE #47,354/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH HDI Railing Systems
CPC-NARROW B01J · 3 areas
INNOV-THIN 27.3/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 36.2 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -100% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: HDI Railing Systems (±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 Headwaters’s 27.3 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 6.2 pts (23%) Velocity 0.0 pts (0%) Breadth 6.1 pts (22%) Claim depth 15.0 pts (55%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Headwaters Heavy OIL · this assignee

27
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Headwaters's Innovation Score is 27.3/100 (23rd percentile 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 Headwaters?

Each dot is one of Headwaters’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). Headwaters’s own 36.2 claims/patent is ABOVE the 10.4 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Headwaters's grants concentrate

Headwaters Heavy OIL, LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 3 CPC subclasses with 100% of grants classified under B01J (Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus). Peak complete grant year is 2017 (2 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2016. By volume, Headwaters sits between HDI Railing Systems and Healthpointe Solutions, Inc..

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5
HDL Therapeutics

5
Hdpe Solutions

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Healbe

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Health-ever Biote…

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Healthbeacon

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5
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What this shows Headwaters holds 5 patents at rank #47,326, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Headwaters

By rank, the assignees closest to #47,326 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B01J (Chemical OR Physical Processes)

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

Headwaters's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

27 23rd percentile higher than 23% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2018

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2016–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Headwaters Heavy OIL, LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	1	20.0%
2017	2	40.0%
2018	2	40.0%

Which technologies does Headwaters Heavy OIL, LLC patent most?

B01J - Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus 5

C10G - Cracking Hydrocarbon OILS; Production OF Liquid Hydrocarbon Mixtures, e.g. BY Destructive Hydrogenation, Oligomerisation, Polymerisation ; Recovery OF Hydrocarbon Oils From Oil-shale, Oil-sand, OR GASES; Refining Mixtures Mainly Consisting OF HYDROCARBONS; Reforming OF NAPHTHA; Mineral Waxes 5

C10B - Destructive Distillation OF Carbonaceous Materials FOR Production OF GAS, Coke, TAR, OR Similar Materials 2

Top 3 of 3 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

Headwaters Heavy OIL, LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Headwaters Heavy OIL, LLC's lead technology class is B01J (Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus), 100% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B01J
Ranked #47,354 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Headwaters Heavy OIL, LLC against HDI Railing Systems, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 27.3/100 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

Compiled by PlainPatent , US Patent Intelligence Editorial Process · May 15, 2026

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