Where does Holtec International rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Holtec International ranks #2,724 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 Holtec International hold?

Holtec International holds 142 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 35 technology areas.

What is Holtec International's Innovation Score?

Holtec International has an Innovation Score of 56.3 out of 100 (top 6% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Holtec International's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Holtec International's recent grant velocity is +30% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). The company is maintaining or growing its granted-patent output.

What does claim depth mean for Holtec International's patents?

Holtec International's patents average 18.0 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 Holtec International 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

Holtec International

Q: What technology areas does Holtec International focus on?

Holtec International's top technology area is G21F (Protection Against X-radiation, Gamma Radiation, Corpuscular Radiation OR Particle BOMBARDMENT; Treating Radioactively Contaminated MATERIAL; Decontamination Arrangements Therefor) with 111 patents, ranking #1 of 199 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 35 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 142 granted patents across 35 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: G21F (Protection Against X-radiation, Gamma Radiation, Corpuscular Radiation OR Particle BOMBARDMENT; Treating Radioactively Contaminated MATERIAL; Decontamination Arrangements Therefor).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Holtec ranks #2,724 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 142 patents across 35 technology areas.

#2,724
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 6%
by Innovation Score (56.3/100): 18.0
avg claims per patent: +30%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2724 · US Corporation #2,724 · 142 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-UP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 142 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,724/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Cohere
CPC-FOCUS G21F · 35 areas
INNOV-PAR 56.3/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.0 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-UP +30% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Cohere Technologies, 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 Holtec’s 56.3 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 17.1 pts (30%) Velocity 7.4 pts (13%) Breadth 20.9 pts (37%) Claim depth 10.8 pts (19%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Asml Holding · near

56
Bionime · near

56
Holtec International · this assignee

56
Huizhou TCL Mobile… · near

56
Soliton · near

56
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Holtec's Innovation Score is 56.3/100 (top 6% 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 Holtec?

Each dot is one of Holtec’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). Holtec’s own 18.0 claims/patent is ABOVE the 13.8 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Holtec's grants concentrate

Holtec International is a focused PatentsView assignee: 35 CPC subclasses with 78.2% of grants classified under G21F (Protection Against X-radiation, Gamma Radiation, Corpuscular Radiation OR Particle BOMBARDMENT; Treating Radioactively Contaminated MATERIAL; Decontamination Arrangements Therefor). Peak complete grant year is 2022 (20 grants) versus a trough of 7 in 2015. By volume, Holtec sits between Cohere Technologies, Inc. and Owen Mumford Limited.

Holtec's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Holtec International moved from 43 to 48 grants (1.12x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). Among 3,296 tracked assignees with ≥100 grants and ≥20 prior-period grants, that multiple ranks #927. See the growth leaderboard.

Cohere

142
DTS

142
Fondazione Istitu…

142
Harting Electric…

142
IEE International…

142
Kyungdong Navien

142
Lucasfilm Enterta…

142
Owen Mumford

142
Holtec Internatio… ◀

142

What this shows Holtec holds 142 patents at rank #2,724, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Holtec

By rank, the assignees closest to #2,724 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G21F (Protection Against X-radiation)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Holtec, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G21F (Protection Against X-radiation), Holtec ranks #1 of 199 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (56 here).

Asml Holding N.V. 56 Soliton, LLC 56 Huizhou TCL Mobile Communication Co., Ltd. 56 Bionime Corporation 56

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (18.0 here).

Tandem Diabetes Care, Inc. 18.0 avg CareFusion Germany 326 GmbH 18.0 avg Bank of America Corporation 18.0 avg Storagecraft Technology Corporation 18.0 avg

Holtec's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

56 Top 6% higher than 94% of 49,997 US assignees

Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more US assignees. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.

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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Holtec International patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	7	4.9%
2016	8	5.6%
2017	16	11.3%
2018	9	6.3%
2019	17	12.0%
2020	15	10.6%
2021	11	7.7%
2022	20	14.1%
2023	14	9.9%
2024	14	9.9%
2025partial year	11	7.7%

Which technologies does Holtec International patent most?

G21F - Protection Against X-radiation, Gamma Radiation, Corpuscular Radiation OR Particle BOMBARDMENT; Treating Radioactively Contaminated MATERIAL; Decontamination Arrangements Therefor 111

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 88

G21C - Nuclear Reactors 58

F28D - Heat-exchange Apparatus, NOT Provided FOR IN Another Subclass, IN Which THE Heat-exchange Media DO NOT Come Into Direct Contact 16

F28F - Details OF Heat-exchange AND Heat-transfer Apparatus, OF General Application 16

F28B - Steam OR Vapour Condensers 13

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 13

B65D - Containers FOR Storage OR Transport OF Articles OR Materials, e.g. Bags, Barrels, Bottles, Boxes, Cans, Cartons, Crates, Drums, Jars, Tanks, Hoppers, Forwarding CONTAINERS; Accessories, Closures, OR Fittings THEREFOR; Packaging ELEMENTS; Packages 10

F26B - Drying Solid Materials OR Objects BY Removing Liquid Therefrom 7

F22B - Methods OF Steam GENERATION; Steam Boilers 6

G21D - Nuclear Power Plant 6

F01K - Steam Engine PLANTS; Steam ACCUMULATORS; Engine Plants NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Engines Using Special Working Fluids OR Cycles 5

B09B - Disposal OF Solid Waste NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 5

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 5

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

Top 15 of 35 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

Holtec International's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Holtec International's lead technology class is G21F (Protection Against X-radiation, Gamma Radiation, Corpuscular Radiation OR Particle BOMBARDMENT; Treating Radioactively Contaminated MATERIAL; Decontamination Arrangements Therefor), 78.2% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G21F
Ranked #2,724 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Holtec International against Cohere Technologies, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 56.3/100 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

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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