Where does Husky Oil Operations Limited rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Husky Oil Operations Limited ranks #14,045 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 Husky Oil Operations Limited hold?

Husky Oil Operations Limited holds 21 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2023, spanning 17 technology areas.

What is Husky Oil Operations Limited's Innovation Score?

Husky Oil Operations Limited has an Innovation Score of 39.5 out of 100 (top 38% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Husky Oil Operations Limited's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Husky Oil Operations Limited's recent grant velocity is -50% 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 Husky Oil Operations Limited's patents?

Husky Oil Operations Limited's patents average 20.6 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 Husky Oil Operations Limited 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

Husky Oil Operations Limited

Q: What technology areas does Husky Oil Operations Limited focus on?

Husky Oil Operations Limited'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 19 patents, ranking #186 of 1,363 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 17 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 21 granted patents across 17 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2023. 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, Husky ranks #14,045 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 21 patents across 17 technology areas.

#14,045
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 38%
by Innovation Score (39.5/100): 20.6
avg claims per patent: -50%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R14045 · Foreign Corporation #14,045 · 21 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 21 grants
MID-PACK #14,045/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Hoerbiger Kompressor…
CPC-FOCUS E21B · 17 areas
INNOV-THIN 39.5/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 20.6 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -50% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Hoerbiger Kompressortechnik Holding GmbH (±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 Husky’s 39.5 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 10.7 pts (27%) Velocity 1.9 pts (5%) Breadth 14.6 pts (37%) Claim depth 12.3 pts (31%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Husky Oil Operations · this assignee

40
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Husky's Innovation Score is 39.5/100 (top 38% 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 Husky?

Each dot is one of Husky’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). Husky’s own 20.6 claims/patent is ABOVE the 12.1 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Husky's grants concentrate

Husky Oil Operations Limited is a focused PatentsView assignee: 17 CPC subclasses with 90.5% 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 2018 (5 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2015. By volume, Husky sits between Hoerbiger Kompressortechnik Holding GmbH and IN Queue Innovations, LLC.

Husky's three-year grant acceleration

Husky Oil Operations Limited shows 2 grants in 2022–2024 against only 7 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.

Hoerbiger Kompres…

21
Honeywell Safety…

21
Howe & Howe

21
Human Incorporated

21
Hydrow

21
Icon Technology

21
Idis

21
IN Queue Innovati…

21
Husky Oil Operati… ◀

21

What this shows Husky holds 21 patents at rank #14,044, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Husky

By rank, the assignees closest to #14,044 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in E21B (Earth OR Rock Drilling)

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

Husky's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

40 Top 38% higher than 62% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2023

Grants by year

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

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Husky Oil Operations Limited patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1	4.8%
2016	3	14.3%
2017	3	14.3%
2018	5	23.8%
2019	2	9.5%
2020	3	14.3%
2021	2	9.5%
2022	1	4.8%
2023	1	4.8%

Which technologies does Husky Oil Operations Limited patent most?

E21B - Earth OR Rock DRILLING; Obtaining OIL, GAS, Water, Soluble OR Meltable Materials OR A Slurry OF Minerals From Wells 19

F04C - Rotary-piston, OR Oscillating-piston, Positive-displacement Machines FOR Liquids ; Rotary-piston, OR Oscillating-piston, Positive-displacement Pumps 3

C09K - Materials FOR Miscellaneous Applications, NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere 2

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

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 1

F02D - Controlling Combustion Engines 1

H02P - Control OR Regulation OF Electric Motors, Electric Generators OR Dynamo-electric CONVERTERS; Controlling Transformers, Reactors OR Choke Coils 1

H02K - Dynamo-electric Machines 1

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 1

H01Q - Antennas, i.e. Radio Aerials 1

B33Y - Additive Manufacturing, i.e. Manufacturing OF Three-dimensional [3-D] Objects BY Additive Deposition, Additive Agglomeration OR Additive Layering, e.g. BY 3-D Printing, Stereolithography OR Selective Laser Sintering 1

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 1

G01V - GEOPHYSICS; Gravitational MEASUREMENTS; Detecting Masses OR OBJECTS; Tags 1

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 1

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 1

Top 15 of 17 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

Husky Oil Operations Limited's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Husky Oil Operations Limited'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), 90.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore E21B
Ranked #14,045 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Husky Oil Operations Limited against Hoerbiger Kompressortechnik Holding GmbH, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 39.5/100 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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