Where does Katz Water Tech LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Katz Water Tech LLC ranks #14,716 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 Katz Water Tech LLC hold?

Katz Water Tech LLC holds 20 US utility patents granted between 2017 and 2025, spanning 14 technology areas.

What is Katz Water Tech LLC's Innovation Score?

Katz Water Tech LLC has an Innovation Score of 44.9 out of 100 (top 24% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Katz Water Tech LLC focus on?

Katz Water Tech LLC's top technology area is Y02W (Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Wastewater Treatment OR Waste Management) with 15 patents, ranking #48 of 1,160 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 14 CPC subclasses total.

Is Katz Water Tech LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Katz Water Tech LLC's recent grant velocity is +433% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Katz Water Tech LLC's patents?

Katz Water Tech LLC's patents average 24.1 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 Katz Water Tech 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

Katz Water Tech LLC

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 20 granted patents across 14 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2017–2025. 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: Y02W (Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Wastewater Treatment OR Waste Management).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Katz ranks #14,716 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 20 patents across 14 technology areas.

#14,716
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 24%
by Innovation Score (44.9/100): 24.1
avg claims per patent: +433%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R14716 · US Corporation #14,716 · 20 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 20 grants
MID-PACK #14,716/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Kbautotech
CPC-FOCUS Y02W · 14 areas
INNOV-PAR 44.9/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 24.1 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +433% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Kbautotech 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.

How Katz’s 44.9 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 10.5 pts (23%) Velocity 6.7 pts (15%) Breadth 13.2 pts (29%) Claim depth 14.5 pts (32%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

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Katz Water Tech · this assignee

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3D Lighting… · lowest

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What this shows Katz's Innovation Score is 44.9/100 (top 24% 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 Katz?

Each dot is one of Katz’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). Katz’s own 24.1 claims/patent is ABOVE the 14.0 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Katz's grants concentrate

Katz Water Tech LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 14 CPC subclasses with 75% of grants classified under Y02W (Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Wastewater Treatment OR Waste Management). Peak complete grant year is 2021 (4 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2017. By volume, Katz sits between Kostal Kontakt Systeme GmbH and Konica Minolta Opto, Inc..

Katz's three-year grant acceleration

Katz Water Tech LLC shows 9 grants in 2022–2024 against only 9 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.

Kostal Kontakt Sy…

20
KT Health

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KUB

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Kverneland Group…

20
Kbautotech

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Kinetic Pressure…

20
Kit Masters

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Konica Minolta Op…

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Katz Water Tech ◀

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What this shows Katz holds 20 patents at rank #14,728, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Katz

By rank, the assignees closest to #14,728 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in Y02W (Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Wastewa…)

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

Katz's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

45 Top 24% higher than 76% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2017–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2017–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Katz Water Tech LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2017	1	5.0%
2019	2	10.0%
2020	3	15.0%
2021	4	20.0%
2022	4	20.0%
2023	4	20.0%
2024	1	5.0%
2025partial year	1	5.0%

Which technologies does Katz Water Tech LLC patent most?

Y02W - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Wastewater Treatment OR Waste Management 15

C02F - Treatment OF Water, Waste Water, Sewage, OR Sludge 15

B01D - Separation 12

Y02A - Technologies FOR Adaptation TO Climate Change 9

E21B - Earth OR Rock DRILLING; Obtaining OIL, GAS, Water, Soluble OR Meltable Materials OR A Slurry OF Minerals From Wells 4

B01F - Mixing, e.g. Dissolving, Emulsifying OR Dispersing 3

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 3

F03B - Machines OR Engines FOR Liquids 3

Y02B - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Buildings, e.g. Housing, House Appliances OR Related End-user Applications 3

F05B - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Wind, Spring, Weight, Inertia OR Like Motors, TO Machines OR Engines FOR Liquids Covered BY Subclasses F03b, F03d AND F03g 3

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

F28D - Heat-exchange Apparatus, NOT Provided FOR IN Another Subclass, IN Which THE Heat-exchange Media DO NOT Come Into Direct Contact 1

F16F - SPRINGS; SHOCK-ABSORBERS; Means FOR Damping Vibration 1

F28F - Details OF Heat-exchange AND Heat-transfer Apparatus, OF General Application 1

Top 14 of 14 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

Katz Water Tech LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Katz Water Tech LLC's lead technology class is Y02W (Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Wastewater Treatment OR Waste Management), 75% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore Y02W
Ranked #14,716 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Katz Water Tech LLC against Kostal Kontakt Systeme GmbH, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 44.9/100 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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