Where does Kellogg Brown & Root LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Kellogg Brown & Root LLC ranks #4,159 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 Kellogg Brown & Root LLC hold?

Kellogg Brown & Root LLC holds 86 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 39 technology areas.

What is Kellogg Brown & Root LLC's Innovation Score?

Kellogg Brown & Root LLC has an Innovation Score of 56.8 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%).

What technology areas does Kellogg Brown & Root LLC focus on?

Kellogg Brown & Root LLC's top technology area is B01J (Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus) with 35 patents, ranking #129 of 2,755 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 39 CPC subclasses total.

Is Kellogg Brown & Root LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Kellogg Brown & Root LLC's recent grant velocity is -7% 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 Kellogg Brown & Root LLC's patents?

Kellogg Brown & Root LLC's patents average 14.0 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 Kellogg Brown & Root 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

Kellogg Brown & Root LLC

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 86 granted patents across 39 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: B01J (Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Kellogg ranks #4,159 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 86 patents across 39 technology areas.

#4,159
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 6%
by Innovation Score (56.8/100): 14.0
avg claims per patent: -7%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R4159 · US Corporation #4,159 · 86 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 86 grants
TOP-DECILE #4,159/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Genghiscomm Holdings
CPC-FOCUS B01J · 39 areas
INNOV-PAR 56.8/100
CLAIMS-RICH 14.0 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-FLAT -7% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Genghiscomm Holdings, LLC (±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 Kellogg’s 56.8 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 15.4 pts (27%) Velocity 10.8 pts (19%) Breadth 22.1 pts (39%) Claim depth 8.4 pts (15%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
E G O Elektro-Geraet… · near

57
Jade Bird Display… · near

57
Kellogg Brown & Root · this assignee

57
Nubis Communications · near

57
The Royal Institutio… · near

57
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Kellogg's Innovation Score is 56.8/100 (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 Kellogg?

Each dot is one of Kellogg’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). Kellogg’s own 14.0 claims/patent is at or below the 19.9 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Kellogg's grants concentrate

Kellogg Brown & Root LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 39 CPC subclasses with 40.7% of grants classified under B01J (Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (18 grants) versus a trough of 3 in 2020. By volume, Kellogg sits between Gvbb Holdings S.A.R.L and National Presto Industries, Inc..

Kellogg's three-year grant acceleration

Kellogg Brown & Root LLC shows 26 grants in 2022–2024 against only 16 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.

Gvbb Holdings R L

86
Genghiscomm Holdi…

86
Harnischfeger

86
Kyocera SLD Laser

86
Kent State Univer…

86
Mochida Pharmaceu…

86
Means Industries

86
National Presto I…

86
Kellogg Brown & R… ◀

86

What this shows Kellogg holds 86 patents at rank #4,160, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Kellogg

By rank, the assignees closest to #4,160 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B01J (Chemical OR Physical Processes)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Kellogg, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B01J (Chemical OR Physical Processes), Kellogg ranks #129 of 2,755 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (57 here).

E.G.O. Elektro-Geraetebau GmbH 57 Jade Bird Display (Shanghai) Limited 57 The Royal Institution for the Advancement of Learning/McGill University 57 Nubis Communications, Inc. 57

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (14.0 here).

NCR Voyix Corporation 14.0 avg The Raymond Corporation 14.0 avg Valmet Technologies Oy 14.0 avg Lifetech Scientific (SHENZHEN) Co., Ltd. 14.0 avg

Kellogg's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

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

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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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Kellogg Brown & Root LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	18	20.9%
2016	7	8.1%
2017	8	9.3%
2018	4	4.7%
2019	4	4.7%
2020	3	3.5%
2021	9	10.5%
2022	9	10.5%
2023	5	5.8%
2024	12	14.0%
2025partial year	7	8.1%

Which technologies does Kellogg Brown & Root LLC patent most?

B01J - Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus 35

C07C - Acyclic OR Carbocyclic Compounds 32

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 32

B01D - Separation 22

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 16

C01B - Non-metallic ELEMENTS; Compounds THEREOF; ; Metalloids OR Compounds Thereof NOT Covered BY Subclass C01c 9

C10J - Production OF Producer GAS, Water-gas, Synthesis GAS From Solid Carbonaceous Material, OR Mixtures Containing These Gases ; Carburetting AIR OR Other Gases 8

F25J - Liquefaction, Solidification OR Separation OF Gases OR Gaseous ; OR Liquefied GASEOUS; Mixtures BY Pressure AND Cold Treatment ; OR BY Bringing Them Into THE Supercritical State 7

C01C - AMMONIA; CYANOGEN; Compounds Thereof 6

F28D - Heat-exchange Apparatus, NOT Provided FOR IN Another Subclass, IN Which THE Heat-exchange Media DO NOT Come Into Direct Contact 4

F28F - Details OF Heat-exchange AND Heat-transfer Apparatus, OF General Application 4

C10K - Purifying OR Modifying THE Chemical Composition OF Combustible Gases Containing Carbon Monoxide 4

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

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 4

B63B - Ships OR Other Waterborne VESSELS; Equipment FOR Shipping 4

Top 15 of 39 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

Kellogg Brown & Root LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Kellogg Brown & Root LLC's lead technology class is B01J (Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus), 40.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B01J
Ranked #4,159 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Kellogg Brown & Root LLC against Gvbb Holdings S.A.R.L, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 56.8/100 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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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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