Where does Keppel Offshore & Marine Technology Centre PTE Ltd rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Keppel Offshore & Marine Technology Centre PTE Ltd ranks #10,662 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 Keppel Offshore & Marine Technology Centre PTE Ltd hold?

Keppel Offshore & Marine Technology Centre PTE Ltd holds 29 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2021, spanning 34 technology areas.

What is Keppel Offshore & Marine Technology Centre PTE Ltd's Innovation Score?

Keppel Offshore & Marine Technology Centre PTE Ltd has an Innovation Score of 40.1 out of 100 (top 36% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Keppel Offshore & Marine Technology Centre PTE Ltd focus on?

Keppel Offshore & Marine Technology Centre PTE Ltd's top technology area is B63B (Ships OR Other Waterborne VESSELS; Equipment FOR Shipping) with 17 patents, ranking #35 of 645 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 34 CPC subclasses total.

Is Keppel Offshore & Marine Technology Centre PTE Ltd's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Keppel Offshore & Marine Technology Centre PTE Ltd's recent grant velocity is -68% 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 Keppel Offshore & Marine Technology Centre PTE Ltd's patents?

Keppel Offshore & Marine Technology Centre PTE Ltd's patents average 12.9 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.

USPTO 2015–2025 USPTO PatentsView Foreign Corporation

Keppel Offshore & Marine Technology Centre PTE Ltd

Q: How is the Keppel Offshore & Marine Technology Centre PTE Ltd 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 PatentsView assignee record - 29 granted patents across 34 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2021. 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: B63B (Ships OR Other Waterborne VESSELS; Equipment FOR Shipping).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Keppel ranks #10,662 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 29 patents across 34 technology areas.

#10,662
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 36%
by Innovation Score (40.1/100): 12.9
avg claims per patent: -68%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R10662 · Foreign Corporation #10,662 · 29 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 29 grants
UPPER-Q #10,662/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH John Pomp Studio
CPC-FOCUS B63B · 34 areas
INNOV-PAR 40.1/100
CLAIMS-RICH 12.9 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -68% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: John Pomp Studio (±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 Keppel’s 40.1 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 11.7 pts (29%) Velocity 0.0 pts (0%) Breadth 20.6 pts (51%) Claim depth 7.8 pts (19%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Cummins Generator · near

40
Datalogic ADC · near

40
Keppel Offshore &… · this assignee

40
M-I Drilling Fluids UK · near

40
Verifood · near

40
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Keppel's Innovation Score is 40.1/100 (top 36% 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 Keppel?

Each dot is one of Keppel’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). Keppel’s own 12.9 claims/patent is ABOVE the 7.5 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Keppel's grants concentrate

Keppel Offshore & Marine Technology Centre PTE Ltd is a focused PatentsView assignee: 34 CPC subclasses with 58.6% of grants classified under B63B (Ships OR Other Waterborne VESSELS; Equipment FOR Shipping). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (6 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2021. By volume, Keppel sits between Joint Innovation Technology, LLC. and Keymed (Medical & Industrial Equipment) Limited.

Joint Innovation…

29
JSW Aktina System

29
John Pomp Studio

29
Aichi

29
Kingfa SCI & Tech

29
KOC Universitesi

29
Koolbridge Solar

29
Keymed (Medical &…

29
Keppel Offshore &… ◀

29

What this shows Keppel holds 29 patents at rank #10,661, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Keppel

By rank, the assignees closest to #10,661 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B63B (Ships OR Other Waterborne Vessels)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Keppel, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B63B (Ships OR Other Waterborne Vessels), Keppel ranks #35 of 645 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (40 here).

Verifood, Ltd. 40 Cummins Generator Technologies Limited 40 Datalogic ADC, Inc. 40 M-I Drilling Fluids UK Limited 40

Keppel's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

40 Top 36% higher than 64% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2021

Grants by year

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

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Keppel Offshore & Marine Technology Centre PTE Ltd patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	6	20.7%
2016	5	17.2%
2017	4	13.8%
2018	5	17.2%
2019	2	6.9%
2020	6	20.7%
2021	1	3.4%

Which technologies does Keppel Offshore & Marine Technology Centre PTE Ltd patent most?

B63B - Ships OR Other Waterborne VESSELS; Equipment FOR Shipping 17

E02B - Hydraulic Engineering 8

E21B - Earth OR Rock DRILLING; Obtaining OIL, GAS, Water, Soluble OR Meltable Materials OR A Slurry OF Minerals From Wells 5

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 3

B67D - Dispensing, Delivering OR Transferring Liquids, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 3

B65G - Transport OR Storage Devices, e.g. Conveyors FOR Loading OR Tipping, Shop Conveyor Systems OR Pneumatic Tube Conveyors 2

B66C - CRANES; Load-engaging Elements OR Devices FOR Cranes, Capstans, Winches, OR Tackles 2

C10L - Fuels NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Natural GAS; Synthetic Natural GAS Obtained BY Processes NOT Covered BY Subclasses C10g OR C10K; Liquified Petroleum GAS; USE OF Additives TO Fuels OR FIRES; Fire-lighters 2

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 2

B01D - Separation 2

B63C - Launching, Hauling-out, OR Dry-docking OF VESSELS; Life-saving IN WATER; Equipment FOR Dwelling OR Working Under WATER; Means FOR Salvaging OR Searching FOR Underwater Objects 2

B63H - Marine Propulsion OR Steering 2

F17C - Vessels FOR Containing OR Storing Compressed, Liquefied OR Solidified GASES; Fixed-capacity GAS-HOLDERS; Filling Vessels With, OR Discharging From Vessels, Compressed, Liquefied, OR Solidified Gases 2

B66F - Hoisting, Lifting, Hauling OR Pushing, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR, e.g. Devices Which Apply A Lifting OR Pushing Force Directly TO THE Surface OF A Load 1

H02J - Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy 1

Top 15 of 34 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

Keppel Offshore & Marine Technology Centre PTE Ltd's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Keppel Offshore & Marine Technology Centre PTE Ltd's lead technology class is B63B (Ships OR Other Waterborne VESSELS; Equipment FOR Shipping), 58.6% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B63B
Ranked #10,662 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Keppel Offshore & Marine Technology Centre PTE Ltd against Joint Innovation Technology, LLC., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 40.1/100 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

Every figure on PlainPatent is rendered directly from USPTO source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on USPTO source data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 2026.