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KEY Energy Services, LLC

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 9 granted patents across 2 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2018. 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, KEY ranks #29,203 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 9 patents across 2 technology areas.

#29,203
of 49,997 US assignees by volume
16th percentile
by Innovation Score (25.0/100)
20.1
avg claims per patent
-100%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R29203 · US Corporation #29,203 · 9 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

  • GRANTS-MICRO 9 grants
  • MID-PACK #29,203/49,997
  • PHOTO-FINISH Kbws
  • CPC-NARROW E21B · 2 areas
  • INNOV-THIN 25.0/100
  • CLAIMS-DENSE 20.1 claims/avg
  • TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
  • VEL-DROP -100% vel
  • BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Kbws Corporation (±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 KEY’s 25.0 Innovation Score adds up

The same four weighted components behind every Innovation Score on PlainPatent: portfolio volume, grant velocity, technology breadth, and claim depth.

Innovation-score neighbourhood around KEY

Lowest and highest poles plus nearest Innovation Score peers, not a full corpus board reprint.

score

What this shows KEY's Innovation Score is 25.0/100 (16th percentile 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.

Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score As of 2015–2025

Does more volume mean deeper claims for KEY?

Each dot is one of KEY’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). KEY’s own 20.1 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.1 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

KEY vs its 8 nearest volume peers: granted patents vs average claims per patent. Source: USPTO PatentsView. 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 9 entities by Granted patents (volume) (X) and Avg claims / patent (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. Volume + depthSelective & thoroughVolume over depthLean filer 8.98.999.1 510152025 Granted patents (volume) Avg claims / patent Kbws Corporation - 9, 8.44KbwsKCI Manufacturing Unlimited Company - 9, 16.33KCI Manufacturing…KCI Medical Resources Unlimited Company - 9, 19.22KCI Medical Resou…Keene Building Products Co., Inc. - 9, 15.11Keene Building Pr…Keyview Labs, Inc. - 9, 19.56Keyview LabsKezar Life Sciences, Inc. - 9, 18Kezar Life Scienc…Kezzler AS - 9, 14.56Kezzler ASKingfar International Inc. - 9, 9.33Kingfar Internati…KEY Energy Services, LLC - 9, 20.11KEY Energy Servic…
KEY vs its 8 nearest volume peers: granted patents vs average claims per patent. Source: USPTO PatentsView.

Where KEY's grants concentrate

KEY Energy Services, LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 2 CPC subclasses with 100% 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 2017 (4 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2018. By volume, KEY sits between Kbws Corporation and Kingfar International Inc..

Who files at KEY's volume?

Granted US patents 2015–2025 versus its nearest-ranked assignees by volume, this company marked ◀

patents

What this shows KEY holds 9 patents at rank #29,170, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Source USPTO PatentsView, granted utility patents As of 2015–2025

Companies ranked near KEY

By rank, the assignees closest to #29,170 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in E21B (Earth OR Rock Drilling)

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

KEY's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

25 16th percentile higher than 16% of 49,997 US assignees

This assignee 0 100 every tracked assignee, bucketed by value

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

012345 2015201620172018 1
USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2018

Grants by year

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

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KEY Energy Services, LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year Patents Granted Share of Period
2015 2 22.2%
2016 2 22.2%
2017 4 44.4%
2018 1 11.1%

Which technologies does KEY Energy Services, LLC patent most?

Top 2 of 2 technology areas

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

View all rankings → How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

KEY Energy Services, LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

  • KEY Energy Services, LLC'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), 100% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore E21B
  • Ranked #29,203 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
  • Compare KEY Energy Services, LLC against Kbws Corporation, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
  • Innovation Score of 25.0/100 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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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

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.