Where does Maersk Olie OG GAS A/S rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Maersk Olie OG GAS A/S ranks #10,991 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 Maersk Olie OG GAS A/S hold?

Maersk Olie OG GAS A/S holds 28 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2021, spanning 9 technology areas.

What is Maersk Olie OG GAS A/S's Innovation Score?

Maersk Olie OG GAS A/S has an Innovation Score of 34.9 out of 100 (49th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Maersk Olie OG GAS A/S's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Maersk Olie OG GAS A/S's recent grant velocity is -88% 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 Maersk Olie OG GAS A/S's patents?

Maersk Olie OG GAS A/S's patents average 21.1 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 Maersk Olie OG GAS A/S 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

Maersk Olie OG GAS A/S

Q: What technology areas does Maersk Olie OG GAS A/S focus on?

Maersk Olie OG GAS A/S'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 24 patents, ranking #145 of 1,363 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 9 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 28 granted patents across 9 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: 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, Maersk ranks #10,991 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 28 patents across 9 technology areas.

#10,991
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 49th percentile
by Innovation Score (34.9/100): 21.1
avg claims per patent: -88%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R10991 · Foreign Corporation #10,991 · 28 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 28 grants
UPPER-Q #10,991/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Levitation Sciences
CPC-NARROW E21B · 9 areas
INNOV-THIN 34.9/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 21.1 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -88% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Levitation Sciences 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 Maersk’s 34.9 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 11.6 pts (33%) Velocity 0.0 pts (0%) Breadth 10.6 pts (30%) Claim depth 12.6 pts (36%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Waddington North… · near

35
Advaced Vision… · near

35
Clene Nanomedicine · near

35
Hochiki · near

35
Maersk Olie OG GAS A/S · this assignee

35
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Maersk's Innovation Score is 34.9/100 (49th 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.

Does more volume mean deeper claims for Maersk?

Each dot is one of Maersk’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). Maersk’s own 21.1 claims/patent is ABOVE the 13.8 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Maersk's grants concentrate

Maersk Olie OG GAS A/S is a focused PatentsView assignee: 9 CPC subclasses with 85.7% 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 (8 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2021. By volume, Maersk sits between Levitation Sciences LLC and Maxcyte, Inc..

Levitation Scienc…

28
Leybold

28
Linamar

28
Liqmeds Worldwide

28
Makinarocks

28
Manitou BF

28
Matrixed Reality…

28
Maxcyte

28
Maersk Olie OG GA… ◀

28

What this shows Maersk holds 28 patents at rank #10,989, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Maersk

By rank, the assignees closest to #10,989 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in E21B (Earth OR Rock Drilling)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Maersk, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In E21B (Earth OR Rock Drilling), Maersk ranks #145 of 1,363 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (35 here).

Hochiki Corporation 35 Advaced Vision Technology (A.V.T.) Ltd. 35 Clene Nanomedicine, Inc. 35 Waddington North America, Inc. 35

Maersk's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

35 49th percentile higher than 49% 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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Maersk Olie OG GAS A/S patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	5	17.9%
2016	5	17.9%
2017	4	14.3%
2018	8	28.6%
2019	3	10.7%
2020	2	7.1%
2021	1	3.6%

Which technologies does Maersk Olie OG GAS A/S patent most?

E21B - Earth OR Rock DRILLING; Obtaining OIL, GAS, Water, Soluble OR Meltable Materials OR A Slurry OF Minerals From Wells 24

C09K - Materials FOR Miscellaneous Applications, NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere 7

G01V - GEOPHYSICS; Gravitational MEASUREMENTS; Detecting Masses OR OBJECTS; Tags 2

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 1

F23G - Cremation FURNACES; Consuming Waste Products BY Combustion 1

B03C - Magnetic OR Electrostatic Separation OF Solid Materials From Solid Materials OR FLUIDS; Separation BY High-voltage Electric Fields 1

C02F - Treatment OF Water, Waste Water, Sewage, OR Sludge 1

C01P - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Structural AND Physical Aspects OF Solid Inorganic Compounds 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

Top 9 of 9 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

Maersk Olie OG GAS A/S's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Maersk Olie OG GAS A/S'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), 85.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore E21B
Ranked #10,991 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Maersk Olie OG GAS A/S against Levitation Sciences LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 34.9/100 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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