Where does Pilot Energy Solutions, LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Pilot Energy Solutions, LLC ranks #23,203 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 Pilot Energy Solutions, LLC hold?

Pilot Energy Solutions, LLC holds 12 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2021, spanning 10 technology areas.

What is Pilot Energy Solutions, LLC's Innovation Score?

Pilot Energy Solutions, LLC has an Innovation Score of 33.2 out of 100 (44th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Pilot Energy Solutions, LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Pilot Energy Solutions, LLC's recent grant velocity is -29% 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 Pilot Energy Solutions, LLC's patents?

Pilot Energy Solutions, LLC's patents average 22.0 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 Pilot Energy Solutions, 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

Pilot Energy Solutions, LLC

Q: What technology areas does Pilot Energy Solutions, LLC focus on?

Pilot Energy Solutions, LLC's top technology area is 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) with 8 patents, ranking #79 of 450 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 10 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 12 granted patents across 10 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: 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-lig).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Pilot ranks #23,203 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 12 patents across 10 technology areas.

#23,203
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 44th percentile
by Innovation Score (33.2/100): 22.0
avg claims per patent: -29%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R23203 · US Corporation #23,203 · 12 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 12 grants
MID-PACK #23,203/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Philo
CPC-FOCUS C10L · 10 areas
INNOV-THIN 33.2/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 22.0 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DOWN -29% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Philo, Inc. (±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 Pilot’s 33.2 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 8.9 pts (27%) Velocity 0.0 pts (0%) Breadth 11.2 pts (34%) Claim depth 13.2 pts (40%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Pilot Energy Solutions · this assignee

33
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Pilot's Innovation Score is 33.2/100 (44th 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 Pilot?

Each dot is one of Pilot’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). Pilot’s own 22.0 claims/patent is ABOVE the 13.3 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Pilot's grants concentrate

Pilot Energy Solutions, LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 10 CPC subclasses with 66.7% of grants classified under 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-lig). Peak complete grant year is 2017 (3 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2015. By volume, Pilot sits between Philo, Inc. and Pioneer Natural Resources USA, Inc..

Philo

12
Picobrew

12
Picote Solutions…

12
Piecemakers Techn…

12
Pilot Games

12
Pilot Polymer

12
Pinnacle Engines

12
Pioneer Natural R…

12
Pilot Energy Solu… ◀

12

What this shows Pilot holds 12 patents at rank #23,211, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Pilot

By rank, the assignees closest to #23,211 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C10L (Fuels)

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

Pilot's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

33 44th percentile higher than 44% 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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Pilot Energy Solutions, LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1	8.3%
2016	2	16.7%
2017	3	25.0%
2019	1	8.3%
2020	2	16.7%
2021	3	25.0%

Which technologies does Pilot Energy Solutions, LLC patent most?

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 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 8

Y02C - Capture, Storage, Sequestration OR Disposal OF Greenhouse Gases [GHG] 8

E21B - Earth OR Rock DRILLING; Obtaining OIL, GAS, Water, Soluble OR Meltable Materials OR A Slurry OF Minerals From Wells 6

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 4

B01D - Separation 4

C09K - Materials FOR Miscellaneous Applications, NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere 2

B01J - Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus 1

C01B - Non-metallic ELEMENTS; Compounds THEREOF; ; Metalloids OR Compounds Thereof NOT Covered BY Subclass C01c 1

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 1

Top 10 of 10 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

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

Pilot Energy Solutions, LLC's lead technology class is 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-lig), 66.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C10L
Ranked #23,203 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Pilot Energy Solutions, LLC against Philo, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 33.2/100 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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