Where does Schlumberger Norge AS rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Schlumberger Norge AS ranks #12,209 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 Schlumberger Norge AS hold?

Schlumberger Norge AS holds 25 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2021, spanning 24 technology areas.

What is Schlumberger Norge AS's Innovation Score?

Schlumberger Norge AS has an Innovation Score of 36.8 out of 100 (top 45% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Schlumberger Norge AS's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Schlumberger Norge AS's recent grant velocity is -61% 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 Schlumberger Norge AS's patents?

Schlumberger Norge AS's patents average 13.8 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 Schlumberger Norge AS 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

Schlumberger Norge AS

Q: What technology areas does Schlumberger Norge AS focus on?

Schlumberger Norge AS'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 12 patents, ranking #316 of 1,363 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 24 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 25 granted patents across 24 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, Schlumberger ranks #12,209 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 25 patents across 24 technology areas.

#12,209
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 45%
by Innovation Score (36.8/100): 13.8
avg claims per patent: -61%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R12209 · Foreign Corporation #12,209 · 25 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 25 grants
UPPER-Q #12,209/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Saga University
CPC-FOCUS E21B · 24 areas
INNOV-THIN 36.8/100
CLAIMS-RICH 13.8 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -61% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Saga University (±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 Schlumberger’s 36.8 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 11.3 pts (31%) Velocity 0.0 pts (0%) Breadth 17.3 pts (47%) Claim depth 8.3 pts (22%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
FiberTech · near

37
National Institutes… · near

37
Schlumberger Norge AS · this assignee

37
TÜRK & Hillinger · near

37
Institute OF… · near

37
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Schlumberger's Innovation Score is 36.8/100 (top 45% 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 Schlumberger?

Each dot is one of Schlumberger’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). Schlumberger’s own 13.8 claims/patent is ABOVE the 10.7 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Schlumberger's grants concentrate

Schlumberger Norge AS is a focused PatentsView assignee: 24 CPC subclasses with 48% 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 2020 (6 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2021. By volume, Schlumberger sits between S.P.E.P. Acquisition Corp. and Shenzhen Puremate Technology Co., Ltd..

S P E P Acquisiti…

25
Saga University

25
Salunda

25
Schaffert Manufac…

25
Seari Electric Te…

25
Shanghai Research…

25
Shangrao Jinko So…

25
Shenzhen Puremate…

25
Schlumberger Norg… ◀

25

What this shows Schlumberger holds 25 patents at rank #12,204, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Schlumberger

By rank, the assignees closest to #12,204 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in E21B (Earth OR Rock Drilling)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Schlumberger, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In E21B (Earth OR Rock Drilling), Schlumberger ranks #316 of 1,363 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (37 here).

TÜRK & Hillinger GMBH 37 National Institutes OF Health (NIH) 37 FiberTech Co., Ltd. 37 Institute OF Materia Medica, Chinese Academy OF Medical Sciences 37

Schlumberger's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

37 Top 45% higher than 55% 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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Schlumberger Norge AS patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	3	12.0%
2016	3	12.0%
2017	5	20.0%
2018	4	16.0%
2019	3	12.0%
2020	6	24.0%
2021	1	4.0%

Which technologies does Schlumberger Norge AS patent most?

E21B - Earth OR Rock DRILLING; Obtaining OIL, GAS, Water, Soluble OR Meltable Materials OR A Slurry OF Minerals From Wells 12

C09K - Materials FOR Miscellaneous Applications, NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere 11

B01D - Separation 7

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 6

C02F - Treatment OF Water, Waste Water, Sewage, OR Sludge 4

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 4

C08G - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than BY Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds 4

C08L - Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds 3

B03D - FLOTATION; Differential Sedimentation 3

B01F - Mixing, e.g. Dissolving, Emulsifying OR Dispersing 2

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

B63B - Ships OR Other Waterborne VESSELS; Equipment FOR Shipping 2

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 2

F17D - Pipe-line SYSTEMS; Pipe-lines 1

C08K - Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances as compounding ingredients 1

Top 15 of 24 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

Schlumberger Norge AS's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Schlumberger Norge AS'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), 48% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore E21B
Ranked #12,209 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Schlumberger Norge AS against S.P.E.P. Acquisition Corp., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 36.8/100 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

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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