Where does Scientific Drilling International, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Scientific Drilling International, Inc. ranks #5,546 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 Scientific Drilling International, Inc. hold?

Scientific Drilling International, Inc. holds 62 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 16 technology areas.

What is Scientific Drilling International, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Scientific Drilling International, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 47.7 out of 100 (top 18% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Scientific Drilling International, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Scientific Drilling International, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -21% 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 Scientific Drilling International, Inc.'s patents?

Scientific Drilling International, Inc.'s patents average 24.2 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 Scientific Drilling International, Inc. 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

Scientific Drilling International, Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Scientific Drilling International, Inc. focus on?

Scientific Drilling International, Inc.'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 57 patents, ranking #62 of 1,363 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 16 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 62 granted patents across 16 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2025. 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, Scientific ranks #5,546 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 62 patents across 16 technology areas.

#5,546
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 18%
by Innovation Score (47.7/100): 24.2
avg claims per patent: -21%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R5546 · US Corporation #5,546 · 62 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 62 grants
UPPER-Q #5,546/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Shenzhen Institutes…
CPC-FOCUS E21B · 16 areas
INNOV-PAR 47.7/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 24.2 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DOWN -21% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Shenzhen Institutes OF Advanced Technology (±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 Scientific’s 47.7 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 14.3 pts (30%) Velocity 4.8 pts (10%) Breadth 14.1 pts (30%) Claim depth 14.5 pts (30%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Bushnell · near

48
nChain Holdings · near

48
Scientific Drilling… · this assignee

48
ADC Telecommunications · near

48
Tokin · near

48
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Scientific's Innovation Score is 47.7/100 (top 18% 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 Scientific?

Each dot is one of Scientific’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). Scientific’s own 24.2 claims/patent is ABOVE the 11.7 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Scientific's grants concentrate

Scientific Drilling International, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 16 CPC subclasses with 91.9% 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 2019 (10 grants) versus a trough of 3 in 2015. By volume, Scientific sits between Shenzhen Institutes OF Advanced Technology and Trumpf Laser GMBH.

Scientific's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Scientific Drilling International, Inc. moved from 21 to 15 grants (0.71x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Shenzhen Institut…

62
Shijiazhuang Chen…

62
Societe D'exploit…

62
Sungwoo Hitech

62
Synthetic Genomics

62
Taiwan Textile Re…

62
TRON—Translationa…

62
Trumpf Laser

62
Scientific Drilli… ◀

62

What this shows Scientific holds 62 patents at rank #5,550, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Scientific

By rank, the assignees closest to #5,550 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in E21B (Earth OR Rock Drilling)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Scientific, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In E21B (Earth OR Rock Drilling), Scientific ranks #62 of 1,363 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (48 here).

Tokin Corporation 48 Bushnell Inc. 48 ADC Telecommunications, Inc. 48 nChain Holdings Ltd 48

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (24.2 here).

Nevro Corp. 24.2 avg Alentic Microscience Inc. 24.2 avg Sensel, Inc. 24.2 avg Brooks Automation US, LLC 24.1 avg

Scientific's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

48 Top 18% higher than 82% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2025

Grants by year

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

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Scientific Drilling International, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	3	4.8%
2016	6	9.7%
2017	5	8.1%
2018	9	14.5%
2019	10	16.1%
2020	5	8.1%
2021	6	9.7%
2022	6	9.7%
2023	6	9.7%
2024	3	4.8%
2025partial year	3	4.8%

Which technologies does Scientific Drilling International, Inc. patent most?

E21B - Earth OR Rock DRILLING; Obtaining OIL, GAS, Water, Soluble OR Meltable Materials OR A Slurry OF Minerals From Wells 57

G01V - GEOPHYSICS; Gravitational MEASUREMENTS; Detecting Masses OR OBJECTS; Tags 16

G01C - Measuring Distances, Levels OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; Gyroscopic INSTRUMENTS; Photogrammetry OR Videogrammetry 7

F16F - SPRINGS; SHOCK-ABSORBERS; Means FOR Damping Vibration 4

H04Q - Selecting 4

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 4

H04B - Transmission 4

G01D - Measuring NOT Specially Adapted FOR A Specific VARIABLE; Arrangements FOR Measuring TWO OR More Variables NOT Covered IN A Single Other SUBCLASS; Tariff Metering APPARATUS; Measuring OR Testing NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 3

G01T - Measurement OF Nuclear OR X-radiation 2

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 1

F16C - SHAFTS; Flexible SHAFTS; Elements OR Crankshaft MECHANISMS; Rotary Bodies Other Than Gearing ELEMENTS; Bearings 1

F16D - Couplings FOR Transmitting ROTATION; CLUTCHES; Brakes 1

H10N - Electric Solid-state Devices NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1

H02K - Dynamo-electric Machines 1

H02N - Electric Machines NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1

Top 15 of 16 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

Scientific Drilling International, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Scientific Drilling International, Inc.'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), 91.9% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore E21B
Ranked #5,546 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Scientific Drilling International, Inc. against Shenzhen Institutes OF Advanced Technology, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 47.7/100 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

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