Where does Suffolk County Water Authority rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Suffolk County Water Authority ranks #43,373 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 Suffolk County Water Authority hold?

Suffolk County Water Authority holds 6 US utility patents granted between 2020 and 2024, spanning 3 technology areas.

What is Suffolk County Water Authority's Innovation Score?

Suffolk County Water Authority has an Innovation Score of 30.7 out of 100 (35th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Suffolk County Water Authority's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Insufficient historical data is available to calculate a velocity trend for Suffolk County Water Authority.

What does claim depth mean for Suffolk County Water Authority's patents?

Suffolk County Water Authority's patents average 18.7 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 Suffolk County Water Authority 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

Suffolk County Water Authority

Q: What technology areas does Suffolk County Water Authority focus on?

Suffolk County Water Authority's top technology area is G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties) with 6 patents, ranking #2,307 of 7,863 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 3 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 6 granted patents across 3 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2020–2024. 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: G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Suffolk ranks #43,373 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 6 patents across 3 technology areas.

#43,373
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 35th percentile
by Innovation Score (30.7/100): 18.7
avg claims per patent

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R43373 · US Corporation #43,373 · 6 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · LOWER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · SPAN-YRS · BOOK-RICH

GRANTS-MICRO 6 grants
LOWER-Q #43,373/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Stromsholmen AB
CPC-NARROW G01N · 3 areas
INNOV-THIN 30.7/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.7 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
SPAN-YRS 2020–2024 · 5y
BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Stromsholmen AB (±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 Suffolk’s 30.7 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 6.7 pts (22%) Velocity 6.7 pts (22%) Breadth 6.1 pts (20%) Claim depth 11.2 pts (36%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

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Suffolk County… · this assignee

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3D Lighting… · lowest

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What this shows Suffolk's Innovation Score is 30.7/100 (35th 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 Suffolk?

Each dot is one of Suffolk’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). Suffolk’s own 18.7 claims/patent is ABOVE the 10.3 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Suffolk's grants concentrate

Suffolk County Water Authority is a focused PatentsView assignee: 3 CPC subclasses with 100% of grants classified under G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties). Peak complete grant year is 2020 (2 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2021. By volume, Suffolk sits between Stromsholmen AB and Sumitomo Mitsui Construction Co., Ltd..

Suffolk's three-year grant acceleration

Suffolk County Water Authority shows 3 grants in 2022–2024 against only 3 in 2019–2021. That prior window is too thin for a growth multiple (rename and spin-out assignees look artificially high when the baseline is near zero), so PlainPatent withholds a ranked acceleration claim here.

Stromsholmen AB

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6
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6
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What this shows Suffolk holds 6 patents at rank #43,021, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Suffolk

By rank, the assignees closest to #43,021 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their…)

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

Suffolk's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

31 35th percentile higher than 35% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2020–2024

Grants by year

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

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Suffolk County Water Authority patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2020	2	33.3%
2021	1	16.7%
2022	2	33.3%
2024	1	16.7%

Which technologies does Suffolk County Water Authority patent most?

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

H01J - Electric Discharge Tubes OR Discharge Lamps 3

B01L - Chemical OR Physical Laboratory Apparatus FOR General USE 1

Top 3 of 3 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

Suffolk County Water Authority's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Suffolk County Water Authority's lead technology class is G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties), 100% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G01N
Ranked #43,373 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Suffolk County Water Authority against Stromsholmen AB, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 30.7/100 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

Compiled by PlainPatent , US Patent Intelligence Editorial Process · May 15, 2026

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.