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Superior Energy Services-north America Services, Inc

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 17 granted patents across 4 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2018. 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, Superior ranks #17,242 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 17 patents across 4 technology areas.

#17,242
of 49,997 US assignees by volume
30th percentile
by Innovation Score (29.4/100)
20.5
avg claims per patent
-100%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R17242 · US Corporation #17,242 · 17 grants

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

  • GRANTS-MICRO 17 grants
  • MID-PACK #17,242/49,997
  • PHOTO-FINISH Star
  • CPC-NARROW E21B · 4 areas
  • INNOV-THIN 29.4/100
  • CLAIMS-DENSE 20.5 claims/avg
  • TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
  • VEL-DROP -100% vel
  • BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Star Technologies, 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 Superior’s 29.4 Innovation Score adds up

The same four weighted components behind every Innovation Score on PlainPatent: portfolio volume, grant velocity, technology breadth, and claim depth.

Innovation-score neighbourhood around Superior

Lowest and highest poles plus nearest Innovation Score peers, not a full corpus board reprint.

score

What this shows Superior's Innovation Score is 29.4/100 (30th 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.

Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score As of 2015–2025

Does more volume mean deeper claims for Superior?

Each dot is one of Superior’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). Superior’s own 20.5 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.7 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

Superior vs its 8 nearest volume peers: granted patents vs average claims per patent. Source: USPTO PatentsView. 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 9 entities by Granted patents (volume) (X) and Avg claims / patent (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. Volume + depthSelective & thoroughVolume over depthLean filer 16.916.91717.1 51015202530 Granted patents (volume) Avg claims / patent Star Technologies, Inc. - 17, 19.24StarSteiner-optik GmbH - 17, 9.35Steiner-optikStreamscale, Inc. - 17, 27.06StreamscaleSUN Chemical B.V. - 17, 15SUN Chemical B VSurgical Design Corporation - 17, 17Surgical DesignSuzhou Sonavox Electronics Co., Ltd. - 17, 12.71Suzhou SonavoxSyntilla Medical, LLC - 17, 18.88Syntilla MedicalSysnav - 17, 15.65SysnavSuperior Energy Services-north America Services, Inc - 17, 20.53Superior Energy S…
Superior vs its 8 nearest volume peers: granted patents vs average claims per patent. Source: USPTO PatentsView.

Where Superior's grants concentrate

Superior Energy Services-north America Services, Inc is a focused PatentsView assignee: 4 CPC subclasses with 100% 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 2015 (7 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2017. By volume, Superior sits between Star Technologies, Inc. and Sysnav.

Who files at Superior's volume?

Granted US patents 2015–2025 versus its nearest-ranked assignees by volume, this company marked ◀

patents

What this shows Superior holds 17 patents at rank #17,195, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Source USPTO PatentsView, granted utility patents As of 2015–2025

Companies ranked near Superior

By rank, the assignees closest to #17,195 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in E21B (Earth OR Rock Drilling)

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

Superior's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

29 30th percentile higher than 30% of 49,997 US assignees

This assignee 0 100 every tracked assignee, bucketed by value

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

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USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2018

Grants by year

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

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Superior Energy Services-north America Services, Inc patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year Patents Granted Share of Period
2015 7 41.2%
2016 6 35.3%
2017 2 11.8%
2018 2 11.8%

Which technologies does Superior Energy Services-north America Services, Inc patent most?

Top 4 of 4 technology areas

More on this record

Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

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What to do with this data

Superior Energy Services-north America Services, Inc's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

  • Superior Energy Services-north America Services, 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), 100% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore E21B
  • Ranked #17,242 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
  • Compare Superior Energy Services-north America Services, Inc against Star Technologies, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
  • Innovation Score of 29.4/100 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

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.