Where does The Babcock & Wilcox Company rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), The Babcock & Wilcox Company ranks #5,556 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 The Babcock & Wilcox Company hold?

The Babcock & Wilcox Company holds 62 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2024, spanning 50 technology areas.

What is The Babcock & Wilcox Company's Innovation Score?

The Babcock & Wilcox Company has an Innovation Score of 54.1 out of 100 (top 8% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does The Babcock & Wilcox Company focus on?

The Babcock & Wilcox Company's top technology area is F22B (Methods OF Steam GENERATION; Steam Boilers) with 20 patents, ranking #9 of 251 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 50 CPC subclasses total.

Is The Babcock & Wilcox Company's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

The Babcock & Wilcox Company's recent grant velocity is -81% 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 The Babcock & Wilcox Company's patents?

The Babcock & Wilcox Company's patents average 21.5 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 The Babcock & Wilcox Company 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

The Babcock & Wilcox Company

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 62 granted patents across 50 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2024. 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: F22B (Methods OF Steam GENERATION; Steam Boilers).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, The ranks #5,556 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 62 patents across 50 technology areas.

#5,556
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 8%
by Innovation Score (54.1/100): 21.5
avg claims per patent: -81%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R5556 · US Corporation #5,556 · 62 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 62 grants
UPPER-Q #5,556/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Taiwan Textile…
CPC-WIDE F22B · 50 areas
INNOV-PAR 54.1/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 21.5 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -81% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Taiwan Textile Research Institute (±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 The’s 54.1 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 (26%) Velocity 1.9 pts (4%) Breadth 25.0 pts (46%) Claim depth 12.9 pts (24%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

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Equity Shift · near

54
The Babcock & Wilcox · this assignee

54
Albemarle · near

54
Chang Chun Plastics · near

54
Technische Universit… · near

54
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows The's Innovation Score is 54.1/100 (top 8% 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 The?

Each dot is one of The’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). The’s own 21.5 claims/patent is ABOVE the 17.0 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How The's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, The Babcock & Wilcox Company received 10 grants versus 52 in 2015–2019 (-81% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2016 at 14 grants and bottomed in 2022 at 1. Lead class F22B accounts for 32.3% of the portfolio across 50 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Taiwan Textile Research Institute (#5,552) and Yoke Industrial Corp. (#5,560).

The's three-year grant acceleration

The Babcock & Wilcox Company shows 5 grants in 2022–2024 against only 18 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.

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Unify Patente & KG

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Wildcat Discovery

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Yoke Industrial

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62

What this shows The holds 62 patents at rank #5,556, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near The

By rank, the assignees closest to #5,556 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F22B (Methods OF Steam Generation)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for The, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In F22B (Methods OF Steam Generation), The ranks #9 of 251 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (54 here).

Equity Shift, Inc. 54 Albemarle Corporation 54 Chang Chun Plastics Co., Ltd. 54 Technische Universiteit Eindhoven 54

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (21.5 here).

Invensas Bonding Technologies, Inc. 21.5 avg Varian Medical Systems International AG 21.5 avg Built Robotics Inc. 21.5 avg Konami Gaming, Inc. 21.5 avg

The's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

54 Top 8% higher than 92% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2024

Grants by year

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

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The Babcock & Wilcox Company patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	7	11.3%
2016	14	22.6%
2017	4	6.5%
2018	14	22.6%
2019	13	21.0%
2020	2	3.2%
2021	3	4.8%
2022	1	1.6%
2023	3	4.8%
2024	1	1.6%

Which technologies does The Babcock & Wilcox Company patent most?

F22B - Methods OF Steam GENERATION; Steam Boilers 20

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 19

B01D - Separation 17

F23J - Removal OR Treatment OF Combustion Products OR Combustion RESIDUES; Flues 14

F24S - Solar Heat COLLECTORS; Solar Heat Systems 10

F23C - Methods OR Apparatus FOR Combustion Using Fluid Fuel OR Solid Fuel Suspended IN ; A Carrier GAS OR; AIR 10

F22G - Superheating OF Steam 9

F22D - Preheating, OR Accumulating Preheated, Feed-water FOR Steam GENERATION; Feed-water Supply FOR Steam GENERATION; Controlling Water Level FOR Steam GENERATION; Auxiliary Devices FOR Promoting Water Circulation Within Steam Boilers 6

F23K - Feeding Fuel TO Combustion Apparatus 5

F03G - Spring, Weight, Inertia OR Like MOTORS; Mechanical-power Producing Devices OR Mechanisms, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR OR Using Energy Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 5

F23G - Cremation FURNACES; Consuming Waste Products BY Combustion 4

F23N - Regulating OR Controlling Combustion 4

C02F - Treatment OF Water, Waste Water, Sewage, OR Sludge 3

C01B - Non-metallic ELEMENTS; Compounds THEREOF; ; Metalloids OR Compounds Thereof NOT Covered BY Subclass C01c 3

C10J - Production OF Producer GAS, Water-gas, Synthesis GAS From Solid Carbonaceous Material, OR Mixtures Containing These Gases ; Carburetting AIR OR Other Gases 3

Top 15 of 50 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

The Babcock & Wilcox Company's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

The Babcock & Wilcox Company's lead technology class is F22B (Methods OF Steam GENERATION; Steam Boilers), 32.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F22B
Ranked #5,556 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare The Babcock & Wilcox Company against Taiwan Textile Research Institute, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 54.1/100 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

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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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