Where does Transocean Innovation Labs Ltd. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Transocean Innovation Labs Ltd. ranks #15,709 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 Transocean Innovation Labs Ltd. hold?

Transocean Innovation Labs Ltd. holds 19 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2025, spanning 11 technology areas.

What is Transocean Innovation Labs Ltd.'s Innovation Score?

Transocean Innovation Labs Ltd. has an Innovation Score of 39.9 out of 100 (top 37% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Transocean Innovation Labs Ltd.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Transocean Innovation Labs Ltd.'s recent grant velocity is +25% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). The company is maintaining or growing its granted-patent output.

What does claim depth mean for Transocean Innovation Labs Ltd.'s patents?

Transocean Innovation Labs Ltd.'s patents average 18.6 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 Transocean Innovation Labs Ltd. 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

Transocean Innovation Labs Ltd.

Q: What technology areas does Transocean Innovation Labs Ltd. focus on?

Transocean Innovation Labs Ltd.'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 19 patents, ranking #186 of 1,363 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 11 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 19 granted patents across 11 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2025. 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, Transocean ranks #15,709 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 19 patents across 11 technology areas.

#15,709
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 37%
by Innovation Score (39.9/100): 18.6
avg claims per patent: +25%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R15709 · Foreign Corporation #15,709 · 19 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-UP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 19 grants
MID-PACK #15,709/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Tiveni Mergeco
CPC-FOCUS E21B · 11 areas
INNOV-THIN 39.9/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.6 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-UP +25% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Tiveni Mergeco, 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 Transocean’s 39.9 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 10.3 pts (26%) Velocity 6.7 pts (17%) Breadth 11.7 pts (29%) Claim depth 11.2 pts (28%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

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Transocean Innovatio… · this assignee

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3D Lighting… · lowest

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What this shows Transocean's Innovation Score is 39.9/100 (top 37% 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 Transocean?

Each dot is one of Transocean’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). Transocean’s own 18.6 claims/patent is ABOVE the 12.6 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Transocean's grants concentrate

Transocean Innovation Labs Ltd. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 11 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 2019 (4 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2020. By volume, Transocean sits between Tiveni Mergeco, Inc. and TSE Co., Ltd..

Transocean's three-year grant acceleration

Transocean Innovation Labs Ltd. shows 7 grants in 2022–2024 against only 7 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.

Tiveni Mergeco

19
Tombow Pencil

19
Tosho

19
Tq-systems

19
Trevena

19
Tri-state Environ…

19
Trvstper

19
TSE

19
Transocean Innova… ◀

19

What this shows Transocean holds 19 patents at rank #15,686, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Transocean

By rank, the assignees closest to #15,686 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in E21B (Earth OR Rock Drilling)

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

Transocean's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

40 Top 37% higher than 63% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2016–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Transocean Innovation Labs Ltd. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	2	10.5%
2017	2	10.5%
2019	4	21.1%
2020	1	5.3%
2021	2	10.5%
2022	3	15.8%
2023	2	10.5%
2024	2	10.5%
2025partial year	1	5.3%

Which technologies does Transocean Innovation Labs Ltd. patent most?

E21B - Earth OR Rock DRILLING; Obtaining OIL, GAS, Water, Soluble OR Meltable Materials OR A Slurry OF Minerals From Wells 19

F15B - Systems Acting BY Means OF Fluids IN GENERAL; Fluid-pressure Actuators, e.g. SERVOMOTORS; Details OF Fluid-pressure Systems, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 4

F04B - Positive-displacement Machines FOR LIQUIDS; Pumps 3

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 3

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 2

C02F - Treatment OF Water, Waste Water, Sewage, OR Sludge 2

F04D - Non-positive-displacement Pumps 2

Y02A - Technologies FOR Adaptation TO Climate Change 2

B01D - Separation 2

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 2

B23D - PLANING; SLOTTING; SHEARING; BROACHING; SAWING; FILING; SCRAPING; Like Operations FOR Working Metal BY Removing Material, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1

Top 11 of 11 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

Transocean Innovation Labs Ltd.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Transocean Innovation Labs Ltd.'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 #15,709 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Transocean Innovation Labs Ltd. against Tiveni Mergeco, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 39.9/100 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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