Where does Uchicago Argonne, LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Uchicago Argonne, LLC ranks #742 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 Uchicago Argonne, LLC hold?

Uchicago Argonne, LLC holds 616 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 185 technology areas.

What is Uchicago Argonne, LLC's Innovation Score?

Uchicago Argonne, LLC has an Innovation Score of 62.8 out of 100 (top 2% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Uchicago Argonne, LLC focus on?

Uchicago Argonne, LLC's top technology area is Y02E (Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution) with 257 patents, ranking #58 of 5,963 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 185 CPC subclasses total.

Is Uchicago Argonne, LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Uchicago Argonne, LLC's recent grant velocity is -2% 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 Uchicago Argonne, LLC's patents?

Uchicago Argonne, LLC's patents average 15.3 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 Uchicago Argonne, LLC 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

Uchicago Argonne, LLC

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 616 granted patents across 185 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: Y02E (Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Uchicago ranks #742 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 616 patents across 185 technology areas.

#742
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 2%
by Innovation Score (62.8/100): 15.3
avg claims per patent: -2%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R742 · US Corporation #742 · 616 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-FLAT · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 616 grants
TOP-DECILE #742/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Bell Helicopter…
CPC-WIDE Y02E · 185 areas
INNOV-STRONG 62.8/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.3 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-FLAT -2% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Bell Helicopter Textron 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 Uchicago’s 62.8 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 22.2 pts (35%) Velocity 6.4 pts (10%) Breadth 25.0 pts (40%) Claim depth 9.2 pts (15%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Landmark Graphics · near

63
Putzmeister… · near

63
Triple WIN TECHNOLOG… · near

63
Uchicago Argonne · this assignee

63
AGC · near

63
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Uchicago's Innovation Score is 62.8/100 (top 2% 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 Uchicago?

Each dot is one of Uchicago’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). Uchicago’s own 15.3 claims/patent is ABOVE the 12.7 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How Uchicago's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Uchicago Argonne, LLC received 286 grants versus 292 in 2015–2019 (-2% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2020 at 69 grants and bottomed in 2021 at 46. Lead class Y02E accounts for 41.7% of the portfolio across 185 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Institut National de la Sante et de la Recherche Medicale (INSERM) (#738) and Ford Motor Company (#746).

Uchicago's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Uchicago Argonne, LLC moved from 177 to 171 grants (0.97x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). Among 3,296 tracked assignees with ≥100 grants and ≥20 prior-period grants, that multiple ranks #1,276. See the growth leaderboard.

Institut National…

617
Invensense

617
Bell Helicopter T…

616
Suzuki Motor

616
Uchicago Argonne ◀

616
Fresenius Medical…

615
Dexerials

614
Allergan

612
Ford Motor

612

What this shows Uchicago holds 616 patents at rank #742, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Uchicago

By rank, the assignees closest to #742 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in Y02E (Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Uchicago, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In Y02E (Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions), Uchicago ranks #58 of 5,963 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (63 here).

Landmark Graphics Corporation 63 Triple WIN TECHNOLOGY(SHENZHEN) Co. Ltd. 63 Putzmeister Engineering GmbH 63 AGC Inc. 63

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (15.3 here).

Osram Opto Semiconductors GmbH 15.3 avg Oshkosh Defense, LLC 15.3 avg Technische UNIVERSITÄT Berlin 15.3 avg Beijing Geekplus Technology Co., Ltd. 15.3 avg

Uchicago's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

63 Top 2% higher than 98% 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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Uchicago Argonne, LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	63	10.2%
2016	61	9.9%
2017	54	8.8%
2018	52	8.4%
2019	62	10.1%
2020	69	11.2%
2021	46	7.5%
2022	54	8.8%
2023	62	10.1%
2024	55	8.9%
2025partial year	38	6.2%

Which technologies does Uchicago Argonne, LLC patent most?

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 257

H01M - Processes OR Means, e.g. Batteries, FOR THE Direct Conversion OF Chemical Energy Into Electrical Energy 221

B01J - Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus 77

C23C - Coating Metallic MATERIAL; Coating Material With Metallic MATERIAL; Surface Treatment OF Metallic Material BY Diffusion Into THE Surface, BY Chemical Conversion OR SUBSTITUTION; Coating BY Vacuum Evaporation, BY Sputtering, BY ION Implantation OR BY Chemical Vapour Deposition, IN General 73

B82Y - Specific Uses OR Applications OF NANOSTRUCTURES; Measurement OR Analysis OF NANOSTRUCTURES; Manufacture OR Treatment OF Nanostructures 59

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 44

C01G - Compounds Containing Metals NOT Covered BY Subclasses C01d OR C01f 34

C01P - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Structural AND Physical Aspects OF Solid Inorganic Compounds 34

B01D - Separation 32

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 31

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 30

C07C - Acyclic OR Carbocyclic Compounds 30

C01B - Non-metallic ELEMENTS; Compounds THEREOF; ; Metalloids OR Compounds Thereof NOT Covered BY Subclass C01c 28

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 28

G21K - Techniques FOR Handling Particles OR Ionising Radiation NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Irradiation DEVICES; Gamma RAY OR X-ray Microscopes 25

Top 15 of 185 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

Uchicago Argonne, LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Uchicago Argonne, LLC's lead technology class is Y02E (Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution), 41.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore Y02E
Ranked #742 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Uchicago Argonne, LLC against Institut National de la Sante et de la Recherche Medicale (INSERM), an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 62.8/100 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.

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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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