Where does Ulterra Drilling Technologies, L.P. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Ulterra Drilling Technologies, L.P. ranks #8,305 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 Ulterra Drilling Technologies, L.P. hold?

Ulterra Drilling Technologies, L.P. holds 39 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 8 technology areas.

What is Ulterra Drilling Technologies, L.P.'s Innovation Score?

Ulterra Drilling Technologies, L.P. has an Innovation Score of 37.8 out of 100 (top 43% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Ulterra Drilling Technologies, L.P.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Ulterra Drilling Technologies, L.P.'s recent grant velocity is +57% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Ulterra Drilling Technologies, L.P.'s patents?

Ulterra Drilling Technologies, L.P.'s patents average 22.4 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 Ulterra Drilling Technologies, L.P. 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

Ulterra Drilling Technologies, L.P.

Q: What technology areas does Ulterra Drilling Technologies, L.P. focus on?

Ulterra Drilling Technologies, L.P.'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 38 patents, ranking #87 of 1,363 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 8 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 39 granted patents across 8 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: 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, Ulterra ranks #8,305 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 39 patents across 8 technology areas.

#8,305
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 43%
by Innovation Score (37.8/100): 22.4
avg claims per patent: +57%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R8305 · US Corporation #8,305 · 39 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 39 grants
UPPER-Q #8,305/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH The WellBoss
CPC-NARROW E21B · 8 areas
INNOV-THIN 37.8/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 22.4 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +57% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: The WellBoss Company, 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 Ulterra’s 37.8 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 12.7 pts (34%) Velocity 1.6 pts (4%) Breadth 10.0 pts (26%) Claim depth 13.5 pts (36%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
GE Renewable Wind B V · near

38
Ulterra Drilling · this assignee

38
Eiken Kagaku · near

38
Fuji Shoji · near

38
Rivada Research · near

38
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Ulterra's Innovation Score is 37.8/100 (top 43% 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 Ulterra?

Each dot is one of Ulterra’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). Ulterra’s own 22.4 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.9 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Ulterra's grants concentrate

Ulterra Drilling Technologies, L.P. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 8 CPC subclasses with 97.4% 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 (9 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2015. By volume, Ulterra sits between The WellBoss Company, Inc. and Vium, Inc..

Ulterra's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Ulterra Drilling Technologies, L.P. moved from 25 to 6 grants (0.24x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

The Wellboss

39
Toshiba Hokuto

39
U S Patent Innova…

39
University OF Gue…

39
Vaxcel Internatio…

39
Verizon Connect D…

39
Virtustream IP Ho…

39
Vium

39
Ulterra Drilling ◀

39

What this shows Ulterra holds 39 patents at rank #8,306, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Ulterra

By rank, the assignees closest to #8,306 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in E21B (Earth OR Rock Drilling)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Ulterra, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In E21B (Earth OR Rock Drilling), Ulterra ranks #87 of 1,363 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (38 here).

GE Renewable Technologies Wind B.V. 38 Fuji Shoji Co., Ltd. 38 Rivada Research, LLC 38 Eiken Kagaku Kabushiki Kaisha 38

Ulterra's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

38 Top 43% higher than 57% 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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Ulterra Drilling Technologies, L.P. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1	2.6%
2017	3	7.7%
2018	1	2.6%
2019	9	23.1%
2020	8	20.5%
2021	8	20.5%
2022	4	10.3%
2023	1	2.6%
2024	1	2.6%
2025partial year	3	7.7%

Which technologies does Ulterra Drilling Technologies, L.P. patent most?

E21B - Earth OR Rock DRILLING; Obtaining OIL, GAS, Water, Soluble OR Meltable Materials OR A Slurry OF Minerals From Wells 38

F16D - Couplings FOR Transmitting ROTATION; CLUTCHES; Brakes 5

B24D - Tools FOR Grinding, Buffing OR Sharpening 3

E21C - Mining OR Quarrying 2

B22F - Working Metallic POWDER; Manufacture OF Articles From Metallic POWDER; Making Metallic Powder ; Apparatus OR Devices Specially Adapted FOR Metallic Powder 1

B23K - Soldering OR UNSOLDERING; WELDING; Cladding OR Plating BY Soldering OR WELDING; Cutting BY Applying Heat Locally, e.g. Flame CUTTING; Working BY Laser Beam 1

C04B - Lime, MAGNESIA; SLAG; CEMENTS; Compositions Thereof, e.g. Mortars, Concrete OR Like Building MATERIALS; Artificial Stone ; Ceramics ; REFRACTORIES; Treatment OF Natural Stone 1

F16H - Gearing 1

Top 8 of 8 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

Ulterra Drilling Technologies, L.P.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Ulterra Drilling Technologies, L.P.'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), 97.4% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore E21B
Ranked #8,305 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Ulterra Drilling Technologies, L.P. against The WellBoss Company, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 37.8/100 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

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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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