Where does Ut-battelle, LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Ut-battelle, LLC ranks #561 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 Ut-battelle, LLC hold?

Ut-battelle, LLC holds 803 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 250 technology areas.

What is Ut-battelle, LLC's Innovation Score?

Ut-battelle, LLC has an Innovation Score of 67.4 out of 100 (top 1% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Ut-battelle, LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Ut-battelle, LLC's recent grant velocity is +3% 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 Ut-battelle, LLC's patents?

Ut-battelle, LLC's patents average 17.8 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 Ut-battelle, 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

Ut-battelle, LLC

Q: What technology areas does Ut-battelle, LLC focus on?

Ut-battelle, LLC's top technology area is Y02E (Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution) with 140 patents. Grants appear in 250 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 803 granted patents across 250 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, Ut-battelle ranks #561 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 803 patents across 250 technology areas.

#561
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 1%
by Innovation Score (67.4/100): 17.8
avg claims per patent: +3%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R561 · US Corporation #561 · 803 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 803 grants
TOP-DECILE #561/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Baker Hughes…
CPC-BROAD Y02E · 250 areas
INNOV-STRONG 67.4/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.8 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-FLAT +3% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations LLC (±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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
BAIDU COM Times… · near

67
Japan Display · near

67
KIA Motors · near

67
Ut-battelle · this assignee

67
NXP USA · near

67
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Ut-battelle's Innovation Score is 67.4/100 (top 1% 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.

How Ut-battelle's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Ut-battelle, LLC received 377 grants versus 365 in 2015–2019 (+3% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2023 at 89 grants and bottomed in 2021 at 56. Lead class Y02E accounts for 17.4% of the portfolio across 250 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations LLC (#557) and ResMed Pty Ltd (#565).

Ut-battelle's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Ut-battelle, LLC moved from 193 to 249 grants (1.29x 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 #654. See the growth leaderboard.

Baker Hughes Oilf…

803
King Faisal Unive…

803
Mandom

803
Rohm and Haas

803
Ut-battelle ◀

803
Hefei BOE Optoele…

802
B/E Aerospace

801
Fortinet

801
Resmed Pty

800

What this shows Ut-battelle holds 803 patents at rank #561, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Ut-battelle

By rank, the assignees closest to #561 in granted patent volume.

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

Other assignees with the most granted patents in Ut-battelle's primary technology class.

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Ut-battelle, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above).

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (67 here).

Japan Display Inc. 67 KIA Motors Corporation 67 BAIDU.COM Times Technology (BEIJING) Co., Ltd. 67 NXP USA, Inc. 67

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (17.8 here).

Vocollect, Inc. 17.8 avg Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation 17.8 avg Schneider Electric USA, Inc. 17.8 avg Iowa State University Research Foundation, Inc. 17.8 avg

Ut-battelle's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

67 Top 1% higher than 99% 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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Ut-battelle, LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	77	9.6%
2016	81	10.1%
2017	73	9.1%
2018	69	8.6%
2019	65	8.1%
2020	72	9.0%
2021	56	7.0%
2022	82	10.2%
2023	89	11.1%
2024	78	9.7%
2025partial year	61	7.6%

Which technologies does Ut-battelle, LLC patent most?

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 140

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 90

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 89

H01M - Processes OR Means, e.g. Batteries, FOR THE Direct Conversion OF Chemical Energy Into Electrical Energy 88

B33Y - Additive Manufacturing, i.e. Manufacturing OF Three-dimensional [3-D] Objects BY Additive Deposition, Additive Agglomeration OR Additive Layering, e.g. BY 3-D Printing, Stereolithography OR Selective Laser Sintering 77

C22C - Alloys 62

B29C - Shaping OR Joining OF PLASTICS; Shaping OF Material IN A Plastic State, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; After-treatment OF THE Shaped Products, e.g. Repairing 62

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 58

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 56

B22F - Working Metallic POWDER; Manufacture OF Articles From Metallic POWDER; Making Metallic Powder ; Apparatus OR Devices Specially Adapted FOR Metallic Powder 51

B01J - Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus 48

C01B - Non-metallic ELEMENTS; Compounds THEREOF; ; Metalloids OR Compounds Thereof NOT Covered BY Subclass C01c 42

B01D - Separation 41

B82Y - Specific Uses OR Applications OF NANOSTRUCTURES; Measurement OR Analysis OF NANOSTRUCTURES; Manufacture OR Treatment OF Nanostructures 40

H01J - Electric Discharge Tubes OR Discharge Lamps 39

Top 15 of 250 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#561

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

67.4 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

Ut-battelle, LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Ut-battelle, LLC's lead technology class is Y02E (Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution), 17.4% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore Y02E
Ranked #561 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Ut-battelle, LLC against Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 67.4/100 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

Compiled by PlainPatent, US Patent Intelligence Editorial Process · May 15, 2026

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