Where does Water Tech, Llc rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Water Tech, Llc ranks #23,659 of 50,000 assignees by granted-patent volume, the same sort as the companies listing and top-holders ranking. See /methodology/#corpus-placement.

How many patents does Water Tech, Llc hold?

Water Tech, Llc holds 12 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2022, spanning 5 technology areas.

What is Water Tech, Llc's Innovation Score?

Water Tech, Llc has an Innovation Score of 29.4 out of 100 (top 69% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Water Tech, Llc's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Water Tech, Llc's recent grant velocity is -50% 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 Water Tech, Llc's patents?

Water Tech, Llc's patents average 19.2 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 Water Tech, 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

Water Tech, Llc

Q: What technology areas does Water Tech, Llc focus on?

Water Tech, Llc's top technology area is E04H (BUILDINGS OR LIKE STRUCTURES FOR PARTICULAR PURPOSES; SWIMMING OR SPLASH BATHS OR POOLS; MASTS; FENCING; TENTS OR CANOPIES, IN GENERAL) with 8 patents. Grants appear in 5 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 12 granted patents across 5 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2022. 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: E04H (BUILDINGS OR LIKE STRUCTURES FOR PARTICULAR PURPOSES; SWIMMING OR SPLASH BATHS OR POOLS; MASTS; FENCING; TENTS OR CANOPIES, IN GENERAL).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Water ranks #23,659 of 50,000 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 12 patents across 5 technology areas.

#23,659
of 50,000 US assignees by volume: Top 69%
by Innovation Score (29.4/100): 19.2
avg claims per patent: -50%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R23659 · US Corporation #23,659 · 12 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 12 grants
MID-PACK #23,659/50,000
PHOTO-FINISH Washington Universit…
CPC-NARROW E04H · 5 areas
INNOV-THIN 29.4/100
CLAIMS-RICH 19.2 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -50% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Washington University In St. Louis (±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
Federal Mogul · near

29
Smart Eye AB · near

29
Water Tech · this assignee

29
KYE Systems · near

29
Northern Tool & Equi… · near

29
3D Lighting Innovati… · lowest

7

What this shows Water's Innovation Score is 29.4/100 (top 69% 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.

Where Water's grants concentrate

Water Tech, Llc is a focused PatentsView assignee: 5 CPC subclasses with 66.7% of grants classified under E04H (BUILDINGS OR LIKE STRUCTURES FOR PARTICULAR PURPOSES; SWIMMING OR SPLASH BATHS OR POOLS; MASTS; FENCING; TENTS OR CANOPIES, IN GENERAL). Peak complete grant year is 2019 (3 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2016. By volume, Water sits between Wuhan LL Science AND Technology Development Co., Ltd. and Whiteside Mfg. Co..

Wuhan LL Science…

12
Wuhan Textile Uni…

12
WUYI Instinct Out…

12
Washington Univer…

12
Wells Enterprises

12
Wenzhou Guolong S…

12
Whisper Aero

12
Whiteside Mfg

12
Water Tech ◀

12

What this shows Water holds 12 patents at rank #23,663, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Water

By rank, the assignees closest to #23,663 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in E04H (Buildings OR LIKE Structures FOR Particular Purposes)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

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

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (29 here).

Smart Eye AB 29 Federal Mogul S.a. 29 Northern Tool & Equipment Company, Inc. 29 KYE Systems Corp. 29

Water's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

29 Top 69% higher than 31% of 50,000 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2022

Grants by year

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

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Water Tech, Llc patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	2	16.7%
2016	1	8.3%
2018	2	16.7%
2019	3	25.0%
2020	1	8.3%
2021	2	16.7%
2022	1	8.3%

Which technologies does Water Tech, Llc patent most?

E04H - BUILDINGS OR LIKE STRUCTURES FOR PARTICULAR PURPOSES; SWIMMING OR SPLASH BATHS OR POOLS; MASTS; FENCING; TENTS OR CANOPIES, IN GENERAL 8

B01D - SEPARATION 2

C02F - TREATMENT OF WATER, WASTE WATER, SEWAGE, OR SLUDGE 2

A01K - ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; AVICULTURE; APICULTURE; PISCICULTURE; FISHING; REARING OR BREEDING ANIMALS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; NEW BREEDS OF ANIMALS 1

B63H - MARINE PROPULSION OR STEERING 1

Top 5 of 5 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#23,659

of 50,000 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

29.4 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

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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