Where does Waters Technologies Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Waters Technologies Corporation ranks #858 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 Waters Technologies Corporation hold?

Waters Technologies Corporation holds 531 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 99 technology areas.

What is Waters Technologies Corporation's Innovation Score?

Waters Technologies Corporation 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%).

Is Waters Technologies Corporation's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Waters Technologies Corporation's recent grant velocity is +6% 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 Waters Technologies Corporation's patents?

Waters Technologies Corporation's patents average 16.5 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 Waters Technologies Corporation 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

Waters Technologies Corporation

Q: What technology areas does Waters Technologies Corporation focus on?

Waters Technologies Corporation's top technology area is G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties) with 444 patents. Grants appear in 99 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 531 granted patents across 99 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: G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Waters ranks #858 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 531 patents across 99 technology areas.

#858
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 2%
by Innovation Score (62.8/100): 16.5
avg claims per patent: +6%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R858 · US Corporation #858 · 531 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 531 grants
TOP-DECILE #858/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Micro Focus
CPC-WIDE G01N · 99 areas
INNOV-STRONG 62.8/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.5 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-FLAT +6% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Micro Focus LLC (±1 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
Cadence Design Systems · near

63
DoorDash · near

63
Maxim Integrated… · near

63
Waters · this assignee

63
Renault S · near

63
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Waters'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.

How Waters's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Waters Technologies Corporation received 257 grants versus 243 in 2015–2019 (+6% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2019 at 63 grants and bottomed in 2016 at 41. Lead class G01N accounts for 83.6% of the portfolio across 99 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Kyndryl, Inc. (#854) and Xiaomi (#862).

Waters's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Waters Technologies Corporation moved from 165 to 155 grants (0.94x 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 #1,365. See the growth leaderboard.

Kyndryl

534
Medtronic Vascular

533
Nuflare Technology

533
Micro Focus

532
Waters ◀

531
Arthrex

526
Johnson Matthey P…

526
Lyft

526
Xiaomi

526

What this shows Waters holds 531 patents at rank #858, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Waters

By rank, the assignees closest to #858 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their…)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

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

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (63 here).

Maxim Integrated Products, Inc. 63 Cadence Design Systems, Inc. 63 DoorDash, Inc. 63 Renault S.A.S. 63

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (16.5 here).

C. & E. Fein GMBH 16.5 avg Hologic, Inc. 16.5 avg Rohde & Schwarz GmbH & Co. KG 16.5 avg University of Iowa Research Foundation 16.5 avg

Waters'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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Waters Technologies Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	42	7.9%
2016	41	7.7%
2017	49	9.2%
2018	48	9.0%
2019	63	11.9%
2020	53	10.0%
2021	49	9.2%
2022	48	9.0%
2023	46	8.7%
2024	61	11.5%
2025partial year	31	5.8%

Which technologies does Waters Technologies Corporation patent most?

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 444

B01D - Separation 199

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 67

B01J - Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus 67

H01J - Electric Discharge Tubes OR Discharge Lamps 62

B01L - Chemical OR Physical Laboratory Apparatus FOR General USE 50

F16K - VALVES; TAPS; COCKS; ACTUATING-FLOATS; Devices FOR Venting OR Aerating 28

F04B - Positive-displacement Machines FOR LIQUIDS; Pumps 26

B01F - Mixing, e.g. Dissolving, Emulsifying OR Dispersing 17

F16L - PIPES; Joints OR Fittings FOR PIPES; Supports FOR Pipes, Cables OR Protective TUBING; Means FOR Thermal Insulation IN General 17

C07K - Peptides 16

G05D - Systems FOR Controlling OR Regulating Non-electric Variables 13

C07F - Acyclic, Carbocyclic OR Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium OR Tellurium 12

B05B - Spraying APPARATUS; Atomising APPARATUS; Nozzles 11

C07D - Heterocyclic Compounds 11

Top 15 of 99 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#858

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

62.8 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

Waters Technologies Corporation's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Waters Technologies Corporation's lead technology class is G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties), 83.6% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G01N
Ranked #858 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Waters Technologies Corporation against Kyndryl, Inc., 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.

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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