Where does Waters Technologies Ireland Limited rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Waters Technologies Ireland Limited ranks #11,128 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 Ireland Limited hold?

Waters Technologies Ireland Limited holds 28 US utility patents granted between 2021 and 2025, spanning 11 technology areas.

What is Waters Technologies Ireland Limited's Innovation Score?

Waters Technologies Ireland Limited has an Innovation Score of 53.1 out of 100 (top 9% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

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

Insufficient historical data is available to calculate a velocity trend for Waters Technologies Ireland Limited.

What does claim depth mean for Waters Technologies Ireland Limited's patents?

Waters Technologies Ireland Limited's patents average 16.3 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 Waters Technologies Ireland Limited 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 Foreign Corporation

Waters Technologies Ireland Limited

Q: What technology areas does Waters Technologies Ireland Limited focus on?

Waters Technologies Ireland Limited's top technology area is G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties) with 18 patents, ranking #850 of 7,863 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 11 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 28 granted patents across 11 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2021–2025. 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 #11,128 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 28 patents across 11 technology areas.

#11,128
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 9%
by Innovation Score (53.1/100): 16.3
avg claims per patent

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R11128 · Foreign Corporation #11,128 · 28 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · SPAN-YRS · BOOK-RICH

GRANTS-SMALL 28 grants
UPPER-Q #11,128/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Waltop International
CPC-FOCUS G01N · 11 areas
INNOV-PAR 53.1/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.3 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
SPAN-YRS 2021–2025 · 5y
BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Waltop International Corporation (±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 Waters’s 53.1 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 11.6 pts (22%) Velocity 20.0 pts (38%) Breadth 11.7 pts (22%) Claim depth 9.8 pts (18%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Kennametal India · near

53
Atlas Global · near

53
National University… · near

53
STMicroelectronics… · near

53
Waters Ireland · this assignee

53
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Waters's Innovation Score is 53.1/100 (top 9% 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 Waters?

Each dot is one of Waters’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). Waters’s own 16.3 claims/patent is ABOVE the 13.2 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Waters's grants concentrate

Waters Technologies Ireland Limited is a focused PatentsView assignee: 11 CPC subclasses with 64.3% of grants classified under G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties). Peak complete grant year is 2024 (11 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2021. By volume, Waters sits between Waltop International Corporation and Wuxi Hisky Medical Technologies Co., Ltd..

Waters's three-year grant acceleration

Waters Technologies Ireland Limited shows 24 grants in 2022–2024 against only 1 in 2019–2021. That prior window is too thin for a growth multiple (rename and spin-out assignees look artificially high when the baseline is near zero), so PlainPatent withholds a ranked acceleration claim here.

Waltop Internatio…

28
Watson Marlow

28
Weltrend Semicond…

28
Wireless Photonics

28
Wilmarc Holdings

28
World Emergency N…

28
Wormhole Labs

28
Wuxi Hisky Medical

28
Waters Ireland ◀

28

What this shows Waters holds 28 patents at rank #11,128, 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 #11,128 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). In G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their…), Waters ranks #850 of 7,863 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (53 here).

Atlas Global Technologies LLC 53 STMicroelectronics Design & Application S.R.O. 53 National University Corporation Chiba University 53 Kennametal India Ltd. 53

Waters's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

53 Top 9% higher than 91% of 49,997 US assignees

Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more US assignees. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.

Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2021–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2021–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Waters Technologies Ireland Limited patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2021	1	3.6%
2022	4	14.3%
2023	9	32.1%
2024	11	39.3%
2025partial year	3	10.7%

Which technologies does Waters Technologies Ireland Limited patent most?

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 18

H01J - Electric Discharge Tubes OR Discharge Lamps 11

G16C - Computational CHEMISTRY; CHEMOINFORMATICS; Computational Materials Science 9

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 7

G16H - Healthcare Informatics, i.e. Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR THE Handling OR Processing OF Medical OR Healthcare Data 4

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 3

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 3

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 2

G01R - Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables 1

G06Q - Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory Purposes, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1

G16B - Bioinformatics, i.e. Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Genetic OR Protein-related Data Processing IN Computational Molecular Biology 1

Top 11 of 11 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

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

Waters Technologies Ireland Limited's lead technology class is G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties), 64.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G01N
Ranked #11,128 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Waters Technologies Ireland Limited against Waltop International Corporation, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 53.1/100 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

Every figure on PlainPatent is rendered directly from USPTO source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on USPTO source data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 2026.