Where does Watts Water Technologies rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Watts Water Technologies ranks #12,311 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 Watts Water Technologies hold?

Watts Water Technologies holds 25 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2021, spanning 13 technology areas.

What is Watts Water Technologies's Innovation Score?

Watts Water Technologies has an Innovation Score of 26.9 out of 100 (22nd percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Watts Water Technologies's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Watts Water Technologies's recent grant velocity is -86% 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 Watts Water Technologies's patents?

Watts Water Technologies's patents average 4.9 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 Watts Water Technologies 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

Watts Water Technologies

Q: What technology areas does Watts Water Technologies focus on?

Watts Water Technologies's top technology area is F16L (PIPES; Joints OR Fittings FOR PIPES; Supports FOR Pipes, Cables OR Protective TUBING; Means FOR Thermal Insulation IN General) with 3 patents. Grants appear in 13 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 25 granted patents across 13 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2021. 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: F16L (PIPES; Joints OR Fittings FOR PIPES; Supports FOR Pipes, Cables OR Protective TUBING; Means FOR Thermal Insulation IN General).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Watts ranks #12,311 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 25 patents across 13 technology areas.

#12,311
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 22nd percentile
by Innovation Score (26.9/100): 4.9
avg claims per patent: -86%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R12311 · US Corporation #12,311 · 25 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-SPARSE · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 25 grants
UPPER-Q #12,311/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Volt
CPC-FOCUS F16L · 13 areas
INNOV-THIN 26.9/100
CLAIMS-SPARSE 4.9 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -86% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Volt, 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
Actifio · near

27
Andritz Perfojet SAS · near

27
Out Rage · near

27
Watts Water · this assignee

27
BravoTek · near

27
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Watts's Innovation Score is 26.9/100 (22nd percentile 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 Watts's grants concentrate

Watts Water Technologies is a focused PatentsView assignee: 13 CPC subclasses with 12% of grants classified under F16L (PIPES; Joints OR Fittings FOR PIPES; Supports FOR Pipes, Cables OR Protective TUBING; Means FOR Thermal Insulation IN General). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (12 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2020. By volume, Watts sits between Volt, LLC and Xiamen Hongfa Electric Power Controls Co., Ltd..

Volt

25
Vungle

25
Vyaire Medical Ca…

25
Whill

25
Westinghouse Elec…

25
Wiser Systems

25
XDI Holdings

25
Xiamen Hongfa Ele…

25
Watts Water ◀

25

What this shows Watts holds 25 patents at rank #12,308, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Watts

By rank, the assignees closest to #12,308 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F16L (Pipes)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

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

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (27 here).

Out Rage, LLC 27 Actifio, Inc. 27 Andritz Perfojet SAS 27 BravoTek Electronics Co., Ltd. 27

Watts's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

27 22nd percentile higher than 22% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2021

Grants by year

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

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Watts Water Technologies patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	12	48.0%
2016	7	28.0%
2017	3	12.0%
2020	1	4.0%
2021	2	8.0%

Which technologies does Watts Water Technologies patent most?

F16L - PIPES; Joints OR Fittings FOR PIPES; Supports FOR Pipes, Cables OR Protective TUBING; Means FOR Thermal Insulation IN General 3

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 3

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 2

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 2

B29K - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses B29b, B29c OR B29d, Relating TO Moulding Materials OR TO Materials FOR ; Moulds, ; Reinforcements, Fillers OR Preformed Parts, e.g. Inserts 2

F22D - Preheating, OR Accumulating Preheated, Feed-water FOR Steam GENERATION; Feed-water Supply FOR Steam GENERATION; Controlling Water Level FOR Steam GENERATION; Auxiliary Devices FOR Promoting Water Circulation Within Steam Boilers 1

G05D - Systems FOR Controlling OR Regulating Non-electric Variables 1

F16K - VALVES; TAPS; COCKS; ACTUATING-FLOATS; Devices FOR Venting OR Aerating 1

C02F - Treatment OF Water, Waste Water, Sewage, OR Sludge 1

B01D - Separation 1

E03B - Installations OR Methods FOR Obtaining, Collecting, OR Distributing Water 1

E03C - Domestic Plumbing Installations FOR Fresh Water OR Waste Water ; Sinks 1

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 1

Top 13 of 13 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#12,311

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

26.9 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

Watts Water Technologies's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Watts Water Technologies's lead technology class is F16L (PIPES; Joints OR Fittings FOR PIPES; Supports FOR Pipes, Cables OR Protective TUBING; Means FOR Thermal Insulation IN General), 12% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F16L
Ranked #12,311 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Watts Water Technologies against Volt, LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 26.9/100 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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