Where does Welltec A/S rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Welltec A/S ranks #3,336 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 Welltec A/S hold?

Welltec A/S holds 112 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 22 technology areas.

What is Welltec A/S's Innovation Score?

Welltec A/S has an Innovation Score of 49.8 out of 100 (top 14% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Welltec A/S focus on?

Welltec A/S's top technology area is E21B (Earth OR Rock DRILLING; Obtaining OIL, GAS, Water, Soluble OR Meltable Materials OR A Slurry OF Minerals From Wells) with 110 patents, ranking #29 of 1,363 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 22 CPC subclasses total.

Is Welltec A/S's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Welltec A/S's recent grant velocity is -64% 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 Welltec A/S's patents?

Welltec A/S's patents average 18.1 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 Welltec A/S 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

Welltec A/S

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 112 granted patents across 22 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: E21B (Earth OR Rock DRILLING; Obtaining OIL, GAS, Water, Soluble OR Meltable Materials OR A Slurry OF Minerals From Wells).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Welltec ranks #3,336 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 112 patents across 22 technology areas.

#3,336
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 14%
by Innovation Score (49.8/100): 18.1
avg claims per patent: -64%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R3336 · Foreign Corporation #3,336 · 112 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 112 grants
TOP-DECILE #3,336/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Queen's University…
CPC-FOCUS E21B · 22 areas
INNOV-PAR 49.8/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.1 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -64% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Queen's University at Kingston (±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 Welltec’s 49.8 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 16.3 pts (33%) Velocity 6.0 pts (12%) Breadth 16.6 pts (33%) Claim depth 10.9 pts (22%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Mobius Imaging · near

50
MTU Friedrichshafen · near

50
Trudell Medical… · near

50
Skybell IP · near

50
Welltec A/S · this assignee

50
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Welltec's Innovation Score is 49.8/100 (top 14% 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 Welltec?

Each dot is one of Welltec’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). Welltec’s own 18.1 claims/patent is at or below the 19.3 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Welltec's grants concentrate

Welltec A/S is a focused PatentsView assignee: 22 CPC subclasses with 98.2% of grants classified under E21B (Earth OR Rock DRILLING; Obtaining OIL, GAS, Water, Soluble OR Meltable Materials OR A Slurry OF Minerals From Wells). Peak complete grant year is 2016 (31 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2021. By volume, Welltec sits between Queen's University at Kingston and Aktiebolaget Electrolux.

Welltec's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Welltec A/S moved from 20 to 18 grants (0.90x 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 #1,470. See the growth leaderboard.

Queen's Universit…

112
Sandisk 3D

112
Tsmc China

112
The Travelers Ind…

112
West Affum Holdin…

112
Yealink (Xiamen)…

112
Welltec A/S ◀

112
Akoustis

111
Aktiebolaget Elec…

111

What this shows Welltec holds 112 patents at rank #3,336, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Welltec

By rank, the assignees closest to #3,336 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in E21B (Earth OR Rock Drilling)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Welltec, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In E21B (Earth OR Rock Drilling), Welltec ranks #29 of 1,363 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (50 here).

Skybell Technologies IP, LLC 50 Trudell Medical International Inc. 50 MTU Friedrichshafen GMBH 50 Mobius Imaging, LLC 50

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (18.1 here).

Sony Electronics Inc. 18.1 avg Aleddra Inc. 18.1 avg Kathrein-werke KG 18.1 avg WD Media, LLC 18.1 avg

Welltec's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

50 Top 14% higher than 86% 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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Welltec A/S patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	16	14.3%
2016	31	27.7%
2017	14	12.5%
2018	11	9.8%
2019	9	8.0%
2020	9	8.0%
2021	2	1.8%
2022	6	5.4%
2023	3	2.7%
2024	9	8.0%
2025partial year	2	1.8%

Which technologies does Welltec A/S patent most?

E21B - Earth OR Rock DRILLING; Obtaining OIL, GAS, Water, Soluble OR Meltable Materials OR A Slurry OF Minerals From Wells 110

G01V - GEOPHYSICS; Gravitational MEASUREMENTS; Detecting Masses OR OBJECTS; Tags 5

F04B - Positive-displacement Machines FOR LIQUIDS; Pumps 4

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 4

B60Y - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Aspects Cross-cutting Vehicle Technology 3

B60K - Arrangement OR Mounting OF Propulsion Units OR OF Transmissions IN VEHICLES; Arrangement OR Mounting OF Plural Diverse Prime-movers IN VEHICLES; Auxiliary Drives FOR VEHICLES; Instrumentation OR Dashboards FOR VEHICLES; Arrangements IN Connection With Cooling, AIR Intake, GAS Exhaust OR Fuel Supply 3

B08B - Cleaning IN GENERAL; Prevention OF Fouling IN General 2

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 2

H01R - Electrically-conductive CONNECTIONS; Structural Associations OF A Plurality OF Mutually-insulated Electrical Connecting ELEMENTS; Coupling DEVICES; Current Collectors 1

H02J - Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy 1

H01H - Electric SWITCHES; RELAYS; SELECTORS; Emergency Protective Devices 1

H02H - Emergency Protective Circuit Arrangements 1

F16L - PIPES; Joints OR Fittings FOR PIPES; Supports FOR Pipes, Cables OR Protective TUBING; Means FOR Thermal Insulation IN General 1

H02G - Installation OF Electric Cables OR Lines, OR OF Combined Optical AND Electric Cables OR Lines 1

H02P - Control OR Regulation OF Electric Motors, Electric Generators OR Dynamo-electric CONVERTERS; Controlling Transformers, Reactors OR Choke Coils 1

Top 15 of 22 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

Welltec A/S's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Welltec A/S's lead technology class is E21B (Earth OR Rock DRILLING; Obtaining OIL, GAS, Water, Soluble OR Meltable Materials OR A Slurry OF Minerals From Wells), 98.2% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore E21B
Ranked #3,336 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Welltec A/S against Queen's University at Kingston, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 49.8/100 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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