Where does Westerngeco L.L.C. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Westerngeco L.L.C. ranks #1,869 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 Westerngeco L.L.C. hold?

Westerngeco L.L.C. holds 215 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2023, spanning 38 technology areas.

What is Westerngeco L.L.C.'s Innovation Score?

Westerngeco L.L.C. has an Innovation Score of 52.3 out of 100 (top 10% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Westerngeco L.L.C.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Westerngeco L.L.C.'s recent grant velocity is -85% 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 Westerngeco L.L.C.'s patents?

Westerngeco L.L.C.'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 Westerngeco L.L.C. 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

Westerngeco L.L.C.

Q: What technology areas does Westerngeco L.L.C. focus on?

Westerngeco L.L.C.'s top technology area is G01V (GEOPHYSICS; Gravitational MEASUREMENTS; Detecting Masses OR OBJECTS; Tags) with 209 patents. Grants appear in 38 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 215 granted patents across 38 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2023. 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: G01V (GEOPHYSICS; Gravitational MEASUREMENTS; Detecting Masses OR OBJECTS; Tags).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Westerngeco ranks #1,869 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 215 patents across 38 technology areas.

#1,869
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 10%
by Innovation Score (52.3/100): 18.1
avg claims per patent: -85%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1869 · US Corporation #1,869 · 215 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 215 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,869/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH GE-Hitachi Nuclear…
CPC-FOCUS G01V · 38 areas
INNOV-PAR 52.3/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.1 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -85% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: GE-Hitachi Nuclear Energy Americas 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
Versalis S P A · near

52
Attochron · near

52
Cognyte Israel · near

52
L-3 Communications · near

52
Westerngeco L L C · this assignee

52
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Westerngeco's Innovation Score is 52.3/100 (top 10% 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 Westerngeco's grants concentrate

Westerngeco L.L.C. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 38 CPC subclasses with 97.2% of grants classified under G01V (GEOPHYSICS; Gravitational MEASUREMENTS; Detecting Masses OR OBJECTS; Tags). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (63 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2021. By volume, Westerngeco sits between GE-Hitachi Nuclear Energy Americas LLC and F5 Networks, Inc..

Westerngeco's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Westerngeco L.L.C. moved from 46 to 7 grants (0.15x 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 #3,138. See the growth leaderboard.

Ge-hitachi Nuclea…

215
Hulu

215
Saab AB

215
Ticona

215
Zoetis Services

215
Westerngeco L L C ◀

215
AWI Licensing

214
Darfon

214
F5 Networks

214

What this shows Westerngeco holds 215 patents at rank #1,869, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Westerngeco

By rank, the assignees closest to #1,869 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G01V (Geophysics)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

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

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (52 here).

L-3 Communications Corporation 52 Attochron, LLC 52 Cognyte Technologies Israel Ltd. 52 Versalis S.P.A. 52

Similar claim depth

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

Aeva, Inc. 18.1 avg Beijing Didi Infinity Technology AND Development Co., Ltd. 18.1 avg Diversey, Inc. 18.1 avg Orthosensor Inc. 18.1 avg

Westerngeco's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

52 Top 10% higher than 90% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2023

Grants by year

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

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Westerngeco L.L.C. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	63	29.3%
2016	43	20.0%
2017	40	18.6%
2018	16	7.4%
2019	25	11.6%
2020	19	8.8%
2021	2	0.9%
2022	5	2.3%
2023	2	0.9%

Which technologies does Westerngeco L.L.C. patent most?

G01V - GEOPHYSICS; Gravitational MEASUREMENTS; Detecting Masses OR OBJECTS; Tags 209

G01S - Radio DIRECTION-FINDING; Radio NAVIGATION; Determining Distance OR Velocity BY USE OF Radio WAVES; Locating OR Presence-detecting BY USE OF THE Reflection OR Reradiation OF Radio WAVES; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves 7

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 6

E21B - Earth OR Rock DRILLING; Obtaining OIL, GAS, Water, Soluble OR Meltable Materials OR A Slurry OF Minerals From Wells 6

G01C - Measuring Distances, Levels OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; Gyroscopic INSTRUMENTS; Photogrammetry OR Videogrammetry 5

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 5

B63G - Offensive OR Defensive Arrangements ON VESSELS; MINE-LAYING; MINE-SWEEPING; SUBMARINES; Aircraft Carriers 4

G01P - Measuring Linear OR Angular Speed, Acceleration, Deceleration, OR SHOCK; Indicating Presence, Absence, OR Direction, OF Movement 4

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 4

B63B - Ships OR Other Waterborne VESSELS; Equipment FOR Shipping 3

B81B - Microstructural Devices OR Systems, e.g. Micromechanical Devices 2

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 2

G10K - Sound-producing DEVICES; Methods OR Devices FOR Protecting Against, OR FOR Damping, Noise OR Other Acoustic Waves IN GENERAL; Acoustics NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 2

Y02A - Technologies FOR Adaptation TO Climate Change 2

H04B - Transmission 2

Top 15 of 38 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#1,869

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

52.3 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

Westerngeco L.L.C.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Westerngeco L.L.C.'s lead technology class is G01V (GEOPHYSICS; Gravitational MEASUREMENTS; Detecting Masses OR OBJECTS; Tags), 97.2% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G01V
Ranked #1,869 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Westerngeco L.L.C. against GE-Hitachi Nuclear Energy Americas LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 52.3/100 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

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