Where does Williams International Co., L.L.C. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Williams International Co., L.L.C. ranks #16,513 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 Williams International Co., L.L.C. hold?

Williams International Co., L.L.C. holds 18 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2022, spanning 25 technology areas.

What is Williams International Co., L.L.C.'s Innovation Score?

Williams International Co., L.L.C. has an Innovation Score of 43.5 out of 100 (top 28% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Williams International Co., L.L.C.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Williams International Co., L.L.C.'s recent grant velocity is -20% 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 Williams International Co., L.L.C.'s patents?

Williams International Co., L.L.C.'s patents average 26.3 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 Williams International Co., 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

Williams International Co., L.L.C.

Q: What technology areas does Williams International Co., L.L.C. focus on?

Williams International Co., L.L.C.'s top technology area is F05D (Indexing Scheme FOR Aspects Relating TO Non-positive-displacement Machines OR Engines, Gas-turbines OR Jet-propulsion Plants) with 7 patents, ranking #170 of 744 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 25 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 18 granted patents across 25 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2022. 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: F05D (Indexing Scheme FOR Aspects Relating TO Non-positive-displacement Machines OR Engines, Gas-turbines OR Jet-propulsion Plants).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Williams ranks #16,513 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 18 patents across 25 technology areas.

#16,513
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 28%
by Innovation Score (43.5/100): 26.3
avg claims per patent: -20%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R16513 · US Corporation #16,513 · 18 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 18 grants
MID-PACK #16,513/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Wacker Chemical
CPC-FOCUS F05D · 25 areas
INNOV-PAR 43.5/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 26.3 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DOWN -20% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Wacker Chemical AG (±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 Williams’s 43.5 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 10.2 pts (23%) Velocity 0.7 pts (2%) Breadth 17.7 pts (41%) Claim depth 15.0 pts (34%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

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3D Lighting… · lowest

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What this shows Williams's Innovation Score is 43.5/100 (top 28% 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 Williams?

Each dot is one of Williams’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). Williams’s own 26.3 claims/patent is ABOVE the 11.7 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Williams's grants concentrate

Williams International Co., L.L.C. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 25 CPC subclasses with 38.9% of grants classified under F05D (Indexing Scheme FOR Aspects Relating TO Non-positive-displacement Machines OR Engines, Gas-turbines OR Jet-propulsion Plants). Peak complete grant year is 2021 (5 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2018. By volume, Williams sits between W.C. BRADLEY/ZEBCO Holdings, Inc. and Wacker Chemical AG.

Williams's three-year grant acceleration

Williams International Co., L.L.C. shows 1 grants in 2022–2024 against only 10 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.

W C Bradley/Zebco…

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Wahl

18
Waskey Bridges

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Whealthfields (HO…

18
Wingcomm

18
Wittur Holding

18
Wuxi Esiontech

18
Wacker Chemical

18
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18

What this shows Williams holds 18 patents at rank #16,506, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Williams

By rank, the assignees closest to #16,506 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F05D (Indexing Scheme FOR Aspects Relating TO Non-positive-disp…)

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

Williams's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

44 Top 28% higher than 72% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2022

Grants by year

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

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Williams International Co., L.L.C. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	3	16.7%
2016	3	16.7%
2018	1	5.6%
2019	3	16.7%
2020	2	11.1%
2021	5	27.8%
2022	1	5.6%

Which technologies does Williams International Co., L.L.C. patent most?

F05D - Indexing Scheme FOR Aspects Relating TO Non-positive-displacement Machines OR Engines, Gas-turbines OR Jet-propulsion Plants 7

F02C - Gas-turbine PLANTS; AIR Intakes FOR Jet-propulsion PLANTS; Controlling Fuel Supply IN Air-breathing Jet-propulsion Plants 6

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 6

H02K - Dynamo-electric Machines 6

F02B - Internal-combustion Piston ENGINES; Combustion Engines IN General 4

F01D - Non-positive Displacement Machines OR Engines, e.g. Steam Turbines 4

F02D - Controlling Combustion Engines 3

H02P - Control OR Regulation OF Electric Motors, Electric Generators OR Dynamo-electric CONVERTERS; Controlling Transformers, Reactors OR Choke Coils 3

F04D - Non-positive-displacement Pumps 3

B64D - Equipment FOR Fitting IN OR TO AIRCRAFT; Flight SUITS; PARACHUTES; Arrangement OR Mounting OF Power Plants OR Propulsion Transmissions IN Aircraft 2

F01N - Gas-flow Silencers OR Exhaust Apparatus FOR Machines OR Engines IN GENERAL; Gas-flow Silencers OR Exhaust Apparatus FOR Internal-combustion Engines 2

F16D - Couplings FOR Transmitting ROTATION; CLUTCHES; Brakes 2

F16C - SHAFTS; Flexible SHAFTS; Elements OR Crankshaft MECHANISMS; Rotary Bodies Other Than Gearing ELEMENTS; Bearings 1

F02K - Jet-propulsion Plants 1

H05B - Electric HEATING; Electric Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Circuit Arrangements FOR Electric Light Sources, IN General 1

Top 15 of 25 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

Williams International Co., L.L.C.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Williams International Co., L.L.C.'s lead technology class is F05D (Indexing Scheme FOR Aspects Relating TO Non-positive-displacement Machines OR Engines, Gas-turbines OR Jet-propulsion Plants), 38.9% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F05D
Ranked #16,513 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Williams International Co., L.L.C. against W.C. BRADLEY/ZEBCO Holdings, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 43.5/100 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

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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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