Where does Aclara Technologies LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Aclara Technologies LLC ranks #4,857 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 Aclara Technologies LLC hold?

Aclara Technologies LLC holds 71 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 41 technology areas.

What is Aclara Technologies LLC's Innovation Score?

Aclara Technologies LLC has an Innovation Score of 66.1 out of 100 (top 1% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Aclara Technologies LLC focus on?

Aclara Technologies LLC's top technology area is G01R (Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables) with 33 patents, ranking #187 of 3,424 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 41 CPC subclasses total.

Is Aclara Technologies LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Aclara Technologies LLC's recent grant velocity is +100% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Aclara Technologies LLC's patents?

Aclara Technologies LLC's patents average 17.9 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 Aclara Technologies LLC 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

Aclara Technologies LLC

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 71 granted patents across 41 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: G01R (Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Aclara ranks #4,857 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 71 patents across 41 technology areas.

#4,857
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 1%
by Innovation Score (66.1/100): 17.9
avg claims per patent: +100%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R4857 · US Corporation #4,857 · 71 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 71 grants
TOP-DECILE #4,857/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Advanced Digital…
CPC-WIDE G01R · 41 areas
INNOV-STRONG 66.1/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.9 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +100% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Advanced Digital Broadcast S.A. (±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 Aclara’s 66.1 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 14.8 pts (22%) Velocity 17.9 pts (27%) Breadth 22.6 pts (34%) Claim depth 10.8 pts (16%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Kuwait University · near

66
Rogers · near

66
Bard Access Systems · near

66
Aclara · this assignee

66
Abbott Diabetes Care · near

66
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Aclara's Innovation Score is 66.1/100 (top 1% 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 Aclara?

Each dot is one of Aclara’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). Aclara’s own 17.9 claims/patent is ABOVE the 13.1 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Aclara's grants concentrate

Aclara Technologies LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 41 CPC subclasses with 46.5% of grants classified under G01R (Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables). Peak complete grant year is 2024 (15 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2020. By volume, Aclara sits between kaleo, Inc. and Basf Agro B.V..

Aclara's three-year grant acceleration

Aclara Technologies LLC shows 35 grants in 2022–2024 against only 13 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.

kaleo

72
Advanced Digital…

71
AS IP Holdco

71
ASP Global Manufa…

71
Allied Wheel Comp…

71
Avinger

71
Bandai

71
Basf Agro B V

71
Aclara ◀

71

What this shows Aclara holds 71 patents at rank #4,860, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Aclara

By rank, the assignees closest to #4,860 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G01R (Measuring Electric Variables)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Aclara, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G01R (Measuring Electric Variables), Aclara ranks #187 of 3,424 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (66 here).

Abbott Diabetes Care Inc. 66 Bard Access Systems, Inc. 66 Kuwait University 66 Rogers Corporation 66

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (17.9 here).

Ormco Corporation 17.9 avg Fujifilm Manufacturing Europe B.V. 17.9 avg Xiamen Leedarson Lighting Co., Ltd 17.9 avg Imam Mohammad IBN Saud Islamic University 17.9 avg

Aclara's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

66 Top 1% higher than 99% 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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Aclara Technologies LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	2	2.8%
2016	4	5.6%
2017	4	5.6%
2018	5	7.0%
2019	6	8.5%
2020	1	1.4%
2021	6	8.5%
2022	9	12.7%
2023	11	15.5%
2024	15	21.1%
2025partial year	8	11.3%

Which technologies does Aclara Technologies LLC patent most?

G01R - Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables 33

Y04S - Systems Integrating Technologies Related TO Power Network Operation, Communication OR Information Technologies FOR Improving THE Electrical Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution, Management OR Usage, i.e. Smart Grids 26

H02J - Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy 17

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 14

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 13

G01D - Measuring NOT Specially Adapted FOR A Specific VARIABLE; Arrangements FOR Measuring TWO OR More Variables NOT Covered IN A Single Other SUBCLASS; Tariff Metering APPARATUS; Measuring OR Testing NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 10

H04B - Transmission 8

Y02B - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Buildings, e.g. Housing, House Appliances OR Related End-user Applications 7

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 6

H01Q - Antennas, i.e. Radio Aerials 6

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 5

H04Q - Selecting 5

H05B - Electric HEATING; Electric Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Circuit Arrangements FOR Electric Light Sources, IN General 5

H01F - MAGNETS; INDUCTANCES; TRANSFORMERS; Selection OF Materials FOR Their Magnetic Properties 4

G08B - Signalling OR Calling SYSTEMS; Order TELEGRAPHS; Alarm Systems 4

Top 15 of 41 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

Aclara Technologies LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Aclara Technologies LLC's lead technology class is G01R (Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables), 46.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G01R
Ranked #4,857 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Aclara Technologies LLC against kaleo, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 66.1/100 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

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