Where does Advanced Energy Industries, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Advanced Energy Industries, Inc. ranks #2,125 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 Advanced Energy Industries, Inc. hold?

Advanced Energy Industries, Inc. holds 185 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 44 technology areas.

What is Advanced Energy Industries, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Advanced Energy Industries, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 64.9 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 Advanced Energy Industries, Inc. focus on?

Advanced Energy Industries, Inc.'s top technology area is H01J (Electric Discharge Tubes OR Discharge Lamps) with 136 patents, ranking #22 of 1,076 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 44 CPC subclasses total.

Is Advanced Energy Industries, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Advanced Energy Industries, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +42% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). The company is maintaining or growing its granted-patent output.

What does claim depth mean for Advanced Energy Industries, Inc.'s patents?

Advanced Energy Industries, Inc.'s patents average 17.7 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 Advanced Energy Industries, Inc. 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

Advanced Energy Industries, Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 185 granted patents across 44 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: H01J (Electric Discharge Tubes OR Discharge Lamps).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Advanced ranks #2,125 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 185 patents across 44 technology areas.

#2,125
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 1%
by Innovation Score (64.9/100): 17.7
avg claims per patent: +42%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2125 · US Corporation #2,125 · 185 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 185 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,125/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Boehringer Ingelheim…
CPC-WIDE H01J · 44 areas
INNOV-STRONG 64.9/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.7 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-UP +42% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Boehringer Ingelheim Vetmedica GMBH (±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 Advanced’s 64.9 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 18.1 pts (28%) Velocity 12.7 pts (20%) Breadth 23.5 pts (36%) Claim depth 10.6 pts (16%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
AAC Microtech… · near

65
STMicroelectronics… · near

65
Advanced Energy… · this assignee

65
Rockwool A/S · near

65
Tsinghua University · near

65
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Advanced's Innovation Score is 64.9/100 (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 Advanced?

Each dot is one of Advanced’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). Advanced’s own 17.7 claims/patent is ABOVE the 12.0 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Advanced's grants concentrate

Advanced Energy Industries, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 44 CPC subclasses with 73.5% of grants classified under H01J (Electric Discharge Tubes OR Discharge Lamps). Peak complete grant year is 2024 (33 grants) versus a trough of 3 in 2018. By volume, Advanced sits between Ishida Co., Ltd. and Fujitsu Semiconductor Limited.

Advanced's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Advanced Energy Industries, Inc. moved from 34 to 65 grants (1.91x 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 #237. See the growth leaderboard.

Ishida

186
Tanaka Kikinzoku…

186
The Chamberlain G…

186
University of Hon…

186
Boehringer Ingelh…

185
Canon Anelva

185
Cooler Master

185
Fujitsu Semicondu…

185
Advanced Energy I… ◀

185

What this shows Advanced holds 185 patents at rank #2,125, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Advanced

By rank, the assignees closest to #2,125 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H01J (Electric Discharge Tubes OR Discharge Lamps)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Advanced, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H01J (Electric Discharge Tubes OR Discharge Lamps), Advanced ranks #22 of 1,076 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (65 here).

Tsinghua University 65 Rockwool A/S 65 AAC Microtech (Changzhou) Co., Ltd. 65 STMicroelectronics (Research & Development) Limited 65

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (17.7 here).

Karl Storz Imaging, Inc. 17.7 avg American Airlines, Inc. 17.7 avg Workiva Inc. 17.7 avg Chemtreat, Inc. 17.7 avg

Advanced's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

65 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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Advanced Energy Industries, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	17	9.2%
2016	17	9.2%
2017	21	11.4%
2018	3	1.6%
2019	7	3.8%
2020	14	7.6%
2021	13	7.0%
2022	10	5.4%
2023	22	11.9%
2024	33	17.8%
2025partial year	28	15.1%

Which technologies does Advanced Energy Industries, Inc. patent most?

H01J - Electric Discharge Tubes OR Discharge Lamps 136

H05H - Plasma Technique ; Production OF Accelerated Electrically-charged Particles OR OF NEUTRONS; Production OR Acceleration OF Neutral Molecular OR Atomic Beams 39

H03H - Impedance Networks, e.g. Resonant CIRCUITS; Resonators 32

H02M - Apparatus FOR Conversion Between AC AND AC, Between AC AND DC, OR Between DC AND DC, AND FOR USE With Mains OR Similar Power Supply SYSTEMS; Conversion OF DC OR AC Input Power Into Surge Output POWER; Control OR Regulation Thereof 31

C23C - Coating Metallic MATERIAL; Coating Material With Metallic MATERIAL; Surface Treatment OF Metallic Material BY Diffusion Into THE Surface, BY Chemical Conversion OR SUBSTITUTION; Coating BY Vacuum Evaporation, BY Sputtering, BY ION Implantation OR BY Chemical Vapour Deposition, IN General 24

H03K - Pulse Technique 21

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 18

G01R - Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables 14

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 12

H03F - Amplifiers 10

Y02B - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Buildings, e.g. Housing, House Appliances OR Related End-user Applications 10

H02J - Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy 8

H02H - Emergency Protective Circuit Arrangements 7

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 6

H10D - Inorganic Electric Semiconductor Devices 5

Top 15 of 44 technology areas

More on this record

Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

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What to do with this data

Advanced Energy Industries, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Advanced Energy Industries, Inc.'s lead technology class is H01J (Electric Discharge Tubes OR Discharge Lamps), 73.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H01J
Ranked #2,125 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Advanced Energy Industries, Inc. against Ishida Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 64.9/100 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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