Where does American Electric Power Company, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), American Electric Power Company, Inc. ranks #30,812 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 American Electric Power Company, Inc. hold?

American Electric Power Company, Inc. holds 8 US utility patents granted between 2019 and 2023, spanning 5 technology areas.

What is American Electric Power Company, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

American Electric Power Company, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 25.3 out of 100 (17th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does American Electric Power Company, Inc. focus on?

American Electric Power Company, Inc.'s top technology area is B01D (Separation) with 3 patents. Grants appear in 5 CPC subclasses total.

Is American Electric Power Company, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

American Electric Power Company, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +600% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for American Electric Power Company, Inc.'s patents?

American Electric Power Company, Inc.'s patents average 9.6 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 American Electric Power Company, 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

American Electric Power Company, Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 8 granted patents across 5 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2019–2023. 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: B01D (Separation).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, American ranks #30,812 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 8 patents across 5 technology areas.

#30,812
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 17th percentile
by Innovation Score (25.3/100): 9.6
avg claims per patent: +600%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R30812 · US Corporation #30,812 · 8 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-PAR · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 8 grants
MID-PACK #30,812/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Alzchem Trostberg
CPC-NARROW B01D · 5 areas
INNOV-THIN 25.3/100
CLAIMS-PAR 9.6 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +600% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Alzchem Trostberg 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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
American Electric… · this assignee

25
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows American's Innovation Score is 25.3/100 (17th percentile 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 American's grants concentrate

American Electric Power Company, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 5 CPC subclasses with 37.5% of grants classified under B01D (Separation). Peak complete grant year is 2021 (3 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2019. By volume, American sits between Alzchem Trostberg GmbH and Analog Power Conversion LLC.

American's three-year grant acceleration

American Electric Power Company, Inc. shows 3 grants in 2022–2024 against only 5 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.

Alzchem Trostberg

8
Ambient Scientific

8
Amer S P A

8
American Accessor…

8
American Innovati…

8
American Omni Tra…

8
Anaflash

8
Analog Power Conv…

8
American Electric… ◀

8

What this shows American holds 8 patents at rank #30,888, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near American

By rank, the assignees closest to #30,888 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B01D (Separation)

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

American's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

25 17th percentile higher than 17% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2019–2023

Grants by year

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

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American Electric Power Company, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2019	1	12.5%
2020	1	12.5%
2021	3	37.5%
2022	2	25.0%
2023	1	12.5%

Which technologies does American Electric Power Company, Inc. patent most?

B01D - Separation 3

C30B - Single-crystal Growth ; Unidirectional Solidification OF Eutectic Material OR Unidirectional Demixing OF Eutectoid MATERIAL; Refining BY Zone-melting OF Material ; Production OF A Homogeneous Polycrystalline Material With Defined Structure ; Single Crystals OR Homogeneous Polycrystalline Material WI 2

G01R - Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables 2

H04Q - Selecting 2

H02J - Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy 2

Top 5 of 5 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#30,812

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

25.3 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

American Electric Power Company, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

American Electric Power Company, Inc.'s lead technology class is B01D (Separation), 37.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B01D
Ranked #30,812 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare American Electric Power Company, Inc. against Alzchem Trostberg GmbH, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 25.3/100 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

Compiled by PlainPatent, US Patent Intelligence Editorial Process · May 15, 2026

Every figure on PlainPatent is rendered directly from USPTO source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on USPTO source data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 2026.