Where does Ansaldo Energia Switzerland AG rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Ansaldo Energia Switzerland AG ranks #2,190 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 Ansaldo Energia Switzerland AG hold?

Ansaldo Energia Switzerland AG holds 179 US utility patents granted between 2017 and 2023, spanning 56 technology areas.

What is Ansaldo Energia Switzerland AG's Innovation Score?

Ansaldo Energia Switzerland AG has an Innovation Score of 51.8 out of 100 (top 11% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Ansaldo Energia Switzerland AG's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Ansaldo Energia Switzerland AG's recent grant velocity is -62% 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 Ansaldo Energia Switzerland AG's patents?

Ansaldo Energia Switzerland AG's patents average 13.9 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 Ansaldo Energia Switzerland AG 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 Foreign Corporation

Ansaldo Energia Switzerland AG

Q: What technology areas does Ansaldo Energia Switzerland AG focus on?

Ansaldo Energia Switzerland AG'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 107 patents. Grants appear in 56 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 179 granted patents across 56 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2017–2023. 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: 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, Ansaldo ranks #2,190 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 179 patents across 56 technology areas.

#2,190
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 11%
by Innovation Score (51.8/100): 13.9
avg claims per patent: -62%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2190 · Foreign Corporation #2,190 · 179 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 179 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,190/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Alcatel-Lucent USA
CPC-WIDE F05D · 56 areas
INNOV-PAR 51.8/100
CLAIMS-RICH 13.9 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -62% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Alcatel-Lucent USA Inc. (±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
Ansaldo Energia… · this assignee

52
e-Vision Smart Optics · near

52
Oculus VR · near

52
Sun Patent Trust · near

52
Yakult Honsha · near

52
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Ansaldo's Innovation Score is 51.8/100 (top 11% 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.

How Ansaldo's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Ansaldo Energia Switzerland AG received 49 grants versus 130 in 2015–2019 (-62% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2019 at 59 grants and bottomed in 2023 at 1. Lead class F05D accounts for 59.8% of the portfolio across 56 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Olympus Medical Systems Corporation (#2,185) and Csmc Technologies Fab2 Co., Ltd. (#2,193).

Ansaldo's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Ansaldo Energia Switzerland AG moved from 101 to 7 grants (0.07x 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 #3,211. See the growth leaderboard.

Olympus Medical S…

180
Samtec

180
Stmicroelectronic…

180
Sumitomo Seika Ch…

180
Alcatel-lucent USA

179
Bauer Hockey

179
Bosch Automotive…

179
Csmc Fab2

179
Ansaldo Energia S… ◀

179

What this shows Ansaldo holds 179 patents at rank #2,189, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Ansaldo

By rank, the assignees closest to #2,189 in granted patent volume.

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

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

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

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (52 here).

Oculus VR, LLC 52 Sun Patent Trust 52 e-Vision Smart Optics, Inc. 52 Kabushiki Kaisha Yakult Honsha 52

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (13.9 here).

Cnpc USA Corporation 13.9 avg Venus Medtech (HANGZHOU), Inc. 13.9 avg Total SA 13.9 avg AAC Optics Solutions Pte. Ltd. 13.9 avg

Ansaldo's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

52 Top 11% higher than 89% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2017–2023

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2017–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Ansaldo Energia Switzerland AG patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2017	25	14.0%
2018	46	25.7%
2019	59	33.0%
2020	30	16.8%
2021	12	6.7%
2022	6	3.4%
2023	1	0.6%

Which technologies does Ansaldo Energia Switzerland AG patent most?

F05D - Indexing Scheme FOR Aspects Relating TO Non-positive-displacement Machines OR Engines, Gas-turbines OR Jet-propulsion Plants 107

F23R - Generating Combustion Products OF High Pressure OR High Velocity, e.g. Gas-turbine Combustion Chambers 97

F02C - Gas-turbine PLANTS; AIR Intakes FOR Jet-propulsion PLANTS; Controlling Fuel Supply IN Air-breathing Jet-propulsion Plants 96

F01D - Non-positive Displacement Machines OR Engines, e.g. Steam Turbines 90

F23C - Methods OR Apparatus FOR Combustion Using Fluid Fuel OR Solid Fuel Suspended IN ; A Carrier GAS OR; AIR 28

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 17

F23M - Casings, Linings, Walls OR Doors Specially Adapted FOR Combustion Chambers, e.g. FIREBRIDGES; Devices FOR Deflecting AIR, Flames OR Combustion Products IN Combustion CHAMBERS; Safety Arrangements Specially Adapted FOR Combustion APPARATUS; Details OF Combustion Chambers, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 17

F23D - Burners 15

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 13

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 8

F16J - Pistons ; CYLINDERS; Sealings 7

F05B - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Wind, Spring, Weight, Inertia OR Like Motors, TO Machines OR Engines FOR Liquids Covered BY Subclasses F03b, F03d AND F03g 7

F04D - Non-positive-displacement Pumps 6

B23P - Metal-working NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Combined OPERATIONS; Universal Machine Tools 6

B23K - Soldering OR UNSOLDERING; WELDING; Cladding OR Plating BY Soldering OR WELDING; Cutting BY Applying Heat Locally, e.g. Flame CUTTING; Working BY Laser Beam 5

Top 15 of 56 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#2,190

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

51.8 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

Ansaldo Energia Switzerland AG's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Ansaldo Energia Switzerland AG's lead technology class is F05D (Indexing Scheme FOR Aspects Relating TO Non-positive-displacement Machines OR Engines, Gas-turbines OR Jet-propulsion Plants), 59.8% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F05D
Ranked #2,190 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Ansaldo Energia Switzerland AG against Olympus Medical Systems Corporation, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 51.8/100 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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