Where does Asia Pacific Fuel Cell Technologies, Ltd. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Asia Pacific Fuel Cell Technologies, Ltd. ranks #30,892 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 Asia Pacific Fuel Cell Technologies, Ltd. hold?

Asia Pacific Fuel Cell Technologies, Ltd. holds 8 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2024, spanning 10 technology areas.

What is Asia Pacific Fuel Cell Technologies, Ltd.'s Innovation Score?

Asia Pacific Fuel Cell Technologies, Ltd. has an Innovation Score of 35.9 out of 100 (top 48% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Asia Pacific Fuel Cell Technologies, Ltd.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Asia Pacific Fuel Cell Technologies, Ltd.'s recent grant velocity is +0% 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 Asia Pacific Fuel Cell Technologies, Ltd.'s patents?

Asia Pacific Fuel Cell Technologies, Ltd.'s patents average 17.5 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 Asia Pacific Fuel Cell Technologies, Ltd. 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

Asia Pacific Fuel Cell Technologies, Ltd.

Q: What technology areas does Asia Pacific Fuel Cell Technologies, Ltd. focus on?

Asia Pacific Fuel Cell Technologies, Ltd.'s top technology area is Y02E (Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution) with 7 patents, ranking #1,663 of 5,963 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 10 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 8 granted patents across 10 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2024. 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: Y02E (Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Asia ranks #30,892 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 8 patents across 10 technology areas.

#30,892
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 48%
by Innovation Score (35.9/100): 17.5
avg claims per patent: +0%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R30892 · Foreign Corporation #30,892 · 8 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-FLAT · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 8 grants
MID-PACK #30,892/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Arsenal Firearms…
CPC-FOCUS Y02E · 10 areas
INNOV-THIN 35.9/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.5 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-FLAT +0% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Arsenal Firearms Finance Limited (±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 Asia’s 35.9 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 7.6 pts (21%) Velocity 6.7 pts (19%) Breadth 11.2 pts (31%) Claim depth 10.5 pts (29%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Asia Pacific Fuel Cell · this assignee

36
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Asia's Innovation Score is 35.9/100 (top 48% 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 Asia?

Each dot is one of Asia’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). Asia’s own 17.5 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.4 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Asia's grants concentrate

Asia Pacific Fuel Cell Technologies, Ltd. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 10 CPC subclasses with 87.5% of grants classified under Y02E (Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (3 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2018. By volume, Asia sits between Arsenal Firearms Finance Limited and ASOCIACIÓN Centro DE INVESTIGACIÓN Cooperativa EN Nanociencias “CIC NANOGUNE”.

Asia's three-year grant acceleration

Asia Pacific Fuel Cell Technologies, Ltd. shows 2 grants in 2022–2024 against only 2 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.

Arsenal Firearms…

8
ART Research AND…

8
ASA

8
Asahi Medical

8
Asklepios Biophar…

8
ASM Assembly Syst…

8
ASM Assembly Syst…

8
AsociaciÓN Centro…

8
Asia Pacific Fuel… ◀

8

What this shows Asia holds 8 patents at rank #30,803, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Asia

By rank, the assignees closest to #30,803 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in Y02E (Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions)

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

Asia's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

36 Top 48% higher than 52% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2024

Grants by year

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

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Asia Pacific Fuel Cell Technologies, Ltd. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	3	37.5%
2018	1	12.5%
2020	1	12.5%
2021	1	12.5%
2022	1	12.5%
2024	1	12.5%

Which technologies does Asia Pacific Fuel Cell Technologies, Ltd. patent most?

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 7

F17C - Vessels FOR Containing OR Storing Compressed, Liquefied OR Solidified GASES; Fixed-capacity GAS-HOLDERS; Filling Vessels With, OR Discharging From Vessels, Compressed, Liquefied, OR Solidified Gases 5

H01M - Processes OR Means, e.g. Batteries, FOR THE Direct Conversion OF Chemical Energy Into Electrical Energy 4

C01B - Non-metallic ELEMENTS; Compounds THEREOF; ; Metalloids OR Compounds Thereof NOT Covered BY Subclass C01c 3

B01J - Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus 3

F28D - Heat-exchange Apparatus, NOT Provided FOR IN Another Subclass, IN Which THE Heat-exchange Media DO NOT Come Into Direct Contact 1

F28F - Details OF Heat-exchange AND Heat-transfer Apparatus, OF General Application 1

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 1

G01F - Measuring Volume, Volume Flow, Mass Flow OR Liquid LEVEL; Metering BY Volume 1

H02J - Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy 1

Top 10 of 10 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

Asia Pacific Fuel Cell Technologies, Ltd.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Asia Pacific Fuel Cell Technologies, Ltd.'s lead technology class is Y02E (Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution), 87.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore Y02E
Ranked #30,892 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Asia Pacific Fuel Cell Technologies, Ltd. against Arsenal Firearms Finance Limited, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 35.9/100 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

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