Where does Bloom Energy Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Bloom Energy Corporation ranks #1,407 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 Bloom Energy Corporation hold?

Bloom Energy Corporation holds 299 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 65 technology areas.

What is Bloom Energy Corporation's Innovation Score?

Bloom Energy Corporation has an Innovation Score of 61.1 out of 100 (top 3% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Bloom Energy Corporation's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Bloom Energy Corporation's recent grant velocity is +8% 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 Bloom Energy Corporation's patents?

Bloom Energy Corporation's patents average 14.2 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 Bloom Energy Corporation 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

Bloom Energy Corporation

Q: What technology areas does Bloom Energy Corporation focus on?

Bloom Energy Corporation's top technology area is Y02E (Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution) with 261 patents, ranking #55 of 5,963 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 65 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 299 granted patents across 65 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: Y02E (Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Bloom ranks #1,407 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 299 patents across 65 technology areas.

#1,407
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 3%
by Innovation Score (61.1/100): 14.2
avg claims per patent: +8%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1407 · US Corporation #1,407 · 299 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 299 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,407/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Greatbatch
CPC-WIDE Y02E · 65 areas
INNOV-STRONG 61.1/100
CLAIMS-RICH 14.2 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-FLAT +8% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Greatbatch Ltd. (±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 Bloom’s 61.1 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 19.7 pts (32%) Velocity 7.9 pts (13%) Breadth 25.0 pts (41%) Claim depth 8.5 pts (14%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Bloom Energy · this assignee

61
Olympus Winter & IBE · near

61
University OF South… · near

61
Research Institute… · near

61
Thales · near

61
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Bloom's Innovation Score is 61.1/100 (top 3% 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 Bloom?

Each dot is one of Bloom’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). Bloom’s own 14.2 claims/patent is at or below the 18.6 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

How Bloom's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Bloom Energy Corporation received 144 grants versus 133 in 2015–2019 (+8% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2024 at 45 grants and bottomed in 2018 at 18. Lead class Y02E accounts for 87.3% of the portfolio across 65 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Amphenol Corporation (#1,403) and Mattel, Inc. (#1,411).

Bloom's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Bloom Energy Corporation moved from 77 to 91 grants (1.18x 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 #812. See the growth leaderboard.

Amphenol

300
Arvinmeritor Tech…

300
Baxalta Incorpora…

300
Energous

300
Greatbatch

299
Lemon

299
Bloom Energy ◀

299
Applied Medical R…

298
Mattel

298

What this shows Bloom holds 299 patents at rank #1,407, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Bloom

By rank, the assignees closest to #1,407 in granted patent volume.

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

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Bloom, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In Y02E (Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions), Bloom ranks #55 of 5,963 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (61 here).

University OF South Carolina 61 Olympus Winter & IBE GMBH 61 Thales 61 Research Institute OF Petroleum Processing, Sinopec 61

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (14.2 here).

AMS AG 14.2 avg Pantech Corporation 14.2 avg Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc. 14.2 avg Texas Instruments Deutschland GMBH 14.2 avg

Bloom's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

61 Top 3% higher than 97% 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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Bloom Energy Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	35	11.7%
2016	27	9.0%
2017	29	9.7%
2018	18	6.0%
2019	24	8.0%
2020	30	10.0%
2021	23	7.7%
2022	24	8.0%
2023	22	7.4%
2024	45	15.1%
2025partial year	22	7.4%

Which technologies does Bloom Energy Corporation patent most?

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 261

H01M - Processes OR Means, e.g. Batteries, FOR THE Direct Conversion OF Chemical Energy Into Electrical Energy 256

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 75

H02J - Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy 46

Y02B - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Buildings, e.g. Housing, House Appliances OR Related End-user Applications 26

C25B - Electrolytic OR Electrophoretic Processes FOR THE Production OF Compounds OR NON-METALS; Apparatus Therefor 21

C22C - Alloys 15

B22F - Working Metallic POWDER; Manufacture OF Articles From Metallic POWDER; Making Metallic Powder ; Apparatus OR Devices Specially Adapted FOR Metallic Powder 14

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 14

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 12

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 11

F28D - Heat-exchange Apparatus, NOT Provided FOR IN Another Subclass, IN Which THE Heat-exchange Media DO NOT Come Into Direct Contact 11

F28F - Details OF Heat-exchange AND Heat-transfer Apparatus, OF General Application 11

G01R - Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables 10

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 10

Top 15 of 65 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

Bloom Energy Corporation's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Bloom Energy Corporation's lead technology class is Y02E (Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution), 87.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore Y02E
Ranked #1,407 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Bloom Energy Corporation against Amphenol Corporation, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 61.1/100 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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